During a nationwide address, President Trump says the U.S. is poised for an economic boom. And, some Republican lawmakers joined Democrats to force a vote on enhanced healthcare subsidies.

A new drama uses the real, gut-wrenching recordings of a call for help from Gaza to tell a harrowing and profound story.

NPR's staff traveled a lot in 2025. From a Mardi Gras workshop to a festival celebrating the mythical Mothman, here are some places and events we thought you might want to check out, too.

Mass firings, buyouts and heightened uncertainty led to an exodus of federal workers in 2025. More than 300,000 employees will be out of the government by the end of December.

In its push for more immigrant detention space, the Trump administration is reopening shuttered prisons in several states. Many of these facilities, closed amid allegations of abuse and mismanagement.

Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.

The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, a move that is sure to infuriate China.

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. He was 91.

Bongino's tenure was at times tumultuous, including a clash with Justice Department leadership over the Epstein files. But it also involved the arrest of a suspect in the Jan. 6 pipe bomber case.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has ruled that National Guard troops can remain in the city for now. That decision comes after a different federal appeals court ruled that troops must leave Los Angeles earlier this week.

The leaders are deciding whether to loan tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's military and economic needs.

The measure is part of the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls in England.

Conversations around it often focus on the elderly. But by some measures, people in their 20s are the loneliest group in Britain

A post shared on Kensington Palace's social media reads: "Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas."

Theo Rose was "misled" by police into accepting a sanction for violence he didn't admit, review finds.

The Crown Court backlog is at a record high. BBC Verify takes a look at how we got here.

Former British soldier Hayden Davies, labelled a mercenary by Russia, will be sent to a maximum-security prison.

In a new one-off documentary, the broadcaster and conservationist comes home - to London.

Murray Dowey from Dunblane was 16 when he became a victim of sextortion in 2023.

Why did the people of Whitburn - and nearby Blackburn - choose Nigel Farage's party over others?

Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networks

Microsoft says attackers have already compromised "several hundred machines across a diverse set of organizations" via the React2Shell flaw, using the access to execute code, deploy malware, and, in some cases, deliver ransomware.…

Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants

The UK government wants the BBC to help Brits understand AI and develop basic technology skills as part of the public broadcaster's next charter period.…

18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500

The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has appointed a new chief exec to tackle spiraling waits for practical driving tests with bots overrunning its aging booking system.…

Investigatory Powers Commissioner says reforms have failed to close oversight gaps

The UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) has several regulatory gaps that must be plugged in future legislative reforms, according to Investigatory Powers Commissioner (IPC) Sir Brian Leveson.…

MPs press minister for answers – and get few

If UK readers are perplexed by the country's seemingly shambolic state of broadband and telecoms, relative to other European nations, insight can be gleaned from a one-off evidence session conducted by Parliament.…

World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday reached consensus on a review of the world’s internet governance arrangements and preserved the current multi-stakeholder model that means governments are just one of many voices that debate the future of the internet.…

Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply

Memory-maker Micron Technology has predicted that RAM shortages are here to stay, meaning higher prices for servers probably are, too.…

Believes it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROI

In October, Salesforce debuted Agentforce IT in a direct challenge to ServiceNow’s ITSM product, and analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst Charles Betz rated it the “most credible threat” ServiceNow has ever faced.…

GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads

Purdue University last week said it will require incoming undergraduate students to meet an "AI working competency" requirement in order to graduate.…

No timeline for a patch

Suspected Chinese-government-linked threat actors have been battering a maximum-severity Cisco AsyncOS zero-day vulnerability in some Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Secure Email and Web Manager (SEWM) appliances for nearly a month, and there's no timeline for a fix.…

A long and winding road to reach NASA's headquarters in Washington, DC.

New method uses no freezing technology or refrigeration equipment—just water and a vacuum.

New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.

Cops may be fined for jailing a man over his Facebook posts.

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz wants to restrict FCC's power to intimidate broadcasters.

A prototype of the EV platform will be shown off at CES next month.

Spotify and Accenture caught in crossfire as Trump attacks EU tech regulations.

Major research institution dismissed as a source of "climate alarmism."

Google's Gemini 3 family is now complete with release of Gemini 3 Flash.

The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.