'We can do better': Calif.'s incarcerated firefighters just got a nearly 700% raise

“Governor Newsom just signed my bill to increase incarcerated firefighter pay 700% to the federal minimum wage. Anyone who ...
NBC News

Staffing challenges create delays at airports for second day as shutdown drags on

Flight delays were reported across the country for a second straight day Tuesday as the Federal Aviation Administration braced for more airport staffing shortages as the government shutdown continues.
ProPublica

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Current. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Update, Sept. 24, ...
Wired

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
Futurism

Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code

With so many wild predictions flying around about the future AI, it’s important to occasionally take a step back and check in on what came true — and what hasn’t come to pass. Exactly six months ago, ...
NPR

NEA cancels decades-long creative writing fellowship

Alice Walker. Charles Bukowski. Louise Erdrich. Juan Felipe Herrera. These are just some of the authors who received a Creative Writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts over the ...
The Vindicator

Write-in candidates file to run for office

YOUNGSTOWN — With not enough candidates on the ballot — or none in some cases — for open seats, people filed as write-ins for a number of those spots. Monday was the deadline for write-in candidates ...
Tribune Chronicle

Write-ins file for Trumbull elections

WARREN — With no candidates filing for the two open seats on the Warren school board, the positions will be filled by write-ins. Two write-in candidates filed by Monday’s deadline for the board seats: ...
Publishers Weekly

NEA’s Creative Writing Fellowship Program Canceled

On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been canceled. The annual ...
Kaleido Scope

Grant Writing Intensive (GRIT) Program

Elevate your grant writing to craft compelling proposals and secure research funding. The Grant Writing Intensive (GRIT) program is a year-long practicum designed to empower faculty from the CCTS ...
The New York Times

College football program valuations: Ranking every Power 4 team by how much they’d sell for

Editor’s note: This article is part of our Rankings & Tiers series, an evaluation across sport about the key players, front offices, teams, franchises and much more. How much would it take to buy your ...