President Trump extended his purge of the Republican Party by vanquishing Senator Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, while an extraordinary plan to funnel $1.7 billion in taxpayer money to the president's allies through an IRS settlement set off fresh alarms about the boundaries of executive power; abroad, the WHO declared a Congo Ebola outbreak a global health emergency and Venezuela extradited a top Maduro financier to the United States.
Louisiana Rep. Julia Letlow and MAGA-aligned state Treasurer John Fleming advanced to a runoff for the GOP nomination, ousting the two-term incumbent who voted to convict Trump after January 6. No more than two of the seven Republicans who voted to convict are expected to remain in Congress next year.
Donald Trump may drop his $10bn lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a $1.7bn taxpayer-funded Judgment Fund to compensate allies including more than 1,500 January 6 rioters, an unprecedented self-dealing maneuver that would merge personal grievance with the federal purse.
Unionized workers at the Long Island Rail Road walked off the job on Saturday, halting North America's largest commuter rail system and stranding thousands of riders across the eastern New York metropolitan area.
A Kansas district judge granted a temporary injunction against the state's ban on gender-transition treatments for minors, ruling in favor of parents who sued to halt the law enacted last year over the governor's veto.
Thousands of people descended on Montgomery by bus, car and plane to march on the state capitol and defend Black political representation against Republican efforts to eliminate majority-Black districts.
The four-time NFL MVP agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $25 million to return to Pittsburgh for his 22nd season, ending a protracted decision-making process after guiding the Steelers to an AFC North title last year.
The WHO declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern, warning that a rare virus strain with no approved vaccine or treatment may already be spreading more widely than detected.
Alex Saab, a close ally of Nicolás Maduro tied to a huge graft scheme, was deported to the United States as part of a purge of powerful figures who helped the deposed president stay in power.
A car plowed into pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena on Saturday, injuring eight people — four of them seriously — before residents rushed to stop the driver from escaping on foot.
Bulgaria's Dara bested 24 other nations with the catchy anthem 'Bangaranga,' delivering the country's maiden Eurovision victory in a sequin-drenched final in Vienna.
A freight train plowed into traffic on train tracks in Bangkok on Saturday, starting a fire and killing at least eight people; authorities said a barrier had not come down.
Israel carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon killing at least six people, including three paramedics at a health centre, just hours after its envoys agreed to extend a ceasefire.
A viral thread argues that whole companies are operating under 'AI psychosis,' making irrational bets on capabilities that don't exist yet.
Julia Evans walks through her decision to leave Tailwind behind and relearn how to structure CSS from scratch.
AI systems have become so proficient at capture-the-flag competitions that the open format may no longer be viable for human contestants.
NVIDIA researchers released a compact open-source world model capable of generating coherent one-minute 720p videos.
Charlie Stross's seminal 2005 novel about the singularity and post-human economics is being rediscovered and discussed.
A new coding agent built in pure Rust takes design cues from Unix philosophy for composable, scriptable AI development workflows.
A reflection on how creeping complexity in software, infrastructure, and daily life has outpaced our ability to manage it.
Researchers propose a memory mechanism that lets LLMs retain and update knowledge online without full retraining.
A new storage collaboration packs ten petabytes of flash into a two-rack-unit chassis, pushing density boundaries.
The fictional radio station from the classic 1970s sitcom is now a real licensed broadcaster.
A hands-on introduction to Futhark, a data-parallel functional language for GPU programming.
Malta becomes the first nation to provide ChatGPT Plus subscriptions to its entire population through a public-private partnership.
An open-hardware project designs affordable radio telescopes that can be built and operated by students in rural areas.
Fisker owners, left without software support after bankruptcy, have organized an open-source effort to keep their vehicles running.
A step-by-step tutorial for building a Gaussian splatting renderer from scratch over a single weekend.