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The BBC reported that some young adults are taking prescription anxiety medication instead of alcohol to feel intoxicated at parties, while experts dispute the trend's meaning and warn of risks.
Medication-based intoxication can conceal impaired judgment behind the appearance of medical control, leaving friends and clinicians with fewer visible measures of use.
Futurism, citing a 404 Media investigation, reported that Amazon workers at a Nevada warehouse cut apart rare books and scanned their pages for AI development.
Destroying scarce volumes can erase annotations, bindings, provenance and physical evidence that future researchers cannot recover from a text file.
FIFA dismissed senior executive Kevin Lamour three weeks after he criticized a plan advanced by the governing body’s president, Gianni Infantino.
The dismissal may discourage FIFA officials from challenging presidential plans, weakening the internal scrutiny available before consequential decisions are made.
States have taken Meta to trial in California over allegations that the design and operation of its social platforms harmed children.
A verdict could change which safety duties platforms owe young users and what evidence families can use when alleging that automated products caused harm.
ProPublica identified private schools funded heavily or entirely by state vouchers, including 39 Wisconsin schools that enrolled 7,923 children and received about $87 million in the latest school year.
Taxpayers, families and students can bear the cost of weak performance or conflicted governance when voucher-dependent schools receive public funding without public-school disclosure and control.
A McDonald’s began using an app that helps employees secure last-minute transportation, food and childcare after unexpected absences generated tens of thousands of dollars in monthly losses.
The app could keep workers paid and shifts staffed, but its value depends on who funds the assistance, what employee data it collects and whether participation is voluntary.
As wildfire danger intensifies, NPR reports that some states are struggling to require homeowners to manage flammable vegetation and use fire-resistant building materials.
Voluntary rules leave owners paying for individual upgrades while untreated neighboring properties can preserve shared exposure to flames and embers.
ICE special agents tracked a New York man to his home, an airport and a hotel before questioning him about a January email criticizing the agency’s former leader.
Using federal surveillance and an in-person encounter to answer criticism can deter people from contacting officials even when no threat has been alleged.
Mothers told the BBC they struggled to secure support through Britain’s Child Maintenance Service, while fathers said the agency wrongly charged them thousands of pounds.
Delayed payments and unresolved errors can reduce money available for children’s food and housing while prolonging conflict between separated parents.
Documents reviewed by Reuters show Binance gave customer information to Moscow that was later used to charge a Russian client over donations to Ukraine.
Exchange customers can face prosecution when identity records attached to their transactions move from a compliance department to state authorities.
Multiple people died in Indiana after more than 11 inches of rain fell in some areas over three days beginning Aug. 11, causing record floods and inundating Indianapolis suburbs.
The death toll puts drainage, public alerts, dispatch, road closures, rescue capacity and household checks under scrutiny after the water recedes.
President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea, citing Seoul’s refusal to assist in the Iran war and his relationship with Kim Jong Un.
Linking Korean Peninsula readiness to South Korea’s conduct in an unrelated war could weaken deterrence, strain the alliance and encourage Pyongyang to seek further concessions.