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.

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.

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.

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.

South Asia's leaders have long boasted about their demographic dividend. But the region's young people are turning it into a political reckoning.

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.

In southern France, a wildfire in the region of Gironde is still active, while two major fires in central Spain are finally coming under control, ahead of the fourth heat wave of the summer.

Baltimore is rethinking what it means to call 911, and who responds. Callers who don't need police will get help finding social services and healthcare before they actually fall into crisis.

The spat between the leading prediction market company and a key battleground state could be a glimpse into the next major fight between states and the fast-growing industry.

The influx of federal agents into the city last fall led to widespread immigration arrests – a majority without criminal convictions. President Trump has said he wants to replicate it elsewhere.

The government wants pupils to take subjects like AI and manufacturing which are linked to local jobs.

Thomas Cazenave says they are preparing if further evacuations are issued, as the mayor of a nearby town called the situation "catastrophic".

A blaze near Bordeaux has torn through more than 162 sq miles (420 sq km) in less than four days, while the Madrid region is seeing its worst fires ever.

The post included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine.

The proposed settlement aims to close a years-long legal battle over claims its talcs products cause cancer.

The body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found last September inside the trunk of a Tesla registered to singer D4vd.

For the first time in the history of the UK series, only three couples were in the final after several twists.

The US president says "there is a good chance that something could happen", as Iran denies direct talks are taking place.

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.

Since October, the morning-after pill has been made available free-of-charge at high street pharmacies under a new scheme in England.

Beijing happy to ‘take all necessary measures’ if sanctioned

AI seems to have a liberal bias

American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper

Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in

Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation

MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4

The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems

Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?

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One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.

Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.

These are likely the last updates of note before Apple's bigger fall updates.

When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.

Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.

Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.

Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.

NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.

New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.