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- Kari Lake’s Attempt to Deport Her Own Employees
After rushing to shut down the government-funded media outlets she was tapped to lead, Kari Lake has launched on a mission so strange that it is perhaps unprecedented: She is trying to force her own employees out of the country.Lake has been making the rounds on right-wing media in recent weeks to pitch herself as a devoted enforcer of President Donald Trump’s broader agenda. Her latest targets are J-1 visa holders who worked for Voice of America. Obscure to most Americans, they have attracted Lake’s attention in part because they embody a trifecta of triggers for Trump’s ire—they are federal employees, they are immigrants, and they are journalists.And in Lake’s telling—which distorts the facts in pursuit of a more provocative narrative—they are national-security threats worthy of the same kind of rough handling that Trump has encouraged for suspected Venezuelan gang members.“Their time here is up. And I said before, if… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - Teachers Have Become AI Super-UsersRising seniors are the last class of students who remember high school before ChatGPT. But only just barely: OpenAI’s chatbot was released months into their freshman year. Ever since then, writing essays hasn’t required, well, writing. By the time these students graduate next spring, they will have completed almost four full years of AI high school.Gone already are the days when using AI to write an essay meant copying and pasting its response verbatim. To evade plagiarism detectors, kids now stitch together output from multiple AI models, or ask chatbots to introduce typos to make the writing appear more human. The original ChatGPT allowed only text prompts. Now students can upload images (“Please do these physics problems for me”) and entire documents (“How should I improve my essay based on this rubric?”). Not all of it is cheating. Kids are using AI for exam prep, generating personalized study guides and… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- Not Enough Drivers or Too Many? The Debate Over U.S. Trucking Capacity
A Growing CDL Population Amid Market Uncertainty The U.S. trucking industry is split on whether it’s facing a driver shortage or a driver surplus. According to the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the number of long-haul CDL holders has risen to about 3 million in 2025, a 30% increase from 2.3 million in 2016. While slightly below the 2019 peak, the driver population remains historically high — even as carriers face years of weakened pricing power from overcapacity. The Case for Too Many Drivers Transportation and Logistics Advisors argue that the market’s biggest issue is not a shortage, but too many drivers. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of drivers grew 2.2%, while for-hire tonnage dropped 0.7%. This reverse trend compared to the post-recession recovery years has left the market saturated with drivers despite weaker freight demand. Higher wages may be keeping drivers in the industry. ATRI’s compensation… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - This Isn’t About CrimeDonald Trump is famously reluctant to commit troops abroad but salivates at the prospect of using them against Americans at home. That is the context in which one must understand his takeover of the Washington, D.C., police force; his deployment of the National Guard; and his threats to occupy other cities.Trump claims that he is acting to quell a spike in violent crime. And although he might very well feel sincere concern about crime, this does not explain his actions any more than concern about fentanyl smuggling (which he no doubt also genuinely opposes) motivates his trade restrictions against Canada.The most obvious reason for skepticism about Trump’s desire to fight crime is that he is the most pro-criminal president in American history. He has treated laws as suggestions throughout his career, beginning with his defiance of Justice Department orders that he and his father stop discriminating against Black prospective tenants.… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- A Show of Weakness, Not PowerIn the summer of 2020, as demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest against the murder of George Floyd, President Donald Trump directed the National Guard and officers from various federal law-enforcement agencies to patrol the streets of the nation’s capital. The results were a disaster from the perspective of crowd control but a delight to a wannabe authoritarian obsessed with good TV: Troops and police buzzed peaceful protesters with a helicopter and fired pepper balls at them as Trump walked across Lafayette Square for a photo shoot.Now, five years later, Trump has once again decided to impose his idea of law and order upon Washington. This time, however, the city is quiet, and he’s not responding to any protests. He’s sending in the troops because he can—because D.C., as a federal enclave with few protections from presidential overreach, makes for a uniquely soft target. This ostensible show of strength… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- The Facial-Recognition ShamIf you are going to promise users privacy, then you really need to follow through. Tea Dating Advice, a service that advertised itself as a safe space for women to anonymously share information about former partners—to warn others about abuse and cheating—says that it is locked down. Users are not allowed to take screenshots, and the app says it verifies that its users are women. So why did Tea let me, a middle-aged man, create an account just a few days after suffering two major security breaches?Last month, hackers wormed their way into Tea and accessed sensitive user data; 70,000 user images and more than 1 million private messages reportedly were leaked, including communications about abortions, users’ driver’s-license photos, and phone numbers that had been shared in private messages. Even after all of this became public, I was still able to fool the app’s verification feature with a basic approach:… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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