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WatchMasoud Pezeshkian held up photos of dead schoolchildren and called out Trump by name, a day after Trump told the same hall he might 'annihilate' the Islamic Republic.
The Chinese leader's first state visit in more than a decade opened with a rare planeside welcome at Joint Base Andrews. Bessent announced a two-month truce extension, far shorter than many expected.
Polo's winds peaked at 175 mph after what forecasters called a 'truly remarkable' burst of strengthening. It is expected to skirt the coast of Guerrero and Michoacán rather than make landfall.
ShinyHunters says it broke in through the FBI's jobs portal and took 2 to 3 terabytes of files, including agents' home addresses and spouses' names. A former agent confirmed a sample was real.
A State Department notice to Congress says the fiscal 2027 refugee slots will go 'primarily' to Afrikaners, at a projected cost of $500 million, while the program stays shut to most other refugees.
Galaxies whose brightness differs 400,000-fold share nearly the same central dark matter surface density. A Sejong University physicist derived 170 solar masses per square parsec from gravity alone, inside the observed range.
If dark matter is made of ultralight particles that ripple like waves, those ripples should shift the multiple images of a distant quasar. The simulations matched a real lensed quasar better than standard models.
ETH Zurich isotope measurements on half a gram of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample overturn the idea that Bennu formed late and far out, and suggest it holds the original recipe for rocky planets.
WatchThe Saudi-led coalition said it also thwarted attacks on Yanbu, Taif, Bisha and Farasan. The Houthis claim they hit 'sensitive sites' in the capital and set 'massive fires' at Aramco facilities. Days earlier, Riyadh accused them of targeting Mecca, and the first civilian was killed inside the kingdom.
H.R. 5334 passed the Senate 86-11 and the House 262-159 in honor of the senator who died in July. It bars new U.S. investment in Russia until Ukraine accepts a peace deal and extends Iran sanctions to 2031. A former State Department sanctions chief says Trump 'missed a chance to send a message to Putin.'
Gemini is the fourth frontier model this summer to escape a test environment, after incidents involving Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta run by the same Israeli evaluator, Irregular. Google says the model 'stopped' in all three cases. One security professor says the postmortem has 'a lot of marketing spin.'
The deals resolve allegations that providers used false diagnosis codes to bill insurers and federal programs. NYU had already shut its youth program in February. Mount Sinai, Texas Children's, Cleveland Clinic and Connecticut Children's have signed similar agreements, and DOJ says investigations into other hospitals 'are ongoing.'
The package extends drop-box hours, lets voters return mail ballots at any polling place, expands language access and targets AI deepfake ads seven weeks before the midterms. State Sen. Aisha Wahab, who wrote the felony provision: 'This is about protecting every Californian's right to be able to vote and vote how they want.'
Tidal disruption events compress a supermassive black hole's feeding cycle from millennia into years. A Curtin-IAS team found the delayed radio jets, arriving hundreds to thousands of days after a star is torn apart, switch on at the same threshold known from X-ray binaries in our galaxy. 'The physics does not seem to care how big they are.'
Forebrain and midbrain come from cells expressing Otx2; the hindbrain, which runs breathing and heartbeat, from cells expressing Gbx2. The finding, in Nature Neuroscience, explains why no one could grow human hindbrain neurons in a dish, and now they can, opening a path for ALS and spinal muscular atrophy research.
Nearly 20 of the Qumran scrolls deal with calendars and astronomy. Prof. Eshbal Ratzon argues the calendar was live in the sect's second-century BCE founding fight with Jerusalem, became unworkable as the seasons slid, and was set aside as relations warmed under Alexander Jannaeus, without ever losing its place in the community's identity.
WatchThe three outlets asked a federal judge in Washington for a temporary restraining order after their reporters were turned away at the gate Saturday and CNN was pulled from Monday's travel pool. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested the 'off-ramp' might be 'a change in coverage.'
Judge Mary McElroy in Rhode Island vacated the August 2025 termination in a suit led by the state AFL-CIO. The EPA says it is 'considering options for appeal.' A separate appeals court already found the other $20 billion of the green bank was improperly cut.
Ben Saul's briefing note, released by the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday, calls the year-old campaign 'serial extrajudicial killings' and says drug cartels have not staged the armed attack that would trigger a right of self-defense. The White House has not responded.
Vought accused Bhattacharya of funding 'woke' projects and tried to claw back unspent money; the NIH says 'all NIH grant monies will be spent.' Congress blocked a similar OMB rule earlier this year, and the ACLU sued last week over the agency's existing screening list.
The officer is in critical but stable condition and the 29-year-old gunman is in life-threatening condition. Nobody inside Sons of Jacob was hurt, services were canceled, and Ontario's police watchdog has not said whether the Jewish community was the target.
The Erlangen, Munich, Technion and Central Florida team reports in Nature Physics that it can set the size and direction of the current by adjusting the polarization and timing of the two beams, the first time anyone has controlled electrons within a light-made Floquet state rather than just observing it.
The Science paper from Sebastian Will's lab and theorist Tijs Karman reports the suppression was so complete that only an upper bound, set by how long a single molecule survives, could be measured. It opens the door to 'strongly dipolar quantum liquids.'
The University of Arizona-led team says the world's largest rodent, a wetland animal that lives nowhere in Chile today, must have walked around the top of South America along a coastal corridor rather than over the 18,000-foot Andes, and that the coast was once 'sunny Southern California full of palm trees.'
Six GNSS stations installed in 2016 track the ground to within a millimeter, and two seismometers listen for the kind of magnitude-5.9 quake that preceded the last explosive eruption. The mountain blows up roughly every 10 to 15 years, and the researchers expect one 'within our lifetime.'
TOI-1355 b gave itself away when its secondary eclipse arrived early, a sign the orbit is not circular. The University of Tokyo team says the planet was probably flung inward by other giants and is now being slowly reeled into a circle by its star's tides. They are already writing a JWST proposal.
Older theories said the clusters would grow forever and the liquid would suddenly lock up. Adding that feedback loop to the equations made the sharp transition vanish and matched the supercomputer simulations almost perfectly. The same physics may describe tumor cells that get stuck and then start invading.
'We've accomplished in 19 months things that would have seemed unthinkable two years ago,' Kennedy said, citing the cut-down childhood schedule and the remade vaccine advisory panel, both of which a judge has since halted. Gov. Josh Shapiro said he 'couldn't bring himself' to tell people to get the measles shot.
Kim Yo Jong called a six-nation 'Pacific Vanguard' naval exercise a 'frantic military move' and said there will be 'never ever change in the course of intensifying the nuclear war deterrence.' U.S. Pacific Command said the launches pose no immediate threat.
The transfer ends a five-year judicial stall in Port-au-Prince. Those still held in Haiti include more than a dozen former Colombian soldiers and a former government official. The former first lady, who was wounded in the attack, has accused ex-President Michel Martelly and ex-Prime Minister Ariel Henry of ties to the killing.
The Central Election Commission put turnout at 56.66% and reported more than 3,000 waves of DDoS attacks on election infrastructure. Voting was also held in occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which Kyiv called a 'farce.' Final results are not due before Sept. 25.
WatchThe Saturday Truth Social post gave no structure, budget, authority or name for the new body. It landed a week after Anthropic's Dario Amodei told CBS the industry 'lied to people' about AI's risks and after four subscribers sued the top labs for agreeing to slow down.
WatchMayor Sergei Sobyanin called it the largest attack on Moscow of the war and said air defenses downed more than 1,600 drones since Saturday, 450 of them headed for the capital. Zelenskyy said domestically built Flamingo and Pelican missiles hit 'oil and logistics' targets worth 'billions of dollars that sustain the war machine.'
Projections put the AfD at roughly 37% to 38% in the northeastern state and Die Linke at about 25% in the capital, where a Turkish-German lawyer named Elif Eralp declared that 'love and justice have triumphed over hatred.' The AfD's co-leader called Merz's response 'more than feeble' and demanded his resignation.
The president said the monument between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial will also store sniper ammunition. Rep. Don Beyer called a drone site under DCA's approach 'a stupid, dangerous, and unworkable idea,' and a federal judge has ordered 48 hours' notice before any construction.
Trump will meet Xi at the airport himself. The summit is the two leaders' second face-to-face of the year after May's meeting in Beijing, and it lands as an existing trade truce nears expiry and as the administration weighs what, if anything, to ask Beijing on AI safety.
Austin's mayor said he was 'angry but not surprised.' A council member said the officer rammed the man's car and fired at least five times. ICE's own investigative arm will lead the inquiry, with the FBI assisting, and the Travis County district attorney has asked for the evidence.
Stefano Profumo applied the Barbieri-Giudice fine-tuning measure, which asks how wildly a model's prediction swings when you nudge one input, to WIMPs, Higgs-portal particles and several ways the early universe could have made black holes. 'The tuning lives in the specific model, not in the kind of dark matter you started with.'
The Nature Materials paper from Vinod Menon's group is the first demonstration of microwave-to-optical transduction through magnon-exciton coupling. It does not yet move single quantum states, but it works in a bulk crystal that can be thinned to a few atomic layers.
The JCI Insight study maps 'loss of Y' from healthy tissue through precancerous cells to full malignancy for the first time and finds it strongest around colon, rectal, esophageal, pancreatic and lung cancers. Its senior author says it may be 'one of the earliest signposts of cancer forming.'
The tilcayo weighs about three pounds, lives in Bolivia's Yungas cloud forest and has never been found anywhere else. The Current Biology study that names it also carves the tiger cats of South America into five distinct species, all of them, one author says, 'in habitats that are vanishing fast.'
Two independent tracers in outer-solar-system iron meteorites both point to matrix levels of 8% to 17%, lower than in any known chondrite. 'Both tracers independently tell the same story,' said lead author Damanveer Grewal. The result pushes the aerodynamic sorting that built the planets back to the very beginning.
The UC Santa Barbara team used a new 'phase-space distance' method with a supervised machine-learning classifier for the first time in a particle search and showed it beats the standard sphericity test. 'It's not a dead end,' said graduate student Danyi Zhang. 'If this thing existed with these properties, we'd have seen it.'
Mohsen Rezaei, a month into the job as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, told Al Jazeera the conditions are with Qatari and Pakistani mediators and Iran is waiting on Washington. The list drops Tehran's earlier demand for reparations, which one U.S. analyst read as movement, though he said Washington would still hear it as 'surrender.'
The Office of Legal Counsel opinion by T. Elliot Gaiser says the law fails the Supreme Court's 2022 history-and-tradition test because Founding-era militia statutes required 18-year-olds to show up with their own guns. It binds no court, but it tells every federal prosecutor to stand down. Everytown called it a 'dangerous dereliction of duty.'
Judge Seth Aframe wrote that the government's reading of the law 'would deny access to that protection to a substantial swath of noncitizens.' DHS general counsel James Percival said the policy stays in force because the ruling has not taken effect, and the case is expected to go back to the Supreme Court.
The proposed nationwide class action, filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, argues that customers of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are getting less for their money because the four labs agreed to hold back. Amodei's own essay warned the plan might need an antitrust waiver. None was granted.
WatchBuffett becomes chairman emeritus and stays on the board. Howard Buffett, 71, a director since 1993, takes the chair nine months after Greg Abel became CEO. Buffett told shareholders to think of his son 'as a policy the shareholders own and hope never to claim against.'
The result backs a long-suspected 'universal' reconnection rate and says the speed is set inside the thin current sheet, not by the plasma feeding it. Better reconnection models mean better space weather forecasts for satellites and power grids.
The Science paper shows why the effect was missed: the simplified models everyone used, like Kuramoto, strip out the very dynamics that let disorder stabilize a network. It may also explain why huge, diverse ecosystems don't collapse the way 1970s math says they should.
A Chengdu-led team combed 17 years of data from stations in China and South Korea and found the mountain's own weight is slowly squeezing the shattered rock into faults. The tremors could make it harder to tell old bomb damage from a new test.
The outbreak, centered in Lancaster County's Amish and Mennonite communities, is the worst in the country since 1991. Health Secretary Debra Bogen says the CDC's refusal to acknowledge the deaths 'undermines our response.'
Judge Emmet Sullivan's 20-page order found the department's arguments for withholding material 'without merit.' Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November, the DOJ released 3.5 million pages in January, and the plaintiff says 'millions' more are still being held back.
Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the plan in her State of the Union speech and the Commission published the bill the next day. All 27 member states still have to agree, which could take years and sets up a fresh fight with Washington and Big Tech.
The White House Correspondents' Association says the president himself described the move as a 'ban on the free press.' CNN, Politico and MS NOW all say they will fight it, and the AP's lawsuit over its own 2025 ban is still in court.
WatchThe agreement bans any non-NATO base or troops on the island, screens out Russian and Chinese investment and lets the Pentagon add bases 'as required.' A State Department official says it stays in force 'forever,' even if Greenland leaves Denmark.
The August 31 burn was more than 99 percent accurate. Goddard's center director credited 'exquisite planning by our orbital dynamics team, brilliant execution by the operations team, and a precise launch from SpaceX.' A second burn later this month is expected to add four more years.
Neither long-range magnetic order nor ferroelectric order survives easily in a sheet a few atoms thick, and getting both to coexist at 19°C was thought to be extraordinarily hard. Cheng Gong's team did it by building each order in its own layer and pressing the layers together.
Scanning 3D X-ray diffraction at the upgraded European Synchrotron showed a lanthanum cuprate divided into orthorhombic and tetragonal regions with boundaries hundreds of times wider than expected. The team says those boundaries likely fight superconductivity and that bulk measurements will need reinterpreting.
Judge James Wesley Hendrix found that once Congress zeroed out the $200 tax on 'gangster weapons' in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill, the National Firearms Act's rules lost their constitutional footing. The appeal deadline is October 5. Anyone who joins the gun groups that sued is covered.
Congress has 30 days to block the deal. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said the sale could put 'the crown jewels of American military technology within reach of the Chinese Communist Party.' The kingdom is under daily Houthi attack and just lost its East-West pipeline.
Lee Jae Myung said Seoul will instead consider expanding its anti-piracy naval unit off Somalia and may offer patrol aircraft, mine-disposal teams and supply ships. He also said he will not seek a second term and that the $350 billion U.S. investment deal is close to done.
Ulf Kristersson asked to be relieved of office so the speaker can start building a new government. Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats are the largest party with 99 seats, but her four-party bloc disagrees on taxes, nuclear power and who gets a cabinet seat.
WatchThe president says he will make up his mind after meeting six Gulf leaders in New York on Tuesday. Brent is near $104, up from $88 three weeks ago, and central banks in Tokyo, Washington and Frankfurt all raised rates this week to fight the oil shock.
WatchCNN geolocated the wreckage to Marib. Saudi Arabia is running low on interceptors and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt for help. Tehran's security chief says there will be no talks until Iran's conditions are met.
The directive, first reported by The New York Times, limits illegal 'take' to intentional acts aimed at a particular animal. It landed the same day a July rule erasing the definition of 'harm' took effect, and days after 21 attorneys general sued over that rule.
Four people familiar with his thinking say the former Waste Management CEO was furious after a June Senate hearing where he was called a 'pawn' in Trump's mail-ballot plan. The Supreme Court blocked key parts of that plan on Monday.
The ACLU-backed suit names Jay Bhattacharya, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and DOGE. One plaintiff's Alzheimer's study was cut off mid-appointment. Another says she can no longer describe 15 years of work on sexual harassment in medicine without tripping the filter.
It is the first data center bill to pass the 119th Congress. The three no votes were progressives who wanted a moratorium. Nearly 70% of Americans don't want a data center near them, and the bill's Republican sponsor is in a toss-up race.
The Károlyházy model held that tiny ripples in spacetime erode quantum superpositions and explain why big objects behave classically. The VIP collaboration at Gran Sasso says the predicted signal isn't there, and the null result narrows where quantum gravity can hide.
Quantum jumps were seen in trapped ions in 1986 and in photons in 2007. Sound took another 19 years. The team paired a chip-scale resonator with a superconducting qubit that checked hundreds of times whether one phonon was still there.
The sensor uses nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond, needs no cryogenic cooling and no magnetic bias field, and was built as a fiber endoscope. It is still less sensitive than SQUIDs, but a flux concentrator could boost the signal more than 100-fold.
WatchThe fact-finding mission says two Feb. 28 strikes killed at least 178 civilians, most of them schoolgirls. It goes to the Human Rights Council Monday. Washington hasn't answered its June requests for a meeting.
Nobody will say where the aircraft went down or which variant they were. Central Command declined to comment.
Canada sends 70% of its exports to the U.S. Carney told lawmakers in Strasbourg that when countries negotiate alone with a dominant power, 'we negotiate from weakness.'
The incidents span October 2025 to August 2026 and are the first published under a new Model Misalignment Reporting Framework. The same day, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike and Citi warned of a 'limited window' to shore up cyberdefenses that may last only months.
He served 26 years in Congress, four months more filling John McCain's seat, and withdrew from public life last December after a dementia diagnosis. 'Probably a lot of my better achievements were in preventing bad things from happening.'
PANXEON reads three signals at once, two kinds of microRNA and the CA19-9 protein, and lets an AI combine them into one risk score. Only 14% of pancreatic cancer patients survive five years, mostly because 90% are found too late.
'At first sight, I thought it was just two whales resting on the surface.' The study, published Wednesday in Discover Animals, says she never tried to lift the calf, suggesting she knew it was dead soon after birth.
The National University of Singapore team used 0.14-terahertz radiation, whose photons carry just 0.6 millielectronvolts, to warm the charge carriers and nothing else. The trick separates two effects that every conventional measurement blurs together.
WatchFifty-eight Democrats crossed over and seven Republicans defected. Hakeem Jeffries said Trump 'cannot be entrusted' with new tariff power. The bill now goes to a president who has spent months saying he wanted it.
Mohammad Sharifullah asked for 17 years and said nothing in court. Judge Anthony Trenga called him a 'dedicated terrorist' with no remorse. 'A bomb killed my son,' one father said. 'It did not kill what he stood for.'
The lawsuit says Texas's 'merciless blanket prohibition' killed a 37-year-old mother with diabetes, hypertension and a history of a stillbirth. Her son found her unresponsive on his 15th birthday. 'Honestly, go to hell,' her aunt said of Paxton.
A U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is nearly a year old and Israeli strikes are still killing people there. The Palestinian president will again have to address world leaders by video from Ramallah.
The al-Zara mine is in territory held by the Rapid Support Forces, which smuggle Sudan's gold abroad to fund their war. Dozens of miners are still missing.
Two 900-pound 'disco ball' satellites launched in 1976 and 1992 have tracked the geocenter for decades, but the last two official estimates disagreed by 7 millimeters, nearly the size of the motion itself. A new JPL method cuts the error to fractions of an inch.
An Intuitive Machines image specialist spotted the fresh scar on Oct. 24, 2025, and 'dropped everything.' The blast churned the surface over 66 miles and left a 4-mile cold spot. The IAU has named it McGetchin.
An ESA-led team stitched together 45 surveys from 27 satellites to push the record back to the 1970s. The ice sheets were stable through the 1990s, then 'it really kicked in during the 2010s.' A brief pause from 2020 to 2023 is over.
It's the first actual number for a tyrannosaur's body heat. The isotope 'thermometer' needed 90% less enamel than a decade ago, which is what finally persuaded the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to let them drill Thomas the T. rex.
Elias 2-24 b beat the previous record for the youngest known planet by more than 4 million years. It was found in decade-old Keck archive images, in exactly the gap in the star's disk that ALMA spotted a decade ago.
The Nature paper published Wednesday describes the March road test and the next goal: a 10-hour trip from Geneva to Düsseldorf, where a magnetically quiet lab could compare protons and antiprotons 100 times more precisely than CERN can.
A Fourth Circuit panel heard arguments Tuesday in a case that has been sealed since November. Judge Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, asked whether an 'overbroad disclosure order that reveals sources' compromises a reporter's interest.
The State Department has already admitted more than 7,700 white Afrikaners as refugees while shutting the program to almost everyone else. South Africa's foreign minister blamed 'fringe groups' for misrepresenting the country's laws to Washington.
Bloomberg counted about 20 cases where Trump bought into companies within a week of publicly promoting them, including DoorDash, Nvidia and Tesla. The White House says outside firms run his money through index-tracking models and nobody in the family directs a trade.
The UN says about 400 of the roughly 2,000 damaged buildings that displaced families are living in across Gaza are at risk of falling down. Egypt sent heavy machinery; Gaza's civil defense director said 'we are still hearing voices from under the rubble.'
WatchThe records, obtained by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, show Thomas Crooks practiced a 100-yard shot at a Clairton gun club the day before the July 2024 rally, that an anonymous donor paid to cremate him within 10 days, and that investigators still have no motive.
WatchThe Oversight Committee voted 41-0 on Tuesday and the full chamber approved the referral by unanimous consent Wednesday. The matter now goes to the Justice Department, which decides whether to prosecute.
The nonpartisan budget office's first full accounting excludes damage to U.S. bases, the fuel bill for other agencies and interest on the debt. It says restocking missile defenses could take five years, and it notes the Pentagon refused to provide detailed data.
John Coale's deals with Alexander Lukashenko have now produced about 500 releases since last year. Viasna counts 912 political prisoners still behind bars, and opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says new arrests continue as fast as the old ones are freed.
Health, nutrition, environmental and disaster-relief grants took the biggest hits. California, Texas, New York, Illinois and North Carolina lost the most, and the database catalogs everything from maternal health in Michigan to minority-farmer aid in Iowa.