President Trump signed a bill to fund the government through the end of January, ending the shutdown that has dragged on for six weeks.

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The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement and conditions in detention centers.

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Missouri's governor recently authorized the state's National Guard to assist ICE with clerical duties. Black police officers fear the trust they've built with communities of color could take years to rebuild.

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Experts in the mortgage industry are skeptical. Buyers would pay less each month, but would end up paying more over time. Here's what to know about the proposed 50-year mortgages.

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In a 2005 interview, the actor said that in his twenties, he was carrying the load of "everyone's masterpieces." He worked closely with directors including Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi.

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The best drug to fight malaria is facing increased resistance from the parasites it fights. Now there's an alternative in the pipeline and it looks promising.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog added a rare and powerful voice to what has been muted criticism by top Israeli officials of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

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This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.

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The game's governing body has filed a complaint against Vladimir Kramnik. Other players say he spent months making unproven allegations of cheating against Daniel Naroditsky, who died last month.

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The New Yorker's Antonia Hitchens describes how Loomer went from a conspiracy theorist to a close ally of Trump who's gotten government officials she claims are disloyal to the president fired.

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The former prince's reaction when he heard about a newspaper inquiry was among more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein's estate, including some mentioning Trump.

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In emails released by Democrats, Epstein says Trump "knew about the girls". The White House says they are an attempt to "smear" the president.

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Three small modular reactors are confirmed for the site, with the potential for up to eight.

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The Prime Minister is "incandescent" at way all of this has played out, writes BBC's political editor.

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Almost half of patients given a heart pump, after the NHS had raised concerns about it, died soon after.

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Treasure finds in England have reached a record high according to provisional government figures.

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He signed it into law just hours after the House of Representatives voted 222-209 to approve it.

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The stars sign a letter asking the government to take action after promising to cap resale prices.

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Years of conflict have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront - but many Ukrainians are fighting to keep morale high

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They show cells that control blood sugar are more vulnerable in early childhood.

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Networks have changed profoundly, except for the parts that haven?t

Systems Approach When my colleague and co-author Bruce Davie delivered his keynote at the SIGCOMM conference, he was asked a thought-provoking question: How should we think about educating the next generation of students about networking, given how different and more complex the internet is today??

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Go home, comrade clanker, you look drunk ? and worryingly angry

A semi-autonomous humanoid robot said to be Russia?s first such machine has fallen over within seconds of facing the public for the first time.?

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Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventually

Google has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn?t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.?

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Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance

Atlassian twice marked Amazon Web Services? Graviton CPUs off-limits for production purposes, but recently relented and now uses the processors to power thousands of server instances that run its Jira and Confluence products. So what changed??

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The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place

Microsoft believes the next generation of AI models will use hundreds of trillions of parameters. To train them, it's not just building bigger, more efficient datacenters ? it's started connecting distant facilities using high-speed networks spanning hundreds or thousands of miles.?

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Updated model may deliver a bit more unwanted content, but will be polite about it

OpenAI on Wednesday introduced GPT-5.1, an AI model update that's "warmer," more conversational, and slightly more willing to blurt out unwelcome observations about sex, violence, and mental health in a way that invites emotional dependence.?

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But only a few states plus Puerto Rico will accept it

Need to fly domestically, but want to leave your passport or driver's license at home? Apple has you covered, as long as you're using an iOS device and traveling between or within one of the dozen or so states that support digital IDs and Apple Wallet. Unfortunately, it's not clear which states those are, and the TSA's web site is not up to date thanks to the ongoing government shutdown.?

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600+ phishing websites and 116 of these use a Google logo

Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based scammers, which it claims have stolen more than 115 million credit card numbers in the US as part of the Lighthouse phishing operation.?

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Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues

OpenAI may be burning far more capital serving its GPT-family of models than previously thought. Leaked documents show the company paying more than $12 billion to Microsoft for compute power since 2024 and suggest much weaker revenue than it needs to pay for all those expenses.?

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We take your privacy, seriously

Google, perhaps not the first name you'd associate with privacy, has taken a page from Apple's playbook and now claims that its cloud AI services will safeguard sensitive personal data handled by its Gemini model family.?

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New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

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It's not just the number of rocket launches, but how much stuff they're carrying into orbit.

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A bug was keeping Windows 10 PCs from enrolling in Microsoft's ESU program.

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"NASA is postponing launch until space weather conditions improve."

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Production will move from Thailand to London, suggesting a new setting.

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Audi says it wants to be an F1 title contender by 2030.

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IBM follows through on its June promises, plus more trapped ion news.

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It's a sequel to 2023's Super Mario Bros. Movie, which racked up $1.36 billion at the box office.

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OpenAI: NYT wants evidence of ChatGPT users trying to get around news paywall.

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SteamOS-powered headset sports semi-modular design, wireless "low-latency" PC streaming.

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