Biss, the mayor of Evanston, Ill., topped political newcomer Kat Abughazaleh, a first-time candidate who ran as an unapologetic progressive in the race to succeed longtime incumbent Jan Schakowsky.

Arizona is the first state to allege the prediction market company has committed criminal violations, accusing it of running an unlicensed gambling operation.

A federal judge has ordered more than a thousand Voice of America staffers back to work by Monday. It's a major defeat for the Trump administration's effort to cut the news outlet to the bones.

With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, policy expert Karim Sadjadpour says the war in Iran is becoming increasingly complicated: "I don't think President Trump ... understood what he was getting into."

The Ford's crew left Norfolk, Va., on June 24, initially bound for the Mediterranean. More than nine months later, the crew is now in the Red Sea for the war with Iran with no clear return date.

Technology allowed the U.S. and Israel to kill Iran's Supreme Leader, but raised longstanding questions about whether the U.S. as a democracy should be assassinating foreign leaders.

Oksana Masters leaves Italy with five new para Nordic skiing medals, extending her reign as the most decorated U.S. Winter Paralympian. She competes in summer sports too and is already eyeing LA 2028.

In eastern Ukraine, white nylon nets now stretch over roads and city streets, a low-tech defense against deadly FPV drones that dominate the battlefield and threaten civilians near the front line.

A new analysis represents the largest effort yet to systematically parse all the data from high-quality clinical trials on cannabis and mental health. The evidence is lacking.

The U.S. Postal Service's leader says it is set to run out of money in less than a year and may have to stop deliveries because of declining mail volume and what USPS sees as burdensome requirements.

Scotland would have become the first part of the UK to legalise the process had MSPs backed the proposals.

In an exclusive interview with the BBC after talks with Starmer, the Ukrainian president says the pair should meet to "re-load the relationship".

Tehran residents tell the BBC they're caught between US-Israeli bombing and an Iranian regime trying to reassert its power.

Morocco declared the winners of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after the Confederation of African Football overturns the result of their final defeat to Senegal.

Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

Officials confirm 15 cases of meningitis following an outbreak in Kent, in which two people died.

Most migrant workers will have to wait longer to qualify for permanent residence under the government's proposals.

King Charles and senior royals will provide a ceremonial welcome for Nigeria's President Tinubu on his state visit.

The UK regulator said the ad condoned "digitally altering and exposing women's bodies without their consent."

Police will have new powers to seize and detain dogs that have attacked or chased farm animals.

In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’

Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.…

Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs

GTC Nvidia has called on its supply chain partners to begin manufacturing its ageing H200 GPUs to meet demand for chips in China, CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday.…

Sell your soul to the orb

Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human behind bots.…

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart

Earlier this month, AWS ended standard support for PostgreSQL 13 on RDS. Customers who want to stay on a supported database — as AWS is actively encouraging them to do — need to upgrade to PostgreSQL 14 or later.…

Formal code verification and testing offer a way around AI blind spots

Your AI may need AI to oversee its work. Gallic AI biz Mistral is leaning into making AI code generation more reliable with Leanstral, a coding agent for proofs constructed using the open source Lean programming language.…

The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs

gtc Space could be the final frontier for datacenters. Never mind that some analysts have described orbital bit barns as "peak insanity" - Nvidia has designed a new Vera Rubin module specifically to operate above the Earth's atmosphere.…

Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid'

GTC HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation.…

State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties

The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.…

Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball

The rollback to the launchpad for NASA's monster Moon rocket has slipped by a day, though the agency is optimistic that the long-delayed return of humans to lunar space will still happen in early April.…

Big Red bets on native runtimes over reimplementations to tackle edge cases

JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python.…

Judge tosses Musi case against Apple, sanctions lawyers for "mak[ing] up facts."

Iris-scan backed tokens could help stop agent swarms from overwhelming online systems.

Desert state becomes first to file criminal case against prediction platform.

Of the seven illnesses identified so far, four are in children age 3 or younger.

Suit: The National Center for Atmospheric Research is to be terminated for no rational reason.

"War feeds on itself. The more I fight, the more our enemies fight back."

Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possibly go wrong?

Nvidia's next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way.

Samsung didn't offer an explanation for its decision, but it's not exactly a surprise.

Meteor's fiery passage through the atmosphere was captured by a space-based lightning mapper.