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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.

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

Australia is observing a national Day of Reflection one week after the deadly shooting at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach, with crowds gathering at a waterfront memorial and people across the country lighting candles and holding a minute of silence. France24 correspondent Grégory Plesse reports the…

The fluffy Disney animation — and its snake character in particular — is delighting audiences in China, to the relief both of Hollywood and China’s film regulators.

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…

Australia win Adelaide Test against England and forge an unassailable 3-0 lead in cricket's longest running series.

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

“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.

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

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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…

A staff exodus and a broken booking system are helping to cause huge jams in Britain’s driving test system It has long been a stressful rite of passage for many young people but, in recent years, passing the actual driving test is the easy part. Now, many people seeking a test need to wake up early …

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…

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…

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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]
The post 3Wliners Tesla Floor M…

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

⚽ Discussion, news and buildup to all Sunday’s action⚽ Live scores | Tables | Saturday’s reports | Mail us hereThere’s some interesting debate raging below the line about the tempestuous meeting between Tottenham and Liverpool last night, where Xavi Simons and Cristian Romero were sent off but Micky…

Authorities report that nine people have died and at least 10 others are injured after a shooting at a South African pub

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…

Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers.

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…

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

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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…

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…

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 …

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

A court in Pakistan has convicted and sentenced the imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of retaining and selling state gifts, including jewellery given by Saudi Arabia in 2021. Khan’s lawyer says he will appeal the ru…

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.

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 …

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…

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.

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.

Silver steward is one of three people arrested in connection with alleged theft from presidential residenceA silver steward employed at the Élysée Palace in Paris has been arrested for stealing silverware and porcelain, amid a wave of thefts from high-profile French institutions.Investigators arrest…

Since just 3% of Americans use platform Trump owns, public may be unaware of his mental state and performanceWhen Donald Trump has something to say, he takes to Truth Social.Trump has used the platform to announce policies on everything from the economy to travel bans, making declarations that are k…

The Irish singer-songwriter does what the best musicians do: perfectly crystallising their time while inspirationally taking a stand against itWhat has it felt like to be alive in 2025? The basic answer probably touches on a few aspects of the 21st-century experience. One is the horror and conflict …

Liverpool and Egypt star forward Mohamed Salah is centred on winning his first Africa Cup of Nations title.

Emerging markets are poised to start 2026 as a favored trade on Wall Street, with money managers betting a multi-year cycle of investment inflows is underway.

Since their beginnings in Missouri a century ago, the troupe known as The Rockettes has been celebrated for their deftly-coordinated, high-precision dance moves. Since 1933, they've performed in the annual Christmas Spectacular at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Jane Pauley goes backstage with som…

America faces an aging crisis: We have too few young people supporting too many older people — at the very moment Social Security, our national retirement program, nears insolvency.To make matters worse, young people are increasingly scared to have kids — in part because they fear AI will make findi…

Is civility still alive in Seneca Falls, the Central New York town that fancies itself the inspiration of Bedford Falls, setting of the 1946 Jimmy Stewart film, "It's a Wonderful Life"? Senior contributor Ted Koppel visits Seneca Falls, which holds an annual festival devoted to a Hollywood classic's…

More see Trump's policies responsible for economy today than Biden's; there are also concerns about AI impact on jobs.

The Pompidou Center is the place to see contemporary art in Paris. Or it was, until curators put its astonishing collection into storage.

A little-used federal law is being activated in ways that could turn immigration screening into the backbone of a far-reaching DNA surveillance system

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 …

Australia is observing a national Day of Reflection one week after the deadly shooting at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach, with crowds gathering at a waterfront memorial and people across the country lighting candles and holding a minute of silence at exactly 6:47 p.m. local time, the moment the fi…

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This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier, and it lives permanently inside the dome’s system to serve an eco-friendly purpose: to store large amount…

The first ever mass deployment of mother reef bricks aims to rebuild habitats – and could reshape the North SeaAllie Wharf’s career unfolded amid conflict. As a senior foreign producer for Newsnight, she reported on Iraq and Afghanistan. Just two years ago, she was filming mass graves in Ukraine.But…

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Can global governance survive Donald Trump? How it started; how it’s going

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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