U.S. Research Focus in the Arctic Shifts: Less Climate, More Security
The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region.
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Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize
The human brain is one of the most complex objects to have ever existed Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Science books, especially those written by scientists, sometimes have the reputation of being dry, dull and difficult. Perhaps they are thought of as thinly disguised textbooks, something to learn from in a structured way. The books on the…
SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS SENTENCED TO 50 MONTHS IN PRISON, TELLS HIS KIDS ‘I’M SORRY’
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sentenced to just over four years in prison on prostitution-related charges. Judge Arun Subramanian handed down the 50-month sentence on Friday as several of Combs’ family members were seen in tears as the ruling was read. Combs stayed quiet through most of the hearing. He kept his eyes down while…
Sources: Naveen Rao’s new AI hardware startup targets $5B valuation with backing from a16z
Naveen Rao, who was formerly the head of artificial intelligence at Databricks, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation for a new startup called Unconventional, Inc., that’s building a new type of computer, according to four people familiar with discussions. Andreessen Horowitz has agreed to lead the investment, and Lightspeed…
Trump Administration Is Said to Plan to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low
Many of the slots would go to white South Africans and others facing “unjust discrimination,” according to people familiar with the matter and documents obtained by The New York Times.
The Life of a Showgirl: Taylor Swift and Baby Spice gush over each other’s music in radio interview
Taylor Swift has praised Spice Girl Emma Bunton in a radio interview to promote her new album The Life of a Showgirl. The pop powerhouse sat side-by-side in the Heart Breakfast show, hosted by Jamie Theakston and Baby Spice herself, Emma Bunton. Swift and Bunton gushed over each other, with Swift telling Bunton The Spice…
Oregon’s National Guard lawsuit hinges on Trump’s Truth Social posts
After getting off the phone with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Saturday, the president mused over something that had baffled him about the call. Kotek had been “very nice,” said Trump in an interview the next day. But she was trying hard to convince him not to send in the National Guard, and that just…
‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies | Basketball
When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his apartment complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn’s disease had arrived. It had – but so too had 10 undercover police officers. A video…
Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
The coin, bearing President Trump’s face, would honor the 250th birthday of the United States.
French Photojournalist Killed in Drone Attack in Ukraine
Antoni Lallican, a Paris-based photographer, is the first working journalist to be killed by a remotely piloted drone during the war, according to press associations.