Hegseth's failed impeachment was a warning to Democrats. Where will they go from here?
Democrats have been given a huge opportunity with majorities in both the House and Senate — but the balance of priorities, timing, messaging and discipline are all going to be major tests.
An organ transplant controversy tests 'the dead donor rule'
New guidelines are supposed to protect organ donors in a retrieval procedure that keeps blood flowing through livers, kidneys, lungs and hearts. But bioethicists have troubling questions.
As Democrats win big, thirst traps of male candidates take social media by storm
It's everywhere on social media: Democrats celebrating the attractive men voters elected in the midterms. But it's bigger than a meme and says a lot about politics of masculinity in the age of Trump.
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins wins race for Alaska governor, replaces a Republican
Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state legislator, ran a campaign emphasizing bipartisanship in the the state that usually votes Republican. At 37, he'll be the youngest governor in the state's history.
DHS head Markwayne Mullin says there is not a threat to the U.S. amid FAA ground stop
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin spoke to at the White House on Friday afternoon after the FAA issues a total ground stop. NPR was there for the briefing.
Stuck on the tarmac without information: Travelers share their ground stop experiences
Passengers stuck on airplanes on tarmacs across the country during the FAA ground stop on Friday share their stories.
What we know about the FAA nationwide ground stop
The Federal Aviation Administration took an extraordinary step Friday afternoon by issuing a nationwide ground stop. No planes are taking off at any airport and millions of passengers are stranded.
GOP state officials push to revive Trump's mail voting restrictions for 2028 election
Some Republican state officials are reviving a bid for mail-in voting restrictions for the 2028 election by appealing a court order blocking the Postal Service from carrying out a revised ballot rule.
Old tech blamed for the ground stop that caused flight chaos: 'It got overloaded'
The nationwide ground stop that paralyzed the U.S. aviation system on Friday has ended, according to Federal Aviation Administration.
With his challenge to Schumer, Van Hollen forces a debate over Democrats' mandate
Democrats say they have a mandate to deliver change, but as the party gets ready to retake the majority in both the House and Senate, there are divides over who should lead it.
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Young people should have legal guarantee of job or training, Milburn tells BBC
The author of a major review on youth unemployment, due next week, acknowledges the change would mean some young people losing out on benefits.
What we know about the US ground stop and what to do if your flight is affected
US officials say the disruption was caused by old equipment overloading and not a cyber-attack.
US has floated Ukraine ceding Donbas for Nato membership, Zelensky says
The Ukrainian president says US envoys touted the exchange as part of efforts to end the war with Russia.
Cruise ship left on its side after collision with tanker on Mississippi
The collision leaves 32 people in hospital with non-critical injuries, but no-one unaccounted for.
King jokes with Elton John as he marks 78th birthday with radio show
The monarch appears on a special episode to coincide with his 78th birthday on Saturday.
Widespread frost and freezing fog as cold health alerts continue
It's a weekend of two halves with a cold start on Saturday giving way to wetter and milder day on Sunday.
Brand, Walliams and Married at First Sight: Is this a reckoning for the entertainment industry?
These stories represent the consequences of changes that began years ago, rather than being a sudden cultural shift.
Even Grand Theft Auto's original creators haven't been able to play GTA 6
The next title in the series is expected to be the biggest video game release ever.
The search to find a friend for Jojo the gorilla after a lifetime of being alone
Jojo was poached as an infant and grew up in captivity. His keepers want to find him a friend - but it's not straightforward.
Eurovision is finally coming to Asia - meet the stars gearing up to take the stage
On Saturday, the biggest and longest-running international song contest will make a leap into unknown territory.
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Microsoft's school email bill gives rivals something to smile about
Collabora and Nextcloud pitch alternatives as education customers weigh the cost of losing free services
Big Tech takes a beating as online safety experts accuse companies of doing bare minimum
Accessing banned content is as easy as whipping out a thesaurus, Parliament's Communications and Digital Committee hears
FAA lifts ground stop after hours-long delays snag travelers
Safety reasons and unspecified communications issue cited
Chinese AI labs are training models on Nvidia's Blackwell despite export controls, says ex-OpenAI engineer
Forensic report finds Blackwell's fingerprint in DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group models
This year’s bug count just passed 100K
‘We don’t have a security problem anymore. We have a data problem now’
Meatbags suck at spotting lying LLMs, so let AI narc on itself
What, you didn't actually want to fact-check it yourself, did you?
Mozilla leaves Solo website owners to go it alone as hosting shuts down
If you have one of these AI-generated homepages, you'd better download and save it quick
Email addresses used in European school bomb hoaxes spotted in old infostealer logs
Researchers say organizations should have detected and secured them sooner
HPE debuts hybrid storage configs: Rising SSD costs hit supercomputing
HPE aims for the market with faster, more cost-effective HPC storage to combat rising costs
Microsoft outage gives customers a crash course in dependence on Redmond
Rivals offer sympathy for stranded admins – and a reminder that putting all your eggs in one basket has consequences
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Starship flight 15 powers to orbit—setting up a possible catch on Saturday
One way or another, the company will get some more data on Saturday.
FAA has lifted its third-ever nationwide ground stop
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy blamed obsolete equipment for the outage.
Millions of Americans are not taking their GLP-1 drugs as prescribed
Cost and access barriers are pushing people to modified use and unapproved versions.
FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.
In elephants, the resilience of communities has its limits
In Sri Lanka, ecological change is shrinking a park's elephant population.
Kalshi ditches Trump Jr. as advisor; CEO admitted "optics" weren't good
Trump son advised Kalshi and got equity while Trump admin helped Kalshi in lawsuits.
OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights
"SignDrop" exploit lets local users gain all-powerful System rights.
Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon's or CrowdStrike's, expert says
Governments, hospitals, courts scrambled by global Microsoft outage.
It's the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist's 1960 prediction
Heinz von Foerster thought population would grow exponentially and "squeeze" us all to death.