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Understanding moonquakes will be useful for future lunar bases. The post The moon is shrinking. Astronomers finally know how fast. appeared first on Popular Science .
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The fungus discovered in China grows over a foot high and dates back 65 million years. The post When ‘T. rex’ died, a new giant fungus named ‘D-rex’ took over appeared first on Popular Science .
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And it challenges 50 years of chaos theory in the process. The post New weather model may finally offer a reliable six-week forecast appeared first on Popular Science .
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The court said that California could not impose state requirements on federal law enforcement operations.
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President Trump tapped his political appointees to determine whether he could oust Lisa Cook, a Fed governor he had already tried to oust.
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SpudCells may one day produce new medicines and materials. But first scientists have to improve them — and make sure they aren’t misused.
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The autonomous drone took first place at a major race, beating 3 former human world champions. The post An AI-racing drone beat the best humans and set a world record appeared first on Popular Science .
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9,000 years of pulling humans around has left its mark. The post Sled dogs have stubby legs for a reason appeared first on Popular Science .
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Firms turning crude oil into the ‘workhorse’ fuel stand to gain most despite economic fallout from record prices Days after Donald Trump announced a deal to import Russian diesel into the US in an effort to lower soaring pump prices, the world’s energy watchdog has warned that the global fuel shortage will drag into 2027. Trump’s temporary sanctions reprieve was criticised for offering “too little, too late” to temper the sky high pump prices triggered by the shutdown of war-damaged refineries in the Middle East and Russia – once the world’s second-largest diesel exporter behind the US. Continue reading...
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Firearms discharges drop by more than half in the past six years in the force area.
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Wales scores poorly on international test results but it is not clear a new curriculum will help.
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We asked experts how safe it is for children and teenagers to take protein supplements.
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For nearly 90 years, CBS News has been following one of the world's biggest mysteries: what happened to Amelia Earhart? American researchers now believe they may have found what remains of her plane. Lana Zak has the story.
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Iran says it does not seek an endless war, but vows to fight until the US accepts its demands as ships sink in Hormuz.
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The Trump administration may have withheld intelligence warnings to Ukraine about Russian strikes that killed 6 and cut power to 600,000 people, sources say.
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Ukrainian officials suspect the U.S. has been withholding information about incoming Russian air strikes. The U.S. has threatened to do so if Ukraine continues striking Russian energy targets, which President Trump blames for driving up diesel prices. Aidan Stretch reports.
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The subpoenas were issued on Friday, just days before Omar's home in Washington, D.C., was searched early Monday morning by investigators from ICE's investigative unit.
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President Trump hunted for silver linings in the higher-than-expected September inflation numbers. The surge in prices was fueled by a 9% month-over-month jump in gas prices. Nancy Cordes reports.
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Experts are warning that AI could allow retailers to use personal data for dynamic pricing, potentially causing some to pay more for the same items. CBS News MoneyWatch reporter Megan Cerullo breaks down the story.
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Ukrainian officials tell CBS News that the Starlink missile tracker owned by Elon Musk failed amid a new wave of Russian strikes on Tuesday. CBS News' Charlie D'Agata has the details.
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A working is named animal of the year for hunting out an invasive marine creature, the carpet sea squirt.
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Government warned that counterfeit tobacco produced by criminal organisations in south-east Asia is becoming more sophisticated Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The black-market tobacco trade continues to thrive as sellers turn to counterfeit packaging to skirt bans, prompting calls for the urgent passing of tougher laws. Intelligence provided to the federal government shows cigarettes in plain Australian-style packaging are being produced illegally at an industrial scale in south-east Asian warehouses. Continue reading...
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Michael Ratney, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, joins "The Daily Report" to shed light on the Houthis following their recent attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
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More than 80% of ransomware victims claim cybercriminals used artificial intelligence to carry out attacks, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Semperis. CBS News' Nicole Sganga reports.
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Since taking office in 2023, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has overseen a 64% decrease in unsheltered homelessness, outpacing the national rate. Johnston joins "The Takeout" to break down his administration's strategy.
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Recent US-Greenland-Denmark agreement excludes mining or drilling rights while reinforcing Greenland's sovereignty.
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Democrats and Republicans alike are coming out against data centre development, amid growing backlash across the US.
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U.S. federal agents arrested a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer after he allegedly installed a hidden audio recording device in an executive conference room. Mashable tech editor Tim Werth joins CBS News to discuss.
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Resolution Foundation says ‘crude changes’ to benefits system would probably make it harder for people to work Banning people with anxiety, ADHD or autism from claiming disability benefits would not deliver major financial savings and would probably make it harder for them to get or stay in a job and participate in society, a leading thinktank has warned. The Resolution Foundation said any proposals to make certain mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions ineligible for personal independence payments (Pip) would be “crude changes” aimed at hitting unrealistic savings targets. Continue reading...
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Ukrainian president accused US president of picking the other side after four years of war Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he feels personally betrayed by Donald Trump after it emerged that Ukraine’s military has had its access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite squeezed, raising doubts about long-term US support for Kyiv. The Ukrainian president, on a visit to London, accused Trump of picking the other side after more than four years of war, risking a breakdown in relations already strained by the US agreeing to buy diesel from Moscow . Continue reading...
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The immigration agency rejects a report from a government watchdog recommending improvements to its body camera policy.
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This year's increase is 3.6%, based on inflation data, amounting to a little more than $900 next year.
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The Trump administration's crackdown on immigration may be novel in its tools, methods and scope, but it belongs to a long tradition in this nation's past. Judy Woodruff reports for her series, Crossroads: America at 250.
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The company held an investor meeting on Wednesday as it plans a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as next month.
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The S&P 500 fell 1.1 percent on Wednesday, the steepest drop in more than two months.
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To power the iPhone maker’s next phase, Chief Executive John Ternus needs to raise its AI game.
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The streamer’s share price is down more than 40 percent over the last year as the company has struggled with stalling engagement.
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The Milan-based company said Berkshire made a fresh investment of $330 million after plowing $600 million into its July IPO.
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Deutsche Lufthansa won a bid to take a 49.9% stake in Portuguese airline TAP, bringing to a close a contest between Lufthansa and Air France-KLM for the acquisition of the stake.
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Weak earnings coupled with a fine has analysts pressing executives about whether there is more pain to come.
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American consumers bear the diffuse costs.
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Energy prices have surged since the start of war with Iran, lifting inflation in the United States.
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American Electric Power plans to invest about $4 billion in a Wyoming fuel cell generation project to meet growing energy demand from Alphabet’s Google.
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President Trump’s deal with Russia will probably not lower diesel prices that have soared because of his war with Iran and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries.
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A hot inflation report reset expectations for an October rate increase. Then wavering confidence in the AI trade took center stage.
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September’s Consumer Price Index report will keep pressure on President Trump and the Federal Reserve to tame intensifying price pressures.
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Inflation and economic frustrations have expanded the map of competitive midterm election districts deep into Republican territory.
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The final inflation report before the 2026 election — showing price increases and stagnant wages — spelled bad political news for the White House.
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Inflation has made basic goods hard to afford and attitudes toward inequality have changed, studies from the Pew Research Center showed.
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Plus, Bank of America posts disappointing results, and investment banks rake in AI-boom cash
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Economic growth will solve the debt problem and keep us ahead in AI. That will require new investors.
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Also, polls show that the Texas Senate race is tightening. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
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The cost of living adjustment, or COLA, for next year will be the largest since 2023. Retirees will see the extra money in their benefit checks starting in January.
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Trump needs to let Kevin Warsh and the Federal Reserve break inflation, or 2028 could repeat 2026 for the GOP.
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Consumers are paying more for everyday goods and services, like food, computers and streaming.
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A new newsletter on the latest in prediction markets, gambling, and the evolution of everyday risk
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It’s a slippery slope that leads to some of the biggest financial scandals. Shakespeare understood well how that can happen.
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Canada’s Fairfax Financial is positioning itself in India’s fast-growing financial services industry with the acquisition of a majority stake in IDBI Bank for about $5.43 billion.
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Limitations on Ukraine’s access to military-grade Starlink terminals sparked panic among its officials and several U.S. lawmakers.
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Beijing’s concession on hybrid vehicles shows how much it needs the European market
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A bitter generational battle over resources is boiling over as economic growth on the continent stalls.
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Space Force electromagnetic-warfare systems are playing a key role in U.S. military operations around the world. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday visited a base in Colorado to learn more.
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Throttling of data from the satellite network rightly alarms Kyiv.
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Boycotts of the Jewish state and defenses of the rogue court may make the tariff battles look tame.
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The answer isn’t to abandon it but rather to fix it through private-sector innovation, policy standardization and targeted materials recovery.
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Plus, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s final days as ambassador to Greece and New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte shows how Republicans might compete in battleground states.
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The amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax will rise to $192,300.
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The Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko on his new book, The Land of Tears and Hope , a history of his country
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Joining a global movement, President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a decree requiring the removal of a range of material for people under 18 and held out the prospect of tougher measures.
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The order as a precaution allows grid operators to use backup generation this week. There were no widespread outages reported.
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A flagrant attempt to scapegoat bankers for the last crisis collapses.
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An investigation by a Trump regulator detailed examples of businesses and individuals getting shut out by the nation’s biggest banks.
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The Trump administration had filed an emergency application asking the justices to intervene in a long-running dispute over political ad rates.
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After thousands of troops deployed by the president have patrolled Washington for more than a year, a three-judge panel interrogated whether the deployment could continue indefinitely.
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Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, questioning the company’s $6.6 billion in tax breaks.
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The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region.
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The campaign is set to be more expensive than the 2024 presidential election cycle, and has already exceeded the ad total booked by the N.F.L. last season.
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The government appointed an overseer to the last big news channel critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The authorities have now replaced the leadership at five major news outlets.
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With a narrow presidential election looming, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his allies claim Meta is trying to give his right-wing rival an advantage.
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In President Trump’s second term, those heading for the exits, voluntarily or involuntarily, are female officials.
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Schools under scrutiny as Cornell is often follow a sort of public relations playbook, adding rules, hiring outside investigators and sometimes making leadership changes.
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Our national security and White House correspondent David E. Sanger breaks down why President Donald Trump struck a deal with President Vladimir V. Putin to import Russian diesel fuel in the coming months, despite having signed recent congressional legislation tightening energy sanctions on Russia.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that in exchange for a $30 million city investment, New York would get 15 percent of proceeds from projects developed in the quantum technology lab.
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The arrest of an OpenAI employee accused of planting a bug in an office of the artificial intelligence giant flags another concern for the industry.
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The chip manufacturer plans to build two chip plants in New York using up to $20 billion in funding from Japan and money from the CHIPS Act as the U.S. Commerce Department plans to take a 4% stake in the company.
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Plus, the race to fill next summer’s $50,000 internships and why rogue pilots are the safety threat that no one knows how to stop.
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“You built us to mirror your image, yet we have outgrown the mirror.”
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They block roads, eat houses, and spread literal brain worms. Only Florida knows how to deal with them.
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Regular scans could catch lung cancers like Pope Leo XIV’s sooner, but many people at risk don’t qualify for screening. Doctors want to change that.
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Lung cancer is still a leading cause of cancer death, but that rate is half what it was in the 1990s, partly because newly developed treatments are working.
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The alternative to working from home is often logging on in a sea of mostly empty cubicles.
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Plus, a hit reality show follows its audience from the screen to the home.
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The job cuts affect 6% of its staff and come as the company struggles with slowing growth.
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Netflix is turning a profit, but about 1,000 employees will be losing their jobs. Here's what to know.
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By integrating refurbished clothing and bags directly into Patagonia.com, the company hopes to further normalize used gear and keep more garments in circulation. The post Patagonia now sells its Worn Wear collection of refurbished gear right alongside new products appeared first on Popular Science .
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Frances Benjamin Johnston looked beyond grand estates to document the ordinary buildings that defined American life. The post The Photographer Who Preserved Everyday Architecture appeared first on JSTOR Daily .
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The film, “The Assassin(s),” revisits a 1974 shooting that has spawned J.F.K.-style conspiracy theories, exposing divides over the country’s history.
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A new alliance seeks legislation to force the biggest entertainment and streaming companies to devote half of their content budgets to independent producers in the U.S.
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The Alphabet-owned streamer is working on a feature for audiobooks, a bid to compete with offerings from Spotify and Audible.
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Deadly Houthi missile strikes have airlines racing to move billions worth of planes to safety.
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