Doctorsand human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.
Director general Matt Brittin says funding model ties corporation to the past as number of licences falls by 539,000
The number of people paying the BBC’s licence fee has fallen faster than expected in the last year, with half a million more households opting out of the payment.
Matt Brittin, the BBC’s director general, said the broadcaster faced a “moment of real jeopardy”, as the licence fee funding model “ties us to the past”.
Запорожье расположено всего в 24 км от линии фронта, но в городе до сих пор проживает около 750 тыс. человек, и война здесь ощущается ближе, чем когда-либо.
From left: Troy Jackson, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Graham Platner during a Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, Maine, on May 25, 2026. —Sophie Park–Bloomberg via Getty Images
The race to replace Graham Platner is on, as Maine Democrats on Monday announced a June 25 convention to field a replacement for the scandal-plagued Senate candidate. As the field of candidates to take on Senator Susan Collins jockey for endorsements, one of the state’s leading progressive organizations finds itself at a crossroads about the role it wants to play in a race that could decide control of the Senate.
“A lot of people were really despairing after the Platner news dropped, because we felt betrayed,” says Wesley Pelletier, a key member of the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and a Portland City Councilor.
While Graham Platner was never a member of the DSA, his platform aligned closely with the organization’s priorities: universal healthcare, affordable housing, abolishing ICE, suspending military aid to Israel.
Yet the Maine DSA had a complicated relationship with Platner. Even before sexual assault allegations ended Platner’s campaign last week, DSA members had enough concerns about his past to be wary, to the point that the chapter had stopped short of formally endorsed him.
Platner’s campaign implosion comes as democratic socialists have enjoyed a winning streak across the country. In races in New York, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., candidates who are either DSA members or aligned with the group have won a string of primary victories this year.
“I had to remind myself that he might be the face of this movement, but he's not the only person working in this movement,” says Howa Ikram, a longtime DSA member based in Portland.
Maine is different from other places where progressives are flexing their political muscle. It’s a longtime blue state, but one with a mostly white working-class electoral base that has a history of backing moderates. It’s why Collins has held her Senate seat for nearly three decades. Many Democrats fear a nominee seen as too liberal will play to Collins’ strengths.
But Maine’s democratic socialists argue Platner’s platform was key to his ability to electrify so much of the party’s voters.
“If we have a campaign that picks up the pieces that are on the ground right now and runs with that,” Pelletier says, “Collins will be gone.”
“Undeniably true”
Long before the latest sexual assault allegations came to light, Platner’s support among Maine Democratic Socialists was already marred by distrust and concerns about his personal character. The group typically requires sign-on from 15 members to trigger an endorsement vote for a candidate, Pelletier says. Platner wasn’t able to meet that threshold, in light of a list of scandals, including a trove of controversial Reddit posts and his having gotten a tattoo that appeared to resemble Nazi iconography.
In early June, the Maine DSA published a since-deleted voter guide that recommended that members vote for Platner, while conceding that his candidacy did come with baggage. “Platner isn’t the perfect candidate. His unforced errors reflect a campaign that needs to tighten up and stop running like they know he’s in the lead,” the voter guide reads.
While some have argued that the DSA’s recommendation amounts to an endorsement, Maine DSA members stress that it was a step below the endorsements the chapter had made in other races. “Our organization is more important to us than getting on board the zeitgeist,” Pelletier said.
The distrust with Platner reached critical mass last week, when Politico detailed an alleged sexual assault incident between Platner and 41-year-old Jenny Racicot in 2021, years before Platner decided to run for the U.S. Senate. Racicot said Platner showed up at her door while inebriated and had sex with her without her consent. Platner has repeatedly denied the allegations.
Howa Ikram, a longtime DSA member based in Portland, said she felt angry and shocked when she first read the article. “As a woman, you have that gut feeling in your body that is unmistakable, and I think every Maine woman felt that,” Ikram said.
Pelletier says the saga was “difficult” for him to process at first, because previous allegations about Platner’s history with women published in The New York Times had left him and other DSA members with questions about whether to believe them. The latest allegations were different, Pelletier says, recalling the heartbreak he immediately felt for Racicot. “I got halfway through, and I was like, ‘No, this one's real.’”
The race to replace Platner
As the Maine Democratic Party scrambles to pick Platner’s replacement before a June 27 deadline, the progressives and establishment wings of the party are jockeying for influence.
Seven candidates have thrown their hats into the ring so far. The top contenders include Troy Jackson, a DSA-endorsed gubernatorial candidate who lost the primary and a longtime working-class state legislator; Nirav Shah, a former state and federal health official who is seen as more moderate than Jackson; and Shenna Bellows, Maine’s Secretary of State who previously failed to unseat Susan Collins in 2014.
The Maine DSA has not endorsed in the race yet, though Pelletier says he has endorsed Jackson in his role as a city councilor. Jackson has also received the endorsement of Our Revolution, a liberal group founded by Sen. Bernie Sanders that had previously endorsed Sanders.
“He is a very working-class humble candidate,” Pelletier says of Jackson. “He is very genuine, and I think he represents what a lot of people in Maine feel about politics.”
But regardless of who clinches the nomination, both Ikram and Pelletier hope that the national Democratic Party will stay out of this shortened, high-profile primary, even though people like Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer had tried to steer the nomination away from Platner. Pelletier pointed to this year’s Democratic primary race in Maine’s second congressional district, where the establishment-backed Joe Baldacci lost to his progressive rival Matt Dunlap.
“I think Maine is uniquely difficult to influence in that way,” Pelletier says.
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Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox browser, is reinventing itself as a champion of open-source AI, in what its president Mark Surman says is an attempt to build a “Rebel Alliance” resisting the concentration of power in the tech industry.
On Tuesday, Mozilla released its first “state of open-source AI” report, which TIME viewed exclusively ahead of its publication.
The report argues that open-source AI has almost caught up to the “closed” frontier, and makes the case that more investment is needed at different parts of the ecosystem beyond the models themselves, where attention is usually focused.
As well as being a picture of the open-source ecosystem in 2026, the report is at least partially a piece of advocacy for Mozilla’s anti-concentration-of-power agenda, too, according to Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s chief technology officer. “I don't want seven AGIs, one for every single one of the big companies. I want seven billion AGIs,” Krikorian says, referring to artificial general intelligence. “I want us to each have an AGI that's truly on our side, not on someone else's side.”
The report argues that the risk of power concentration in the AI industry doesn’t just reside in the models themselves, which are becoming easily interchangeable. Instead, the report argues, the open-source community must invest resources into other “layers” where power might otherwise accrue. Chief among them are so-called “harnesses,” which are programs that can amplify a model’s abilities, making it more useful and user-friendly. (Transferable memory, permissions, and pricing are all other areas that could do with more investment, Mozilla’s report argues.)
But some of the report’s assertions are questionable. A key statistic claims that open-source capabilities are just “3.3%” behind those of closed models—a number that the report later acknowledges conceals a “jagged” frontier, where closed models far outstrip open ones in important domains. The report also claims that open models are “at parity” with closed models on coding ability, albeit behind on reasoning—even though improved reasoning capabilities generally translate into stronger coding capabilities.. And many sections of the report contain telltale signs of AI writing, including Krikorian’s foreword, which the AI detection tool Pangram flagged as “100%” AI-generated. (In an interview, Krikorian said he had written the foreword himself, though acknowledged an editor may have used AI to edit it.)
The report barely acknowledges the risks of open-source AI. Because open-source models are made available to download, it is difficult to suppress them if they turn out to have dangerous capabilities. That applies to today’s risks, like deepfakes, and tomorrow’s, like the ability of forthcoming models to find cybersecurity flaws in the world’s software. When asked about the risks, Krikorian argues that progress in AI is essentially inevitable, and that protections must sit at the societal level. “If we just embrace the fact that these open models are racing forward,” he says, “[...] then we can have a real conversation on how we want to not necessarily contain, but use these systems [and] deploy these systems.”
The report contains clues about how Mozilla might be planning to sustain itself if the revenue streams from Firefox dry up. “You shouldn't be surprised if in a few months you see that we've released our own harness,” Krikorian tells TIME. Surman, Mozilla’s president, says: “We're really committed to this idea of the Rebel Alliance. We're really committed to pulling together all of the different players who share that vision.”
Asked who the evil empire is in his Star Wars analogy, Surman replied: “I think the Empire is the idea of centralized, winner-takes-all tech. You have a number of companies who, that's the game they're playing.”
KN95 masks can offer the best protection against Covid, according to the CDC. We asked experts how to wear KN95 masks, plus the best brands to shop from.
Cassandra and her husband made headlines after leaving New York City to buy a home in rural Italy for just $13,000. She breaks down what motivated the move, how she's adjusted to life in a tiny mountain town, embraced a lower-cost lifestyle and whether trading the conventional American dream for a simpler life abroad was worth it. Plus, Jill and Mark explain what SpaceX's inclusion in Nasdaq index funds actually means for investors, and why one TikToker's recommended tax loophole is complete nonsense.
I don’t do well with stress. Even minor inconveniences can throw me off my game, turning a mildly bad day into a complete five-alarm fire. If someone asks a single thing of me during one of these spirals, I’m likely to blow up.
Whether you’ve woken up on the wrong side of the bed or an avalanche of calamities happens to descend upon you, it’s easy to get bogged down by negativity, to feel like a black cloud hangs over your head. Anyone who’s had a bad day can attest to how these feelings can ripple out to other aspects of your life: You’re curt with the barista and they’re rude in return; you throw your bag down forcefully at your desk and break your glass Tupperware inside; you snap at your partner and they get annoyed.
“When you’re in a bad mood, it shows up in your behavior and it shows up in your facial expressions and it shows up in your tone of voice and you might end up actually eliciting negativity from others unintentionally that way,” Ryan Martin, a psychologist who has studied anger and the author of Emotion Hacks: 50 Ways to Feel Better Fast, tells Vox.
Rather than lashing out at every unsuspecting soul who crosses your path, Martin outlines four tactics to help you defang your rage during those days when everyone at work needs something from you, your basement floods, and your best friend is mad at you.
1. Recognize that you’re crabby
When people are having a bad day, they tend to let that negativity inform how they perceive everything moving forward, Martin says. “It becomes a lens that they look through, and they start to interpret a lot of events as being negative, even neutral things,” he says. “Or they fail to recognize some of the positive things that happened along the way.”
By acknowledging I am having a bad day,you can stop the cycle of negativity and consider what concrete actions you could take to improve your mood.
2. Think about what has actually gone wrong (and what’s gone right)
One of those concrete steps is to pay attention to the things that have actually gotten under your skin and determine if they really are day-ruining, or merely inconveniences. “Part of what happens for people is when they get down…they get hung up on the things that they’re upset about, and they start to catastrophize a little bit,” Martin says.
Be realistic and consider whether the traffic you’re in will actually cause you to lose your job, or just make you a few minutes late. (It’s entirely possible you might lose your job, and a mindset shift won’t make that less stressful!) But maybe there are other things about your day that are going well: You enjoyed your breakfast and got out the door on time. Those are worth acknowledging, too.
3. Take control where you can
On days when it seems like absolutely nothing is going your way, it can be easy to feel like bad things are happening to you in a world where you have no agency. There certainly are scenarios — say, getting a flat tire — where things are largely out of your control. But there are likely other aspects of your day where you can establish more control. Maybe it’s rescheduling a meeting and taking a walk instead. Perhaps you call a friend just to say you’re thinking of them. By doing this, you put a little space between the unpleasant events and everything else. “I like to acknowledge that those things truly are independent of each other,” Martin says. “They’re bad things that just all happened all at the same time, but it isn’t actually a pattern that is related to those things.”
Recent research has found that taking concrete steps to manage stress is effective at minimizing negative emotions and improving mental health. And these stress-management tactics don’t take a ton of time and effort either: They can look like stepping away to relax for a minute, getting a good night’s sleep, practicing gratitude, or seeking out social support.
4. Don’t blow up
All communication skills elude me in the midst of a stressful day. Catch me at the wrong time, and I might snap. Offering a warning that you’re on edge isn’t a bad idea, but your delivery matters, Martin says. “What I don’t necessarily love is when someone essentially says, ‘Hey, I’m on the verge of a freakout,’ and then asks me to…deal with whatever mood they’re in, in a way that actually puts a lot of emotional labor on me,” he says.
Rather than lashing out at a friend and saying, “I’m not in the mood for your jokes,” Martin suggests a softer “I’m really struggling today, just wanted you to know,” or “This day has been so awful, I’d appreciate it if you had some patience with me.”
“My take is that people are often pretty good at giving people grace when things are voiced in that way,” he says.
Bad days, unfortunately, are inevitable. But we don’t have to make a stressful day worse. How we choose to react to stressful situations is entirely within our control.
The striker is driven by a sense of destiny but to be remembered as an all-time great outside England requires big-game performances
Five days to win the Ballon d’Or. The way to do it: outshine Lionel Messi in Atlanta, then see off Kylian Mbappé or Lamine Yamal on Sunday. For Harry Kane, nothing will come without a fight. The England captain was doubted when he was a kid, back when the youth coaches at Tottenham wondered if it was worth keeping him, and he faces another seismic battle against Argentina on Wednesday.
This could be the crowning moment of Kane’s career. The Bayern Munich striker has enjoyed the season of his life, with more domestic trophies in the bag and 73 goals in 64 appearances for club and country. There are more steps to take, though. The chance to lead England into a first World Cup final abroad is within reach. All Kane has to do to is outperform the greatest footballer of all time.
Restoring oil tanker traffic in the vital Middle East shipping corridor to prewar levels likely will require a much bigger armada of U.S. warships if not tens of thousands of American troops on Iranian soil, experts say.
China’s monthly car exports topped 1m for the first time in June as overall overseas shipments from the world’s second biggest economy rose 27%.
Official Chinese customs data showed that a stronger-than-expected trade performance kept China on track to match or beat last year’s record trade surplus of $1tn (£748bn), achieved despite Donald Trump’s curtailed tariff war.
Emerging stars need a leg up from media and marketing teams to ensure they get the recognition they deserve
By any measure it is a remarkable achievement. While many have fantasised about how it might feel to score a try for the All Blacks, no one in history has now lived that dream more frequently than Will Jordan. At the weekend the New Zealand wing took his tally to 50 tries in only 56 appearances, overhauling Doug Howlett’s all-time national men’s record of 49 in 62 Tests.
Perhaps the biggest compliment to pay Jordan is how relatively easy he makes it all look. Where others blow hot and cold, the 28-year-old glides around like a smooth, top-of-the-range sports car. A devastating little surge of electric acceleration here, exquisite running lines, world-class anticipation, deceptive pace … by the time defenders finally work out what he is doing it is usually too late.
Sam. So effortlessly handsome, and that rare thing in New Zealand and Australia: a movie star.
My hands actually shook when I met him at a cafe in Vulcan Lane, Auckland, to discuss rehearsals. He had arrived, we all had, to start pre-production on The Piano. He was to play the repressed and violent Stewart, the one who would chop off his wife’s finger. Who but Sam could play that part, could surprise with that part?
Change of US position on free navigation comes as two tankers hit by Iranian cruise missiles. Plus, the international outpouring of love for the late actor Sam Neill
Good morning. The US has launched its third consecutive night of strikes on Iran, hours after Donald Trump said Washington would reinstate a maritime blockade on the country and charge ships for safe passage. The UAE said two national tankers were targeted by two Iranian cruise missiles in the southern lane of the strait of Hormuz in Omani territorial waters, killing one Indian crew member and wounding eight others, including four seriously.
Iran and the US are in theory nearly halfway through the 60-day period of an interim deal that was supposed to set up talks for a permanent end to the war, which began in February with the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. In reality, that deal has devolved into a series of attacks over the strait of Hormuz, resulting in the near-total collapse of an interim ceasefire and worrying world leaders that the conflict could fully resume.
How has Trump changed his position on tolls? On Monday, Trump said the US would demand a 20% tariff on all cargoes shipped through the strait of Hormuz. Until now, the US had said the strait should remain open to all without tolls – as it was before Washington and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February. Any attempt by the US or Iran – which has also proposed tolls – to charge fees would violate global norms on freedom of navigation and would be likely to cause further economic disruption far beyond the region.
What did Nordone say about her appointment? In brief remarks,Nordone, 64,said: “Lindsey has always been there for me, and now I will be there for him. I promise to work hard over the next several months to support the president and carry forward the efforts of my brother on behalf of the citizens of South Carolina and the United States. I think this is what Lindsey would have wanted, and I plan to honor him in this way. I miss you more than I can even put into words, but I’m going to do this. I got it.”
China’s monthly car exports topped 1m for the first time in June as overall overseas shipments from the world’s second biggest economy rose 27%.
Official Chinese customs data showed that a stronger-than-expected trade performance kept China on track to match or beat last year’s record trade surplus of $1tn (£748bn), achieved despite Donald Trump’s curtailed tariff war.
AI is moving beyond chatbots and into toys, dolls, and robots built to befriend children. A leading child-development expert says the technology offers real promise — but also risks crowding out the human relationships children need most.
On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, WIRED’s senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan talks to Gowanus about eschewing Big Tech, going outside, and rejection in the age of dating apps.
More than that: because I could, I felt the responsibility to do it.
I was 22 when I helped lead a delegation of young people to the United Nations. There, we pressured presidents and prime ministers to reduce carbon emissions, hoping to prevent the horrors of rising sea levels and catastrophic heat waves. Strangely, although I was immersed in the distressing climate science and the details of international policy negotiations, what I remember most from that time is my own sense of agency. If we organized, if we took action; I knew we could protect the beautiful world we loved.
I don’t feel that so much anymore. Though I’m not yet 40, and still going through the motions of voting and donating to causes and candidates doing good, my heart has been crushed by the headlines lately. I feel defeated. Rather than believing my choices can shape the world around me, I oscillate between sadness and cynicism, numbing myself by eating a lot of chocolate cookies.
If you, too, suffer from weltschmerz, as the Germans call the despair at the state of the world — or if something else, like a death or divorce, has you feeling low — it might be time to pause on taking action and give into the grief.
Religious traditions have long centered grieving rituals amid the happier celebrations and festivals in their calendar. Entire sacred texts consist of lamentation — crying out to the divine in dismay.
Walter Brueggemann, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, explained in 2020 that lament is not just an expression of sadness. He said, “Lament is the breaking of numbness by the admission of pain and loss.” In a culture where grief is still seen as unseemly or inconvenient and people are encouraged to “be strong” and move on quickly, this ancient wisdom teaches us that we have to cry out if we want to retrieve a sense of hope and possibility. As Brueggemann writes, “Only those who embrace the reality of death will receive the new life.”
But how do we do it? Where can we go to weep and mourn? And how do I get out of my own way? I’m pretty good at talking about the sadness and the anger and the pain; I can understand the therapeutic need to grieve. But actually doing it? Turns out, I suck at that!
Then — just recently — a portal opened.
I’d gathered a group of friends for my monthly singing night: a chance to make music together for the joy of participation rather than performance. We sing simple rounds and folk songs, harmonizing where we can, and always close with a rousing rendition of an old shape note song in four-part harmony. After putting the foldable chairs away and clearing the wine glasses into the dishwasher, a few of us lingered behind.
Inspiration struck, and I shared my heartache about the latest horror from the White House. One by one, others started to share their pain, too. And then, Matthew, a particularly talented musical improviser, got behind the piano to sing his sadness. His voice jumped from one note to another and suddenly my eyes filled with tears and my heart filled with life. Something was shifting.
Ahlay Blakely is not surprised by this. Not at all. Blakely is a modern-day grief ritualist, songwriter, and facilitator. She sees herself as a professional mourner, hosting retreats and gatherings that help people touch their grief in tender and radical ways.
“Singing with people is often a gateway to deeper work with grief,” she explained to me. Because so many of us have a sense that our voices aren’t good enough, singing immediately makes us vulnerable, opening us to the deeper pain we might be avoiding in our everyday lives. Singing, Blakely said, is “not about what it sounds like at all, it’s what it feels like in your body.” Blakely’s insight into the power of communal singing led her to create an entire album of grief songs with some 200 amateur singers, and that listeners like us can join in with. Its purpose is nothing less than the re-enchantment of the human soul.
A study from 2014 shows there might be a scientific explanation for this. Musicologist Gunter Kreutz conducted an experiment with amateur choral singers in which he measured oxytocin levels across two contexts: before and after a 30-minute choir rehearsal, and before and after an informal conversation with another choir member. Remarkably, oxytocin, which is sometimes described as the “love hormone,” increased only during group singing — not during ordinary social interaction. In other words, singing enhances our well-being and connects us to others more effectively than conversation alone.
But that magic doesn’t come by moving through the grief — processing it and moving on. No, insists Blakely, “People often are trying to get over their grief. And grief is just as powerful and potent…as happiness and laughter. Are we trying to get over our laughter? Are we trying to get over our happiness?” Blakely wants us to court grief as an ally.
Carla Fernandez, author of Renegade Grief, agrees. For her, grief is not something to overcome, but to befriend. Whatever our assumptions about falling apart, grief, she told me, “is not messy — it’s wildly fertile. When we don’t go there, we miss out on such fecundity from which real relationships can grow, and solutions can form, and ideas can emerge.” In other words, grief isn’t a dangerous can of worms, but the soil from which new life can grow.
That’s what I felt sitting on my living room carpet as my friends and I sang together. And if you don’t have a crew to do that with yet, start by singing along to music that helps you open up to grief. Laurel Premo’s Laments is another great grieving album — or you can just make up sounds to this digital chord-creating shruti box. Remember Blakely’s advice: this isn’t about how you sound. It’s about how it feels in your body. If it feels like something is moving in your heart, keep singing.
Maybe this practice of collective singing is what we need more of in our political spaces, too. The success of the Singing Resistance in Minneapolis earlier this year was a testament to what music can do to mobilize people for collective action and bear witness to injustice in a way that keeps us hopeful and aware of the power we have to do good. Who knows — maybe singing will find its way back to cross political divides, too. One candidate in Iowa is starting every town hall by having people sing “America the Beautiful” to remind them that whatever their differences, they can create beauty together.
Heidi Wilson, the composer of “Hold On,” which has become somewhat of an anthem in the Singing Resistance movement, puts it best. “Grief is about feeling cut off from something, losing something, and singing is an experience of reconnecting.” I think that’s what we’re all looking for now. In fact, it might be the only way forward.
ABC News' Sophie Flay has the story of a woman who turned to the internet help find the man who caught her eye as she boarded a flight bound for Florida.
The House approved a bill that would put an end to the annual clock-switching practiced in most states. California and other states could opt out if the measure becomes law.
