President Trump said he was closely involved with picking the honorees, and on Sunday he became the first president to host the Kennedy Center awards ceremony.

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Both sides accused the other of breaking a ceasefire that halted fighting earlier this year. Longstanding border disputes erupted into five days of combat in July that killed dozens.

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The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond.

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Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other scientific instruments.

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Craig Garthwaite, Director of the Program on Healthcare at Northwestern University and co-author of a new paper from the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, talks about reforms that could make healthcare cheaper and more efficient.

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Dr. Chari Cohen, president of the Hepatitis B Foundation, says there is no scientific basis for scaling back newborn hepatitis B shots.

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In a speech on Saturday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the strikes, saying: "President Trump can and will take decisive military action as he sees fit to defend our nation's interests."

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Nobody paying attention for the past 24 months would be surprised to see Indiana ? yes, Indiana ? leading the way into this year's College Football Playoff.

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Red Bull driver and defending champion Max Verstappen won the race with Norris placing third, which allowed Norris to finish two points ahead of Verstappen in the season-long standings.

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The pigeon population has exploded ? a result of people feeding the birds. For some it's a holy duty and a way to connect to nature. Critics point to health risks tied to exposure to pigeon droppings.

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Sir Keir Starmer will also welcome the leaders of France and Germany as Europe looks to respond to a US-led push for a peace deal.

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Parents of Alice, Bebe and Elsie tell BBC documentary they have supported each other through grief.

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One year into his rule Syria's leader has won over Trump and much of the West, but at home people know his weaknesses.

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There were bumps in the road but Lando Norris has secured his first F1 drivers' title and says he is proud "because I feel like I made a lot of other people happy".

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Experimental underwater drones form part of a new plan to protect the UK's undersea cables and pipelines.

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The winner of the ITV reality show's 25th regular series is crowned in the Australian jungle.

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Police say the substance was sprayed as a group of four men robbed a woman in an airport car park lift.

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Funding will be used to help employ young people in sectors including AI, hospitality and engineering.

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The Globes are the first major film awards to announce their shortlists as awards season heats up.

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Housing Secretary Steve Reed tells the BBC's Build Baby Build ministers are "pulling every lever" to increase building.

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Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things

Agentic browsers are too risky for most organizations to use, according to analyst firm Gartner.?

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PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more

Asia In Brief Chinese rocketry outfit LandSpace last week flew what it hoped would be the country?s first reusable rocket, only to watch it explode while attempting to land.?

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PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more!

Infosec in Brief The Apache Foundation last week warned of a 10.0-rated flaw in its Tika toolkit.?

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From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now

Amazon last week revealed its Trainium3 UltraServer rack systems, and if your first thought was "boy that looks a lot like Nvidia's GB200 NVL72," your eyes aren't deceiving you. ?

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Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be. Or not

The readers have spoken, and the era of peak Microsoft is? open to debate.?

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Wanna know a secret?

Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.?

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Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC?s copyleft enforcement push

Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on open source code licensed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1.?

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Proof of life? Or an active social media presence?

Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in "virtual kidnapping" and extortion scams, the FBI warned on Friday. ?

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Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed

ServiceNow?s dominant spot among IT service management (ITSM) platforms is facing its ?most credible? threat to date, as longtime platform rival Salesforce has rolled out an AI agent-powered product that has won early plaudits from one of the largest credit unions in the US.?

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Who needs JavaScript?

Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).?

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Dog behavior is a lot more complicated than any one gene variant.

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The port will revolutionize global trade, but it?s sparking destructive rainforest routes.

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This could be just what Fubo and its subscribers need.

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Netflix's plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny.

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Volcanic eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe.

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Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards.

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There is no data supporting a delay and no evidence of harm from a birth dose.

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The biggest changes Musk made to Twitter trigger a $140 million fine under DSA.

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The GR GT is a V8 hybrid, and there's an electric Lexus sports car concept, too.

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"Every knight needs a squire, and you look like you need one more than most."

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