Three police officers were killed and two were injured in a shooting Wednesday in the southern part of Pennsylvania, state police said.

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Greenfield said the Vermont ice cream maker "has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power" by Unilever, the multinational corporation that bought Ben & Jerry's in 2000.

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The National Park Service has until Wednesday to address signs that "inappropriately disparage" historical figures. One target is George Washington's house in Philadelphia, where he had slaves.

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Dermatologists often recommend nicotinamide ? a form of Vitamin B3 ? following skin cancer. A study of nearly 34,000 veterans finds this supplement reduces the risk of skin cancer recurrence.

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Is GB News the Fox News for the U.K.? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly profiles Great Britain's upstart news channel.

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The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab says Russia's network of sites for Ukrainian children is larger than previously thought, and programs includes military training for children as young as 8.

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The Department of Justice is escalating its demands for sensitive data from voting officials, suing two Democratic-controlled states who have thus far rebuffed the department's requests.

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New York Times reporter Robert Draper explains Kirk's rise and legacy. He was killed Sept. 10. Draper also discusses conservative commentator Nick Fuentes, a rival of Kirk's with a large following.


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Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.

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Trump on Monday said he planned to send National Guard troops to Memphis. The news gives fresh relevance to NPR's recent interview with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who declined to ask for the military.

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The state visit will continue on Thursday, as it moves from a royal spectacle to political talks with PM Keir Starmer

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King Charles hosts Donald Trump at Windsor Castle on the first full day of his UK state visit.

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The sight of tanks in Sheikh Radwan has caused widespread alarm among residents, with thousands fleeing south.

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The UK government is calling this the largest commercial deal of its kind and expects it to create more than 7,600 "high-quality jobs".

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Steven Lyons, Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood were taken into custody following a co-ordinated operation.

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Officials said the suspect has been "neutralised" and there is no further threat to the public.

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In an exclusive interview, Brazil's president says Trump is "not emperor of the world".

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The Federal Reserve makes its first cut to interest rates since 2024, and signals more to come.

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The late-night host said on Monday that Trump's allies were "doing everything they can to score political points from" Kirk's death.

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An artificial intelligence model can predict the risk of more than 1,000 diseases, a team of scientists say.

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Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more

America and the UK have announced a $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact, funded by Microsoft, Google, and others, that predicts bit barns will spring up over Britain's green and pleasant Land. But there's a lot more than money involved.?

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First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?

Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.?

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House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software

AMD closed the performance gap with Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators with the launch of the MI355X this spring. Now the company just needs to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software advantage and make that perf more accessible to developers. ?

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You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you?

Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.?

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Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has disputed a whistleblower's allegations that claimed DOGE made an unauthorized, unsecured copy of a critical database - but it's what the denial doesn't say that speaks volumes. ?

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Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'

NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn.?

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American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform

World War Fee The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.?

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And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy

Tech analysts expect worldwide spending on AI to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, including $268 billion on optimized servers. These investments will also soon appear in even more consumer products.?

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But will the International Space Station still be there to host its node?

Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).?

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Even a wrong answer is right some of the time

AI models often produce false outputs, or "hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its models.?

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Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca.

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Officials say Claude chatbot usage policies block FBI, Secret Service contractors' work.

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Ex-CDC director warns senators about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda.

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After years as a parent and homeowner, I sympathize more with my virtual citizens.

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SSA tells Senate that NUMIDENT is safe after troubling whistleblower allegations.

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Gemini shows off at another high-level academic competition.

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"I know my kid": Parents urge lawmakers to shut down chatbots to stop child suicides.

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"We're in the middle of the jungle and we are being hunted!"

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Cars have lost 12 V power, trapping children and dogs in hot cars.

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More iPad-like Mac hardware would balance Apple?s push for Mac-like iPads.

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