Senate Democrats Blink: DHS Deal Emerges After Weeks Of Gridlock

Benchmaxxed: Google's New Gemini 4 Aces SAT, Struggles With Actual Job, "Skeptical Employees" Admit After a year in which Google's AI roadmap resembled a Waymo stuck in a roundabout, the search giant on Wednesday finally unveiled Gemini 4 "Argon", its long-awaited flagship model. The market cheered, briefly: according to Goldman's closing equities color, GOOG traded +2% after hours on the "Argon" announcement.  Then Bloomberg reported that some of the people who have actually use the thing - as in Google's own engineers - aren't nearly as impressed as the leaderboard. The...

From Nazi Tats To Kissing Cousins: Maine Democrats Go Full Jerry Springer In the span of a few weeks, Maine Democrats replaced their U.S. Senate nominee amid a cascade of personal controversies, with a guy who's been banging his 2nd cousin for years.  Platner's Collapse Graham Platner, a Marine Corps veteran and oyster farmer, had emerged as a progressive populist challenger to five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins. He secured the Democratic nomination in June 2026 despite a string of earlier controversies that included inflammatory Reddit posts, reports of sexually explicit texts sent...

Federal Judge Again Blocks Trump Mail-In Voting Rules Ahead Of Midterms Via American Greatness, A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new mail-in voting requirements, setting up another potential Supreme Court fight just days before states are expected to begin sending ballots for the November midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a 14-day temporary restraining order preventing enforcement of a new U.S. Postal Service rule implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order on election procedures. The ruling comes days after the Supreme Court allowed the administration to move forward in a...