[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...

New details are emerging regarding the death of "El Mencho," the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The U.S. Embassy issued a security alert on Feb. 22 for various parts of Mexico, advising ...

We’re in the middle of two concurrent revolutions that will reshape how companies compete for customers. One is about how consumers search for information. The other, just getting started, is about ...

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...

Punch the monkey can't catch a break. Punch, a baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, went viral earlier in the week for dragging a stuffed orangutan around his enclosure. The baby monkey was ...

On Friday, a 6-3 SCOTUS majority struck down the bulk of President Trump's tariffs. Three conservative justices, Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito, issued a pair of dissenting opinions. See why they said ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are over and the Milan Cortina Games featured Olympic glory and disappointment for the United States figure skating team. The figure skating calendar ensures all three skaters ...

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The price of oil fluctuated as investors assessed the widening impact of the U.S.-Iran war on Middle East energy markets. The price of oil fluctuated as investors assessed the widening impact of the U ...

What Data Is Grok Using? According to this help page, X shares your public data with xAI, a Musk startup that acquired X in 2025 and was acquired by SpaceX in February. It's responsible for training ...