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1,000-year-old manuscript found to have traces of ancient virus DNA preserved in its parchment pages.
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The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.
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Republicans are using the courts to hunt for noncitizen voters. Democrats worry the G.O.P. is trying make it harder for eligible voters to cast ballots — and paving the way to try to toss valid election results.
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Found in 70 percent of cancers, the gene is seen as a grand orchestrator but has been surprisingly difficult to stop.
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Boulder’s climate lawsuit would return the U.S. to the era of the Articles of Confederation.
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Expect stocks outside tech to struggle, earnings to expand more slowly and concern about credit risk to grow.
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The September report eased fears of further rate increases, boosting the Nasdaq to an intraday high.
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In the 17th century, the Dutch invented perpetual bonds. Some are still yielding returns today.
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Agents will sweep idle money into top-paying accounts. That will strain banks’ liquidity.
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The long journey from prison to petitioner was often uncertain.
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The latest hacks reveal a sprawling cybersecurity crisis.
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“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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(Silvia Ma Lu) Could this be the future of solar farming? 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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Magenta solar panels offer a new way for farmers to harvest renewable energy along with their crops. The post Pink light helps broccoli grow appeared first on Popular Science .
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Different genes and migration patterns sparks further debate about these unique whales. The post More evidence emerges that Arabian Sea humpback whales could be their own subspecies appeared first on Popular Science .
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Buckingham Palace say the king will not ‘shy away’ from Britain’s role in slavery when he visits Commonwealth nations later this month King Charles III will acknowledge the “darkest days” of colonial rule and slavery while touring Caribbean countries on a visit beginning this month, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said on Friday. The king will first visit the Bahamas and Guyana alone, followed by a trip with Queen Camilla to Antigua and Barbuda, where Charles will give a speech at a meeting of Commonwealth heads of government, the palace said. Continue reading...
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US says ship thought to be using common ‘dark fleet’ tactics was boarded and taken to Mexico as embargo continues The US Coast ⁠Guard has announced that it intercepted a large cargo ship carrying fuel bound for Cuba , as the ⁠Trump administration’s crippling ⁠oil embargo against ​the island nation continued. The vessel named Grace was stopped on 5 September in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba ⁠and Mexico while using tactics to evade authorities, the Coast Guard said. The New York Times reported that the ship ⁠was 91 metres (300ft) long. Continue reading...
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AI is changing many of the tasks traditionally handled by entry-level workers. Tech executive Clara Shih discusses what that could mean for the next generation of employees Sunday on 60 Minutes.
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President Trump continued his extended midterm campaign in support of fellow Republicans on Friday with a stop in deep-red Mobile, Alabama. Weijia Jiang has the details.
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In-depth study also says the royal house made huge profits from Dutch colonial policies in past centuries.
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The race for control of the Senate is changing in the final weeks before the midterms, with the GOP defending several traditionally red-leaning states.
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Democrat Troy Jackson has pulled into a tie with Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine's battle for U.S. Senate. Zachary Donnini, head of data science at VoteHub, joins "The Takeout" to discuss.
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Plan to install barriers through popular national park sparked outrage from advocates and politicians alike A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from expanding the border wall and other security infrastructure across the Big Bend region of west Texas, where contentious plans to build roads and vehicle barriers through a popular national park have led to furious backlash and public protests. US district judge Kathleen Cardone’s ruling after a Friday hearing in El Paso deals a major blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to expand the border wall through west Texas at breakneck pace, while riding roughshod over the objections of local business owners, landowners, public land advocates and politicians from both parties. Continue reading...
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The last jobs report before the 2026 midterms was underwhelming, with some unhappy revisions to previous upbeat reports. CBS News' Kelly O'Grady reports.
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A third U.S. aircraft carrier is heading to the Middle East along with thousands of troops. CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan reports and Matt Kroenig, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, joins to discuss the war.
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A federal court in Texas on Friday issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend region, in a victory for opponents who have pushed back against what has long been a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump.
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In a possible blow to the Trump administration's efforts to charge noncitizens with voting, a judge has dismissed a case against a Jamaican national accused of illegally voting, finding the law she was charged under is unconstitutional.
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This week brought a flurry of announcements from the Trump White House desperate to alter savagely sour assessment of the economy and the president's performance. Major Garrett breaks it all down.
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Spending for this year's midterms is accelerating as we get closer to Election Day. Political correspondent Lisa Desjardins makes sense of the billions spent to influence who controls Congress next year.
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Kevin Warsh’s predecessor had been investigated over cost overruns related to central bank renovation project The US ⁠justice department is not reopening a criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell ⁠for cost overruns ⁠related ​to the central bank’s building renovation project, a department spokesperson said on Friday. Attorney general Todd ⁠Blanche – in comments to Bloomberg News , which first reported the development – said he has not ruled out ⁠continuing to look into the project’s oversight and potentially take ​action if evidence of ‌wrongdoing came to ‌light. Continue reading...
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David Brooks of The Atlantic and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston Globe join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump hitting the campaign trail in a string of reliably Republican states, GOP vulnerabilities heading into the midterms and the administration's strategy on artificial intelligence.
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BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking.
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Mandatory cuts from the federal government on water from the Colorado River will soon take effect in Arizona, Nevada, and California. Now, some water managers in the region are spending billions to prepare for a drier future. Special correspondent Ben Tracy with Climate Central reports for our series, Tipping Point.
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The justice and treasury departments said they sent $2m to Hamas through charities and cryptocurrency, while six people were arrested across the US and France The Trump administration on Friday unveiled sanctions against three individuals allegedly related to the Islamist militant group Hamas and against two charities based in France while also announcing six arrests – actions that the government called an “extraordinary counter-terrorism work” to expose “a sophisticated, multi‑year financing architecture”. Investigators alleged that the network moved more than $2m to Hamas “through deceptive charitable fronts and cryptocurrency channels”. Continue reading...
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Unions say proposed changes to Canada's labour laws could weaken workers’ right to strike.
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Utah's Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy will face off in a debate Friday against Democratic candidate Kent Udell as voters consider whom to send to the U.S. House.
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After an impressive 3-0 victory over Ukraine in the Nations League, Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill was impressed with his young side.
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When the U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday, the justices will kick off a new term featuring cases on climate change, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty.
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Democratic lawmakers, veterans and concerned citizens gathered in Memorial Circle to protest the arch Trump wants to build there. Their hopes lie primarily in a lawsuit and next month's midterms.
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The internal investigation into the alleged gang rape at Cornell University in 2024 involved a Title IX investigation. Susanna Murphy, director of investigations for Title IX Solutions, joins CBS News to discuss how those probes work.
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The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Hamid Rasaei, a vocal opponent of a diplomatic deal with the United States to end the war, was convicted of publishing false information with the intent to harm the Parliament speaker.
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A diplomatic agreement can’t bring real peace with a regime that has a long history of terrorism.
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Commanders told to grant a one-day ‘stand down’ so their personnel can vote no later than Oct. 15
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Also, U.S. hiring slowed down. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Letitia James, the attorney general, to investigate the original allegations and why a police report omitted crucial information.
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As a special prosecutor, Ms. James has wide powers over the handling of the investigation, but legal experts say the case comes with potential obstacles.
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Hispanic voters are souring on Republicans. Here’s why.
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Prosecutors have long considered the defendants’ admissions during interrogations in 2007 to be their best evidence.
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Hundreds were detained in New Delhi as demonstrators expressed anger over the removal of 130 million people from the rolls. The government denies accusations of “vote theft.”
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The Justice Department is trawling to find perpetrators on whom to pin conspiracies. Ordinary citizens are being ensnared.
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Earl Caldwell was staying at the Memphis hotel where the civil rights leader was killed.
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While the missile fired on Thursday has a limited range, Kyiv is developing a larger weapon that could strike Moscow.
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It’s right to seek faster growth.
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President Trump weighed in on the case when asked about Ms. James, who has become a target of his second-term retribution campaign.
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When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.
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The lawsuit is the 97th the state has filed against the Trump administration over the past year and a half.
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Health screenings and criminal background checks may go only so far in identifying pilots who have become radicalized or try to hide their mental health issues, experts said.
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A lawsuit accuses regulators of giving risky crypto companies access to the banking system without the same oversight as banks.
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The discovery adds strong evidence that the outbreak that sickened thousands over the summer originated in a grower’s field or processing facility.
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The government had proposed more protections for tenants after outrage at the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid.
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Campus speech is free as long as it aligns with the administration’s and faculty’s mostly progressive views.
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A report on the fires that devastated the Los Angeles area in early 2025 recommended that local governments take a broader approach to preparedness and emergency response.
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Ranchers led by Ted Turner revived a bison population government had done little to save.
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Hunting them first can help curb the invasive species. The post Adult female pythons cause the most trouble in Florida appeared first on Popular Science .
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Economies in Latin America and Europe rely on American diesel. Stopping exports could tip some countries into recession, hurting trade with the United States.
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U.S. stocks ended the week on an upswing after slowing jobs growth tempered expectations that the Federal Reserve will hike rates again later this month.
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The odds of an interest rate change at the Federal Reserve’s meeting in late October have dropped following a softer jobs report and strong signaling from bank officials.
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Economists had taken a recent drop in Black unemployment as a hopeful sign that job gains were lifting a broad share of workers.
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The economy added fewer jobs in September and unemployment ticked up, while inflation has maintained pressure on markets and raised costs.
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The labor force grew by 485,000, and most of those found work.
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Anemic hiring fell far short of expectations with 29,000 jobs added last month, but the unemployment rate remains near historic lows.
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Consumer prices were 3.8% higher in September than the same month of last year, up from 3.2% in August.
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We have found it easy to keep rising prices from ruining our retirement. A big part of it: We aren’t in such a rush.
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The loans tide borrowers over until their next paycheck. The apps offer no-cost options, but most users end up paying high fees, a report finds.
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Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have blocked shipments from regions that normally supply almost a third of the world’s diesel exports.
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The Group of 7, which includes Britain, France and Japan, announced the release of 100 million barrels over four months, effective immediately.
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Sales of big pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles have dipped as more Americans buy hybrids and smaller cars.
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The announcement would seem to end the threat of a U.S. ban on diesel exports, at least for now.
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A growing cadre of English distillers have won protected status for their liquor. But Scotch producers fear that they’ll lose prestige.
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Natural gas futures settled up 2.3% to $3.0350 per million British thermal units, bouncing off of contract lows it previously found in early-August.
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The IPO is set to become one of the Philippine Stock Exchange’s largest ever listings.
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Chinese electric-vehicle makers recorded subdued September sales growth that pointed to slowing demand in the world’s largest auto market, sending shares lower in Hong Kong.
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Cheap labor and global supply chains are among the obstacles to President Trump’s plan to bring generic drug manufacturing back home.
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Mavis, Midas and Pep Boys are on a tear across the country as the average car is a historic 13 years old and more complex than ever
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The billionaire has been railing against Delta CEO Ed Bastian because the airline went with Amazon’s in-flight internet service.
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The German company, which said its new site in Ohio will create around 600 jobs, is the latest European drugmaker to invest in the U.S.
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The Times’s technology reporter Kate Conger joins host Natalie Kitroeff on “The Call” to watch the launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying a Google satellite designed to test space-based A.I. data centers.
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No sailing experience required. The post 76,000 lighthouses shine in interactive atlas appeared first on Popular Science .
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The program called Lean was built to detect bugs in Microsoft’s products. It ended up revolutionizing mathematics.
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Douglas Smith’s The City Without Jews revisits the decimation of a robust community—and the city that betrayed it.
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All sea arches must come to an end. The post Hawaii’s 550-year-old Hōlei Sea Arch collapses into the ocean appeared first on Popular Science .
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In the Ice Age, humans competed with cave lions and bears over everything from food to sleeping space.
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The director of national intelligence will help develop new policies, and potentially regulations, for the rapidly evolving technology.
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Plus, the Justice Department considers whether Watergate prosecutors mistreated Richard Nixon, and the U.S. is sending a third aircraft-carrier group to the Middle East.
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Filipino komiks have long drawn on mythology to create larger-than-life champions for ordinary people. The post The Folk Stories Behind the Philippines’ Superheroes appeared first on JSTOR Daily .
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Also, should you really be using an electronic sleep tracker? The post What’s the best sleep position? It depends. appeared first on Popular Science .
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The world’s tallest wind turbine, in Germany; scenes from Moscow Fashion Week; a procession of judges in London; yodeling in an underground garage in Austria; and much more
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A master of 1940s sci-fi schlock had a plan, and it’s working. He wanted to prepare us for the future.
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Her condition raises questions about whether Tennessee could attempt to execute her again if she is incapable of understanding what is happening.
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The modern right has a theory of beauty. Does the left?
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A diamond-hunting enthusiast who moved to Arkansas just to be closer to the nation’s only public diamond mine has finally found his big rock.
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'Deeply loved and forever missed.' The post Jackie tribute video celebrates bald eagle’s wonderous life appeared first on Popular Science .
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