Ten Republicans voted alongside Democrats, in a rebuke to the Trump administration's immigration policies. Should it pass the Senate, the White House said President Trump would veto the measure.

Lawmakers have been in a stalemate for over 60 days about funding the entire department, which includes agencies that oversee immigration enforcement, disaster relief, cybersecurity and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Los Jornaleros Del Norte play protest songs whose lyrics reflect the hopes and struggles of undocumented workers as they evade immigration agents patrolling the streets.

The nomination comes after months of interim leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Hennepin County officials say these are the first charges filed against a federal immigration agent related to the crackdown that brought thousands of federal officers to the state. The widespread operation led to the shooting deaths of two American citizens.

D.C. and 33 states now have to argue in favor of specific remedies and fines, which could be paused if Live Nation appeals. Experts say the long-term impact on ticket prices isn't clear either.

Maoz Inon's parents were killed by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks. Aziz Abu Sarah's brother died after being tortured in an Israeli military prison. Their new book is The Future Is Peace.

In Sri Lanka, Buddhists and Hindus marked their New Year on Tuesday while a war thousands of miles away is making itself felt.

Israel has agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon, part of a complex web of Mideast negotiations, from Iran to Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV condemns "tyrants" fueling war with billions. His calls for global peace during his Africa trip come amid rising tensions with President Trump.

It comes after it emerged the peer failed security vetting but the Foreign Office still allowed him to take up the post.

The UK is adopting a "ruthlessly pragmatic" approach to becoming closer to its European neighbours, the UK's EU minister tells the BBC.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received the historic honour in 2012 "by virtue of patrimony".

Benjamin Field has been in prison for the murder of Peter Farquhar, 69.

Victoria says she and David have always tried to "protect" their children, following a rift with their son.

Nottingham Forest continue their remarkable Europa League run - but does it only increase the pressure on staying in the Premier League?

Small shops across the UK are being targeted by thieves stealing collectibles worth thousands of pounds.

The UK could face some food shortages by the summer under a worst case scenario drawn up by government officials.

No 10 says the government is working to ensure "anyone potentially abusing our immigration system is held accountable".

Glyn Razzell is approved for parole despite never revealing the location of his wife's body.

Bug or feature?

A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.…

Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform

Mozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. …

'I think you can run this thing on a potato,' NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said.

Broadcom's price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for customers running computing workloads in far-flung edge locations, from cruise ships to solar farms in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is taking cost out of the hardware needed as well.…

Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing

UPDATED More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal.…

If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard

Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying "not in my backyard."…

Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well'

North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.…

Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit

Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks.…

Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims

The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks, Snowflake, Google, and others.…

Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes

North America has some of the world's most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.…

Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam

Two Americans have been jailed for a combined 200 months for helping North Korea generate $5 million through fraudulent IT worker schemes.…

For the first time in a while, the benefits of new Intel tech will trickle down.

GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.

"If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would have taken it down."

New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”

FTC aims to stamp out brand-safety standards that hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.

An in-app browser allows visual feedback while building websites and more.

Upcoming sequel wants to capture a "uniquely Ukrainian perspective" on the post-apocalypse.

China cable-cutter demo coincides with more sabotage of subsea Internet cables.

Digital services for brands from Jeep to Peugeot will feel the presence of AI.

Google is making it easier to feed your photos into Nano Banana for more personal image generation.