Business Don't say "hmm" during a job interview — it's a sign you are cheating with AI Ellsworth Toohey

protests Columbia University shuts down as protestors barricade inside building (video) Carla Sinclair

protests "Imagine the worst, most foul thing you have ever smelled" – protestors sprayed with crowd-control chemical report severe symptoms Mark Frauenfelder

health New York hospitals illegally billed rape survivors for their rape kits, then sent debt-collectors after them Cory Doctorow

Science New study suggests Long COVID is now most common childhood chronic health problem Jennifer Sandlin

News Pulitzer winner Wesley Lowery faces multiple sexual misconduct allegations Ellsworth Toohey

politics ICE posts image saying its job is to stop "ideas" crossing U.S. border "illegally" Rob Beschizza

canada Worried academics run for the Canadian border Séamus Bellamy

books Elfquest creators donate $500k to Columbia University Comics Archive Rob Beschizza

Trump 2.0 Sen. Tuberville calls to outlaw protests: "Treat them all the same — send them to jail" (video) Carla Sinclair

Secretary Rubio's exciting new game show: "Who wants to be deported?" Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump takes a political prisoner; ADL cheers him on Jason Weisberger

Two mathematicians just solved a centuries-old prime number puzzle that experts thought impossible Ellsworth Toohey

Science Nxylon: wood so dark it absorbs 99% of light Rob Beschizza

protest University of Copenhagen divests from businesses in occupied Palestine following student protest Natalie Dressed

heroes Area man eats an entire jar of cheese balls in Union Square Thom Dunn

Kuzko & Kronk Rescue rats learn to drive tiny cars built just for them Rusty Blazenhoff

censorship University of Pennsylvania affiliates face McCarthy-style treatment Natalie Dressed

3-D scanned images OpenVertebrate is a massive database of 3-D scanned images of 13,000 (and counting!) vertebrate specimens Jennifer Sandlin

anti-vaxxers Midwife fined $300K for giving fake vaccines to 1,500 children Mark Frauenfelder