THE FREEDOM BEACON

The couple reconnected years after meeting in a Minnesota hospital, and bonded over their experiences: “I’ve dealt with that, sweetie.

Volkswagen has reported weak sales numbers, with a significant drop in China. The company said Friday plans to cut its model lineup by nearly half. Volkswagen said group sales fell 8.6% in the second quarter to just under 2.1 million vehicles.

Headed for Taiwan and south-eastern China, the 1,000 km-wide Bavi is forecast to be one of the strongest storms in decades.

Delta Air Lines reported results Friday morning.

Greg Vanney says Christian Pulisic's early injury robbed him of momentum and rhythm in an unforgiving World Cup knockout stage against Belgium.

"The Real Housewives of Orange County" star Jennifer Pedranti says her son started a fire that burned in Ladera Ranch.

Investigators are looking into the possibility that a Michigan woman who went missing in the Bahamas earlier this year may not have fallen overboard from a dinghy as her husband has claimed.

A surprise 10th-anniversary event saw Niantic fulfilling a promise teased in the original 2016 launch trailer for its popular mobile game.

2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterpr…

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.

It is expected to offer a 200MP primary rear camera. Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra later this month as the successor to the Galaxy Z Fold7....

Ryanair confirm a passenger was given medical treatment after an incident on a Malta Air flight, which is owned by Ryanair.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh named venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to co-lead a task force on AI's economic impact — a technology his firm has bet billions on.

The leading players in AI are all speeding forward at breakneck speed.

Microsoft’s 2026 sustainability report shows that its carbon emissions spiked by 25 percent last year, despite its goal to be carbon negative by 2030.

The world’s first trillionaire is then planning to send robots to prepare the infrastructure needed for humans to survive.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recalled more than 2.5 million bottles of eye drops because they may contain a "foreign substance."

The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.

Costco is facing a class action lawsuit alleging Orgain protein powders sold by the retailer contain elevated levels of lead, arsenic and cadmium.

Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI companies to provide.

The Pentagon tapped NLight and Lockheed for next-gen missile and drone defense.

The issue of cosmetic microtransactions in single-player games has arisen once again for Ubisoft.

It's the fifth round of layoffs since the company was purchased by Fandom

We’re all wearing health trackers and wearables. Are the heart and health data they’re collecting actually helping us to live longer?

Road of Legends is a stacked week of Legendary raids, Mega Raids, event bonuses, Special Backgrounds, Adventure Effects, and a new GO Pass. Running from July 6, 2026, at 12:01 a.m. to July 10, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

It's been a few weeks since Apple announced widespread price hikes across numerous product categories, including the 2026 MacBook Pro.

Craig Burnatowski played antagonist Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 4’s remake

An elite security team at Microsoft has built an AI-powered pipeline to find vulnerabilities in Windows and get them to engineers to build fixes.

The studio has also lost roughly a quarter of its staff in the Xbox layoffs.

10 field-tested, science-backed principles to turn complex science, health and technology initiatives into engaging stories people can understand, remember and share

With Samsung shutting down Samsung Messages this week and a massive new group of users moving over to Google Messages, folks are starting to notice changes as Google works to improve its messaging app in a hurry. Today, a new sharing feature showed up that wi…

The old but gold Bowers & Wilkins Px8 offers style and substance

From making enemies explode to summoning flocks of hungry birds, there's many ways to defeat your foes in The Blood of Dawnwalker -- IGN First explores the RPG's deep skill trees and combat system.

A new estimate of the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s bill of materials suggests that Apple’s next flagship could cost significantly more to build than the current model.

Bungie had one last surprise for Destiny 2 players, and it makes the end of the game even sadder.

A simple lifestyle adjustment could potentially slow down the body’s biological aging process, according to new research.

“This is the largest civil penalty imposed for vaccination fraud in the Department of Health’s 125-year history,” State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said of the massive $544,000 fin…

Fast walking may lower dementia and cognitive decline risk by 50%, new research finds. Learn how walking habits impact long-term brain health.

A new study identifies brainstem C1 neurons as precise modulators of chronic trauma and long-term anxiety.

A surprisingly common substance was found to have a causal relationship with the kind of brain damage associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Ships arriving in Australia may have had scabs from survivors intended as a preventative

Studying old paintings can give us a surprising glimpse of historic natural history.

But around 4 in 10 cases are tied to known risk factors like smoking

New guidelines may soon make the disorder known as CKM syndrome a common diagnosis.

Over 4,400 lawsuits target Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs for GI injuries, vision loss, and "Ozempic face." Usage stats, shortages, and updates.

Strength training bigger muscles can give your heart a workout, says Dr. Joseph Herrera, a sports medicine expert. Learn more about which muscle groups are the best to train.

Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa – DRC and partners Context On 15 May 2026, the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene a…

This professor’s research has found that certain foods are associated with deep, more restorative sleep.

The turn against moderate drinking has been sudden and sharp. But it's not often based in science.

Artificial intelligence may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed. For science consumers—the public, medical patients, technology users—the likely effects will be positive. For scientists, the effects will…

Could the smell of chocolate wafting through the gym make strength training easier, or at least more pleasant? A new Frontiers in Physiology study found that sniffing dark chocolate with a high cocoa content decreased feelings of hunger, desire and intention …

Iowa's first measles case of 2026 is highlighting how rising cases across the U.S. have Iowa doctors preparing for a disease once thought to be on its way to extinction.

Tiny silica nanoparticles engineered to seek out prostate cancer caused tumor cells to self-destruct and supercharged the immune system in preclinical mouse studies. Combined with immunotherapy, the treatment produced complete remissions in multiple mice, rai…

“Those doctors ruined my little girl’s whole childhood. I feel so let down by everybody,” the girl’s mom said.

Variants of Shigella are causing more disease and growing more antibiotic-resistant, a new study from the University of Cambridge has found.

A new study proves alcohol interacts differently with amyloid-beta and tau pathologies in Alzheimer's models.

Sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit juice intake may raise blood pressure risk, according to a new study. Learn healthy swaps to support your heart.

Bryan Johnson, the "longevity guru," has spent more than $2 million on a quest to stay young. This week, he disclosed that he has an autoimmune disease that causes the stomach to eat itself. As a practicing physician who helps patients live longer, believe me…

The Meningitis B vaccine does not prevent gonorrhoea infections despite being offered to at-risk men, scientists say.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope heads to orbit this August aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy with massive scientific ambitions.

What if time doesn't actually exist until something changes? Scientists at the University of Birmingham created a tiny "mini universe" using 24,000 ultracold atoms and showed that the flow of time can emerge naturally from changes inside a quan…

Three scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey had the opportunity to fly into the summit of Hawaii's most active volcano to collect samples for research.

Physicists at the University of California, Irvine, have developed an artificial intelligence system that can autonomously design theoretical physics models, a task traditionally carried out by human theorists. The approach allows researchers to explore large…

Ptolemy and al-Sufi were keen ancient astronomers, one in Greece and one in Persia, whose observations were separated by almost a thousand years. They both noted that the star Theta Eridani was far brighter than it is today.

Odd radio circles are huge unexplained rings, over 50 times the Milky Way's width, seen only at radio wavelengths.

Loons, gulls, puffins and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can plunge into water to swim after prey, and leap back into the air to fly away.

Scientists have long debated whether the AMOC is nearing collapse, but the latest findings are certainly alarming.

Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and why it’s rational to believe that we may be alone.

Six months on the International Space Station quietly rewires how astronauts sense the world — turning down inner-ear signals gravity has rendered useless, and handing orientation almost entirely to the eyes.

Early Tuesday morning, a softball-sized satellite built by Miami's City Labs reached low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, becoming the first commercially

Scott Kelly returned to Earth on 1 March 2016 after 340 days aboard the ISS, and the part he keeps describing in interviews is not the launch or the year in orbit but the weeks afterward — when his balance, his skin, and a strange watching-from-behind-the-eye…

This is the first time some of these species have ever been filmed.