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The Hill
Gorsuch calls out Trump FCC chief for targeting Kimmel - The Hill

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch referenced Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr’s efforts to target ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel as part of an opinion issued on President Trump’s powers over independent agencies the court handed d…

Economy & General

Politico
The Supreme Court justices to watch today - Politico

With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner Good Tuesday morning. This is Jack Blanchard, alarmed to see were already halfway through 2026. Time flies when youre having fun, I guess.

Tech, Health & Opinion

Space Daily
Carl Sagan spent years trying to persuade NASA to take a picture many saw as scientifically pointless: Earth from more than 6 billion kilometres away, reduced to a pale blue dot smaller than a pixel. Voyager 1 finally captured it in 1990 — and that tiny speck be - Space Daily

In 1990, with its tour of the outer planets finished, Voyager 1 turned its camera back the way it had come and photographed the Earth from about six billion kilometres away. The planet came out as less than a single pixel, a pale fleck of light sitting in a b…

Space Daily
Earth’s inner core may have quietly reversed course: after decades of spinning slightly faster than the surface, seismic waves from repeating earthquakes show it slowed around 2010 and began drifting backward relative to the rest of the planet. - Space Daily

More than 5,000 kilometres beneath your feet, Earth’s solid inner core has spent the past few decades turning slightly faster than the planet wrapped around it. Seismic measurements suggest that around 2010 it slowed to match the surface, and has since fallen…

Space Daily
In January 2026, scientists reported that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models — suggesting that biological brains and artificial networks may build meaning th - Space Daily

In January 2026, researchers reported that the order in which the human brain makes sense of spoken language, from raw sound up to meaning, lines up closely with the layer-by-layer way large language models process text. The brain and the model, it seems, cli…

Space Daily
In January 2025, the loudest gravitational wave ever recorded hid a second signal nobody knew how to read — and a decade after the first detection, it has just given physicists the spin rate of a black hole's event horizon - Space Daily

The signal arrived at LIGO on January 14, 2025. Two laser beams running down 4-kilometer vacuum tubes in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana flickered by a distance roughly ten-thousandths the width of a proton, lasted a fraction of a second, and we…

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