A false detail can travel farther than its correction. That has happened repeatedly in coverage of Donald Trump: remarks reported without their full context, photographs assigned the wrong date, and stories amended after publication. In other cases, Trump has taken media companies to court and obtained multimillion-dollar settlements. Those outcomes are different. A correction establishes that a report contained an error. An apology acknowledges a mistake. A settlement ends a

Artificial intelligence may appear to live inside a phone or laptop. Behind every prompt, however, are buildings filled with servers, cooling equipment and electrical systems. Technology companies are racing to construct more of them, making the AI boom as much a bet on physical infrastructure as on software. The bill is enormous. The International Energy Agency says capital spending by the largest technology companies exceeded $400 billion in 2025 and was expected to rise by

There was once an unwritten formula for joining America's middle class. Get a job. Save some money. Buy a modest first house. Build equity. Sell it several years later and use the proceeds to purchase something larger. The house didn't have to be impressive. Two bedrooms, one bathroom and a small yard were enough. It was a starter home. In 2026, that first rung on the property ladder is increasingly difficult to reach. The numbers are striking. Realtor.com estimates the typic

For generations, Americans worried that automation would replace factory workers. Robots assembled cars, machines replaced warehouse labor and computers eliminated entire categories of clerical work. Now automation has walked through the office door. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming capable of performing work once reserved for college-educated professionals: drafting contracts, writing computer code, analyzing financial information, creating advertisements, answeri

Both administrations have been accused of restricting journalists, but the circumstances—and the extent of the restrictions—are significantly different. WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House in September 2026, his supporters quickly pointed to an uncomfortable question for Trump's critics: Didn't President Joe Biden restrict hundreds of reporters himself? The answer is yes—but with an important qualification. The Biden a

TAMPA, Fla. — For decades, the stretch of Fletcher Avenue surrounding the University of South Florida has been one of Tampa's busiest corridors — a sprawling collection of apartments, restaurants, hospitals, shopping centers and traffic wrapped around one of the largest universities in the state. Now, USF is preparing to fundamentally change it. On Sept. 8, university officials broke ground on Uptown Landing, a nearly $500 million mixed-use development that will transform par

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. — For generations, Zephyrhills was the kind of Florida town people associated with retirement communities, bottled water, skydiving and a quiet downtown where life moved considerably slower than it did in Tampa. That version of Zephyrhills still exists. But increasingly, it is sharing space with something very different. New residents, housing developments, manufacturers and major investments are transforming this small Pasco County city into one of the east

For more than three decades, a federal felony conviction meant a permanent loss of Second Amendment rights, in practice if not on paper. The law had always contained a mechanism for restoration—18 U.S.C. § 925(c)—but Congress quietly gutted it in 1992 by barring the ATF from spending any money to process applications. The result was a statute that technically existed but functioned as a dead letter for over thirty years, leaving millions of Americans with old convictions no r

NEW YORK — The rise of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has brought an old American political argument back to the center of national politics: How much economic power should government possess, and when does an effort to create greater equality begin threatening individual liberty, private property and free enterprise? Mamdani openly identifies as a democratic socialist and has described his philosophy as extending democracy beyond elections into people's economic lives. H

SARASOTA, Fla. — Long before Florida became a land of sprawling resorts, luxury condominiums and billion-dollar developments, one of America’s richest and most famous showmen looked across Sarasota Bay and imagined something extraordinary. His name was John Ringling. Today, his 66-acre estate remains one of Florida’s most remarkable landmarks—a place where a Venetian-style mansion, priceless European artwork and the strange and spectacular history of the American circus exist

For generations, the world's biggest energy fears centered on oil. Wars in the Middle East, embargoes and disruptions to shipping could send gasoline prices soaring and threaten the global economy. The next energy crisis may look very different. Instead of oil tankers and pipelines, the pressure is increasingly building around electricity — and artificial intelligence is becoming one of the forces driving it. The enormous data centers powering AI systems require staggering am

The mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case did not end the controversy surrounding the deaths of her three children. Instead, it created a new target for public scrutiny: the lone juror who refused to join the other 11 members of the jury in finding Clancy not criminally responsible because of insanity. After more than seven days of deliberations, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 when the jury remained deadlocked 11-1. The holdout favored convicting C

SAN FRANCISCO — Jacob Coxon spent three years helping build some of the most advanced artificial-intelligence systems in the world. First at OpenAI and later at Anthropic, he worked on pretraining—the enormously complex process through which frontier AI models acquire their capabilities. Then he walked away. Coxon resigned from Anthropic this week with an extraordinary warning: the companies leading the artificial-intelligence revolution may be racing toward technology powerf

For decades, El Salvador was synonymous with gang violence. MS-13 and Barrio 18 controlled neighborhoods, extorted businesses, recruited children and enforced territorial boundaries that ordinary citizens crossed at their peril. In 2015, El Salvador recorded roughly 105 homicides per 100,000 residents, one of the highest murder rates in the world. Today, the country looks remarkably different. At the center of that transformation is President Nayib Bukele's aggressive campaig

For decades, Tampa's Westshore district has been a place people went to work, catch a flight, shop or attend a football game. At the end of the workday, many simply got back into their cars and left. That may be about to change. A remarkable collection of developments now underway or planned for Westshore could transform Tampa's traditional business district into something considerably different: a second urban center where people live, work, shop and spend their evenings. At

Inside the bunkers and hidden command centers designed to keep the United States running after catastrophe WASHINGTON — If a catastrophic attack devastated Washington tomorrow, the United States government is not supposed to disappear with it. Behind the visible government of the White House, Pentagon and Capitol is another system—one built into mountains, protected by massive blast doors and connected through secure communications networks. Its purpose is straightforward but

Every American with a smartphone leaves behind a trail. Where you drive. Where you shop. The websites you visit. The applications installed on your phone. In some circumstances, even visits to medical facilities, religious institutions and other sensitive locations can become pieces of commercially collected information. For years, Americans have generally assumed that if the government wants detailed information about their private lives, investigators must obtain a warrant

The disappearance of an unofficial person of interest, a sudden decline in Houston body recoveries and eight eerily similar deaths in Lady Bird Lake are fueling a disturbing new theory HOUSTON — For nearly a decade, Houston’s bayous produced a grim and seemingly relentless procession of bodies. More than 200 people have been recovered from Houston-area waterways since 2017. Most deaths were eventually attributed to accidents, suicides, overdoses, drownings or other causes, wh

TAMPA, Fla. — In Florida, preparing for disaster has never seemed particularly unusual. Residents buy bottled water before hurricanes, fill gas cans when a storm enters the Gulf and keep flashlights tucked away for the inevitable power outage. But across Tampa Bay and Central Florida, another level of preparedness exists. These are residents preparing not simply for three days without electricity, but for the possibility that electricity, communications, banking, transportati

How podcasts, YouTube, independent production and a growing creator economy are giving the region a new place in American media TAMPA — For decades, the geography of American entertainment was relatively easy to understand. Movies were made in Hollywood. Television was centered in Los Angeles and New York. Music had Nashville, Los Angeles and New York. Later, Atlanta emerged as a major production center. But the internet has begun dismantling those boundaries, and Tampa Bay i