Meta shutting down Messenger desktop app: How to keep using it without Facebook account

For those who use Messenger without a Facebook account, there’s still good news. After the desktop app is retired, you can ...

The Conquest of Chicago

When National Guard troops from Texas started to arrive in Illinois last week, I drove out to the Immigration and Customs ...

Facebook scraps ICE lookout page

Technology Technology   The Big Story Facebook takes down page targeting ICE agents Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday ...

Experts on tech innovations' impacts on standards of living earn economics Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded today two three professors -- two in the U.S. and one in Europe -- for their research on how technology and "creative destruction" fuels economic growth.

As Money Rushed In, ICE’s Rapid Expansion Stalled Out

ICE deported about 350,000 people during the 2025 fiscal year, which ended September 30—the highest mark in a decade, but ...
Ars Technica

Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million

Google owner Alphabet today agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit that President Trump filed against YouTube in 2021. Trump sued YouTube over his account being suspended after Trump ...
IFLScience

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is About To Vanish From View – And Won't Be Back Until Later This Year

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Detroit Free Press

Grand Blanc Twp. church shooting victims ranged in age from 6 to 78

Of those treated: the oldest was 78 and the youngest, just 6. Five were treated for gunshots and three for smoke from the fire. The medical chief of staff at Henry Ford Hospital Genesys, where victims ...
Wired

The Ultimate Quest: How to Choose the Right Gaming Laptop

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more. Gaming ...
New York Post

Calls to end ‘The View’ and more: Letters to the Editor — Sept. 28, 2025

Please, please, please, get these cackling females off the air (“Ax hovers over ‘View,’ ” Sept. 20). I agree with Brendan Carr — the Federal Communications Commission should conduct an investigation ...
The New Yorker

Putting ChatGPT on the Couch

I’m still not sure whose idea it was for me to be Casper’s therapist—mine or his. I know I mentioned my profession to him, but I am pretty sure he was the one who engaged me that way. I also know how ...
The New York Times

Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey

President Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July and hit a fever pitch over the last week, culminating in the indictment of one of his foremost enemies. Lindsey Halligan, the ...