Yes, it's possible to save money while paying off credit card debt. Here's how
In fact, experts recommend it because it can keep you off the hamster wheel of debt. Here's how to find the money in your budget to put toward savings and credit card payments.
Trump shattered ethics norms. Will voters trust Democrats to fix them?
Democrats are making the case that now is the time to tackle anti-corruption reforms — to serve as a check on Donald Trump and to overhaul a system voters say is co-opted against their interests.
Netanyahu to meet Trump in a first encounter since the Iran war began
The meeting comes as both face pressures at home. Netanyahu is up for reelection, embattled in part due to his deteriorating relationship with Trump. Trump is under pressure to end an unpopular war.
With wildfires raging in France and Spain, fire crews race against next heat wave
French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.
Rand Paul releases Anthony Fauci's pandemic-era diary notes. Here's what they tell us
Sen. Rand Paul has released a tranche of Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary entries from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci is set to appear before a Senate committee Wednesday on the origins of the coronavirus.
Platner energized Maine's Democrats. Jackson's challenge will be to keep them engaged
Democrats have a new candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine: Troy Jackson. In one of the country's most closely-watched races, he'll have less than 100 days to make his case.
Authors have mixed feelings about the $1.5B Anthropic copyright infringement ruling
Some say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI models.
Inside Joe Manchin's new quest to elect more Independents to Congress
The former West Virginia senator was a lifelong Democrat before deciding to register as an independent two years ago. He now wants to create similar pathways for other politicians in both parties.
The 'cockroach' in the machine: How Gen Z is rattling South Asia's elites
South Asia's leaders have long boasted about their demographic dividend. But the region's young people are turning it into a political reckoning.
3 dead in mass shooting in Seattle. And, U.S. and Iran pause fighting
A mass shooting at a Seattle festival has left three people dead. And, the U.S. and Iran have been exchanging diplomatic messages after nearly tw weeks of intense fighting.
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Schools to offer technical subjects from age 14 in England, Burnham says
The government wants pupils to take courses like AI and manufacturing which are linked to local jobs.
Fourth heatwave grips parts of UK with 35C forecast
A fourth heatwave of the year is now under way for parts of the UK, with temperatures expected to climb into the mid-30s Celsius later this week.
Naga Munchetty to leave BBC Breakfast after 17 years
The BBC One show's co-host will swap the TV sofa for the presenter's chair on Radio 5 Live Breakfast.
Johnson & Johnson offers up to $5.5bn to settle baby powder lawsuits
The proposed settlement aims to close a years-long legal battle over claims its talcs products cause cancer.
Odyssey translator writes scathing review of Nolan film adaptation
The film has won rave reviews from film critics but a translator of Homer's work was less than impressed.
US walks out of UN Security Council meeting during France's remarks
The row sparked after the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending the term of the UN high commissioner for human rights.
The cocaine superhighway from Ecuador to Europe - the BBC reports on gangs and the police fightback
The BBC goes on patrol with Ecuador's police, who are grappling with a huge surge in drug crime.
Badenoch calls for emergency legislation to stop early release scheme
Last week Andy Burnham announced he was pausing early release plans for September after backlash from survivors and victims.
'I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,' Biden tells ghostwriter in recording
Recordings between Biden and his ghostwriter reveal references to classified information and memory gaps.
Love Island UK crowns winners of twist-filled series
For the first time in the history of the UK series, only three couples were in the final after several twists.
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Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber
Latest batch takes the copper sales restrictions to 1,572 locations and 15.4 million premises
Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops
Token costs not quite sorted, but on-prem will be an option
China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models
Beijing happy to ‘take all necessary measures’ if sanctioned
Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks
AI seems to have a liberal bias
Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering
American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper
Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers
Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in
Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude
Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation
Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms
MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4
Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack
The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems
Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory
Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?
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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.
Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies
Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.
iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27
These are likely the last updates of note before Apple's bigger fall updates.
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.
“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech
Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.
Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse
NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.