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ToplineProtesters targeting President Donald Trump and big money-influence over politics are expected to take to the streets at more than 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” demonstrations on Labor Day, including one planned right outside Trump Tower in New York.”Workers Over Billionaires” protests, organized by the AFL-CIO, will take place Labor Day. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey FactsThe AFL-CIO organized the protests, which are expected to be held in cities in all 50 states on Monday.The AFL-CIO partnered with dozens of organizations, including the May Day Strong organization, which led workers’ protests against the Trump administration in May.Among the demonstrations planned…

The first time I used ChatGPT to code, back in early 2023, I was reminded of “The Monkey’s Paw,” a classic horror story about an accursed talisman that grants wishes, but always by the most malevolent path — the desired outcome arrives after exacting a brutal cost elsewhere first. With the same humorless literalness, ChatGPT would implement the change I’d asked for, while also scrambling dozens of unrelated lines. The output was typically over-engineered, often barnacled with irrelevant fragments of code. There were some usable lines in the mix, but untangling the mess felt like a detour.When I started using…

Shown out of competition in Venice in conjunction with the festival giving a lifetime achievement award to its 92-years-young titular subject, documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo is essentially a cinematic fan letter, written with love but chock full of gushing, purple prose, some of it by the subject herself. Swiss filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe is already known for his essayistic celebrations of auteurs and their masterworks, including Lynch/Oz, Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist and The People Vs. George Lucas. He may take writing, directing and co-producing credits here, and appears onscreen as Novak’s interviewer, but it’s Novak who…

Army football player Larry Pickett Jr. rescued a man from a burning vehicle early Sunday morning.Pickett, a second-year cadet at the service academy, was traveling with his family when they saw a crashed vehicle surrounded by downed power lines on Route 9W in Fort Montgomery, New York, about five miles south of Army’s West Point campus.The Fort Montgomery Fire Department reported Sunday that the vehicle had collided with a utility pole, causing the power lines to fall to the ground.Videos posted by his family to social media show Pickett and his father lifting the unidentified man from the vehicle and…

A “cannibalistic” solar storm is about to slam into Earth’s magnetic field, triggering vibrant auroras that will potentially be visible in up to 18 different U.S. states, just in time for Labor Day.On Saturday (Aug. 30), sunspot 4204, located near the sun’s equator, unleashed a long-duration, M-class solar flare — the second most powerful type of eruption our home star’s surface is capable of producing. The M2.7 magnitude blast, which occurred over more than 3 hours, also spat out a fast-moving cloud of magnetized plasma, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), which NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft…

Good morning. You’re reading a special Labor Day edition of the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get the newsletter delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Checking in with the labor movement by Andrea Hsu, NPR labor and workplace correspondent At this time last year, President Trump was courting America’s workers, promising them a renaissance if they helped send him back to the White House. Now seven months into his second term, he says he’s on track to keep that promise. “Every policy of the…

The head of the European Central Bank has warned that if President Donald Trump were to undermine the independence of the US Federal Reserve, it would represent a “very serious danger” to the global economy.Christine Lagarde said if the Fed was forced to respond to political diktats, it would have a “very worrying” impact on economic stability in the US, and therefore in the rest of the world as well.Since coming to office, Trump has launched repeated attacks on the Federal Reserve’s chair, Jerome Powell. Last month, he attempted to fire one of its governors, Lisa Cook.But Lagarde emphasised that…

If you can’t be in Venice this year, Variety is bringing Venice to you. We’re publishing daily digital editions, running Aug. 29 – Sept. 2, including all the latest news, reviews and star-studded red carpet coverage from the Lido. To catch up on Day 4, please click below.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If last year was brat summer, this year may be remembered as escaped lizard summer. Since June, at least three large pet lizards in the United States have escaped their owners’ homes, surprising  neighbors by appearing in places that aren’t used to hosting these large dinosaur-looking reptiles.  In June, hikers came across an Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae) in Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County, California. These large, omnivorous lizards can grow up to almost five feet long and are native…

NewsFeedChinese President Xi Jinping has unveiled his ambition for a new global security and economic order to challenge the United States and Europe. Xi was joined by Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in China.Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025