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The Trump administration had threatened to withhold some Homeland Security money unless states explored paper balloting and citizenship verification.
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Starship entered orbit for the first time and deployed the latest version of Starlink satellites, critical steps in the company’s push for the experimental rocket to handle a range of missions.
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Before there were libraries, term papers or printed books, students demonstrated learning through dialogue.
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The golden interior of a dilution refrigerator used to keep IBM's superconducting quantum processors at extremely low temperatures. (Graham Carlow for IBM/Flickr, CC BY ND-2.0) A new milestone. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
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The Bureau of Prisons policy, which has been blocked by lower courts, would give transgender prisoners access to psychotherapy and antidepressants instead of certain gender-transition medical treatments.
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Researchers looked back at the baby-boom era and found that federal mortgage programs played a part in the country’s population upswing after World War II.
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The new mandate will require an average of 34.5 miles a gallon by model year 2031, down from the 50.4 miles a gallon standard.
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Plus, U.S. and China agree to reciprocal tariff reduction.
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Wall Street fretted over Iran and fuel costs—as the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note reached a 19-year high.
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The banners are up, confirming the new home of the National Museum of the American Latino is now located next to the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall, at 900 Jefferson Drive SW.
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SpaceX successfully launched its massive Starship into orbit for the first time Monday, deploying advanced Starlink satellites before flight controllers opted to cut the test flight short.
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Scientists resurrected antimicrobial peptides from mammals that lived millions of years ago and found that some were more potent against drug-resistant bacteria than modern human versions. These evolutionary relics could provide new clues for designing treatments as antibiotic resistance becomes an increasingly serious threat.
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A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of modern placental mammals, despite having teeth that seemed to suggest they were. Instead, the rabbit-like animal belonged to a separate lineage of small Cretaceous mammals.
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Row comes amid rising division and a tendency towards cynical political posturing in Northern Ireland Three decades ago, it took the deaths of three Roman Catholic children – the Quinn brothers, Jason, nine, Mark, 10, and 11-year-old Richard – in a petrol bomb attack to bring an end to the Drumcree dispute. “No road is worth a life, let alone the lives of three little boys,” the Orange Order’s County Armagh chaplain said at the time. It is perhaps extraordinary to think that this could ever have needed saying – but that was then. Northern Ireland is very different place today. Continue reading...
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Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’ Ed Miliband will tell campaigners and party members who raised the plight of Palestinians they were right that Labour’s approach had not been enough, saying he was heeding the calls of millions of people by imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements. The foreign secretary will tell the Labour party conference that the government will take more explicitly progressive foreign policy positions under Andy Burnham, and that the UK will be a leader among like-minded countries in a new age of diplomacy. Continue reading...
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Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast New South Wales police say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men in the state’s north. Police said they found the first man – who has since been identified as a 79-year-old – dead at a property on Summerland Way at Gurranang, near Grafton, on 13 September. And that’s equally important in the Reserve Bank’s mandate, dual mandate, which talks about maintaining full employment at the same time as they go for price stability, which means inflation in the target band. Well, it’s still lower than what we saw under Howard and Costello, is the first point. I think that’s pretty clear. And what we’ve seen in recent years is that it’s possible to have low and steady unemployment at the same time as we see inflation moderate to more normal levels. Continue reading...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket reached orbit for the first time despite an engine shutdown.
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The meeting comes as some industry leaders warn about the risks of rapid AI advancements.
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After a 16-hour flight from China on a custom plane and a police escort from the airport to an Atlanta zoo, America's newest giant pandas are in their new home and are getting ready to meet the public. Skyler Henry is there.
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The Super Heavy-Starship rocket's 14th test flight, the first boosting the upper stage to orbit, marked a major milestone for both SpaceX and NASA.
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College campuses are on alert for cychlorphine, a new synthetic opioid experts fear could be ten times more toxic than fentanyl. Dr. Janette Nesheiwat joins "The Takeout" to discuss.
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NASA says it is committed to helping Boeing get its Starliner back in space after multiple upgrades and improvements.
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The biggest rocket ever built launched into orbit around Earth on Monday, making history. SpaceX took this important step as part of its plan to reach the moon or even Mars. Mark Strassmann reports.
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The Senate seems poised to pass bipartisan legislation to regulate college sports, moving the federal government aggressively into a space previously monitored and ruled by the NCAA. Ross Dellenger, senior college football reporter for Yahoo! Sports, joins "The Takeout" to discuss.
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With the 2026 midterm elections weeks away, some Republican congressional candidates are breaking with President Trump over the war in Iran. CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto and CBS News political contributor Kyle Kondik take a look at the situation.
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The average rate on a 30-year mortgage is back above 7% for the first time in twenty months. It's rough news for the housing market and homebuyers already struggling with rising prices elsewhere. It comes as Treasury yields, which impact borrowing costs across the economy, hit multi-decade highs. Amna Nawaz discussed more with David Wessell of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy.
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The nation's top federal law official is drawing scrutiny for his recent political appearances. With just five weeks left until the midterms, some experts say Attorney General Todd Blanche is blurring lines meant to keep the Justice Department free of partisan bias. Justice correspondent Ali Rogin reports.
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Experts, analysts and former government evaluators tell The Associated Press that Anthropic and OpenAI appear with their rhetoric to be seeking public favor and to set the terms for their own safety protocols in the unregulated market.
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The United Nations recently announced a new executive director for the World Food Programme. Luke Lindberg was a Trump administration Agriculture Department official and inherits one of the UN's toughest jobs. Hundreds of millions around the world go hungry every day, and reaching as many as possible is a monumental task. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Carl Skau, the acting director of the WFP.
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The security agreement signed by the U.S., Denmark and Greenland last week "strengthens the defense of Greenland, the NATO area, and the American continent."
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President Trump is set to meet with AI leaders about the technology's safety on Tuesday after Bill Gates over the weekend laid out a stark warning about artificial intelligence's potential dangers. CBS News' Nancy Cordes reports.
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Researchers link the rise to immigration politics, economic anxiety and the growing visibility of South Asians in US.
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The announcement of the company's Open Agent Safety Platform follows a series of revelations from top AI companies about their models escaping and breaking into other organizations.
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Students are protesting over issues such as overcrowded classes, but the prime minister has condemned reports of violence.
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Tehran has been trying to step up attacks on targets in the west but its track record has been mixed Investigators may be some way from determining exactly what led five men with three vans to a village just outside RAF Fairford in the small hours of Sunday – but the fact they have all been released on bail without immediate charge suggests they are not deemed to pose a serious and violent threat. In a moment where wider geopolitical tensions mean external threats are perceived to be close, the question of whether Iran had a hand in the alleged plot remains open. Nonetheless, the bailing of the men is a mercifully lower-key development in an investigation that appeared of the utmost gravity. Continue reading...
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Pope Leo XIV said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not "fake news" and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.
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At least six states will require documentation that individuals are too sick to meet Medicaid work requirements kicking in next year. The rules are stricter than what the federal government is requiring.
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Two giant pandas from China have landed in the United States and are heading to Zoo Atlanta.
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There is a social cost to many modern conveniences.
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In a faltering Chinese economy, working-class stories are striking a chord.
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A male named Ping Ping and a female named Fu Shuang landed on Sunday, days after China’s leader said he would dispatch “envoys of friendship” to the United States.
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The orchestra, which was to have celebrated its 40th anniversary at the Kennedy Center, started its nomadic season in Bethesda, Md.
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Peanut butter is a spread by definition, but when the word "spread" appears on a peanut butter jar label, it's most likely satisfying a legal requirement rather than acting as a simple descriptor.
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Always check fallen trees for animals before chopping them up. The post How to help wildlife after a nor’easter appeared first on Popular Science .
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It's a day for survival stories and big, chunky bears. The post Fat Bear Week semi-finals: Bucky Dent vs. Backpack and 132 vs. 910 appeared first on Popular Science .
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Carl Akeley evaded charging elephants, started stuffing animals at age 12, and transformed natural history museums forever. The post The ‘Father of Modern Taxidermy’ wrestled leopards and worked for P.T. Barnum appeared first on Popular Science .
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