Supreme Court Limits Reach of Voting Rights Act

Also, the Pentagon estimates the Iran war cost at $25 billion. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

Congress Races to Renew Surveillance Law After House Approval

Speaker Mike Johnson struggled for more than two hours on Wednesday to round up the votes to bring up the surveillance bill.

Civil rights leaders see the voting rights ruling as a ‘betrayal.’

“To be honest, this feels like a betrayal,” said Marc Morial, president of the Urban League.

Musk Says He ‘Was a Fool’ to Provide OpenAI’s Early Funding

Elon Musk’s testimony grew testy during cross-examination from OpenAI’s lawyer.

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write

What Worries Me Most About ‘Abundance’

It’s been a big year for the abundance movement, but what has it really achieved? Ezra Klein talks with his “Abundance” co-author Derek Thompson and …

Indian Tycoon Offers Refuge to Pablo Escobar’s Condemned Hippos

Hippos descended from four imported by the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in Colombia, in a 2023 photo.

‘A Lot of Rocket’: Trump Celebrates Artemis II Astronauts at the White House

President Trump met in the Oval Office on Wednesday with the crew of the Artemis II mission, from left, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman …