Latest news →Find published stories by month and topic.
LSU women’s coach Kim Mulkey skipped her postgame news conference and was “heartbroken,” assistant Bob Starkey said, after athletic director Scott Woodward’s ouster. The upheaval followed LSU’s firing of football coach B…
Google is opening early access to Gemini in Google Home. Gemini adds smarter, contextual commands — including multi-device control and tune recognition with details about artists or albums. Subscribers to Google Home Pre…
Google’s Gemini for Home rolls AI into paid Home app plans, promising daily video summaries, AI-labeled alerts, and the Ask Home chatbot. But early use shows shaky accuracy: dogs repeatedly tagged as deer, empty rooms fl…
Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey asked a judge Thursday to toss his case, calling the indictment too vague and the Senate questions at issue fundamentally ambiguous. They requested a detailed account of the …
With the U.S. government shutdown in its 30th day, pressure is mounting to end it as food aid and health costs collide. Alaskans are stockpiling game, Mainers await heating subsidies, and flights slow while workers miss …
Vice President JD Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned of a potential Thanksgiving travel disaster as the government shutdown drags on, after Vance hosted a White House roundtable with airline, union and …
The Justice Department suspended two prosecutors and replaced a sentencing memo that had referenced Donald Trump and January 6 in the case of Taylor Taranto, alarming current and former career attorneys who called the re…
Microsoft's latest quarter undercut hopes for Xbox. Gaming revenue slipped 2% as Xbox hardware plunged 22%, while growth was a scant 1% and largely lifted by better-than-expected third-party titles like Clair Obscur Expe…
Canva is relaunching Affinity as a single, all in one creative app for photo editing, vector illustration, and page layouts, promising it will be free forever with no subscription. Available now on Windows and Mac and co…
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs moved to fast-track his appeal, arguing his 50-month prison term should be sharply reduced, according to court papers filed Wednesday. Defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro said prosecutors ag…
After a 10-3 Week 8, the columnist posts Week 9 straight-up and against-the-spread picks with confidence scores, leaning chalk and citing injuries, matchups and recent form. Highlights include Baltimore with Lamar Jackso…
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark rate by a quarter point to about 3.9%, the second reduction this year, aiming to support growth and hiring amid still-elevated inflation. Chair Jerome Powell warned another cut in De…
Why some spiders decorate their webs remains unsettled, but a new study adds a fresh clue. Modeling the wasp spider’s ornate stabilimenta, researchers including Gabriele Greco found that a central, blob-like patch could …
On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colin Farrell recalled Tom Cruise 'was not happy' with him during Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report. Amid substance abuse struggles, he partied the night before his May 31 birthday…
According to multiple reports, the Jets are sending cornerback Michael Carter to the Eagles for wide receiver John Metchie, with a 2027 sixth-round pick going to the Jets and a 2027 seventh-rounder going back to the Eagl…
A jury convicted former Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson of second-degree murder for the July 2024 shooting of Sonya Massey, who had called 911 about a possible intruder at her Springfield home. Jurors, instructed not…
Public Enemy released the video for The Hits Just Keep On Comin’, the first visual from June’s Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025, directed by Rhiannon Rae Ellis. It opens with 1960 footage of Ruby Bridges; actr…
Five unoccupied homes in North Carolina’s Outer Banks collapsed into the Atlantic on Tuesday afternoon amid rough surf, the National Park Service said. The houses, in Buxton on Tower Circle Road, Ocean Drive and Cottage …
Character Technologies will end open‑ended chats between teens and Character.AI’s bots by November 25, citing lawsuits, regulator questions and recent reporting. Until then, teen users face a two‑hour chat cap; under‑18s…
The Bengals are uncertain whether quarterback Joe Flacco will play Sunday against the Bears after an AC joint sprain in his throwing shoulder, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Coach Zac Taylor called him day to day. Flacc…
General Motors laid off roughly 1,700 workers in Michigan and Ohio, including about 1,200 at Detroit’s EV plant and 550 at Ultium Cells in Ohio, with 850 additional temporary layoffs there. The company will also temporar…
YouTube is pushing deeper into big-screen viewing with a feature drop for TV audiences: automatic AI upscaling of videos to 1080p (with labeled "super resolution" up to 4K coming), bigger 50MB thumbnails, and an immersiv…
WASHINGTON — The shutdown is costing the U.S. economy about $7 billion per month that won’t be recovered, the nonpartisan CBO told House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington. For four-, six-, and eight-week durations, unrecovere…
Ariana Grande has left her Glinda-blond era, revealing a glossy brunette return in an Instagram mirror selfie Wednesday. “it’s good to see me, isn’t it? ✨,” she wrote, crediting colorist Francesco De Chiara, hairstylist …
Gyeongju, South Korea — Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet Thursday on APEC’s sidelines, with US officials signaling a pause on China’s rare earth export controls and new US tariffs. The talks follow threats of …