House and Senate ethics committees give no financial disclosure guidance on event contracts or prediction markets — unlike stock, cryptocurrency and bond trades.

President Trump said on Friday the U.S. military had "totally obliterated" military targets in Kharg Island, home to the primary terminal that handles Iran's oil exports. This as all six crew members on a refueling plane that went down in western Iraq were confirmed dead.

A growing number of Republicans in Congress are embracing rhetoric against Muslims. Their remarks have faced little public pushback from leadership.

Georgia O'Keeffe called the New Mexico high desert "my country," but Pueblo peoples predated her. A more complex view is emerging amid efforts to preserve the land.

So you heard a piece of tax advice from a friend or on social media that sounds interesting. Should you try it? A certified public accountant explains how to vet the claim — and avoid getting scammed.

The war in Iran has already cost the U.S. billions of dollars. Here's the impact by the numbers.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed after part of a decades-old sewer line in Maryland collapsed in January, sending raw sewage into the Potomac River. After weather delays, repair work has resumed.

In a post on Truth Social, President Trump announced Friday afternoon that Richard Grenell is leaving the Kennedy Center. The arts complex is scheduled to close in July for renovations.

A federal judge has put the brakes on a criminal probe of the Federal Reserve, saying it was part of an improper campaign by the Trump administration to pressure the central bank into cutting interest rates.

The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high cholesterol, is part of new doctors' guidelines.

Rachel Reeves says the Treasury is also looking at "different options" to help households most vulnerable to soaring energy bills.

The Tories are deciding which hereditary peers to keep after being offered 15 seats in a compromise deal.

The BBC joins a French Alps rescue team as the number of skiers killed this season passes 100.

Independent retailer Goran Raven says the higher oil price is "horrific" for him as well as his customers.

The reinforcements will come from an amphibious ready group that is usually based in Japan, an official told CBS, the BBC's US partner.

BBC Security Brief's Mikey Kay breaks down why Kharg Island is so strategically important for Tehran.

A group of fighters based in Iraq say they are "ready to go home", as they face drone attacks from Tehran.

The president's most dedicated supporters are on his side - but significant numbers of Republicans have serious doubts.

Israeli leaders are framing the bombing campaign as having transformed the Middle East in their favour as pressure to end the conflict builds.

The city has been considered a safe haven by expats, tourists and influencers - but that's now being tested.

Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, too

At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain.…

Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps

Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.…

Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free

You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.…

A 'web of litigation'

The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.…

An incident in Macau

A 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a “raise the roof” move when the woman called it “freaking crazy.”…

And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks

A group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users' credentials, according to Microsoft.…

Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over

Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…

PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys

The chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a £370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS).…

35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions

Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.…

Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own

Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…

Staff complain that the constant upheaval is destroying morale.

"This ought to make for some good reading," NASA's mission management team chair said.

She made a full recovery, despite the maggots.

Early Access impressions: New characters shine, but it feels like we've done this before.

When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.

GFiber and Astound to merge with Alphabet selling majority stake to Stonepeak.

Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.

Adobe says it will also give customers who "qualify" free services but is vague on details.

Confused about electric vehicle voltages? You won't be after reading this.

Bizarre FirstNet charge nearly identical to one that hit different user in 2024.