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Pennsylvania is ground zero for the fracking boom. It’s increased natural gas production there 37-fold since 2008. That production generates a lot of waste, but the state’s ability to track it has failed to keep up. A decade ago, regulators promised to improve reporting standards for the waste, whic…

Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideologyWhile the artificial intelligence boom is upending sections of the music industry, voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist mov…

Amid its $20 billion EV failure, the storied automaker will retool a Kentucky plant to try and break into the booming energy storage sector.

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The latest trove of legal documents has been heavily redacted, but several famous figures are recognisable.

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

Attackers wound 10 others in Bekkersdal after opening fire at people in a bar and ‘randomly’ shooting in the street, police sayNine people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a bar near Johannesburg in the second mass shooting in South Africa this month.Ten more were wounded in the early mo…

England must enact change following their Ashes defeat but Brendon McCullum's reaction suggests he can be part of the future, writes Jonathan Agnew.

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new insights into a fundamental cellular feature and the origins of tissue folding.

The NFL game kicks off at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday (Dec. 21).

Jihad Al-Shamie had been investigated in connection with rape allegation before deadly October assault

Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collective goods, not expensive productsJust a small fraction of our 20,000 genes can cause disease when disrupted – yet that sliver accounts for thousands of rare disorders…

UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said what is happening in South Sudan is currently the "largest humanitarian crisis" the organization is seeing. "The challenges are absolutely staggering," she added.

2018 champion Cross untroubled in win over WhiteCullen accuses Suljovic of ‘cheating’ during defeatRob Cross eased into the third round of the PDC World Darts Championship with a 3-1 win over the veteran Ian White.It has been a disappointing year for the 2018 champion, with a host of early exits in …

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” ignited with $88 million in its domestic box office debut. It’s a decent start, albeit a significant decline from the opening weekend of 2022’s sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” with $134 million. However a larger question looms about the financial fate of the big-budget block…

Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz looks back at the work of actor and director Rob Reiner, whose films became part of our shared cinematic language because of their humor, drama, and aching belief in humanity.

Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters that this weekend’s ongoing peace talks in Florida are constructive, amid the Trump administration’s latest push to strike a deal to end the war with Ukraine. “The discussions are proceeding constructively. They began earlier and will continue today, and …

Archbishop Paul Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that President Trump's deportation campaign is instilling fear, and "that's something that concerns us all, that people have a right to live in, in security and without fear of random deportations."

Spanish researchers have created a powerful new open-source tool that helps uncover the hidden genetic networks driving cancer. Called RNACOREX, the software can analyze thousands of molecular interactions at once, revealing how genes communicate inside tumors and how those signals relate to patient…

As a holiday treat for "Sunday Morning" viewers, The Rockettes perform "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," a highlight of Radio City's "Christmas Spectacular" since its debut in 1933.

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?

Even with all the challenges of 2025, sustainability managed to sustain in 2025.

This was a year of extremes for the US stock market. The S&P 500 Index plunged to the verge of a tariff-induced bear market in April, only to quickly rebound after President Trump relented and by late June was hitting repeated records fueled by enthusiasm for all things artificial intelligence.

Europe’s front line is the exposed waters of the North and Baltic Seas

An upstate New York district, where most students are Native American, placed its superintendent on leave after images of a wooden box in a classroom spread on social media.

A group of private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus is in advanced talks to acquire investment and accounting software maker Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

Kobo just launched its own page-turning remote, and we love it. It's well-designed, allows you to turn the page forward and backward, and is comfortable to hold. Here's everything to know about the new Kobo remote.

The dangers of heat and humidity are so well known it's become cliché to mention them. But the impacts can extend farther than even scientists and doctors realized.

Prince William and his son, Prince George, have helped make Christmas lunch at a homeless shelter

People, including druids and pagans, come from across world to watch sunrise on shortest day of the yearThousands of revellers gathered at Stonehenge in the early hours of Sunday morning to celebrate the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.Crowds amassed in the dark around the historical s…

It's not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there's an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel today ahead of Linux 6.19-rc2. If you happen to be using a Seagate ST2000DM008 Barracuda 2TB HDD, an important fix was merged to avoid it taking down the systems' SAT…

“People don’t know exactly where [Gaza’s yellow line] exists … when they pass it, they become targets.”

France ​will ⁠build a new aircraft carrier to boost ​its ‍capacities ​as a maritime ​power, President Emmanuel Macron told French troops gathered at a military ‍base in ​Abu Dhabi. Macron arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday to celebrate Christmas with troops and to discuss bilateral ties w…

Swings in the dollar, gold and government debt have been fertile territory for funds such as Rokos and Caxton

Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new rocket and the first-ever fully successful private moon landing.

French President Emmanuel Macron is spending two days in the United Arab Emirates to celebrate the Christmas holiday with nearly 900 French troops stationed at three bases near Abu Dhabi, highlighting France’s military presence in a region facing multiple overlapping crises. Nicholas Rushworth repor…

Floor mats are a funny thing. If they are too fluffy like the shag carpet in a 1970s split level house, they look swell but are impossible to keep clean. If they are tough and durable, they are easy to keep clean, but they make the inside of your car ... [continued]
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A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

Chief cricket reporter Stephan Shemilt marks the performances of the Australia and England teams after the third Test in Adelaide.

Exclusive: Scale of government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admittedMore than 60% of parents who had their child benefit stopped by HMRC using incorrect Home Office travel data were not fraudulently claiming the support from abroad, it has emerged.The scale of the governm…

The 803 arrivals - a record for a December day - brings the total number this year to 41,455.

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Since Linux 6.16 the Intel APX support has been ready for the kernel infrastructure and goes along with the compiler toolchain support for Advanced Performance Extensions with the likes of GCC and LLVM/Clang. The latest element being worked on for APX enablement in the open-source/Linux world is for…

The chancellor is pursuing a risky quest for European leadership, and last week’s setback over Russian reparations is unlikely to knock him off courseFriedrich Merz’s three-month bid to catapult Germany into the role of undisputed leader of Europe has come unstuck.His call for Europe to hand Ukraine…

Thousands of people have gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the winter solstice

Health secretary says service is coping at the moment but recovery from five-day action comes at NHS’s busiest timeUK politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting has said the NHS is “coping” with resident doctors’ strikes but he is worried about its recovery as the industrial action enters its final…

A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto inorganic surfaces, has been demonstrated by researchers at Science Tokyo. By using an electric double-layer transistor with a chiral electrolyte, specific chirality was imposed on…

The show's final episode of 2025 also featured Cher as the musical guest.

Barca punish 10-man hosts Villarreal to win eighth consecutive La Liga game and move four points clear at the summit.

Yamini Rangan has seen tremendous growth at the software company since joining in January 2020.

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Timothy Loehmann’s firing is fourth known time in seven years that he left a department following public backlashThe former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 was fired from his post as a ranger at a West Virginia resort community, the fourth known time in seven years …

Top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said that President Trump's proposed $2,000 checks to Americans from tariff revenue would "have to be money that would be an appropriation," which would have to be approved by Congress.

Yury Ushakov's remarks come a day after US and Russian officials held talks on the US proposal in Florida.

Rangers arrived in Edinburgh with a view to reminding onlookers they can be a key component in this season’s Scottish title race. They departed as the latest victims of the Hearts juggernaut. Back to back wins against Celtic had already been secured before Hearts repeated the trick against Rangers. …

But will the 'International Assassins' arc be a new season, or another movie? That's what 'Chainsaw Man' fans want to know.

Israel has approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, bringing the three-year total to 69. The move comes despite the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' recent condemnation of what he called the "relentless" expansion of settlements in the occupied territory.

I am furious at what my country has done to me by taking away the one person who has been my safety net.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said he would leave it to the American people to decide whether they blame Republicans for the lapse in their enhanced Obamacare subsidies at the end of the year, but he defended GOP efforts to strike a deal on the issue in recent weeks. In an interview Sunday on CNN’s …

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”

Argentina’s Diego Lerner, a guiding force for The Walt Disney Company’s roll out in Latin America and Europe from 1990 to this year, died Dec. 18 in Buenos Aires at the age of 71 after a long illness. In a gesture from Disney, Lerner had been named honorary president of The Walt Disney Company Latin…

Reps. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, and Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, who pushed for the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, said the full release is "taking too long" and Friday's release is a "slap in the face of survivors."

PG&E said it did not have a precise timeframe for when power would be fully restored due to the "significant and extensive" damage to one of its substations.

Scientists have identified a previously unknown natural compound produced by heat-loving cyanobacteria that helps protect against ultraviolet radiation. Natural sunscreen ingredients can protect the skin from damaging radiation while reducing the risk of allergic reactions. In a recent study, scient…

A Supreme Court ruling that scraps Donald Trump’s tariffs — and refunds the import fees collected — would create a major “administrative problem,” the president’s top economic adviser said Sunday.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on Sunday that Democrats are considering various avenues of recourse after the Trump administration released a trove of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that included heavy redactions. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the top Democrat on the House Jud…

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Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia — the first time Giardia has been identified in Roman Britain. These parasites spread through contaminated food and water, causing diarrhea, weaknes…

Science is entering a massive publishing boom, in large part due to artificial intelligence. New research published in the journal Science has revealed that scientists who use large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are producing significantly more papers across many fields. The technology is also…

The first 25 years of this century delivered one upheaval after another: the dot-com crash, the housing collapse, the Great Financial Crisis, unprecedented rounds of quantitative easing, a historic pandemic, an inflation surge, and a retail-trading revolution powered by meme stocks. Romaine Bostick …

Manager says the ban Xavi Simons faces is ‘too harsh’Slot says his ‘gut feeling’ on Isak injury is not positiveA frustrated Thomas Frank took aim at two decisions, both involving the use of the video assistant referee system, that helped swing proceedings in Liverpool’s favour during his Tottenham s…

Lhyfe’s recent press release—another just before Christmas, end of the week, hope no one notices effort like others I’ve assessed in recent days—reported on in the usually excellent Hydrogen Insight industry publication, claims that revenues doubled in 2025 and that the company is now strategically …

Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to build these massive structures would be steady when stacked on top of one another, even if they didn’t have tables of the compressive strength of those stones. But when attempti…

The purpose of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, in Northern New Mexico, is to be a place where people can experience the divine. But as Charles Osgood reported in this May 19, 1996 "Sunday Morning" report, it was also branching out to the internet, as both a business and to educate others abou…

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Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over 35 years. The results show mosses now release spores up to a month earlier than in the 1990s. Even more surprising, the timing depends more on last year’s climate than current …

Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support. New this week is adding support for CRKD Guitars for those into musical gaming/apps...

More than 8,000 candidates sat for a government exam on a runway in Odisha in India.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said monetary policy is in a good place to pause and assess the effects of 75 basis points of rate cuts in the economy during the first quarter.

⚽ Premier League updates from the 4.30pm GMT kick-off⚽ Live scores | Table | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Tim2 min United win a throw-in on the right, and then a free kick, which comes to nothing.We have a minor celebrity in the tunnel! Kelly Osbourne, daughter of the late lamented Ozzy, is there an…

Putin’s top foreign policy aid says proposals could prolong conflict as talks with US negotiators are held in MiamiRussia has renewed its criticism of efforts by Europe and Ukraine to amend US proposals to end the war in Ukraine, saying they did not improve prospects for peace.Vladimir Putin’s top f…

The Trump Department of Justice gave notice it would appeal a judge's decision to toss the cases against James Comey and Letitia James on Friday, insisting the prosecutor deemed unlawfully appointed remains on the job.The big picture: The administration is trying to salvage the cases after the dismi…

Saturday marked comedian Bowen Yang’s final appearance as a regular cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” a move Yang had already confirmed and cemented by tearing up on live TV alongside Ariana Grande and Cher. Getting to say goodbye with such attention and advance notice is a privilege in the noto…

The African Cup of nations opens in Rabat tonight with a match between the host country Morocco and the Comoros. It's a crucial event for the country, which is hoping to cement its status as a football superpower. The tournament will allow Morocco to show off infrastructure investments it is making …

The songwriter covered Snider's "Play a Train Song" as the encore of his Friday night show in Austin

Exclusive: Thinktank’s findings undermine successive home secretaries’ statements about misuse of system in England and WalesAsylum seekers are not abusing the modern slavery system in a widespread manner, according to a report from a centre-right thinktank that undermines statements from successive…

For family-founded Steinbach Volkskunst, the company’s most reliable market has become its biggest bureaucratic headache.

The US Coast Guard is pursuing an oil ⁠tanker in international waters near Venezuela in what would be the third in less than a week, officials said Sunday, as US President Donald Trump increases pressure on the South American nation. The move comes a week after Trump announced a "blockade" of all oi…

Waymo suspended its SF robotaxi service on Saturday evening after a massive blackout appeared to leave many of its vehicles stalled on city streets.

Thousands take to the Neolithic circle to welcome the sunrise on the shortest day of the year.

A study finds that as pressure increases, UK parents are more likely to put on a brave face – risking family wellbeingAdvent calendars, check. Tree and decorations, check. Teachers’ presents, nativity costumes and a whole new ticketing system for the PTA’s Santa’s grotto, check. But the Christmas ca…

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists have been trying to solve for ages.

The far right's love of deepfakes and distortions came back to haunt them as their assassinated hero became a brain-rot meme

Robert F Kennedy Jr is pushing a plan to block medical treatments, the latest move against bodily autonomyOn Thursday, when Robert F Kennedy Jr announced an effort to block medical treatments for transgender youth, he used the term “sex-rejecting procedures” in place of “gender-affirming care”.And w…

Approvals hit record pace as government seeks to thwart any prospect of a Palestinian state

The music of The Beatles, and of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is timeless. And yet, musician, songwriter and producer Sean Ono Lennon says he feels a responsibility to promote his parents' legacy, by reminding the world of its power. He talks with Anthony Mason about the Oscar-winning animated short in…

"Sunday Morning" gifts to its viewers a Christmas tradition: a performance by the Young People's Chorus of New York City. They present "Deck the Halls," arranged by Francisco J. Nunez and Jim Papoulis.