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Meta pushes into personal AI agents as company faces public reckoning over privacy and safety
US Top News and Analysisby Jonathan Vanian·8 Sept 2026
Meta introduced its AI personal agent app on Tuesday and is asking a subset of users to pay at a time when the company and broader artificial intelligence industry face intensifying scrutiny and...
Secret DHS Unit Pulling People Over Based on Their Financial Data
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid·8 Sept 2026
The Department of Homeland Security is running a police unit that uses Americans’ financial records to predict whether they could commit crimes and is turning over their names to local police.
Pamela Anderson reveals she drained her bank account to beat hepatitis C
FOX Newsby Lauryn Overhultz·8 Sept 2026
Pamela Anderson paid a steep price to beat hepatitis C. After living with the disease for years, the 59-year-old actress said she drained her bank account to pay for an early treatment that...
Mom ‘very invested’ in Lindsay Clancy case hires Casey Anthony attorney after allegedly killing son: docs
FOX Newsby Greg Wehner·8 Sept 2026
A Frankfort, Illinois, mother accused of killing her 2-year-old son had been discussing the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial with friends just hours before the boy was found dead, court...
Gloria Steinem, a dangerous woman
Mother Jonesby David Corn·8 Sept 2026
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles...
Singkil peat swamp: The embattled orangutan capital of the world
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman·8 Sept 2026
- The Singkil peat swamp, part of Sumatra’s Leuser ecosystem, is a critical habitat for Sumatran orangutans.
Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Sarah Perez·8 Sept 2026
Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media’s consumer harms, the company announced its biggest bet on consumer AI to date —...
Riverside families in the Amazon change meals as mercury poisons staple fish
Mongabay Globalby Mayra·8 Sept 2026
- A database built by Mongabay Latam, based on the analysis of scientific studies that gathered more than 7,000 samples from humans and 5,900 from fish, identified the areas most affected by...
We Must Defend the Refugee Convention
Timeby Theo James·8 Sept 2026
In 1941, as the Nazis swept through Greece and took Athens, my grandfather, Nicolas Taptiklis, fled for his life.
Why Reading People's Confessions Online Feels So Good
Timeby Veronique Greenwood·8 Sept 2026
In January 2026, a new community popped up on Reddit, the online message board site. Called /r/GirlDinnerDiaries, it now has a sizable 6 million members and invites people to post a photo of a...
In Peru, mercury leaves a toxic footprint on those who depend on a river
Mongabay Globalby Mayra·8 Sept 2026
- Mongabay reviewed nearly three decades of scientific research on the impact of heavy metals and traveled to several Amazonian communities to track the course of mercury contamination.
What's a good annuity rate in 2026?
CBS Newsby Angelica Leicht·8 Sept 2026
No matter how well you prepare, the retirement planning process comes with lots of unknowns, from how long your savings need to last to what your investment returns may look like from one year to...
National Guard Member Arrested for Pulling Gun in Argument About Hair
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling·8 Sept 2026
A Georgia National Guardsman was arrested earlier this month in Washington after he allegedly pulled a loaded gun on a fellow guardswoman on one of the city’s busiest streets.
Jon Rahm dodges questions about wanting a pathway back to PGA Tour with LIV Golf future a complete unknown
FOX Newsby Mark Harris·8 Sept 2026
With complete uncertainty surrounding LIV Golf and whether the circuit will even exist in 2027, the question of where LIV players tee it up next year remains top of mind.
Indigenous territories maintain Amazon forest just as well as protected areas, study finds
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta·8 Sept 2026
A new study has found that in Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous territories without formal conservation contracts maintained forest conditions just as well as formal protected areas.
Mercury threatens over 160 communities in Bolivia’s Beni River basin
Mongabay Globalby Mayra·8 Sept 2026
- Mongabay found that 39 communities in Bolivia are suffering from mercury poisoning and that 125 more face a similar risk.
Artist Lucien Smith, Fixture of NYC’s Downtown Scene, Dies at 37
Hyperallergicby Phillip Pyle·8 Sept 2026
Artist Lucien Smith, an abstract painter whose work as a nonprofit founder and restaurateur channeled the community ethos of 1970s New York, has died at the age of 37.
Drug developed for lung disease may slow biological aging in surprising ‘bonus’
FOX Newsby Melissa Rudy·8 Sept 2026
A drug being developed to treat a serious lung disease may also help to slow the aging process, researchers say.
At three years old, Deep South Today threads the needle between “lean and mean” and “aggressive expansion”
Nieman Labby Sophie Culpepper·8 Sept 2026
On Adam Ganucheau’s first day at Mississippi Today a decade ago, there was no Wi-Fi, and he used an upside-down cardboard box as a desk. These days, things look a little different.
Twenty years into the Facebook News Feed era, Australia wants to turn back the clock
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton·8 Sept 2026
Congratulations/regrets — today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of today’s internet. I suppose there are numerous candidates for that title. The debut of the iPhone in 2007?
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