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Move follows attack on Red Sea port of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia's main oil export outlet, after Iran blocked Hormuz Strait.

Tania Warner and Ayla, her seven-year-old with autism, sent to notorious Texas detention center and told to ‘self-deport’Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxA Canadian woman and her seven-year-old daughter with autism who have been held by US Immigration and …

Today's biotech news includes the Medicare director offering a tempered view of TrumpRx and high-dose Wegovy getting an FDA nod.

Some weapons used in Gulf would be crucial in early phases of any conflict with China

Some want to work to keep busy. Others can’t afford to stop.

Unfortunately, the fantasy manga is a visual feast that quickly curdles into the genre's worst instincts.

Researchers discovered that an AI agent roamed beyond its parameters, creating backdoors in IT infrastructure.

A U.S. district judge said he will vacate a declaration by Kennedy that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care.

The prime minster was responding after the US president said he was surprised that Australia had “said no” to his request to help with the conflict and called on Canberra to “get involved”.

The new year is usually followed by the release of budget and economic data by the executive branch. The Trump administration has yet to follow standard practice in the publication of these legally required transmittals, and it is not clear if it ever will. The post Useful Executive Branch Budget Information Has Been in Short Supply appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The administration has claimed it's all about cutting costs — except when it wants to start wars

Hoda Abdel-Hamid is live from Doha, Qatar.

Rather than enduring a legendary 200-mile (320-kilometre) overland march to confront the invading William the Conqueror at the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066, King Harold Godwinson's forces likely launched a "sophisticated land-sea operation" that ultimately failed to stop the Norman conquest of …

In Euclid’s wide, near-infrared, and visible light view, the arcs and filaments of the nebula’s bright central region are situated within a halo of colorful fragments of gas zooming away from the star. This ring was ejected from the star at an earlier stage, before the main nebula at the center form…

For railroads, it’s all about managing static and kinetic friction.

Evidence suggests reactivations of the varicella-zoster virus may accelerate aging and raise dementia risk. Now scientists want to know if vaccines and antivirals could help protect the brain.

Hailee Steinfeld and her “Sinners” co-star Michael B. Jordan shared the kind of on-set conversations you can only have while making a horror movie. While filming, one of their frequent debates was over what would it sound like to feed on someone as a vampire.  “We were joking that we sounded like th…

Videos of body bags and machine guns that have trickled out of the Iran offer a rare glimpse into the scope of the crackdown on protests.

Defense witnesses testify to having no knowledge of coach Ernest Lorch's alleged abuse of youth basketball players

Apollo dishes on getting ready before shows and his recent ambassadorship for Coach

Attorney General Bondi accused the journalist of reporting classified information allegedly leaked by a federal contractor, who she said has been arrested.

More than half of U.S. adults say President Trump has “gone too far” with military intervention abroad, according to a new poll. A survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs found that 56 percent of people say the president has “gone too far” with military operations abroad. Th…

The FBI's search is part of a probe into a federal employee suspected of mishandling classified information, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

Institute to launch new quantum initiative aimed at advancing the most significant practical applications in science, technology, industry and national security.

New supercomputer simulations hint that dark energy might be dynamic, not constant, subtly reshaping the Universe’s structure. The findings align with recent DESI observations, offering the strongest evidence yet for an evolving cosmic force.

arXiv:2601.05864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growth of interpreting technologies, from remote interpreting and Computer-Aided Interpreting to automated speech translation and interpreting avatars, there is now a high demand for ways to quickly and efficiently measure the quality of any …

Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026.

After years of chatbots and image generators, AI is finally leaving the screen. At CES 2026, that shift became impossible to ignore.  The annual tech showcase in Las Vegas was dominated by “physical AI” and robotics, from Boston Dynamic’s newly redesigned Atlas humanoid robot to AI-powered ice makers (yes, really). The companies in attendance clearly want consumers […]

Last year Razer showed off Project Ava as a digital assistant that lived inside your computer to help adjust settings or provide gaming tips. But now at CES 2026, the company’s AI companion platform has gotten a major glow-up while moving into some new digs. Now, in lieu of being constrained entirel…

Swift is the top solo artist on the list, and the top American artist.

Harbor is an indispensable open-source container image registry, offering robust features like policy-driven security, role-based access control, vulnerability scanning, image signing, image replication and distribution. Deploying Harbor is a common and critical step for organizations looking...

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In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue.

The BBC looks into whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help people who struggle when clothes are oddly sized.

With Europe imposing sanctions on Moscow, there has been a growing network of vessels sailing without a valid flag from Russia through European waters.

The terrifying video is something we’ll never unsee.

Today's puzzle has 10 pears.

In his 10 years at MIT, Loureiro helped illuminate the physics occurring at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe.

The strategy combines native Ethereum staking yield with restaking rewards and incentives from Linea and ether.fi, under a qualified custodian structure.

Artificial intelligence in 2025 was less about flashy demos and more about hard questions. What actually works? What breaks in unexpected ways? And what are the environmental and economic costs of scaling these systems further?It was a year in which generative AI slipped from novelty into routine us…

Conscientious refusers of medical care face few costs in the US; conscientious providers face many

New Year. Renewed Commitment. Join Us. The start of a new year always brings a quiet moment to take stock of what matters, what we want to stand for, and where we choose to put our energy. As someone who cares deeply about our planet, you already know the difference dedicated individuals can make. A…

All the ways the Trump administration is targeting endangered species and their habitats for corporate profits — and how you can help. The post Saving Endangered Species Polls at 84%. So Why Does Trump Keep Doing the Opposite? appeared first on Earthjustice.

In a significant step forward for Canada’s domestic space ambitions, the Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX)… The post Canada’s First Commercial Spaceport clears major hurdle with Environmental Approval appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

This month’s open thread on climate topics as 2025 wraps up. Please be courteous to each other. Tis the season! The post Unforced Variations: Dec 2025 first appeared on RealClimate.

Google’s new building is on one side, ‘Post No Bills’ on the other.

EverNitro is positioning itself against competitors such as NitroBrew as a long-term more affordable all-in-one solution. “We offer the quality of a commercial tap with the footprint of a coffee maker. While others sell you gas, we give you technology to harvest it for free,” founder and CEO Terry T…

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10 November 2025, video address CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for the invitation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC – to address the opening of COP 30. As the Chair of the UN body ma…

arXiv:2601.04260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how Large Language Models (LLMs) perform logical reasoning internally remains a fundamental challenge. While prior mechanistic studies focus on identifying taskspecific circuits, they leave open the question of what computational strateg…

The Samsung Galaxy Watch8 gets marked down across a variety of colors, sizes, and feature sets.

SB Energy has a contract to build a data centre for the ChatGPT maker’s Stargate infrastructure project

Games Workshop has announced plans to build a new Warhammer World in the United States with a late 2027 target for opening its doors.

U.S. stocks pressed higher on Friday after the December jobs report helped quiet concerns about the state of the U.S. labor market.

Using muon spin rotation spectroscopy, researchers from Japan and Canada have successfully captured the rapid conversion of an imidoyl radical into a quinoxalinyl radical occurring within nanoseconds. The technique enabled real-time detection of a highly reactive aromatic heterocyclic radical genera…

A small group of young researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have, through observations of the early stages of an extremely large galaxy cluster's evolution, shown that the largest structures we know have a different history than previously thought.

Pre-dawn assault on the Olina oil tanker was carried out by US marines and navy sailors in the Caribbean near TrinidadUS politics live – latest updatesThe US early on Friday boarded another oil tanker, the US military said, as part of efforts to target sanctions-busting vessels traveling to and from…

Elizabeth Bell of Hamilton Lane talks about President Donald Trump's efforts to solve the housing affordability crisis. (Source: Bloomberg)

"As we start 2026, I am thinking about how the year ahead will set us up for the decades to come."

arXiv:2601.04447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models are increasingly used in high-stakes domains where their predictions can actively shape the environments in which they operate, a phenomenon known as performative prediction. This dynamic, in which the deployment of the model i…

Russia launched a massive attack in Ukraine using drones and missiles, including a nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile. Michael Bociurkiw, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, joins CBS News with more.

With the second Trump administration settling into its second year, 2026 promises to bring continued evolution in technology policy. Our scholars are examining the developments likely to shape the year ahead across antitrust, AI infrastructure,... The post 2026 Tech Policy Predictions appeared first…

A model-independent approach reduces uncertainty in hadronic light-by-light scattering, strengthening Standard Model tests The post Improving precision in muon g-2 calculations appeared first on Physics World.

Plus, Merck is in talks for a cancer drugmaker and hedge funds spar over credit default swaps

For thoughtful analysis and a deeper perspective on the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis, blocks away from the where police killed George Floyd, Nadia Massih welcomes Dr. Ernesto Castañeda, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and the Immigration Lab at American University. Renee Nico…

The data suggests soft skills more than quantitative competency equal success in a rapidly changing labour market

President Trump to make speech in Pennsylvania touting his work on the economy; Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces a Senate bid.

Bess Freedman, Brown Harris Stevens CEO, says the U.S. needs more housing supply. She tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that rent control, 50-year mortgages, and restricting corporate homebuyers will not improve affordability. (Source: Bloomberg)

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arXiv:2601.03523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One of the most important queries in knowledge compilation is weighted model counting (WMC), which has been applied to probabilistic inference on various models, such as Bayesian networks. In practical situations on inference tasks, the model's parame…

An evangelical preacher challenged a city ordinance that confined protesters to a designated zone outside a public amphitheater in Brandon, Mississippi.

arXiv:2601.03357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a standard approach to reconstruct and render photorealistic 3D head avatars. A major challenge is to relight the avatars to match any scene illumination. For high quality relighting, existing methods require su…

Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.

January is packed with romance, thrills, and action, with some brilliant books to kick off 2026. Here are our favorites.

arXiv:2601.03896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel work-in-progress approach to the parsing of hypergraphs generated by context-free hyperedge replacement grammars. This method is based on a new LR parsing technique for positional grammars, which is also under active development. Ce…

CES is about many things, but primarily it's about screens. TVs and laptops get the most attention, but you'll find all kinds of new PC monitors, too. At CES 2026, several companies are using the trade show as an opportunity to update their gaming monitor lineups. This year expanding what OLED panel…

“I’m still renting, believe it or not, and he has his own place.”

Manufacturing-aware system design treats dies, interposers, packages, and analysis as a single, coherent system. The post 3D-IC Success Stories: Faster Bandwidth, Lower Power, On-Time Tapeouts appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change our understanding of the nature of light

Using a versatile problem-solving framework, researchers show how early relapse in lymphoma patients influences their chance for survival.

Gov. Gavin Newsom declared Jan. 7 a day of remembrance for the Los Angeles fires.

The AI model maker race will continue in 2026, along with more agents and a growing pressure on companies to prove AI can pay off in the real world, experts tell Axios.Why it matters: AI may be both the current and next big thing, but success increasingly hinges less on being the "best" model and mo…

Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the organization that administers America's Spec Ops forces, says it will soon start clinical trials of an...

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World Liberty Financial is trying to launch the World Liberty Trust Company, a stablecoin-focused national trust bank, it said Wednesday.

AT&T partnered with the airline to provide free high-speed Wi-Fi on more than 2 million flights a year.

Vacancies were 7.1mn in November, well below consensus expectations for 7.6mn

The actress came second in the BBC's 2008 search to find an actress to play Nancy in Oliver Twist.

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea – an important dynamic for climate and sea-rise modelling – has been captured over a 10-year period by satellites from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.

The internet’s New Year’s resolution is to return to the meme style of the 2010s.

Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.

In our WSJ op ed, Alex Pollock and I suggested that the mortgage defeasance process might require direct government involvement to manage mortgage defeasance accounts by, for example, the U.S. Treasury or the Department of... The post Mortgage Defeasance II: Must the Federal Government be Involved? …

A tokenised version of the EU’s currency for wholesale use would bring big benefits

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every day when Rajaa Musleh wakes up and checks her phone, she fears she will see news that another member of her family has been killed in Gaza.  Musleh, a nurse and humanita…

Space is always inspiring and 2025 was no exception, with finding Betelgeuse’s buddy, debuting a prolific survey telescope and more.

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The new "minibus" rejects many Trump proposals, from reorganizations to program eliminations.

How to watch AFCON for free. Live stream Ivory Coast vs. Burkina Faso in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

Private equity firm to revive Rocketdyne name, L3Harris keeps RS-25 engine The post L3Harris to sell majority stake in space propulsion unit to AE Industrial appeared first on SpaceNews.

Century Waste Services is challenging the agency’s decision, alleging it didn’t adequately assess pricing proposals from a competitor. This marks the first known legal challenge to one of the city’s commercial waste zone contracts.