Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.

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The federal government remains shut down, in what is now the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Reporters from the NPR Network are digging into the ways the government shutdown is playing out in their region.

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The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.

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The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, helps about 6 million U.S. households pay energy bills, buy fuel, or fix broken heaters. The shutdown has stalled funds.

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NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals.

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After Republicans lost big in Tuesday's elections, adding pressure to end the government shutdown, President Trump pushed changes to Senate rules to bypass the need for Democratic-votes.

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Under court order to restart SNAP food aid, the Trump administration said it would provide 50% of benefits. But a policy group says the formula for calculating them will leave many with far less.

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Telehealth for Medicare started during the pandemic and became popular quickly. But the shutdown put an abrupt halt to payments for the service.

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Holiday travel can already be stressful. Here's how a prolonged government shutdown might make things even harder and whether you should travel at all.

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Across the country, demand for electricity is on the rise ? and so is the price of electric power.

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Calling himself "the accountant", the fixer told undercover reporters how he could ?confuse? immigration enforcement.

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The BBC's Ed Thomas confronted Kardos Mateen, who is at the centre of an illegal worker network.

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A BBC investigation finds that a host of areas in England are closing waiting lists and others are rationing care.

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The number of referrals to the scheme increased 27% in the year to March 2025, according to new data.

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Miss Mexico, Fatima Bosch, said Nawat Itsaragrisil was 'not respectful' at a pre-pageant ceremony on Tuesday

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Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.

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Photographers have been out and about capturing the Beaver Moon as it rose on Wednesday.

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If you're getting a pattern of milder, recurring headaches here are four things you can do to help manage it.

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Problems in the prisons and the courts are not new but they are growing and the government doesn't have a grip on them.

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With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.

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Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow

Colt Data Centre Services has secured approval to invest £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in three hyperscale data centers at its Hayes Digital Park campus in west London.?

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Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners

Japanese media behemoth Nikkei has admitted to a data breach after miscreants slipped into its internal Slack workspace, exposing the personal details of more than 17,000 employees and business partners.?

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Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers

Cloud vendors? commercial models poorly serve scientists, forcing them to struggle for value amid tightening budgets, according to research.?

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Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services

The UK's House of Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee has published a scathing report, "The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out," declaring that the 2021 National Space Strategy has "failed to turn its ambitions into reality."?

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Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship

China has matched the European Space Agency?s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.?

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Awkward, seeing as they?re close partners

Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.?

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Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don?t want, once it fixed a bad link

Updated Microsoft Australia has apologized to users of its M365 suite after regulators accused it of steering them towards pricey bundles that include its Copilot AI service.?

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Some clever networking hacks open the door

AI search provider Perplexity's research wing has developed a new set of software optimizations that allows for trillion parameter or large models to run efficiently across older, cheaper hardware using a variety of existing network technologies, including Amazon's proprietary Elastic Fabric Adapter.?

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Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs

Microsoft has warned of a ?thermal event? impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.?

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Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent

AI models are filled to the brim with bias, whether that's showing you a certain race of person when you ask for a pic of a criminal or assuming that a woman can't possibly be involved in a particular career when you ask for a firefighter. To deal with these issues, Sony AI has released a new dataset for testing the fairness of computer vision models, one that its makers claim was compiled in a fair and ethical way.?

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Social engineering strikes again.

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Man said he was in a monogamous 50-year marriage, but doctors aren't so sure now.

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You wouldn't know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.

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Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants.

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As a test case, the machine was used to test a model of superconductivity.

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?This is a hard lesson for us all.?

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Lawmakers' calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

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Google engineers think they already have all the pieces needed to build a data center in orbit.

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Google will make several changes to Android app support globally, supported through at least 2032.

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A new major Windows 11 release means a new guide for cleaning up the OS.

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