Friday, October 23, 2026
ArchiveDOJ seeks to block Alaska Senate result if Republican incumbent narrowly loses
The Justice Department went to court before the count finished, citing two similarly named candidates. The remedy it's asking for is a Senate seat left uncertified.
Protecting Americans from Medicine
His mother's lung cancer reached her brain. The drug with the best odds was sitting on Shanghai pharmacy shelves and unapproved here, so he got on a plane — and came back with a policy case.
Why Global Trepanation?
Roughly one ancient skull in ten, on every continent, has a hole deliberately cut in it — and the bone healed, meaning they lived. Nobody has a good explanation. This is the hunt for one.
Is your new co-worker secretly North Korean?
Remote work and a little AI polish let one of the most sanctioned regimes on Earth put staff on American payrolls. The best stretch is the Americans who unknowingly helped them do it.
Was van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ a flight of fancy or a real sky?
Was that swirling sky invented or observed? Researchers now say they can name the night in 1889 the stars came from. Whether or not you buy it, the method is a pleasure.