Late in October, in the crowded and chaotic ecosystem of online news, a strange and troubling thing happened. A website that looked almost exactly like Euromaidan Press, a Ukrainian English-language outlet that has covered the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion, suddenly appeared with a hyphen inserted into its name. The copycat site scraped the publication’s genuine articles and planted a fabricated report claiming that a Ukrainian drone had killed civilians in Kramatorsk. The fake story cited unnamed “Ukrainian OSINT channels” and was wrapped in the outlet’s familiar design, making it nearly impossible for an average reader to tell that it…

If you live in New York, you might have noticed something different this past weekend: voters began heading to the polls for the 2026 election. This year, the ballot is packed with choices—contests for Congress, statewide offices, the state legislature, and many local positions that often don’t get as much attention. What’s really new is that local races have been moved to even-numbered years, thanks to a state law aimed at boosting voter participation. The thinking is simple: if local elections happen at the same time as federal and state races, more people will actually show up to vote. But…