President Trump's popularity on one of his political strengths is in jeopardy.

Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.

Athletes from around the world attended the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan.

Trump's racist post came at the end of a minute-long video promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. 

As Bostonians bemoan their long years of suffering without a Super Bowl win, rival fans gripe that Title Town has become Entitled Town.

Since his first term, President Trump has wanted to be able to fire federal employees for any reason. A new rule vastly expands his authority to do that.

The Epstein scandal has spread to the Olympic movement. The top organizer of the Los Angeles Summer Games faces calls to step down because of his past contacts with Epstein collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell.

Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations and health and humanitarian programs around the world.

A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates that 2 million people are incorrectly told they have tuberculosis each year — and clinicians miss diagnosing TB in 1 million people. Why so many misdiagnoses?

Early Super Bowl spots show advertisers want lots of buzz but not controversy.

The former ambassador to the US and Labour minister is under investigation for misconduct in a public office.

Andrew seemed keen for Epstein to do business with David Rowland, but Epstein was wary, emails suggest.

The White House defended the post at first, calling to "stop the fake outrage", as members of both parties condemned the video.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has written to the pub chain after complaints from disabled customers.

Jon Ruben is jailed for more than 23 years after admitting the sexual abuse of young boys and drugging his wife.

The upcoming edition of the popular children's picture book sees the introduction of Gruffalo Granny.

Russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports from the outskirts of the Russian capital, where Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev was shot and wounded.

As the rain continues to fall, numerous flood warnings have been issued with the Environment Agency advising that river levels will continue to rise, as Helen Willetts explains.

Khaleed Oladipo was fatally stabbed near the De Montfort University campus in Leicester.

The Royal Australian Mint has defended the design of the coins, which mark 100 years since Queen Elizabeth II's birth.

There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits

It's no lightweight matter. DARPA is putting about $35 million in total funding on the table in the hope that it will spur researchers to work around fundamental physical constraints and build much larger-scale photonic circuits that do more of the computing with light, not electronics.…

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend

Four tech megacorps intend to collectively fork out roughly $635 billion this year on capex, much of it for datacenters and AI infrastructure – more than the entire output of Israel's economy and well beyond all global cloud infrastructure services revenue generated last year.…

Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns

Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…

UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling

Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…

Rhapsody in beige

An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.…

System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander

A British supermarket says staff will undergo further training after a store manager ejected the wrong man when facial recognition technology triggered an alert.…

Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices

Microsoft has laid out a timeline for the disablement and shutdown of Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online.…

A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways

America's federal agencies have been told to hunt down and rip out aging firewalls, routers, and other network gatekeepers before attackers use them as skeleton keys into government systems.…

Corruption probe takes detour as staff facing trial reportedly asked AI if seat-blocking scams caused financial damage

More than 30 Romanian railway employees accused of running a bribery and ticket resale racket allegedly tried to crowdsource their legal strategy from ChatGPT.…

Crew-12 and Artemis II astros may soon snap, shoot, and share from orbit

NASA's Administrator has stated that smartphones will accompany the Crew-12 and Artemis II astronauts on their missions.…

A new job posting suggests the debate may be swinging back toward reusing GS2.

This V8 hybrid with more than 900 hp replaces the V10 Huracán.

Controversial 2025 study "represents the encroachment of pseudoscience into the heart of biological research."

The automaker follows Ford and GM in writing down huge sums after betting wrong.

NASA shall evaluate the "viability of transferring the ISS to a safe orbital harbor" after retirement.

"Our two worlds that on paper wouldn't seem connected, made a lot of sense to connect."

Regulators say design choices that hook users could breach EU's digital rules.

Amazon has booked 10 more launches with SpaceX, citing a "near-term shortage in launch capacity."

Production source says it takes "weeks" to produce just minutes of usable video.

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.