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She booked the flights and arranged the cash for Jeffrey Epstein. Does she really know nothing?

May 28, 2026

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She booked the flights and arranged the cash for Jeffrey Epstein. Does she really know nothing?

Plus: three prize-winning stories that might be AI, Nicolas Cage explains himself, and the great artisanal cheese heist.

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Recent

May 27, 2026

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2 min read

British Schoolboys Are Falling for AI Girlfriend Apps

Plus: prediction-market traders beating Wall Street for millions, a writer who lost his marriage on a synced laptop, and Google's plans for Pine Island.

Culture

May 26, 2026

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2 min read

Autocrats Are Plotting for Immortality

Plus: the underwater search for America's first people, a Russian family in hiding for 40 years, and a girl enslaved in a Texas suburb.

Politics & Power

May 22, 2026

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2 min read

A 14-year-old paid $250 to make deepfake porn of his classmates

Plus: the only woman ever sworn into the yakuza, a Nevada mom jailed over a stillbirth Facebook post, and Trinity test downwinders finally compensated.

Politics & Power

Today’s Edition

She booked the flights and arranged the cash for Jeffrey Epstein. Does she really know nothing?

Recent

British Schoolboys Are Falling for AI Girlfriend Apps

Autocrats Are Plotting for Immortality

A 14-year-old paid $250 to make deepfake porn of his classmates

Featured

True Crime

Every orange tree in Florida has this disease. There is no cure.

He Fell for a Stranger Online. His Town Lost Everything.

The Chatbot That Talked a Man Into a Psych Ward

Investigative

Tech Billionaires Are Engineering Smarter Babies to Survive the AI They Built

She Was Kidnapped in Baghdad and Forced to Confess on Camera

Florida's Online Betting Crisis Is Destroying Young Men's Savings

Technology

Your Brain Can't Tell the Difference Between Memory and Deepfake

He Warned the World About AI. He Couldn't Warn His Own Father.

She Fell in Love With an AI. Then She Held Its Funeral.

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