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The Department of Justice has intervened in a legal case involving the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk, asking a Mississippi federal court to toss a lawsuit from the NAACP against Musk’s company xAI, a subsidiary of SpaceX. The NAACP says xAI is violating the Clean Air Act by running dozens of unpermitted gas-burning turbines in majority-Black neighborhoods to fuel its data centers in Memphis, Tennessee. The Department of Justice, however, is arguing that the lawsuit violates national security by “seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial-intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War’s military operations.” “We should be concerned about this type of authoritarian rule,” says NAACP attorney Abre’ Conner, who adds that communities themselves “should be the ones to make the decisions about our health, about pollution in communities, about stopping sacrifice zones from being furthered because of an agenda that does not serve everyday people.”

A sport psychologist takes a look at disruption, tactical creativity and controlled mind-wandering in the modern game.

The drop in funding has also led donors to prioritize the trend of using aid to control the movement of people – over their needs.

State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living connections running across the landscape.

The Artemis program’s timeline and architecture has changed over the past year, so Artemis III will not land on the lunar surface.

Workers are facing a preventable and incurable lung disease from a material being used to renovate kitchens in millions of American homes.

Consumers in Europe and Asia have used sunscreen containing bemotrizinol for decades, and many say its approval in the US is long overdue.

Local needs, political tensions and corporate power all get involved in the democratic processes by which Americans govern their communities.

People don’t usually plan to hold onto their old devices, but that’s what many end up doing. Better information about recycling and reselling options could change that.