Six months after the Trump administration cut more than $800 million in Justice Department grants geared toward public safety, the organizations affected are adjusting to a future without that money.

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Trump said on social media that he wasn't happy with controllers who called out of work, and suggested a $10,000 bonus for those who didn't take any time off during the shutdown.

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Netflix's new four-part miniseries dives into the plot to assassinate President James Garfield. Death by Lightning is full of recognizable arrogance, political intrigue and unexpected betrayal.

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Hormone therapy drugs have carried box warning labels for years. The Food and Drug Administration is removing them, saying the risks were overstated.

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A car exploded near the 17th century Red Fort in New Delhi on Monday, killing at least eight people, injuring others and triggering a fire that damaged vehicles parked nearby, New Delhi police said.

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The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

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President Trump hosted Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House, welcoming the once-pariah state into a U.S.-led global coalition to fight the Islamic State group.

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This week, President Trump pardoned allies accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It is part of an uptick in "insider pardons" issued in his second term, one legal expert says.

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Several Senate Democrats break ranks to join Republicans in a deal to reopen the government. And, world leaders gather in Brazil for a major climate conference, but the U.S. is not expected to attend.

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The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell.

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The BBC's director general and head of news both resigned on Sunday after criticism of the programme.

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Twenty more were injured in the blast, the cause of which is still unknown, authorities say.

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The man was detected by biometrics, detained immediately, and will be deported as soon as possible, the Home Office says.

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The chancellor tells the BBC children in bigger families should not be "penalised" by the welfare system.

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He said they chose to "communicate a lot more" with their children about challenges being faced.

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The world must "defeat" climate denialism and fake news, Brazil's President Lula da Silva tells UN climate summit.

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The fountaining event lasted for nearly five hours and was the 36th volcanic episode since December 2024.

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Katie Fox, 34, was targeted just outside the Bullring shopping centre on Friday night.

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Ahmed al-Sharaa, once branded a terrorist by the US, became the first Syrian leader to visit the White House.

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The first celebrity series was a big ratings hit, with the winner collecting £87,500 for charity.

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Microsoft has generated some buzz about generating some buzz

Most phones and tablets include little motors that buzz when you perform common actions such as typing, or when apps notify users of important events. Microsoft may be about to bring similar good vibrations to the PC with features that see Windows 11 make your mouse or touchpad tremble when you perform UI actions such as snapping windows into place.?

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Security biz Wiz says 65% of top AI businesses leak keys and tokens

Leading AI companies turn out to be no better at keeping secrets than anyone else writing code.?

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It sounds a lot like everything else

AI slop has reached a new level of ascendancy, as a country song by an AI artist has hit number one on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart.?

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We can't let supply chain shortages burst the bubble boy's balloon

Free money is always better than a loan! OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said he doesn't want government-backed loans to fuel his AI ambitions, but he's more than okay with the idea of Uncle Sam handing out tax credits under the US CHIPS Act to subsidize AI server production, bit barns, and grid components.?

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Resolution acquiesced to by 8 Dems includes CISA Act funding, layoff reversals, and could be easily undone

The US Senate voted on Sunday to advance a short-term funding bill for the federal government, moving the country closer to ending its longest-ever shutdown. Part of the spending bill also restores critical cybersecurity programs that lapsed as the shutdown began. ?

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One company alone was hit with more than 4,200 emails

More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and data-stealing campaign.?

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As Gartner offers another serving of word salad, it?s time to know your skillatrophy from your pipeline choke

A Gartner survey of 700 CIOs indicates that, by the end of the decade, all business IT work will involve AI, while bots will do 25 percent of that work by themselves. Good news: The analyst firm claims AI causes only one percent of job losses. Bad news: You'll have to learn some new jargon.?

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There's more to safer systems languages than Rust

If you're looking for a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible, real-time kernel, there's no shortage of projects trying to build one. Ironclad stands out for using the Ada programming language and its formally verifiable SPARK subset.?

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Format declared obsolete by Google Chrome team wins PDF support

The PDF Association will add support for the JPEG XL (JXL) image format to the PDF spec, according to a recently published presentation from the org's European conference. This inclusion means that JXL may yet gain mainstream adoption, despite being declared obsolete by the Chromium team.?

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It's OK to look: New Canary channel build supports specific silicon while 26H2 remains the main 2026 update

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 26H1 is coming, but only with changes to support "specific silicon" ? possibly Qualcomm's latest chips due next year ? meaning ordinary users are unlikely to see it soon.?

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Apple execs say Apple TV shows and movies are about "emotional" experiences.

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But author warns that Direct3D 7 "is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability."

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Early superdense star clusters may have planted seeds for monster black holes.

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Get ready for what could be the "biggest underdog win in game show history."

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Filled with passionate fans, the racetrack between the lakes is a favorite.

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"He inevitably will have to make tough calls."

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Blue Origin is getting ready to launch its second New Glenn rocket.

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"We have some ideas that we think could accelerate the path to the Moon."

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His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racist, sexist comments.

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New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

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