Forecasters say the storm, which brought heavy rain and coastal flooding, is a preview of what may be in store as California braces for a possibly record-setting El Niño.

Pope Leo XIV said he would undergo surgery after doctors found a "localized nodule" in his lung.

The eye of Hurricane Simon was just off the Pacific coast of Mexico early Sunday and was expected to move inland later in the day as an extremely powerful storm.

The move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House.

Listeners of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday may already know that host Ayesha Rascoe loves horror. But why do scream queens (and kings) like her like what's frightening? The answer may surprise you.

Her epic ride — carrying her injured dad on her $20 hot pink bicycle — made headlines. Promises were made — financial help, training for a cycling career, even a movie deal. Were any of them kept?

A group of international researchers is pushing to rigorously study the potential health benefits of sauna and other heat therapies. They hope to bring scientific legitimacy to the age-old practices.

People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job.

In a highly competitive Washington congressional race, the incumbent Democrat has angered part of her party base and the Trump-backed Republican challenger faces backlash against the party in power.  

Harmeet Dhillon has pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys, replaced many with inexperienced ideological allies, and used the division's enforcement powers to pursue the president's agenda.

Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds.

Addressing the Commons, Burnham is expected to say that a new deal with the EU could help tackle illegal immigration and boost economic growth.

Ukraine's leader says he will support such a truce if Moscow does, after initially expressing surprise at Donald Trump's announcement.

The Saudi capital has been hit by multiple attacks from the Iran-backed Yemeni group over the weekend.

The impact of the Iran war poses significant risks for the government’s spending plans, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says.

All asylum applications would be rejected and existing ones voided, with all claimants marked for deportation.

The critically endangered apes were rescued from intense wildfires that destroyed their habitat in August and September.

He says voters were not "sufficiently" informed about how foreign actors sought to disrupt UK democracy.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park remains closed after a man entered the tiger enclosure and was fatally attacked on Saturday.

Brad Smith calls for global rules on AI, and says the UK is in the "best position" to lead the charge.

Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'

And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions

Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030

Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites

EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway

Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders

The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures

Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier

What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again

Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers

Alex Gibney's provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there's not much new here for Ars readers.

Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic Godzilla Minus One

Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.

Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.

One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.

Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.

"We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."

Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.

Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.