LOS ANGELES — What qualifies as political activism in Hollywood usually starts and ends with writing a big check. Not so for Rob Reiner. The iconic actor and director, who on Sunday was found dead in ...

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For a while last year, scientists offered a glimmer of hope that artificial intelligence would make a positive contribution to democracy. They showed that chatbots could address conspiracy theories ...

Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd. (MEIL), which is constructing the 850 MW Ratle Hydroelectric Project in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, on Saturday (December 13, 2025) said it may ...

Minsk has released jailed Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski along with 122 other political prisoners. The move comes as Belarus seeks to mend ties with Washington and the US lifts some sanctions. The ...

Political thrillers have been a staple of popular culture since the 1960s, when the Cold War threw conspiracy theory-loving writers into overdrive, and television and film are no exception. This year, ...

Two high-profile governors, Democrat Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Republican Spencer Cox of Utah, traveled to Washington, D.C., to make the case Tuesday that political leaders need to dial back ...

Two of the nation’s top state leaders who have had close brushes with political violence in 2025 hosted a panel on Dec. 9 where they called on Americans to stop hating their political enemies before ...

Good morning, science fans! Patrick here to launch another week of our science news blog coverage. Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted with spectacular, giant lava fountains over the weekend and consumed ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...

A lawyer by trade, state Rep. Matt Pierce, D-Bloomington, questioned the author of Indiana's redistricting bill on Dec. 2 as though he was cross-examining a witness. And Rep. Ben Smaltz, R-Auburn, ...

A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most misinformation. In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, ...