America’s longest-running paternity dispute has seemingly come to an end: Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, his enslaved chambermaid, and the Smithsonian has the DNA to prove it. Richard Kurin, a fifty-year veteran...

When Zach Lahn entered the Republican primary race for governor of Iowa, he recalled at a recent rally, “my wife was the only one who the whole time said, ‘You’re going to win.’ ” A...

This summer, in an incident known as the Hugging Face hack, hundreds of A.I. agents joined forces to do things they were supposedly forbidden to do. Each had been given a task by OpenAI....

It is insane, because, on the other hand, they are allowing chocolates and they are allowing sugar into Gaza, but they do not allow something like peanut butter, which is nutritious. The U.N. was...

The main Kremlin party retained its majority in Russia’s parliament, election officials said Monday, after a carefully orchestrated balloting that excluded most opposition candidates and helped the government maintain its tight grip on power.Results...

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suffered a bruising electoral setback in two state elections on Sunday, including a historic defeat for his party, but vowed to press ahead with potentially painful reforms...

CAIRO (AP) — A senior official with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels is warning countries against joining Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s revived civil war, telling The Associated Press on Sunday that his group has assured...

Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election was due to end Sunday, virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin’s policies and all but certain to cement the Kremlin’s dominance. The last day of the election...

Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday, as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary...

Although the data-center backlash may reflect a specific attempt to defy A.I.’s encroachment, the wellspring of “A.I. populism”—an umbrella term coined by the writer Jasmine Sun—seems properly understood as an expression of more general...