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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2006, is scheduled to go on trial in June 2028.

A Richmond doctor woke up last week to find a bat trying to get into her mouth — and her viral story carries an important warning for anyone who encounters a bat inside their home.

The leaker made good on a threat to release footage of the Lucia character.

Kennedy answered questions about the Pennsylvania outbreak after attending a roundtable discussion at a Tampa elementary school.

Morgan, a singer, actress and frequent game show panelist in the 1960s and '70s, died Monday in Washington.

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the reins of the tech giant from Tim Cook on September 1.

The agency said the employees under scrutiny were not law enforcement personnel.

Whether you’re a fan of the Galaxy S27 Ultra’s new camera design or not, Samsung is ditching the cohesive design...

Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking.

This incident comes as Target's sales are rebounding after previous controversies and a rollback of diversity efforts.

Two new reports from OpenAI and METR shine new light on the OpenAI-Hugging Face cybersecurity incident that rocked the AI industry in July.

Federal health officials are continuing to count cases of the diarrhea-causing parasite, which has now been confirmed in an additional state.

Asked Tuesday about the NDAs, Gov. Jeff Landry suggested the agreements were needed to lure SpaceX to Louisiana.

Bill Gates says AI will cause "one of the most turbulent times in human history" and suggests reserving certain jobs for humans to ease the transition.

Salesforce's Anthropic stake led to higher profit in the latest quarter.

Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce, bringing live CRM data and AI sales workflows into Claude as enterprise software goes headless.

On top of its new routes, United Airlines will bring back all the noteworthy international destinations it flew in 2026. Plus, a new aircraft is delayed.

Starting today, Virginia residents can add a digital version of their driver's license to the Apple Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch.

The new program follows a cascade of cyberattacks across at least a dozen states that many experts suspect are linked to Iran.

Vanguard is pushing into Fidelity's turf.

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.

Bloomberg notes that IDC has a bullish outlook on the device’s performance during its first year. Here are the details.

Though PS5 Pro is a class apart.

It's got Game of the Year written all over it

Google today introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe as its “most precise speech-to-text model yet” that is already powering...

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Sony's free PlayStation Plus Essential games for September 2026 have been announced, and include the retro RPG Chained Echoes.

Microsoft has revealed how much its translucent green 25th anniversary Xbox Series X will cost when it launches in November.

Apple's newly announced M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini models still support up to three external displays, but there's now support for higher refresh...

In the pantheon of the Persona series, its fourth entry is held in high regard, and time will tell if Persona 4 Revival will prove to be the best of the bunch. The little bit I got to see is at least making it a pretty strong contender for that award, and it …

Ruby Weapon, Emerald Weapon, Ultimate Weapon appear in spring 2027 game

Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons has released a new gameplay trailer. This new D&D video game reminds us of Baldur's Gate 3 in the best way.

Learn whether the antioxidant CoQ10 lives up to its hype as an athletic performance supplement, and potential benefits and risks to expect if you take it.

Dolly Parton’s death is bringing new attention to her history of recurring kidney stones. A Duke Health urologist explains when kidney stones can become life-threatening, their potential connection to other health conditions, and how to reduce the risk of rec…

Four infected employees being treated in hospital; mosquito traps deployed at Frankfurt hub.

The American Academy of Pediatrics said the move will put children "at higher risk for getting sick"

“I wouldn't want to wish this on my worst enemy.”

Women experiencing a chronic lack of sexual desire still routinely engage in sexual activity to maintain relationship stability. A review of clinical trial data quantifies exactly how often this obligatory intimacy occurs and explores the psychological reason…

The shingles vaccine may also reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, according to new research published in Nature.

Andrea Califano began his career as a physicist. But that's not why he's now calling cancer a quantum disease. "We're really just following the data," says Califano, the Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology at Columbia University Vagelos Colle…

“What [Emma] said really resonated with me. I could not die before David; I needed to take care of him. But I also needed to take care of myself.”

New research has found a link between greater consumption of xylitol and a higher chance of major cardiovascular problems like heart attack.

"People treat it like nothing, then their body starts falling apart fast by forty."

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Maine had a record seven cases of Powassan virus in 2023. There have now been four cases in the state this year, including two in one county.

IDAHO FALLS — Eastern Idaho Public Health is warning residents to be cautious after two separate incidents involving rabid bats and domestic pets in Idaho Falls and Rigby. Health officials say the pets came into contact with bats that later tested positive fo…

The public health department in Tuolumne County reports that the first human case of 2026 has been confirmed.

The injectable medication known for weight loss and diabetes treatment may even have benefits for mental health conditions, including one that affects millions of people.

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Students return Wednesday as health officials monitor potential exposures and district verifies vaccination records.

Abbey Khopesh, 30, gave birth at home without medical supervision in August. She and her baby are doing fine, but are free births safe?

“One finding remains constant: The parent present at the visit is overwhelmingly the mother ― about 90% of the time.”

You can build resilience that will work with the changing rhythms in your life.

Unlike mammograms, breast MRIs aren’t universally covered as zero-cost preventive care.

Neanderthal pelvises suggest childbirth and pelvic floor stability shaped human evolution more than walking efficiency.

Whale sharks and blue whales and rays, oh my.

"This is one of the most promising avenues for new astrophysical constraints on dark matter's nature."

Unlike conventional glaciers, rock glaciers appear as piles of rock that obscure large masses of unaccounted-for ice. Rock glaciers are common in the Wasatch and Uinta ranges, even appearing on the Colorado Plateau in the La Sal Mountains near Moab.

Using lasers, computer models and AI, researchers reconstructed the calls of 165-million-year-old relatives of modern crickets and katydids from fossilized wing fragments found in China.

Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now offer a new view of how this gas escapes and how the process changes as young p…

Scientists have made a rare discovery in Egypt's desert, uncovering a shark graveyard of now-extinct species left frozen in time, waiting to be found.

The gold medal for deep diving goes to a bull southern elephant seal, recorded at an incredible 2,388m, says Ellen Husain. While this is extreme, the species frequently dives to depths of 400800m, st…

A grieving orca has now twice refused to let her dead calves sink, carrying them across vast distances in what scientists struggle to explain as anything but profound mourning.

Gateway spaceport will make Earth's air traffic control look easy.

2017 OF201 is visible for only a sliver of its 25,000-year orbit, turning one archival discovery into a carefully qualified estimate of a much larger hidden population.

The Vera C Rubin Observatory has the largest digital camera ever built. Here are the most stunning images from its mission to map the universe.