Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk ended a 26-day hunger strike on Friday that helped galvanize a youth movement that's become one of India's largest protests in recent years, but demonstrators vowed to continue until the education minister resigns.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, said that President Trump was committed to the work "if conditions and factors have changed to make that possible."

The Justice Department is dropping the subpoenas it filed demanding grand jury testimony and phone records from New York Times journalists after sharp questioning Thursday from a federal judge.

The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 countries accounting for 99% of U.S. imports, charging that they have inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labor.

Hannah Chin and Nate Rott of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the building blocks of birdsong, the evolutionary history of avocados and Egyptian warrior princesses.

The Trump administration has terminated or suspended more than 100 federal advisory committees. Former members say agencies like NASA now have less accountability to stakeholders and the public.

Invasive species can wreak havoc on ecosystems. A new study in Science suggests low- and middle-income countries in the Global South experience greater harms.

A council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.

Four Republicans joined Democrats to approve the measure. And while it is not legally binding, the resolution represents growing frustration inside Congress over the war.

Imposed citing forced labour concerns, the levies replace a temporary global duty brought in after the US Supreme Court struck down tariffs in February.

The fire has raged in the region for several days with officials on Friday morning saying it had continued to progress overnight.

Women said their partners had pushed or coerced them into taking part in swinging.

Various ministers are also set to work regularly from the northern branch of Downing Street.

The threat of attack has never been higher, the boss of Europe's biggest defence contractor has warned. Dr Charles Woodburn

King Charles III emerges from a Tardis and a Loch Ness Monster takes the stage at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow.

Highs of 30C are expected in the south on Friday before wet weather arrives for the weekend - although it is unlikely to be enough, as Ben Rich explains.

Witnesses say the unnamed rescuer dove into the water three times to save the children.

A bridge linking Michigan to Ontario is about to open but Canada has disinvited US dignitaries from the ceremony.

Renewed tensions in the Middle East feed through to the costs faced by lenders, pushing up borrowing costs.

€890 million slap – just 0.25% of revenue – for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives

Sleep doesn't pay

Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day

Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services

Attack models gonna attack

Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap

AI no longer welcome in human-focused community

Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper

App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.

The FDA hasn't said where the cases are or how they're linked.

Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification.

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

Also, the full trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil features a likable everyman.

The case provides a novel report of the emergence of heterovirulence.

Google becomes third tech giant to face huge fines under the Digital Markets Act.

Circana numbers show US gamers overwhelmingly voting with their wallets.

Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.

Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.