Dirk Kempthorne, a Republican, was elected mayor of Boise at age 34 and served seven years before serving one term in the U.S. Senate and then as governor until 2006.

The second-in-command of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist organization in India, rarely speaks to the Western press. Here's what he said about his group's controversial history.

The bronze sculpture is on display inside the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of a new exhibition on the impact and cultural importance of statues.

Authorities have filed murder charges against the roommate of a Bangladeshi doctoral student who disappeared with his girlfriend from the University of South Florida.

Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's teaching that the death penalty is "inadmissible," in a video message released hours after the Justice Department said it would allow firing squads for federal executions.

Gunfire and explosions have rocked Mali's capital Bamako and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated attacks in years, as armed groups, including jihadist insurgents and separatist rebels exploit worsening insecurity in the Sahel region.

Two runners in this week's Boston Marathon stopped to help a racer who had collapsed just short of the finish line. NPR's Scott Simon says their generosity is its own kind of "personal best."

Three appellate immigration judges sided with Department of Homeland Security lawyers who appealed a decision from Immigration Judge Michael Pleters terminating removal proceedings for DACA recipient Catalina "Xóchitl" Santiago.

Critics say the proposed rule to let the DOJ step into state bar investigations could weaken one of the last independent checks on government lawyers.

In the Mississippi Delta, a crucial agricultural region, farmers say their patience is wearing thin. Reeling from the effects of tariffs, they must now also navigate rising fertilizer and fuel costs.

Iran had earlier said there were no plans for a direct meeting with a US delegation led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Laura Kuenssberg travels to Wales and Scotland to speak to candidates and voters ahead of May 7 polls.

Klaudia Zakrzewska, 32, from Essex, dies in hospital after a collision on Argyll Street in Soho.

Police said two boys, aged one and three, died at the scene. They confirmed a woman was in custody.

Family and supporters of Virginia Giuffre repeated calls for King Charles to meet Epstein survivors.

Police described the incident as "tragic" and said they are working to identify the pair’s next of kin.

The outgoing prime minister will not take up his seat after leading his party back into opposition.

The flood warning system at Imja glacial lake has not been maintained since 2016, fearful locals tell BBC.

The state visit to the US looks fraught with difficulty - but could be key to rescuing the special relationship.

Two goals in stoppage time and pitch invasions by both sets of fans. The last day of the National League season lived up to its billing.

AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology

Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…

Coming in cold with custom Snow malware

A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…

New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads

Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.…

What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?

Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.…

Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere

America's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.…

Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records

Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries. …

Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency

A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency's name.…

One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers

One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.…

We gotta get boring to get graduated

Grafanacon The founder of the Open Telemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.…

"It wasn't a big deal. It just coincided with the fact that Moon was farther away from the Earth."

Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.

"If boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and scalable, we will not produce it."

This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.

Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.

FCC defines consumer routers expansively, updates FAQ to include Wi-Fi hotspots.

Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.

Treatment options are tricky. The teen opted to live with the masses.

It's like "Pete Rose betting on his own team," Trump says of arrested soldier.

Layer by layer, researchers revealed the jaws of an ancient predator.