The massive budget bill that Senate Republicans are debating pays for some of its tax cuts by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid spending. The latest report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates nearly 12 million people will lose health insurance if the Senate version of the bill becomes law.

Trump insists the cuts come from eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Democrats have said they break Trump's promise not to touch Medicaid ? and over the weekend, Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina agreed. "What do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there anymore?"

We asked Sarah Jane Tribble, the chief rural correspondent for KFF Health News, what the cuts will mean for rural residents of states like North Carolina ? and the hospitals that serve them.

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Russia attacked Ukraine with over 500 drones and missiles over the weekend, it was the largest air assault since the Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine over three years ago. The barrage included targets in Western Ukraine, a region far from the front lines that doesn't often see bombardments. We get the latest from our correspondent in Kyiv.

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The Justice Department announced charges in what officials describe as the largest health care fraud bust in DOJ history.

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As the Senate debates the giant tax and spending bill, lawmakers are weighing a Sept. 30 end date for the EV tax credits. The bill still needs to pass the Senate and then go through reconciliation.

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British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan led chants against the Israeli military in a live BBC broadcast on Saturday. Irish-language rappers Kneecap also are being investigated.

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The DNA data of millions of people who used 23andMe's services won't be sold to a pharmaceutical company. A bankruptcy judge greenlighted the sale of the remnants of the firm, including its wealth of genetic data, to a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki.

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Two firefighters were killed and a third wounded in northern Idaho, police say, when an armed man ambushed them after intentionally setting a brush fire to lure them to the scene.

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The Trump administration has issued a notice of violation accusing Harvard University of "deliberate indifference" toward Jewish and Israeli students.

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Canada scrapped a digital services tax that would have hit U.S. tech companies such as Google and Amazon after President Trump halted trade talks and threatened higher tariffs on Canadian imports.

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The WNBA is adding three new teams: Cleveland will join in 2028, Detroit begins play in 2029 and Philadelphia will be added to the roster in 2030. This will bring the league to a record 18 teams.

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The government was forced into concessions on its welfare plan following a backlash among its own MPs.

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It follows performances from both bands on Saturday at the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset.

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The outdoor cafe was frequently used by journalists, activists and local residents.

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Police are failing to properly investigate coercive control, victims and campaigners say.

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The rise in temperature coincides with the beginning of Wimbledon and the end of the Glastonbury festival.

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The number of incidents has risen since a drop in the pandemic, although serious injuries are down.

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British number one Emma Raducanu cruises to a comfortable victory over compatriot Mimi Xu in her opening-round match at Wimbledon.

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A 92-year-old is convicted of raping and murdering Louisa Dunne in her Bristol home in 1967.

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Many Christians in Syria fear the new Islamist-led government is not doing enough to protect them.

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The announcement has come alongside the annual publication of royal finances.

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It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word'

ai-pocalypse For job seekers wondering which AI skills to bone up on, the answer appears to be simple based on a look at the past year of employment data: Just learn to use it. ?

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Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27

Asked to guess a number between 1 and 50, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Meta's Llama 4 all provided the same answer: 27.?

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Someday, my prince will come

Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of course, the Massachusetts-based startup can actually get the miniaturized sun to make more power than it consumes, something even the Chocolate Factory admits is a bit of a "moonshot."?

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Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers

A judge has sentenced a disgruntled IT worker to more than seven months in prison after he wreaked havoc on his employer's network following his suspension, according to West Yorkshire Police.?

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Oh, you have to divide by 100?

Thousands of Norwegians mistakenly thought they'd won life-changing sums in last week's Eurojackpot after a manual coding slip at state-owned operator Norsk Tipping.?

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Time ticking for defenders as social engineering pros weave wider web

Just a few weeks after warning about Scattered Spider's tactics shifting toward the insurance industry, the same experts now say the aviation industry is now on the ransomware crew's radar.?

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NASA's future Artemis booster sputters during test

video Old Space has shown itself to be just as adept at explosive malfunctions as New Space, with Northrop Grumman encountering an anomaly during a static fire test of an updated solid rocket booster design.?

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During which he coded Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founded Mozilla and the EFF

The man behind Lotus 1-2-3 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has wrapped up a master's degree at MIT Sloan, decades after dropping out to help kickstart the PC software boom.?

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Court says State arm cannot be left without maintenance, patches and upgrades because of Broadcom's new licensing model

Broadcom's VMware subsidiary must provide a Dutch government organization with continued software support for at least two years while it manages a migration to an alternative platform, according to a court ruling, or else face fines up to ?25 million ($29 million).?

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Device compromises and deep-seated access to critical infrastructure exposed surveillance vulnerabilities in agency's work

A major Mexican drug cartel insider grassed on his fellow drug-peddlers back in 2018, telling the FBI that a cartel "hacker" was tracking a federal official and using their deep-rooted access to the country's critical infrastructure to kill informants.?

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Apple analyst Ming-Chi Quo lays out a whole roadmap for Apple XR devices.

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Also: final Muon g-2 results, an ultrasonic mobile brain imaging helmet, and re-creating Egyptian blue.

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Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel kingpin Joaquín ?El Chapo? Guzmán.

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A supposed band called The Velvet Sundown has released two albums of AI slop this month.

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Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

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An effort to move shuttle Discovery has merged with the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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Congressional Budget Office report from paints dark picture for America's health.

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"If we do nothing, everything on this planet will go extinct." 

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Companies may be forced to show how they targeted videos to teen who died.

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Sony victory in Cox piracy case could be overturned by Supreme Court.

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