Takeaways on AP report about how US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine ...

The Epstein Files

The Epstein files are a lot, and that’s before we get to Trump’s appearances in them. They present such a sprawling, sordid, ...

Google’s Mueller Calls Markdown-For-Bots Idea ‘A Stupid Idea’

Google Search Advocate John Mueller pushed back on the idea of serving raw Markdown files to LLM crawlers, raising technical concerns on Reddit and calling the concept “a stupid idea” on Bluesky.

Google lists Googlebot file limits for crawling

“By default, Google’s crawlers and fetchers only crawl the first 15MB of a file. Any content beyond this limit is ignored. Individual projects may set different limits for their crawlers and fetchers, ...

Google Updates Googlebot File Size Limit Docs

Google updated its Googlebot documentation to clarify file size limits, separating default limits that apply to all crawlers ...
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February 2026 Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read

Check out The Root’s list of books by Black authors set to hit the shelves in February 2026 that we can’t wait to read.

Polanski says local mayors should be given power over rent controls

Housing Secretary Steve Reed has also been on the programme to defend the government's efforts to expand trade ties with China.