28 Aug 2025, 11:31 pm
We know the First Amendment protects hate speech. But has it always done so? And how have civil rights groups responded when their members are the target of hate speech? University of Iowa Law Professor Samantha Barbas is the author of a new law...
28 Aug 2025, 11:31 pm
CISO Tammy Klotz Discusses the Value of Peer Support in Advance of ManuSec 2025Manufacturers face many challenges in securing OT and IT systems, from legacy technology to managing vulnerabilities. Tammy Klotz, CISO at Trinseo and last year's ManuSec Summit event chair, discusses the value of sharing firsthand insights with a cybersecurity community.
28 Aug 2025, 11:31 pm
Oslo University Hospital CSO Torkel Thune on Nordic Threat LandscapeTorkel Thune, head of the department for architecture, operational IT security and chief security officer at Oslo University Hospital, discusses how global shifts are affecting cybersecurity for the Nordic region, and how healthcare is especially vulnerable.
28 Aug 2025, 11:13 pm
The Department of Homeland Security says it is waiving more environmental regulations and health rules in order to quickly build more border wall through wildlife refuges in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday announced she has waived regulations to build five miles of new border wall in Starr and Hidalgo counties. Environmentalists says this includes several sections of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wi…
28 Aug 2025, 11:12 pm
Former Major League Baseball player Mark Teixeira announced Thursday he plans to run for an open U.S. House seat representing a district in Texas encompassing parts of Austin and San Antonio.
28 Aug 2025, 11:02 pm
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28 Aug 2025, 11:00 pm
A 17-year-old Louisiana girl who was shot in the head during a road rage incident has died, officials confirmed, but with her death came the gift of life.Katelynn Strate of Ponchatoula was 28 weeks pregnant when Barry West, 54, allegedly critically injured the teenager who was 7 months pregnant.Strate’s baby was delivered via emergency C-section and TPSO say the baby was born at 28 weeks, 3 pounds 11 ounces and is "continuing to do well" in an area neonatal intens…
28 Aug 2025, 11:00 pm
Latest Stories Freezing The Climate Crisis Hysteria Folks across the eastern half of the U.S. have been wearing quarter zips, sweatshirts, and hoodies at night, with some even sparking up fireplaces and/or bonfires as the summer winds down, thanks to unseasonably cool air. In some areas across the Lower 48 - mostly the eastern half - temperatures have been "record-breaking cold" and the coldest in a generation for some zip codes. Headlines That P…
28 Aug 2025, 10:47 pm
A hiking team found the body of a Minnesota hiker who had been missing for more than a month in Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming officials said Thursday.
28 Aug 2025, 10:46 pm
Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash, CC BYAustralia’s workforce is almost evenly split between men and women. Yet fewer than one in four Australians work in a gender-balanced occupation. This has improved over time, but at a glacial rate. In 1990, more than half of men (52%) worked in occupations that were more than 80% male. Thirty-five years on, that figure has only declined to 41% of men. Meanwhile, the share of women in female-dominated occupations (which are more tha…
28 Aug 2025, 10:38 pm
A shopkeeper was forced to jump into action after a mystery "firebomber" torched an SUV outside his corner shop over a suspected parking row.Girish Jeeva was inside his store in Barmulloch, Glasgow, with colleagues when he noticed a hooded man pouring fuel over a Porsche which was parked outside.Just after the last customer had left the store on Wednesday night, the man then ignited the liquid before fleeing the scene. Mr Jeeva quickly jumped to action to try to ext…
28 Aug 2025, 10:35 pm
Soros-Funded Dark Money Group Secretly Paying Democrat Influencers To Shape Gen Z Politics Submitted by Jason Curtis Anderson of One City Rising, When Taylor Lorenz breaks a story on Democrat dark money, you know something strange is happening. Lorenz, who has made a career as the poster child for progressive social media culture, finally turned her reporting lens onto her own side. And what she uncovered in Wired is pretty dark: a secret program b…
28 Aug 2025, 10:34 pm
The Citizens Budget Commission (CBC), a nonpartisan think tank, argued that millionaires are crucial to funding New York City’s critical services and the city should work to retain them. “Millionaires are critical to New York’s tax base. In 2012, they comprised less than 1 percent of New York State’s and New York City’s resident filers,……
28 Aug 2025, 10:28 pm
President Donald Trump is fundraising off of checks from the government that he's unlikely to send.
28 Aug 2025, 10:23 pm
Emilie Kiser broke her three-month-long silence on the death of her 3-year-old son, Trigg, who drowned in the family pool at her Arizona home in May.Kiser, a 26-year-old TikTok creator with millions of followers, issued her first emotional statement on social media on Thursday, describing her grief as "impossible to put into words."The case has drawn national attention given Kiser’s public platform as a "mom influencer" with more than 4 million TikTok followers.Ki…
28 Aug 2025, 10:21 pm
A 3rd Property!? Pulte Drops New Criminal Referral On Lisa Cook As Mortgage Scandal Widens (Update: 2215ET): A third property? On Thursday night, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte dropped a second criminal referral against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook based on evidence that she entered into a 15-year mortgage on a third property which she listed as her "Second Home." On an ethics form signed with the governmen…
28 Aug 2025, 10:20 pm
Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been selected by the White House to serve as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decision comes after President Donald Trump removed former CDC Director Susan Monarez following a clash with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy. Kennedy accused Monarez of getting in the way of the president's plans. Monare…
28 Aug 2025, 10:02 pm
Getty ImagesFrom images of fruit to claims of being “sugar-free”, manufacturers of baby and toddler foods try to convince parents their products are a healthy choice, convenient and good for their child’s development. But as our new research shows, many are not. We studied the packaging of 210 foods for infants and toddlers found in New Zealand supermarkets. Every package featured claims, and many showed images of fruit and vegetables, which didn’t refle…
28 Aug 2025, 10:02 pm
Amtrak's new 160 mph tilting Acela trains have debuted on the Northeast Corridor, offering smoother rides, upgraded interiors, faster Wi-Fi, and 27% more seating capacity. However, "they don't complete the journey any faster than the old trains," reports The Independent. From the report: Acela runs from Washington, DC's Union Station to Boston via Philadelphia, New York Penn Station, New Haven, and Providence. It's a total distance of 457 miles, with the fastest nex…
28 Aug 2025, 10:00 pm
A Tefifon cartridge installed for playback. (Credit: Our Own Devices, YouTube) Recently the [Our Own Devices] YouTube channel took a gander at the Tefifon audio format. This was an audio format that competed with shellac and vinyl records from the 1930s to the 1960s, when the company behind it went under. Some people may already know Tefifon as [Matt] from Techmoan has covered it multiple times, starting with a similar machine about ten years ago, all the way up to…
28 Aug 2025, 9:59 pm
Vladimir Putin's "deliberate" missile attack on a British Council building in Ukraine only narrowly avoided killing its staff.Two missiles were fired into the building in Kyiv, roughly 20 seconds apart.The building, which recruits Britons to teach there, was set to open just a few hours after the attacks, the first of which occurred at 5.40am, with the second following just moments later.Alongside the offices, hypersonic missiles and 629 drones hit other places acro…
28 Aug 2025, 9:45 pm
California Faces High Pump Prices As Phillips 66 Shuts LA Refinery By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com Phillips 66 will begin shutting down its 139,000 bpd Los Angeles-area refinery as soon as next week, sources told Reuters, moving forward on a closure plan announced last year. Units at the plant will idle in phases through Q4 2025, with the facility permanently offline by year-end. The decision isn’t a surprise—Phillips 66 said in October it wo…
28 Aug 2025, 9:43 pm
A fierce row has erupted after Democrats said it was pointless for those grieving to offer thoughts and prayers to the victims of the Minneapolis shooting. After a transgender gunman murdered two and injured 18 after opening fire on children attending a start-of-term Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday, messages of support poured in from political leaders. The Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, delivered a press conference in t…
28 Aug 2025, 9:39 pm
Two brothers filming a protest over the war in Gaza outside an Egyptian diplomatic building in Manhattan on Aug. 20 have been arrested and charged with felony assault and strangulation. However, according to video footage by an Egyptian activist that The Associated Press acquired, Egyptian government personnel dragged the two brothers off the street and into the building, where they were thrown to the ground. Yasin El Sammak, 22, said once inside the building, th…
28 Aug 2025, 9:35 pm
Florida taxpayers could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz.” The center may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely.
28 Aug 2025, 9:34 pm
A top Florida official said the state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will likely be empty within a few days after all detainees are deported or transferred to other facilities, according to an email shared with the Associated Press. “We are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days,” Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie wrote in an Aug. 22 email to South Florida Rab…
28 Aug 2025, 9:31 pm
Chickenpox vaccinations for children and frustration over the chancellor's tax policies lead Friday's papers.
28 Aug 2025, 9:31 pm
The state of Florida is committed to $245 million toward the construction of "Alligator Alcatraz," the Everglades immigration detention facility which is due to close in days. An email obtained by The Associated Press Wednesday from Kevin Guthrie, head of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, indicates the facility will likely soon be empty, after a federal judge ruled it must cease to operate. Newsweek contacted Governor DeSantis's office and the Depa…
28 Aug 2025, 9:30 pm
by Tim Golden ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. More than two decades after victims of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the govern…
28 Aug 2025, 9:25 pm
Today, Microsoft unveiled two in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system now live in Copilot, and MAI-1-Preview, its first end-to-end foundation model trained on 15,000 H100 GPUs. Neowin reports: MAI-Voice-1 is a speech generation model and is already available in Copilot Daily and Podcasts. To preview the full capabilities of this voice model, Microsoft has created a new Copilot Labs experience that anyone can try today. With the Copilot…
28 Aug 2025, 9:20 pm
Under 25 And Earning $1 Million: The New AI Job Market The job market for new graduates is sluggish. In June, unemployment for recent college grads was 4.8%, compared with 4% for all workers, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. But there’s one big exception: AI talent. Young professionals in their early 20s with machine-learning skills are commanding extraordinary pay. Some are earning $1 million a year, according to the Wall Street Jo…
28 Aug 2025, 9:13 pm
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced Thursday it would no longer be printing paper editions of the newspaper and will instead focus only on its digital product, which is expected to see double-digit growth this yea…
28 Aug 2025, 9:11 pm
The father of a victim of the Minneapolis shooting has branded the transgender gunman who took the life of his 8-year-old son a "coward". Fletcher Merkel and a 10-year-old pupil were murdered after Robin Westman, 23, opened fire through stained-glass windows during school Mass at the Annunciation Church, also home to a Catholic school, on Wednesday.Eighteen others, primarily students aged between six and 15 years old, were injured by the transgender killer during th…
28 Aug 2025, 9:09 pm
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28 Aug 2025, 9:06 pm
The Department of Education is threatening sanctions against Denver public schools over their use of all-gender restrooms, the latest Trump administration action against gender-related accommodations. According to a Thursday release from the Education Department, its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) “found that Denver Public Schools (the District) violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of……
28 Aug 2025, 9:00 pm
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – The military government ruling Myanmar designated a significant ethnic rebel group as a terrorist organization on Thursday, just months before December’s planned elections. It may seem like just another headline in a far away land but the move to quell the Karen National Union (KNU) is a sign of what’s at stake in Myanmar, and how what’s happening there is shaping regional dynamics.The country’s long-simmering civil war exploded af…
28 Aug 2025, 9:00 pm
"It's an invasion," Dinah Bentley tells me, standing next to a cardboard cut-out of Nigel Farage.
28 Aug 2025, 8:55 pm
China Rejects Trump's Proposal For Nuclear Disarmament Talks With US, Russia Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, China has poured cold water on President Donald Trump’s suggestion that it join the United States and Russia in talks to downsize their nuclear arsenals, dismissing the idea as unrealistic. The Chinese regime rejected the proposal on Aug. 27, two days after Trump told reporters that Washington and Moscow were discussing ways to re…
28 Aug 2025, 8:45 pm
The outgoing chief of Merseyside Police has laid into accusations of "two-tier policing" and has demanded more investment into DEI ahead of her retirement. Speaking before she steps down at the end of the month, Serena Kennedy slated claims of a two-tier policing system as "absolute rubbish".Merseyside's first female Chief Constable also detailed the "horrific" abuse which she received after the Southport attacks last summer. Ms Kennedy said: "Thousands and thousa…
28 Aug 2025, 8:45 pm
Microsoft is testing new Xbox Game Pass features with Insiders, letting Core and Standard subscribers stream cloud-enabled titles they own or access via subscription across more devices, including supported TVs and browsers. These tiers will also gain access to select PC game versions for the first time. From a Xbox blog post: We're always exploring more ways to make your Xbox experience centered around you -- your content, benefits, and playstyle. That's why we're…
28 Aug 2025, 8:39 pm
The mother of the shooter who opened fire on a Minneapolis Catholic church Mass Wednesday is not cooperating with investigators as they try to determine what led to the tragic events that left two children dead and 18 others injured, including 15 children.Fox News learned the shooter’s mother, Mary Grace Westman, has retained criminal defense attorney Ryan Garry.When asked why the mother obtained a criminal attorney, Garry told Fox, "She is completely distraught a…
28 Aug 2025, 8:30 pm
Oklahoma Introduces Certification Test To Weed Out Far-Left Teachers The speed at which progressive indoctrination was introduced into the US public school system was a disturbing reminder of the fragility of western education. The process has been ongoing for many years, primarily in universities, but the real leftist blitz on grades K-12 started around ten years ago when a quiet conspiracy of LGBT and CRT indoctrination was implemented by teachers u…
28 Aug 2025, 8:25 pm
New footage has revealed that two more strikes were carried out on hospital by Israel than initially reported.
28 Aug 2025, 8:12 pm
What are journalists missing from the state of Delaware? What would you most like WHYY News to cover? Let us know. Turmoil continues over New Castle County’s once-in-40-years property reassessments, as council members reject ordering an audit of the process and Delaware state lawmakers announce hearings on the issue. State House and Senate Democrats laid out a schedule Wednesday of public hearings on the property reassessment process that took place in all three c…
28 Aug 2025, 8:10 pm
Scientists are decoding the DNA of Britain’s ancient oaks to crack the secrets of their superpowers.
28 Aug 2025, 8:05 pm
AI Is Being Weaponized For Cybercrime In 'Unprecedented' Ways, Researchers Warn Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Artificial intelligence (AI) is being weaponized to conduct increasingly sophisticated cybercrimes, according to a new report from Anthropic, which warns of an “unprecedented” evolution in malicious operations that makes defense far more difficult. In its Aug. 27 Threat Intelligence Report, the AI safety company described h…
28 Aug 2025, 8:02 pm
The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.
28 Aug 2025, 8:02 pm
Stellantis has put its fully developed Level 3 driver-assistance system on hold due to high costs, technical hurdles, and weak consumer demand. Reuters reports: As recently as February, Stellantis said its in-house system, which is part of the AutoDrive program, was ready for deployment and a key pillar of its strategy. The company said the system, which enables drivers to have their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road under certain conditions, would allow the…
28 Aug 2025, 8:01 pm
Cody Balmer, charged with attempted murder and terrrorism in the firebombing of Gov. Josh Shapiro's official residence Sunday, is escorted from his first court appearance Monday, April 14, 2025. (Ian Karbal/Capital-Star)The preliminary hearing for the man accused of firebombing the Governor’s Residence in April is being waived. That means the case will move on to arraignment in Dauphin County Court, though nothing is scheduled yet. Cody Balmer, 38, pleaded not gui…
28 Aug 2025, 8:01 pm
All young children in England and Wales will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January 2026.
28 Aug 2025, 8:00 pm
Quilt is a macOS app that helps you turn anything on your screen into a clean, searchable PDF. Whether you're reading an eBook, flipping through slides, or reviewing a textbook, you can capture it all with just a few key presses or mouse clicks. Quilt takes screenshots for you at set intervals and even interacts with the app by pressing keys or clicking, so you don't have to. You get full control over what and how you capture. Set countdowns, choose specific areas,…
28 Aug 2025, 8:00 pm
Fun, flirty, and irresistible texts to drive him wild Trying to turn him on over text? We’ve got you covered! Sending a seductive message is the best way to get your man in the mood and make him even crazier about you. In this article, we’re providing an extensive list of spicy messages you can copy and paste to keep things exciting. We also interviewed dating and relationship coach Julianne Cantarella for tips on how to be even flirtier over text. Steps Cute…
28 Aug 2025, 7:59 pm
Banners & Bastions brings its mixed reality strategy game to Quest today in an early access release. Read on for my initial impressions.Banners & Bastions from Not Suspicious knows exactly what it is and nails the feel of a short-form strategy experience. Developed by the same team that brought us Airspace Defender and Tablecraft, you can feel the inspiration from those earlier titles right away.If you’ve previously played Airspace Defender, the domed world concep…
28 Aug 2025, 7:59 pm
Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official.……
28 Aug 2025, 7:59 pm
upstart writes:Microsoft's Windows 95 release was 30 years ago today, the first time software was a pop culture smash:Microsoft's momentous Windows 95 operating system became available to the public on this day [August 24] 30 years ago. Computing enthusiasts were queuing around the block at midnight launch events. Perhaps this was the first time an OS launch became a cultural event – one that was carefully primed by the launch a month earlier, and the Start Me Up…
28 Aug 2025, 7:58 pm
The family of one of the two children who were killed in the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting on Wednesday said the shooter took away a kid who loved his family, friends and “any sport that he was allowed to play,” according to CBS Minnesota. Law enforcement have not released the identities of the students killed or injured. “Yesterday, a coward decided to take our 8-year-old son, Fletcher, away from us,” Jesse Merkel told a crowd Thursday. “Becaus…
28 Aug 2025, 7:50 pm
Today in one sentence: Three senior CDC leaders resigned after the White House fired Director Susan Monarez less than a month into her tenure; the White House named Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s top deputy, Jim O’Neill, as acting director of the CDC; Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked the clearance of a senior CIA Russia expert days after Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska; Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued Trump to block what s…
28 Aug 2025, 7:48 pm
The White House chose Jim O'Neill, a close ally of top health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Thursday to serve as acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to sources in multip…
28 Aug 2025, 7:48 pm
The government relied on a report by a lobbyist group that now says reorganisation could make no savings.
28 Aug 2025, 7:45 pm
The Interior Department has expanded hunting and fishing access at 16 units in 11 states, while opening more than 87,000 acres for hunting and fishing.
28 Aug 2025, 7:45 pm
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation. The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
28 Aug 2025, 7:44 pm
Protesters gathered outside The Bell Hotel in Epping once again today following the launch Home Office's High Court bid to keep it open.Police were seen forming a line in a attempt to block demonstrators getting closer to the building - while chants of "send them back" and "go home" could be heard in footage of Thursday's clashes.The Bell, which houses up to 138 asylum seekers, became a target for fury after news emerged that an Ethiopian migrant housed being there,…
28 Aug 2025, 7:43 pm
A Fine Wine & Good Spirits state store in Harrisburg (Capital-Star photo).Restaurateurs, oenophiles and others who ordered wine and liquor not available in the commonwealth’s state liquor stores, are closer to potentially clawing back tens of millions of dollars in handling fees from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB). The latest in a string of court losses clears the way for a class action lawsuit against the state’s only wine and spirits retailer.
28 Aug 2025, 7:40 pm
The overnight attacks destroyed a block of flats and also caused damage to the EU's delegation offices.
28 Aug 2025, 7:40 pm
Xi, Putin, Kim Will Oversee Chinese Military Parade In Landmark Meeting Next Week China is set to host both Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing next week in an unprecedented landmark visit. This will be Kim's first multilateral international meeting, and the leaders will gather with President Xi Jinping to observe a military parade marking China's "Victory Day" for the the 80th anniversary of Japan's surren…
28 Aug 2025, 7:33 pm
AI Giants Evaluated Each Other's Newer Models for Safety RisksOpenAI and Anthropic evaluated each other's AI models in the summer, testing for concerning behaviors that could indicate misalignment risks. Both companies released their findings simultaneously: no model was severely problematic, but all showed plenty of troubling behavior in testing scenarios.
28 Aug 2025, 7:33 pm
Buying Spanish Startup Brings Real-Time Data Pipeline Tech to Boost SOC EfficiencyCrowdStrike announced plans to acquire Spanish startup Onum Technology for $290 million. The move brings advanced data pipeline tools into its Falcon platform, speeding up threat detection and consolidating SOC workflows for customers leaving legacy SIEMs.
28 Aug 2025, 7:31 pm
Critics fear a new law in Texas will prove discriminatory - but officials say it is vital to combat "adversaries".
28 Aug 2025, 7:31 pm
They use AI more but also check it more For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than twice as likely to do it.……
28 Aug 2025, 7:30 pm
Related video: The White House’s Peter Navarro discusses the Federal Reserve “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary on Thursday warned President Trump against setting interest rates after the president threatened to replace the Federal Reserve chair for refusing to lower rates. “The reason we don’t have hyperinflation like Venezuela is we have a Fed. If you……
28 Aug 2025, 7:21 pm
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28 Aug 2025, 7:21 pm
Traditionally, new construction homes cost more than existing homes. However, those prices inverted in 2024 and have lasted through the first half of 2025. In July 2025, the median price for existing home sales was $422,400, according to data from the National Association of Realtors. Meanwhile, the median sale price for new homes sold in July of this year was $403,800, according to the federal government — a more than $18,000 difference. Straight Arrow Ne…
28 Aug 2025, 7:20 pm
FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan -- and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition. From a report: At the start of the week, the FFmpeg project released its eighth major version. It's codenamed "Huffman" after the Huffman code algorithm, which was invented in 1952, making it one of the oldest lossless compression algorithms. [...] The changelog lists 30 significant changes, of which the top new feature…
28 Aug 2025, 7:15 pm
Video of a wild bust-up on an American Airlines flight shows two men battling it out in the aisle after one allegedly grabbed a woman's neck while passengers disembarked.The video, obtained by TMZ, caught the confrontation on American Airlines Flight 2249 as the plane arrived in Miami Monday.In the clip, a man appears to aggressively grab a woman in the aisle of the plane and push her back before another male passenger rushes forward to intervene.A "safety alert" an…
28 Aug 2025, 7:05 pm
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Uber is offering free rides to Philadelphia seniors in response to SEPTA service cuts. The initiative, called the Uber Senior Ride Program, comes as Philly leaders warn of extra commute times after SEPTA slashed service by 20% earlier this week. The partnership between ACHIEVEability and the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC) aims to help s…
28 Aug 2025, 7:05 pm
United States President Donald Trump first signalled his intention to target the Smithsonian Institution in March, when he signed an executive order titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. This executive order – one of several targeting the cultural sector – vowed to remove “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology”. It was quickly followed by an article from the White House titled President Trump is Right about the Smithsonian, with mor…
28 Aug 2025, 7:05 pm
In sports such as wrestling, boxing, rowing, weight lifting and the martial arts, athletes are grouped by weight to make things fairer. It wouldn’t make sense for someone who weighs 60 kilograms to fight someone who weighs 100kg, because the bigger person usually has more power. That’s why weight divisions exist, so the result depends more on skill than just size and strength. While some endurance events incorporate weight divisions, they rarely feature in…
28 Aug 2025, 7:03 pm
Scotland in 2025: a fearless young warrior queen known only as “Sophie of Dundee” is facing down hordes of Islamic immigrants ravaging her once noble city. Spurred into action by the failures of elites to deal with rampaging grooming gangs and asylum-seeking rapists, the tiny but indomitable Celtic maiden staunchly vows to make her swinish aggressors bow before her, or else feel the punitive sting of cold steel. This, more or less, was a popular US take on a vir…
28 Aug 2025, 7:02 pm
“For years,” Mario Draghi proclaimed last week, “the European Union believed that its economic dimension, with 450 million consumers, brought with it geopolitical power and influence in international trade relations.” But this year, he said, would be remembered for when that illusion evaporated. As the former European Central Bank president and erstwhile Italian premier explained, the EU has been pressured by the United States into accepting damaging tariffs…
28 Aug 2025, 7:01 pm
“Kelly” joined the Metropolitan Police in 1984. As a young constable, she recalls working nights with an officer who was openly regarded as “a known pervert”. His antics were seen as amusingly eccentric, rather than downright sinister. “We’d sit in our panda car,” Kelly tells me, “and announce it was time to change gear. I’d look down, and his erect dick would be out of his trousers. Of course, he expected me to touch it.” When I asked her how sh…
28 Aug 2025, 7:01 pm
Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks are bringing festive magic to London Stansted with their brand new route to Kraków this winter. The twice-weekly service kicks off on November 27 and runs through to December 21, 2025, perfect timing for Christmas market enthusiasts. Flights will depart every Thursday and Sunday, making it ideal for those wanting a long weekend break in the Polish city. It's the first time the airline has offered this route from Stansted for the festive…
28 Aug 2025, 7:01 pm
Donald Trump has cancelled a loophole from today that had allowed consumers and businesses to be spared duties for sending low-value goods to the United States.
28 Aug 2025, 7:01 pm
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch says he's shocked at how "fragile" he still is - despite years in the spotlight and success in the industry.
28 Aug 2025, 7:00 pm
“Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?” asks William Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. “All poets believe that it does,” replies his imagined interlocutor, the prophet Isaiah, “& in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains.” Blake was one of this country’s foremost Romantic poets — so it is fitting that his Isaiah sounds like Benjamin Disraeli, the most Romantic prime minister we’ve ever had. Despite his…
28 Aug 2025, 7:00 pm
The story of the Minneapolis mass shooting appeared below the fold on the New York Times website on Thursday, under the headline “Minneapolis’s Suspect’s Motive is a Mystery.” Nowhere on the Times homepage did “the suspect” get a pronoun. When you clicked through to the top story, it opened: “The person who the police say opened fire,” providing a tip-off that the paper’s ideologues knew there was a problem. Journalism is the business of specifics,…
28 Aug 2025, 7:00 pm
Linear actuators are a great help when you’re moving something along a single axis, but with so many options, how do you decide? [Jeremy Fielding] walks us through some of the high level tradeoffs of using one type of actuator over another. There are three main types of linear actuator available to the maker: hydraulic, pneumatic, and electric. Both the hydraulic and pneumatic types move a cylinder with an attached rod through a tube using pressure applied to eith…
28 Aug 2025, 7:00 pm
AgileTV, the television and video technology solutions company, has developed the TV platform that enabled Lowi to launch its first television service in Spain this week. Back in May, Vodafone Spain selected AgileTV to develop the new TV service for its Lowi brand through an international tender process. Lowi TV’s offering includes 114 channels, including […]…
28 Aug 2025, 6:57 pm
For over 35 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. The EFF Awards celebrate the accomplishments of people working toward a better future for technology users, both in the public eye and behind the scenes.EFF is pleased to welcome all members of the digital rights community, supporters, and friends to this annual award ceremony. Join us to celebrat…
28 Aug 2025, 6:56 pm
A man has died after a jet violently crashed into a runway before bursting into flames.The incident happened in the Polish city of Radom, just 62 miles south of Warsaw, at around 5.30pm UK time.The victim has now been identified as army veteran Major Maciej "SLAB" Krakowian who was piloting the F-16 jet. The plane had been undertaking a loop-the-loop in practice for the Radom Air Show, which was set to take place this weekend. Footage of the crash showed the jet plu…
28 Aug 2025, 6:55 pm
Assisted dying would place added pressure on NHS, hospice and social care capacity, creating a "substantial task" for the healthcare system, especially as demand rises, according to a health thinktank.
28 Aug 2025, 6:44 pm
Rohingya refugees tell the BBC they were flown from Delhi and forced into the sea off the coast of Myanmar.
28 Aug 2025, 6:42 pm
Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well Microsoft has introduced two home-grown machine learning models, potentially complicating negotiations with its current favored model supplier, OpenAI.……
28 Aug 2025, 6:41 pm
The two children killed in the shooting have been identified as Fletcher Merkel, eight, and Harper Moyski, 10.
28 Aug 2025, 6:40 pm
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant is officially coming to TVs, starting with Samsung's 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. With the integration, you can call upon Copilot and ask for movie suggestions, spoiler-free episode recaps, and other general questions. On TV, Copilot takes on a "friendly, animated presence" that resembles the opalescent Copilot Appearance Microsoft showed off last month, though in a color that makes it…
28 Aug 2025, 6:38 pm
Minnesota officials gave an update on Wednesday’s deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school at a Thursday afternoon press conference, discussing new details about injuries and the background of the suspect, 23-year-old Robin Westman. The shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School killed two children and left 18 others injured, rocking the nation and drawing an……
28 Aug 2025, 6:30 pm
Furious European officials summoned their Russian envoys after Moscow’s drone and missile strikes on Kyiv killed at least 21 people and damaged British and European Union offices. The barrage, the deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, comes as Western governments try to hammer out a framework for security guarantees for Ukraine that could accompany a future peace deal …
28 Aug 2025, 6:29 pm
Germany, France, and the UK moved to reimpose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. The countries accused Tehran of reneging on its 2015 nuclear deal, triggering “snapback” provisions, including asset freezes and visa bans, effective in 30 days. The move, which Iran said lacked legal basis, stokes tensions two months after the US bombed Iranian uranium enrichment sites, stalling nuclear talks with the US; the Europeans had set an end-of-August deadline for…
28 Aug 2025, 6:28 pm
Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research.A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a tornado (46%) is more terrifying than a tsunami (43%), earthquake (35%) or hurricane (33%).Northeasterners report high confidence when it comes to being prepared for a heatwave or drought (68%) and even a blizzard (63%). But despite their relatively new frequency in the Nor…
28 Aug 2025, 6:28 pm
Netflix’s Jay Kelly sees the actor portray an ageing movie star, drawing parallels with his own life.
28 Aug 2025, 6:27 pm
Low-cost imports to the US lose their duty-free status Friday as the government ends a loophole that has underpinned billions of dollars in global commerce. The end of the “de minimis” exemption, which applies to packages valued under $800, has sparked concern and confusion among international exporters and mail carriers. Mexico on Thursday joined at least 30 countries that have suspended postal shipments to the US, in what Bloomberg’s Odd Lots described as a…