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When the Headlines Were Wrong About Trump
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

Helen Diaz


The AI Boom Comes With a Building Bill
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

Linda Hayes


The Death of the Starter Home: America's first rung on the property ladder is disappearing—and younger buyers are paying the price
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

Daniel Wise


The Great White-Collar Shakeout: AI Is Coming for the Office
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

Bill Stortz


Biden Restricted Hundreds of White House Press Passes. Trump Banned Three News Organizations. Are They the Same?
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

Bill Stortz


USF Is Building a City Within a City: The $500 Million Project That Could Transform North Tampa
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

Lafonda Smith


The Reinvention of Zephyrhills: How a Small Florida Town Became Tampa Bay’s Next Growth Frontier
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

Marcus Howard


A New Path Home: Federal Gun Rights Restoration Returns After 30 Years
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

Bill Stortz


From Democratic Socialism to State Power: The Debate Surrounding Zohran Mamdani
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

Linda Hayes


The Circus King’s Florida Palace: Inside the Extraordinary World of The Ringling
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

Marcus Howard


The Next Energy Crisis Isn’t Oil — It’s Electricity
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

Marcus Howard


The Holdout Juror: Why Anger Over the Lindsay Clancy Mistrial Has Turned Personal
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

Linda Hayes
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