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Combat veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner in Sullivan, Maine in 2025; Maine Gov. Janet Mills in National Harbor, Md. in 2023. Both Platner and Mills are Democrats vying to defeat Sen. Susan Collins, who is running for a sixth consecutive term in Maine. Robert F. Bukaty/AP; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robert

Iran rejects U.S. peace proposal and lays out its own conditions, the Army's 82nd Airborne Division readies to deploy to Iran, jury finds Meta and Google liable in social media addiction trial.

French and Brazilian stars in focus as former world champions meet in a glamour friendly in Boston, US, before the World Cup. Brazil and France will be among the leading contenders for FIFA World Cup glory later this year, and the two heavyweight teams continue their preparations for the tournament by facing off in a

The Lebanese flag is waved amid the rubble of a Lebanese Civil Defence post destroyed in an IDF airstrike in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, on March 24, 2026. Fabio Bucciarelli/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Fabio Bucciarelli/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty As the war approaches the one-month mark the Trump administration keeps its options

Violeta Encarnación for NPR The alarming phone call came from Jane's daughter, away at college. Her debit card had suddenly stopped working. Something was wrong with their shared bank account. What happened to all the money? Jane's heart sank as she dialed her bank. The funds were still there, the bank said, but frozen —

ICE is among the government agencies that buy commercial data about Americans in bulk. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use

The 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer dramatizes the concept of gaslighting. Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images You're not imagining it. The word "gaslighting" is everywhere. During a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the late-night host said President Trump was "gaslighting" Americans

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. JIM WATSON/AFP hide caption toggle caption JIM WATSON/AFP At the outset of the U.S.-Israel-led war in Iran, President Trump gave lots of reasons for launching the strikes on Iran from stopping its nuclear capabilities to regime change. Now, Trump

Tiny, colorful cabins make up Home Sweet Home Ministries' shelter village, The Bridge, in Bloomington, Illinois. Construction began in the summer of 2025. Emily Bollinger hide caption toggle caption Emily Bollinger  In the thick of winter a few months ago, Matthew Stone was living in a tent encampment in the woods of a central Illinois

FILE - The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cellphone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Dwyer/AP SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a