Congressional Democrats are demanding transparency in the form of public hearings from Trump administration officials on the timeline and objectives of the war in Iran.

Steve Emt and Laura Dwyer represent the U.S. in the Paralympics' new mixed doubles wheelchair curling event. They could bring home Team USA's first wheelchair curling medal ever.

Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

More than a week of the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran has dragged in global powers, upended the world's energy and transport sectors, and brought chaos to usually peaceful areas of the region.

The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking.

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.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon was giving President Trump "maximum options" and that the war will not be "endless," a day after the president gave mixed signals about progress.

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

The head of the world's second biggest shipping firm called for freedom of navigation to be restored.

President Putin pits himself as a potential mediator but that's not an easy sell, writes the BBC's Russia editor.

The ex-deputy PM told the BBC he would "take on the chin" any criticism surrounding his involvement

Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke administer Epstein’s estate - court filings allege complicity in his crimes.

Strong winds are likely across many parts of the UK over the next few days before turning colder with some wintry showers at the end of the week, as Simon King explains.

As pet owners complain of rising prices, independent practices want to take on the big chains.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to Australia in April, their first visit since 2018.

The government's inquiry into grooming gangs "must look specifically at London as part of its local investigations", says a group of MPs.

Nature was the most popular theme among the public, with the new notes designed to deter counterfeiting.

The government plans to give data centres priority access to the electricity grid to speed up development.

Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuel

The US government may be ordering staff back to the office, but governments across Asia have sent public sector workers back home to preserve fuel supplies due to supply chain disruptions caused by the war in Iran.…

Cohesity, ServiceNow and Datadog team on recoverability suite

Three more vendors have decided that the world needs tools to roll back mistakes made by AI, after Cohesity teamed with ServiceNow and Datadog on a recoverability service that will hunt down all the files and data corrupted by bad AI actors and restore systems to a “trusted state.”…

Could steal sensitive personal and financial data

After a whopper of a Patch Tuesday last month, with six Microsoft flaws exploited as zero-days, March didn't exactly roar in like a lion. Just two of the 83 Microsoft CVEs released on Tuesday are listed as publicly known, and none is under active exploitation, which we're sure is a welcome change to sysadmins.…

E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents

Amazon's weekly operations meeting today reportedly focused on recent service outages and on the role that code changes attributed to generative AI may have played. However, the company is downplaying the possibility of problems with AI.…

Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now?

The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.…

Ransomware, malware-as-a-service, infostealers benefit MOIS, too

Iranian government-backed snoops are increasingly using cybercrime malware and ransomware infrastructure in their operations - not just hiding behind criminal masks as a cover for destructive cyber activity, according to security researchers.…

Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030

Public water supplies in America will need billions invested to meet the peak requirements of datacenters during the hottest periods of the year, even if their overall annual consumption is relatively modest.…

Agentic 'Air' lets multiple AI agents run tasks concurrently, while loyal IntelliJ users wonder what's in it for them

JetBrains has previewed Air, a tool for agentic AI development which it describes as a new wave of dev tooling.…

Rapid7 says crims broke into more than 250 sites globally, including a US Senate candidate’s campaign page

Cyber baddies quietly compromised legitimate WordPress websites, including the campaign site of a US Senate candidate, turning them into launchpads for a global infostealer operation.…

FAA launches pilot projects starting this summer

The skies over parts of the US could soon get busier, as the Federal Aviation Administration launches pilot projects spanning 26 states to test electric air taxis and other next-gen aircraft, with operations expected to begin by summer 2026.…

"Due to late-stage design changes, the potential risk of uncontrolled reentry increased."

In the end, the FDA only approved the drug for a rare genetic condition with clearer data.

Is it clean "reverse engineering" or just an LLM-filtered "derivative work"?

The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.

One toggle for "fast classic search."

Anthropic says it was blacklisted for opposing autonomous weapons, mass surveillance.

It's unclear what Prasad's FDA exit means, but some drug makers are happy to see him go.

"NASA’s tracking of SpaceX’s manual control risk indicates a worsening trend."

Gemini can now pull context from your files, emails, and more to create and edit documents.

Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."