Luigi Mangione's lawyers withdraw plans for psychiatric defense
In a court filing Thursday, Mangione's legal team said they won't file psychiatric evidence in the 28-year-old's state murder case. The move came a day after his lawyers said they planned to pursue a psychiatric defense.
Key FDA committee unanimously recommends its first vaccine since 2023
All nine members of the committee unanimously voted to recommend Moderna's new mRNA influenza vaccine for adults 50 and over.
In photos: The Knicks celebrate their first NBA championship in more than 50 years
The New York Knicks celebrate their NBA championship win with a ticker tape parade in Manhattan.
U.S. lifts blockade on Iranian ports as 60-day clock for a final deal starts ticking
The U.S. is allowing ships to enter and exit Iranian ports and coastal areas as the countries move to a new phase of negotiations over the next 60 days.
Student loan borrowers will get an interest rate cut if they sign up for auto pay
The Trump administration wants to jumpstart student loan repayment, with federal student loan debt approaching $2 trillion.
Read the full text of Trump's preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement to end the war
Here is the text of the memorandum of understanding that was signed Wednesday by President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, as well as Pakistan's prime minister.
Ukraine hits a Moscow oil refinery and other sites in a large-scale drone attack
Ukraine launched a wave of drone attacks on Russia early Thursday — one of the largest attacks on Russia's capital since the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago.
You're probably using too many skin care products. Here are the 3 essentials
We asked half a dozen skin care experts: Which products do you really need to keep your skin healthy and attractive? Here's what they said.
These 3 brothers lost their parents to AIDS. Now they struggle to make it on their own
Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life.
Supreme Court sides with a marijuana user who was barred from owning guns
The court ruled that the law used to prosecute a marijuana user violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms and is unconstitutionally vague.
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Chris Mason: Emphatic win leaves Starmer with big decision on leadership
The PM will see the stonking scale of Andy Burnham's victory - will it shift his outlook, his defiance, so frequently recently expressed?
Burnham says 'this is a final chance to change' in his victory speech
Labour's Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by-election, paving the way for him to challenge Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader.
Scottish Conservatives win first Westminster by-election in more than 50 years
The Tories take Aberdeen South, while the SNP wins in Arbroath and Broughty Ferry.
Sir John Curtice: Burnham's win against Reform represents remarkable personal success
Andy Burnham not only retained the share of the vote Labour won in the seat in 2024 but increased it.
US lifts naval blockade as Iran's supreme leader says Trump made deal 'out of desperation'
Iran's supreme leader says he disagrees with the deal and Donald Trump signed it "out of desperation".
What Iran and US get from deal and why both could struggle to keep it
BBC analysts assess the claims by both Washington and Tehran to have won a victory with the deal to end their war.
Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after boy injured in crocodile enclosure
A three-year-old boy was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital with critical injuries and is in a stable condition, Cambridgeshire Police said.
London Marathon to be two-day event in 2027
The London Marathon will be held across two days in a special one-off edition of the event in 2027, organisers have confirmed.
The pressure on the Church of England to ditch its slavery reparations plan
Will the Church's commitments still be delivered, or do shifting political winds mean there is no longer the will to do so?
Amber heat health alerts in place as temperatures set to soar above 30C
Very warm weather is set to return to parts of the UK, with a potential heatwave set to develop this weekend.
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2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud
You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute
Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'
The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention
Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck
Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger
Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer
Soaring PC prices make alternatives to hardware refreshes interesting
Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app
Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray
NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit
Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground
ZTE and China Telecom Guangdong advance cross‑vendor IP network simulation pilots, paving the way for intelligent network operations
PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging >95% digital twin fidelity and multi-vendor collaboration to eliminate network change risks and achieve zero-error O&M
The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale
PARTNER CONTENT: AI's cloud journey homeward bound: enterprises prefer private clouds for scaling AI workloads.
Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed
EXCLUSIVE 'Working as intended' for the win … again
Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave
Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast
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A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
"I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."
Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency
Crypto Clipper spreads over USB and communicates over Tor.
FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
In February, a Trump official refused to review the vaccine.
As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military
Taiwan's drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas.
NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module
"We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs."
Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores
A new system service will roll out this month ahead of big changes starting in September.
Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds
The vulnerability, disclosed 12 months ago, affects multiple manufacturers.
After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring
It's unclear whether the system is currently intact.
Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.
Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry
Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.