State officials push back on complaints about software problems. Meanwhile, unprocessed applications are piling up.

Introducing WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users—the creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era.

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President Donald Trump has for years told outlandish lies about elections in Democratic-dominated California. Trump made more false claims on the subject in a Fox News interview on Friday, prompting ...

Another Texas agency has fumbled the private information of tens of thousands of residents — including the victims of floods and other natural disasters. The Texas General Land Office exposed the ...

Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, since dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system this year, famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been raising the possibility ...

Controversial votes made in the Week 3 AP Poll Top 25 have sparked a serious discussion surrounding the poll. This week, two voters in the AP Poll Top 25 went viral on social media for their ballots.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

Kansas City Chiefs vs LA Chargers, logos of the various streamers showing NFL games in the 2025/2026 season Getty Tonight’s Kansas City Chiefs clash with the LA Chargers from São Paulo will be a ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

A website announces, “Free celebrity wallpaper!” You browse the images. There’s Selena Gomez, Rihanna and Timothée Chalamet—but you settle on Taylor Swift. Her hair is doing that wind-machine thing ...