Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Q1 2026 Magazine. You can subscribe here. Randy Knaack grew up on a farm in Menomonie, Wis., about an hour east of the Twin Cities. He runs a small ...

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Communities across the US have been pushing back against the rapid expansion of data centers built to power artificial intelligence. Residents and local officials rightly argue that facilities consume ...

DUNEDIN, Fla. — When the U.S. men followed the U.S. women in beating Canada in the gold medal hockey game at the Olympics, Aaron Boone said he sent a meme — Hulk Hogan playing a guitar — to his former ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — According to a new report, data center emissions could cause breathing issues and premature deaths for those living nearby. A report from Community & Environmental Defense ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

Mexico has quietly shipped nearly 100 suspected cartel drug traffickers to the US to stand trial after President Trump branded the groups foreign terrorist organizations last year — and pressured the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous trash was DNA-laden treasure, helping crack the cases of the University of Idaho murders, the Golden ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

Dutch authorities arrested a 40-year-old man after he downloaded confidential documents that had been mistakenly shared by the police and refused to delete them unless he received "something in return ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — As data center proposals continue to emerge across Central Virginia, lawmakers are pushing a wave of legislation that could bring new regulations to the industry statewide.

A new encryption initiative from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urges large technology and communications companies to follow through on previously made data and privacy protection promises ...