President Trump provided conflicting messages about when the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran will end. And, NPR investigates how late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein leveraged ties with scientists.

From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.

A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder.

In a phone call with CBS News Monday, Trump said "the war is very complete." But at a separate event with Republican lawmakers, he said the U.S. still needed to achieve "ultimate victory."

Trump hails Iran successes but offers no end date, Lebanon wants talks with Israel, and two teens are charged in NYC attack attempt.

Policy experts say new SNAP changes don't address the challenges faced by single parents. They also argue that losing food assistance will only create more barriers for struggling families.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but presidents assert broad authority over use of force and the military. Congress has done little to push back.

The case of Khalil, who was detained last March, sits at the vanguard of a battle of immigrants' due process and civil rights, and the Trump administration's mass detention and deportation policies.

Voting ends Tuesday night in the district that former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene left this year after a feud with President Trump. It's unclear if his pick will win her spot.

With the removal of FDA warning labels, hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has grown in popularity. Now some patients are reporting delays in filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.

We tracked reports and contacted police and prosecutors for a deeper look at the situation across UK.

A prison inmate has been charged with the murder of Soham killer Ian Huntley, police say.

A huge fire destroyed a neighbouring building but Network Rail staff believe the station has not been seriously damaged.

Concern has grown for team after one critic called them "wartime traitors" for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.

Parents were frightened by social posts that seemed to encourage violence at schools. But it was more complicated than it looked

The annual music festival will take place in Sunderland's Herrington Country Park from 22 to 24 May.

The former footballer is arrested along with a second suspect near Huyton and Prescot Golf Club.

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy says the changes are part of "rebalancing the system to put victims first".

Ministers say "bold reforms" for post-16 students will end snobbery and prepare students for work.

The California desert is seeing its most colourful display in a decade as flowers cover the region.

Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 people

A voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.…

Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of us

Opinion The hacker mind is a curious way to be. To have it means to embody endless analytical curiosity, an awareness of any given rule set as just one system among many, and an ability to see any system in ways that its creators never expected. Combine this with a drive to find the bad and make things better, and you become one of the fundamental forces of the technological universe.…

Kids profited from tools used to attack popular websites, say officials

Polish police have referred seven suspected juvenile cybercriminals to family court over an alleged scheme to flog DDoS kits online.…

Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracks

A retro tech enthusiast has demonstrated that it is possible to view media on LaserDisc using a relatively inexpensive digital microscope.…

Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up again

JetBlue took the unusual step of requesting a ground stop for all flights this morning, with the US airline resuming operations less than an hour later and blaming the stop on "a brief system outage."…

Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators

Britain's competition watchdog says the next wave of agentic AI assistants could end up nudging people toward worse deals, manipulating choices, or quietly prioritizing the interests of the companies behind them.…

As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream

The Xen Project has decided to support all releases of its flagship hypervisor for five years, and one of the first beneficiaries of the change is Citrix, which has delivered a preview of XenServer 9 – the release that will take the product back into the mainstream virtualization market.…

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals

The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.…

With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins

HPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.…

As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.…

"It's a big fat middle finger for those that thought they had something."

A warehouse of guitar gear in the palm of your hand.

M5 Pro Max's "performance" CPU cores definitely aren't just rebranded E-cores.

States seek mistrial, saying "sudden disappearance" of US will influence jury.

Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study.

Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs.

Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right.

What part of "this year," exactly, is still anyone's guess.

The key is understanding how to conserve energy across a lap. Oh, and be reliable.

Faster charging, more modern infotainment, and a new LFP battery are highlights.