Donald Trump says the US was looking "very strongly" at the case of a lab technician who died at a research centre in Siberia.
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World
Shavdon Gayden killed Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon in broad daylight while walking with her older sisterA woman has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing a seven-year-old girl, with police describing it as an unp…
The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed the B1 bombers from the base in England back to their home stations in America.
Sources say the opposition’s target will be below Labor’s but won’t match One Nation’s goal to limit net arrivals to 130,000Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition is expected to reveal d…
France prepares for a day of protests in support of students who’ve been demanding more investment in education.
Michael Olise scores twice and assists as France come from 1-0 with 13 minutes left to beat Belgium 4-1
Neighbouring countries say coastal states must govern Red Sea as fighting escalates in northern Ethiopia.
Neighboring states are also reporting hundreds of cases, with over 3,800 recorded across the countryPennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials calculate, making it the largest state …
Russian authorities quarantine hospital, monitor 200 contacts after suspected pneumonic plague death in Siberia.
Brazil is heading into a fiercely contested presidential runoff after the first round revealed major gains for Bolsonaro
Party to unveil plans for one of UK’s ‘most significant military programmes since the cold war’ The Conservatives will announce plans to build a £10bn British “Iron Dome” similar to Israel’s air and missile defence syste…
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s election strengthened nationalist parties.
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Business
Lucid delivered 3,806 EVs and produced 2,954 vehicles during the third quarter. That compared with 4,078 deliveries on production of 3,891 vehicles a year earlier.
Pascal Soriot spoke exclusively with CNBC from the site of AstraZeneca's new $1 billion R&D facility in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Party has common enemy in defectors, while Nigel Farage’s woes have given some insiders reason to hopeDuring a quick-fire Q&A at the Conservative party conference this weekend, Kemi Badenoch was asked who she would pick …
PepsiCo initiated class II recall of 28oz bottles last month over ‘undeclared’ yellow dyes, FDA notice saysAbout 122,000 cases of the popular sports drink Gatorade have been voluntarily recalled across 37 US states due t…
Party’s pledge to reduce aid budget from £9bn a year to £1bn to fund new prison places branded as ‘posturing’Conservative plans to slash the aid budget by 90% would leave the UK unable to cover existing contributions to …
The Conservatives blame their failures on abandoning their 1976 principles. But the country needs investment and resilience rather than another round of spending cutsThe Conservative party wants to go back to the future …
At conference here in Birmingham I found a small battalion of centrist remainers with a vision of the Conservative party to comeYou can walk all the way from Somerset to Sussex without crossing a Tory-run constituency, i…
For all the howls of a ‘stitch-up’, it’s hard to see what ministers were supposed to do, as the alternatives risked worse outcomesBT to buy broadband supplier TalkTalk in £400m rescue deal, saving 900 jobs“All the charac…
The UK government urging households to prepare for unknown threats with a three-day supply of food and water doesn’t feel like an overreaction. But is there a bigger plan to go with it?There is no national food stockpile…
Holiday airplane tickets are up more than 23% this year, according to Hopper.
Ynon Kreiz's appointment as co-CEO of Skydance answers a key governance question for Ellison's soon-to-be-merged company.
The leadership team for Skydance, the merged entity of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, will include Bari Weiss, Mark Thompson and Casey Bloys.
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IT / AI
It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updat…
The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban. Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with. Here's what's actually happening: On October…
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.
People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze a…
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of…
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" …
There's been a lot of doom and gloom from the auto industry lately when the subject of China comes up. Automaker CEOs, in particular, warn that allowing low-cost, high-tech Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in the US …
An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approache…
The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.
Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy.
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Film
Prime Video debuted first look images for “Bloodaxe,” a new original series from “Vikings” creator Michael Hirst and Horatio Hirst. “Bloodaxe” Season 1 follows the rise of Erik Bloodaxe (Xavier Molyneux, “Neighbors”), on…
EXCLUSIVE: Maude Apatow and Mike Faist are set to star in The Maid of Orleans, Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s follow-up to Good Girl Jane. Mintz penned the script that she will also direct. Astute Films is financing the pic. Th…
The African American Film Critics Association has set the lineup for its fifth AAFCA Goes to Broadway Luncheon. Tony winner André DeShields, Tony nominee Brandon Dirden and Emmy winners Jasmine Cephas Jones and Cheryl Wi…
Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning” has been unveiled to members of the film press, who are calling the follow-up to “The Social Network” a “solid sequel,” “a harsh assessment of [Mark] Zuckerberg” and “a scathing indi…
Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford raised $7.65 million on Sunday night in Los Angeles for Children in Conflict, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting, educating and providing mental health support to children …
EXCLUSIVE: The new Warner Bros’ Christian Parkes-led contemporary film label, Clockwork, which we first told you about last December, will be making the segue to the new Paramount Warner Bros merger aka Skydance. Clockwo…
In the wild A24 documentary “You Can See Everything,” Elizabeth Holmes still maintains her innocence in her Theranos fraud case despite being sentenced to 11 years in prison. It turns out, there are a few others who shar…
Welcome to Horror Explorer, a curated column showcasing the month’s best movies, series, books and everything else spooky worth checking out. I’m William Earl, the executive digital director of Variety and the publicatio…
Pam Levine, Netflix’s marketing and publicity VP for the U.S. and Canada, is out at the streamer after a year and a half in her post, Variety has confirmed. Levine joined Netflix in April 2025. She managed all publicity …
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Coven Academy,” now streaming on Disney+. Nestled amid a tree-lined New Orleans exterior is a boarding school host to witches and warlocks alike in Freeform and Disney+’s …
Jeffrey Archer, the prolific British author and former politician, has died at the age of 86. Archer’s publisher HarperCollins confirmed his death in a statement, revealing that the Kane & Abel writer died “suddenly and …
Sebastian Maniscalco isn’t widely viewed as a controversial comic — but he’s found himself in the hot seat this week, scrutinized over a recent SiriusXM changeover in which he’s prominently involved. Earlier this year, a…
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