The Supreme Court’s tariff case comes as the chief justice is under pressure from the president, the public and other judges.https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/chief-justice-roberts-faces-career-defining-decision-on-trump-7ab3ae68
Kamala Harris’s memoir gives you little idea of what she believes. John Fetterman’s is better.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-do-mainstream-democrats-stand-for-a6835d6e
In their legislation reopening the government, senators awarded themselves a legal power to sue the government that should be universal.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-senators-only-right-to-sue-in-shutdown-deal-88e6f79e
Led by Israel's Yad Vashem, the initiative has been underway since the 1950s. But it recently got a boost from artificial intelligence, which is helping humans search through the recordshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-have-identified-the-names-of-five-million-victims-murdered-in-the-holocaust-180987658/
Retired teacher Robert Beattie, now 82, has been digging up remnants of the past ever since he was a childhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-amateur-fossil-hunter-discovered-a-151-million-year-old-insectand-its-a-new-species-180987676/
New research sheds light on a cross-shaped pit found at Aguada Fénix, a monumental complex discovered several years agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-found-a-3000-year-old-map-of-the-cosmos-at-an-ancient-maya-site-in-mexico-180987656/
A waning crescent moon will offer stargazers an optimal viewing experience this year, with 10 to 15 meteors visible each hour from Sunday into Mondayhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dark-moon-shooting-stars-how-to-catch-the-stunning-leonid-meteor-shower-this-weekend-180987686/
The Scharf Collection features French artworks from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as contemporary pieces from around the worldhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-masterpieces-by-monet-matisse-degas-and-picasso-in-the-first-ever-exhibition-of-this-german-familys-private-art-collection-180987678/
A new study asserts that the Bronze Age goblet may be one of the earliest known depictions of cosmology, featuring gods creating celestial order from chaoshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scholars-thought-this-ancient-silver-goblet-told-one-myth-for-50-years-is-it-actually-telling-another-story-180987675/
Ahead of the PBS production's premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the six-part serieshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ken-burns-says-his-new-documentary-forced-him-to-revisit-everything-he-thought-he-knew-about-the-american-revolution-180987667/
Researchers studied the combination of muscles and breaths that the tiny birds use as they strike trees with their beakshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/downy-woodpeckers-grunt-as-they-turn-their-bodies-into-hammers-to-drill-into-trees-180987670/
Researchers hope the discovery shines a light on bee conservation Down Underhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/newly-discovered-lucifer-bee-from-australia-named-after-devil-like-horns-180987677/
The robots can hover over marine mammals and gather all sorts of information in a way that’s less invasive to the animals than researchers trying to approach them by boat or planehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/from-collecting-whale-snot-to-capturing-surprising-behaviors-aerial-drones-are-giving-scientists-a-new-view-of-sea-life-180987683/
Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.https://www.wired.com/story/all-my-employees-are-ai-agents-so-are-my-executives/
Tremane Wood was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, just hours after being granted clemency on the day he was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-death-row-inmate-tremane-wood-unresponsive-granted-clemency/
A U.S. attorney's office in Albany will defend the Trump administration in a lawsuit brought by fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, after her former office in Manhattan recused itself from the case.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/manhattan-doj-office-recuses-itself-from-maurene-comey-lawsuit-challenging-her-firing/
Newly released records raise questions about friendship between Trump and Epstein; Young pilot achieves his dream thanks to mentor who showed him the skyhttps://www.cbsnews.com/video/111325-cbs-evening-news/
A chemical spill left dozens hospitalized and forced hundreds to evacuate from a western Oklahoma city.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ammonia-leak-oklahoma-dozens-hospitalized-hundreds/
Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five years before his release in 1973. One of Stirm's prison mates was the late Sen. John McCain.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-force-lieutenant-colonel-robert-stirm-photo-burst-of-joy-dies/
Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona waited 50 days before she was officially sworn in as the newest member of Congress — and she told CBS News "the emotions run the gamut of frustration, anger, happiness, sadness."https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adelita-grijalva-new-role-as-congresswoman-interview/