The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking.

President Trump provided conflicting messages about when the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran will end. And, NPR investigates how late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein leveraged ties with scientists.

From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.

A large study found that people taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for diabetes were less likely to be diagnosed with substance use disorder.

In a phone call with CBS News Monday, Trump said "the war is very complete." But at a separate event with Republican lawmakers, he said the U.S. still needed to achieve "ultimate victory."

Trump hails Iran successes but offers no end date, Lebanon wants talks with Israel, and two teens are charged in NYC attack attempt.

The case of Khalil, who was detained last March, sits at the vanguard of a battle of immigrants' due process and civil rights, and the Trump administration's mass detention and deportation policies.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but presidents assert broad authority over use of force and the military. Congress has done little to push back.

Voting ends Tuesday night in the district that former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene left this year after a feud with President Trump. It's unclear if his pick will win her spot.

With the removal of FDA warning labels, hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has grown in popularity. Now some patients are reporting delays in filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.

We tracked reports and contacted police and prosecutors for a deeper look at the situation across UK.

Donna Ockenden is appointed to lead the maternity services inquiry at Leeds hospitals.

A prison inmate has been charged with the murder of Soham killer Ian Huntley, police say.

Barton is told to pay the former England footballer more than £300k over two posts he made in 2024.

Neil Simpson and his guide Rob Poth win Great Britain's first medal of the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics with silver in the alpine combined.

A huge fire destroyed a neighbouring building but Network Rail staff believe the station has not been seriously damaged.

Reform UK has set out further detail of how it would cover the cost of scrapping September's planned rise.

The console maker is accused of charging fans "excessive" fees to obtain software from its official store.

The weather is set to get a lot colder as the week progresses, as Tomasz Shafernaker and Simon King explain.

Some are questioning if the Satanic detail is appropriate in a Christian place of worship.

Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III near

SpaceX has rolled another Starship super heavy booster to the launch pad as the company's boss, Elon Musk, admits the first launch of Starship V3 had slipped.…

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales

Oracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including new features supporting vectors.…

Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure

Chromebooks, the low-cost computing option popular with education buyers, will be squeezed hardest this year as memory prices spiral out of control.…

Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them

As more US states push to mandate OS-level age checks, System76 is taking its fight directly to lawmakers.…

Russian-speaking attackers lure HR staff into downloading ISO files that disable defenses

A Russian-speaking cyber criminal is targeting corporate HR teams with fake CVs that quietly install malware which can disable security tools before stealing data from infected machines.…

Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detection

Microsoft is removing Entra credentials for school and work from jailbroken and rooted devices running iOS and Android.…

Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 people

A voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.…

Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of us

Opinion The hacker mind is a curious way to be. To have it means to embody endless analytical curiosity, an awareness of any given rule set as just one system among many, and an ability to see any system in ways that its creators never expected. Combine this with a drive to find the bad and make things better, and you become one of the fundamental forces of the technological universe.…

Kids profited from tools used to attack popular websites, say officials

Polish police have referred seven suspected juvenile cybercriminals to family court over an alleged scheme to flog DDoS kits online.…

Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracks

A retro tech enthusiast has demonstrated that it is possible to view media on LaserDisc using a relatively inexpensive digital microscope.…

Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

Clever polymer science and a little robotic precision created the Hakkapeliitta 01.

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

8GB of RAM is a bummer, but this $599 laptop cuts most of the right corners.

"It's a big fat middle finger for those that thought they had something."

A warehouse of guitar gear in the palm of your hand.

M5 Pro Max's "performance" CPU cores definitely aren't just rebranded E-cores.

States seek mistrial, saying "sudden disappearance" of US will influence jury.

Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study.

Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs.