A Syrian court sentenced Assad along with his brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria's 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead.

New research from the March of Dimes says more than half of U.S. counties have no labor and delivery hospitals. One Black midwife tries to make a difference for moms in Alabama. 

After Alabama redrew its congressional maps in May, voters in several districts saw their primaries pushed to August. Now, it's time to vote and there are concerns confusion will dampen voter turnout.

A week after the Michigan primary, tests of progressive power will play out in the Midwest, raising questions of whether far left candidates can win come November or if the GOP can pick up moderates.

As educators in the nation's second-largest district prepare for the new limits on classroom screen time, some teachers say it will be a difficult adjustment.

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.

Voters in six states head to the polls Tuesday for high-profile primaries, Trump signals his strategy with Iran is shifting, 7.4 magnitude earthquake kills at least 111 people in Colombia.

Turkey's parliament approved legislation that would introduce a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants in a bid to advance the government's peace initiative with their insurgent group.

The shift comes as U.S. stockpiles of key weapons have dwindled and as stop-start talks seem again to have stalled. But Trump insists the pressure can lead to a breakthrough.

Search teams and civilians picked through the remains of destroyed buildings in the country's third-largest city, Cali, passing large pieces of concrete and rubble down a long line of volunteers.

The US president was moved from the old Air Force One to a military plane as he left a Nato summit in Turkey last month, US media say.

An amber weather warning for extreme heat has been issued for Thursday, when extreme temperatures are expected to peak.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been "hollowed out" by decades of decline.

Ukraine's president says strikes in Zaporizhzhia - which killed at least six and injured 19 - involved ballistic missiles from Russia's ally.

Women can make higher returns but only about a quarter of UK women have investments, compared with about 40% of men.

On Wednesday night the Perseids will peak offering the best chance of seeing a 'shooting star'.

Debbie Adlam says she does not want a "special case" for her son, but for killers of emergency workers to be exempt.

US President Donald Trump says it would be a "terrible mistake" if under-pressure Fifa president Gianni Infantino was ousted.

It's one of the findings from an independent review into antisemitism in schools and colleges.

England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show.

Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code

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Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes

H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year

Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs

EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry

$125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?

Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI

Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'

30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow

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Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he's found a way forward.

Trump falsely claimed the MMR vaccine is "quite lethal" and linked shots to autism.

A reminder of the perils of digital ownership.

Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.

Zuckerberg’s superyacht and support ship were slow to heed Coast Guard call.

Ford dealers were told about the new Escape-sized model; one of them spilled the beans.

Recall of jalapeño products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods.

New update includes improvements for the Intel-based MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ among others.

Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.