Poverty in New York City Inched Higher in 2024 for Third Year in a Row

The cost of basics like housing and food rose, while incomes and other resources, like public benefits, did not keep up.

The Epstein Files: A Timeline

What began as a sex-trafficking investigation in Florida has gone on to spawn conspiracy theories and tarnish the legacies of influential people.

One of Epstein’s Levers of Power: Access to Elite Private Schools

Jeffrey Epstein used his money and influence in the world of elite private schools to assist friends and acquaintances.

Hydropower Line From Quebec to Queens Could Power a Million N.Y.C. Homes

A 339-mile buried transmission line is on schedule to bring clean electricity to New York City this spring.

N.Y.C. to Get Green Energy From Canadian Hydropower

Our climate reporter Hilary Howard explores the Champlain Hudson Power Express, a new transmission line that will deliver hydro power from Quebec to New York City. It’s planned to provide up to 20% of the city’s energy needs.

Behind Mamdani’s Smile, a Politician Who Can Be a Ruthless Operator

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, while charming in public, has thrown sharp elbows in private as he pushes his political brand and agenda among fellow Democrats.

Moonshot AI Releases 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔 to Replace Fixed Residual Mixing with Depth-Wise Attention for Better Scaling in Transformers

Residual connections are one of the least questioned parts of modern Transformer design. In PreNorm architectures, each layer adds its output back into a running hidden state, which keeps optimization

Sources: Hua Hong is readying a 7nm process at its Shanghai fab with Huawei's collaboration, which would make it China's second chipmaker at the node after SMIC

Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: Hua Hong is readying a 7nm process at its Shanghai fab with Huawei's collaboration, which would make it China's second chipmaker at the node after SMIC China's Hua H

Middle East conflict live updates: Trump warns ‘very bad future’ for Nato if allies refuse to help reopen Strait of Hormuz

The price of Brent crude has surged amid the Middle East turmoil.

10 Things Linux Can Do That Windows Still Can’t

We all know Linux gives us a world of freedoms we couldn't possibly have on Windows, but have you ever stopped to think about that freedom in real, qualitative terms? After all, when most people say they can't switch to Linux, it's usually because of something they just can't do without Windows or macOS or Android (which itself is Linux, even if most don't consider it such).So, let's take a closer look at some of the things you can do on/with a Linux system that you just can't typically do on Wi...

LWiAI Podcast #237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!

Nemotron 3 Super: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE for Agentic Reasoning, Another XAI Cofounder Has Left, Anthropic Sues Department of Defense

Berlin Youth Center Hid Girl's Gang-Rape By The Usual Suspects To Avoid 'Typical Muslim' Label

Berlin Youth Center Hid Girl's Gang-Rape By The Usual Suspects To Avoid 'Typical Muslim' Label Via Remix News, A Turkish-Kurdish schoolgirl is said to have been groped by nine boys of Arab descent in the back room of a Berlin youth center in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln. It then came out that she was raped in November, in the youth center garden. A scandal has erupted after it was reported that the youth center staff did not file a police report, reportedly out of fear that the suspects ...

Sources: Alibaba may unveil a Qwen-based AI agent for enterprises as soon as this week, and plans to gradually integrate the agent into its services like Alipay

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Sources: Alibaba may unveil a Qwen-based AI agent for enterprises as soon as this week, and plans to gradually integrate the agent into its services like Alipay Alibaba Group H

Sources: Microsoft sidelined some Copilot-branded AI features on Windows 11 after the Recall delay, and shipped some promised features without the Copilot name

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft sidelined some Copilot-branded AI features on Windows 11 after the Recall delay, and shipped some promised features without the Copilot name Original

Sources: Microsoft cut plans to add some Copilot AI features to Windows 11 and shipped some tools without the Copilot branding, to reduce AI bloat in the OS

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft cut plans to add some Copilot AI features to Windows 11 and shipped some tools without the Copilot branding, to reduce AI bloat in the OS Originally

These 15 Amazon Spring Sale Tech Deals Are Actually Good. WWe Checked the Price History (2026)

This sale spans almost an entire week, and it’s full of fake “deals.” We hunted to find truly good prices on gear we’ve tested.

IBM AI Releases Granite 4.0 1B Speech as a Compact Multilingual Speech Model for Edge AI and Translation Pipelines

IBM has released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact speech-language model designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional automatic speech translation (AST). The release t

Last Week in AI #338 - Anthropic sues Trump, xAI starting over, Iran AI Fakes

Anthropic sues Trump administration in AI dispute with Pentagon, ‘Not built right the first time’ Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again, Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War With Iran Causes Chaos Onl

Echoes Of Iraq: Mainstream Media 'Deja Vu' Over Framing Of The War On Iran

Echoes Of Iraq: Mainstream Media 'Deja Vu' Over Framing Of The War On Iran Via Middle East Eye “Why we should go to war” ran the headline of a Guardian article in February 2003 by the commentator Julie Burchill. In it, she explained to the Guardian’s liberal readers why a pro-war attitude in the run-up to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s invasion of Iraq should be welcomed.  “If you really think it's better for more people to die over decades under a tyrannical regime th...

Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Micron completes the $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip's DRAM fab in Taiwan, and plans a second fab of similar scale with construction starting by the end of FY26 U.S. memory chi

Lewis Lehrman, 87, Dies; Store Chain Executive Ran for N.Y. Governor

After helping his family’s Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.

Alaskans Carry The Most Lifetime Credit-Card Debt Of All Americans, Iowans The Least

Alaskans Carry The Most Lifetime Credit-Card Debt Of All Americans, Iowans The Least The average American accumulates nearly $400,000 in credit card debt over their lifetime. But the total varies significantly depending on where people live. In some states, the typical lifetime total exceeds $450,000, while in others it sits closer to $320,000. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Tasmin Lockwood, based on data from JG Wentworth, shows which states accumulate the most and least credi...

Team USA advances to World Baseball Classic final after win over Dominican Republic

Team USA is headed back to the World Baseball Classic (WBC) final, as they toppled the Dominican Republic, 2-1, in a thriller in Miami on Sunday night. The U.S., who fell to Japan in the WBC final in 2023, will look for redemption against either Venezuela or Italy, who play their semifinal matchup on Monday night.The hype and hysteria coming into this contest between two world baseball powerhouses lived up to it all despite what the box score said. Both teams came in clutch during key moments, w...

White House Denies Tucker Carlson CIA Spy-Op

White House Denies Tucker Carlson CIA Spy-Op Update (2250ET): 'Top admin officials' tell Axios' Marc Caputo that this is fake news;  2/2 Specifically, I’m told 1) there’s no CIA investigation of Carlson 2) In his meeting, the two politely disagreed, and Trump held to his position Iran was a threat and didn’t mislead him Said one source: Trump “wasn’t participating in an op.” — Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) March 16, 2026 Meanwhile, Carlson sat down with Glenn Greenwald Friday morning...

The Singularity Is A Step-Function

The Singularity Is A Step-Function Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Ratcheting Ourselves Through the Inflection Point Ray Kurzweil always framed the Singularity as a moment some techno-rapture threshold humanity would stumble through like a portal in a video game. One side: regular civilization. Other side: incomprehensible machine superintelligence. Roll credits. About a year ago I put out a Bombthrower piece saying that this was wrong. Not because the Singularity ...

Killing Vampires Pays Off as Michael B. Jordan Wins Best Actor for ‘Sinners’

Ryan Coogler's film was nominated for a record 16 Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture.

#TheMoment Canada's wheelchair curlers became Paralympic champions

Members of Canada's Paralympic curling team tell CBC News about the moment they won gold after beating China with only seconds left in the game.

Former substitute teacher and boyfriend face 38 child sex charges as bond nears 9 million

A former Texas substitute teacher and her boyfriend are now facing a combined 38 child sex crime charges, with their bonds set at nearly $9 million.Madison Paige Jones, a former substitute teacher in the Midlothian Independent School District, and her boyfriend Zackery Dondlinger were first arrested in December after Midlothian police launched an investigation into allegations involving a 5-year-old child who lived in Jones’ home.Jones’ bond was initially set at $90,000 and Dondlinger’s initiall...

Arizona man who admitted to crucifying pastor asks for death penalty so 'we can move on with our lives'

An Arizona man accused of crucifying a pastor and placing a crown of thorns on the victim's head has requested the death penalty so everyone "can move on with our lives."Adam Sheafe, who is representing himself, asked the judge last week to allow him to enter a guilty plea, so the case can wrap up quickly, saying the legal system was "dragging this out," according to Fox 10.Sheafe, 51, is accused of murdering William Schonemann, the pastor of New River Bible Chapel, in April 2025 before mutilati...

What COVID Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent

What COVID Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent Authored by Joseph Varon via the Brownstone Institute, The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between them. Intensive care units became Covid wards. Monitors glowed in dark rooms while ventilators pushed air into failing lungs. Nurses, shrouded in protective gear, moved quietly. Families were absent—barred from being with loved ones in their final hours. One night...

2026 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament selections revealed

The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament field was revealed on Sunday night – a few hours after the men’s programs learned where they would be playing in their tournament.The UConn Huskies were named the No. 1 overall seed of the tournament as the program pursues its 13th national championship. The Huskies are the only undefeated team in Division I college basketball and are led by Sarah Strong and Azzi Fudd. Strong is averaging 18.5 points per game and Fudd is averaging 17.7.Dawn Staley’s South C...

The UK Will Invest Billions to Build a Nuclear Fusion Industry

The UK's science minister is announcing details of a five-year, £2.5 billion investment in nuclear fusion, reports the Times of London, "including building one of the world's first prototype fusion power plants in Nottinghamshire and developing a UK sector projected to employ 10,000 people by 2030." Despite the potentially transformative impact of fusion, which in theory could provide limitless clean energy and create a £12 trillion global market, no country has managed to use this fledgling t...

California's snowpack was already meager. Now comes an extraordinary heat wave

Winter has brought California's Sierra Nevada a below-average amount of snow, and the snowpack has been shrinking for weeks.

Yet Another Tech Titan Flees California For Texas

Yet Another Tech Titan Flees California For Texas The exodus of Silicon Valleytitans from California is gaining momentum as the state weighs a proposed wealth tax aimed at billionaires, including potential levies on unrealized gains, a measure that has stirred significant concern in the tech sector. Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick revealed this week that he relocated from California to Texas last winter. BREAKING: @travisk says he's relocated from California to Texas. "On Decembe...

CNN liberal panelist argues billions spent on defense should go to health insurance instead

Political commentator, Leigh McGowan, argued Friday, on "CNN NewsNight" with Abby Phillips, that President Donald Trump's decision to escalate the U.S. conflict with Iran raises questions about government spending priorities.She complained that tens of thousands of Americans die each year without health insurance while the U.S. spends billions on war."You’re saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don’t have health insura...

Tumbler Ridge among 13 communities getting $50,000 in annual Hockeyville contest

Thirteen communities across Canada will receive $50,000 for arena upgrades, while two finalists will go head-to-head to host a NHL pre-season game.

Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating

Clinton Nwachukwu / Ventureburn: Standard Kernel, which is making AI-powered GPU optimization software, raised a $20M seed led by Jump Capital, with General Catalyst and others participating Automat

Actor Wayne Brady slaps AEW wrestler during match at Revolution

Actor Wayne Brady briefly saw some action in a match during All Elite Wrestling’s Revolution pay-per-view on Sunday night in Los Angeles.Brady’s involvement came during the Zero Hour portion of the pay-per-view. The tag team of Boom and Doom, featuring social media influencer and one part of the "Costco Guys," "Big Boom" A.J., and Q.T. Marshall, took on The Infantry, consisting of Shawn Dean and Carlie Bravo.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMShane Taylor, who was aligned with Dea...

Reading Europa's Fingerprints

Beneath Europa's cracked and frozen shell lies a vast ocean of liquid water and what's seeping up through that ice may be one of the most compelling clues we have ever found about the moon's potential for life. A new analysis of James Webb Space Telescope observations has revealed that carbon dioxide on Europa's surface is far more widespread than previously thought, spreading across multiple regions of geological terrain in a distinctive lens like pattern. The findings are rewriting what we tho...

Life, But Not As We Know It

For sixty years, the search for life beyond Earth has been built on the single assumption that alien life will look enough like us to recognise. A radical new idea called Assembly Theory is challenging that assumption. A team from the Arizona State University has proposed applying it to the atmospheres of distant exoplanets, not to look for specific gases, but to measure how much complexity a planetary atmosphere contains, and whether blind chemistry alone could plausibly have produced it. If it...

Lewis E. Lehrman, 87, Dies; Store Chain Executive Ran for N.Y. Governor

After helping his family’s Rite-Aid drugstore empire flourish, he waged a surprisingly close but losing race as a Reagan Republican against Mario Cuomo in 1982.

Slow Progress Pushes Trump Admin To Talk With Westinghouse Rivals

Slow Progress Pushes Trump Admin To Talk With Westinghouse Rivals In a stunning pivot that could upend Westinghouse's monopoly-in-progress, the Trump administration’s Department of Energy is quietly shopping for alternatives to Westinghouse’s AP1000 flagship reactor. According to Canary Media, high-ranking DOE officials have held recent talks with executives from GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) and South Korean diplomats representing state-owned Korea Electric Power Corp. (K...

The Sun's Great Escape

Our Sun didn't always call this quiet corner of the Milky Way home. New research using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite has uncovered evidence that the Sun fled the chaotic heart of our Galaxy four to six billion years ago and it didn't go alone. A vast migration of stars almost identical to our own swept outward together, a great exodus that may have made life on Earth possible. The story of how astronomers pieced this together is as remarkable as the discovery itself.

Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is A Massive "Gravity Hole" Underneath Antarctica?

Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is A Massive "Gravity Hole" Underneath Antarctica? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of the American Dream blog, For decades, we were told to ignore any of the strange reports that we were hearing about Antarctica. Experts assured us that nothing unusual was going on and that there wasn’t anything to be concerned about. Of course we couldn’t go investigate for ourselves, because as you will see below, there are 72 areas of Antarctica ...

Woman accused of fatal hit-and-run that killed 8 year old laughs during first court appearance

A Florida woman accused of fleeing a crash that killed an 8-year-old boy was seen shaking her head and laughing during her first court appearance Friday as a judge read the charges against her via video conference.The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said 30-year-old Victoria Johnson of Winter Haven was arrested Thursday and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death, leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury, tampering with evidence, driving without a license causing de...

Woman accused of fatal hit-and-run that killed 8-year-old laughs during first court appearance

A Florida woman accused of fleeing a crash that killed an 8-year-old boy was seen shaking her head and laughing during her first court appearance Friday as a judge read the charges against her via video conference.The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said 30-year-old Victoria Johnson of Winter Haven was arrested Thursday and charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death, leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury, tampering with evidence, driving without a license causing de...

Penn's TJ Power takes advantage of massive Yale blunder to punch ticket to March Madness

A massive blunder by the Yale Bulldogs’ men’s basketball team in the Ivy League Tournament final wound up costing them a March Madness bid. It was a thrilling second half that ultimately needed extra time to figure out a champion, as Penn’s T.J. Power nailed a game-tying 3-pointer with one second left to force overtime. It gave the Quakers star 40 points and kept their season alive, as the No. 1 seed Bulldogs were trying to hold off their conference foe. But the Quakers were able to come away wi...

2026 Oscars: Winners and losers

The 98th Academy Awards are taking center stage Sunday night as the film industry’s biggest stars gather in Los Angeles to celebrate the year in movies.Celebrities including Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore and Kate Hudson arrived at the Dolby Theatre ahead of the ceremony, which recognizes standout performances, directing and filmmaking in Hollywood.Here’s the complete list of nominees and winners from the 98th Academy Awards.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSKATE HUDSON ...

Tennessee batter celebrates go-ahead homer prematurely as Georgia outfielder makes incredible catch

Tennessee Volunteers catcher Stone Lawless thought he had given his team the lead in the top of the ninth inning against the Georgia Bulldogs on Sunday, but his dramatic bat slam was all for naught.Lawless drove Bulldogs pitcher Justin Byrd’s pitch deep to left field. He slammed the bat on the ground and began to celebrate with his teammates in the dugout. However, Georgia left fielder Cole Johnson leaped at the wall and robbed the home run.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMJohns...

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Your Best Animated Feature Oscar Winner

Netflix's biggest film of all time not only has a sequel in the works, but it's also got more awards on its shelf.

Playdate games to check out before the Catalog's 3-year anniversary sale ends

If your Playdate wishlist is anything like mine (endless), here's a good excuse to actually go ahead and free some of those games from limbo: Panic is running a sale across the Playdate Catalog to celebrate its three-year anniversary. Sure, the majority of Playdate games are pretty cheap as is, but they can still add up when you're on a wild purchasing spree. Ask me how I know! The sale started on March 5 and goes until March 19 at 1PM ET (10AM PT), so take advantage of the discounts while you c...

Iranian foreign minister claims Trump launched war 'because it is fun'

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi claimed on Sunday, on "Face the Nation," that President Donald Trump launched attacks against Iran "because it is fun," accusing the United States of starting what he called an "illegal war" during an interview with CBS host Margaret Brennan."We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes," Aragchi said. "There are people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun... they are sinking ships and targeting different places because it is ...

2026's EV Sales Hit 1.1M - But Europe Surges While North America Slides

Europe's EV sales for January and February spiked 21% from last year, according to new data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Electrek reports that just in those two months over 600,000 EVs were sold in Europe. And figures for "rest of world" (which excludes Europe, North America, and China) are up a whopping 84% with 370,000 EVs sold in January and February. (EVs now represent more than 30% of the vehicles sold in South Korea.) But for the same period China's sales are down 26% from las...

2026 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament selections revealed

The 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament’s field of 68 was revealed on Sunday.The Duke Blue Devils, led by Cameron Boozer, were the No. 1 overall seed and the top team in the East Region.. Boozer is averaging 22.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game and could be the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming NBA Draft should he declare. Duke is in the top left quadrant of the bracket.The Florida Gators are the defending champions and enter the tournament as the No. 1 seed in the South Region. Florida did...

Middle East conflict live updates: Trump likely to announce coalition to escort ships through Strait of Hormuz

Seymour said the US has not asked NZ for military support in the Strait of Hormuz yet.

Sen. Mike Lee: We've 'Turned Kind Of A Corner’ On The Save Act

Sen. Mike Lee: We've 'Turned Kind Of A Corner’ On The Save Act Last week, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he will not sign any new legislation until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, calling it his top priority ahead of the midterms.  The SAVE Act, introduced in January by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and a government-issued photo ID to vote. It also req...

Veteran '60 Minutes' reporter says the network 'crumbled' under Trump's pressure

A veteran "60 Minutes" journalist slammed the previous owners of his parent network, CBS, for settling an election interference lawsuit with President Donald Trump."Our previous owners at CBS faced political pressure and crumbled‚" Scott Pelley said, according to The Guardian’s Jeremy Barr, referencing the fallout over the legal dispute between Trump and CBS. Pelley was introducing former "60 Minutes" executive producer Bill Owens at the National Press Foundation Annual Journalism Awards Dinner ...

Ask Slashdot: What's the Best All-Purpose RISC-V System on a Chip Family?

Slashdot reader SysEngineer does embedded/IoT work, but "I want to pick a single system-on-a-chip architecture family and commit to it across multiple product lines sensor nodes up through edge gateways... I've been on one platform for years and want to know what embedded engineers are actually running in production before I commit!" And "the family needs to scale cheap and small at the low end, capable of running Linux on the bigger variants!" Their requirements? WiFi + BLE required Lo...

Team USA Paralympic sled hockey completes clean sweep of Canada at Winter Games

The United States has defeated Canada on Olympic ice yet again to secure gold, this time in the Paralympic Games. After a 6-2 victory over Canada on Sunday, the U.S. took home gold in men’s Paralympics sled hockey. In doing so, they became the first country to ever win five consecutive Paralympic titles. They were also the first to sweep all three Paralympic and Olympic hockey events at a single tournament. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMOf course, the men’s and women’s ice ho...

Oscars 2026 brings star-studded red-carpet fashion led by Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson and Nicole Kidman

The Oscars red carpet delivered the night’s first winners as Hollywood’s biggest stars stepped out in dazzling looks ahead of the 2026 Academy Awards.On Sunday, celebrities arrived in style for the 98th edition of the film industry's most prestigious awards ceremony, which was held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California and hosted by comedian and former late night host Conan O’Brien.Gwyneth Paltrow wowed in strapless white silk custom Giorgio Armani Privé column gown that was completely s...

Oscars 2026 brings star-studded red-carpet fashion led by Heidi Klum and Rose Byrne

The Oscars red carpet delivered the night’s first winners as Hollywood’s biggest stars stepped out in dazzling looks ahead of the 2026 Academy Awards.On Sunday, celebrities arrived in style for the 98th edition of the film industry's most prestigious awards ceremony, which was held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California and hosted by comedian and former late night host Conan O’Brien.Heidi Klum wowed in a strapless champagne column gown featuring shimmering crystal embellishments and intri...

Ex-NBA star says Kobe Bryant gave him mysterious message about afterlife in 'vivid' dream

The late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant recently came into a "vivid" dream that one of his former teammates had. Lamar Odom, who won back-to-back NBA titles alongside Bryant during this time together with the Lakers, recently revealed to the "Doubl3 Coverage Podcast" that he was competing against Bryant in a three-point contest and actor Billy Crystal was hosting it. But as they were competing in the dream, Odom said Bryant stopped and looked at him. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON...

Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech exclusively to governments, reviving claims of state spying in Greece after being sentenced last month

Eliza Triantafillou / OCCRP: Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech exclusively to governments, reviving claims of state spying in Greece after being sentenced last month The foun

Must-see looks from the 2026 Oscars red carpet

Here's what the stars are wearing to Hollywood's biggest night.

Teen injured in shooting at Dockweiler Beach

No arrests had been made as of midday Sunday after a 15-year-old was shot during an apparent gang fight that escalated to gunfire the night before.

Oscars 2026: Amy Madigan wins 1st award of the night for best supporting actress

Oscars 2026: Sinners wins best original screenplay

Oscars 2026: One Battle after Another wins 6th award with best picture

Oscars 2026: One Battle after Another wins best picture

Oscars 2026: Follow live updates from the red carpet

Schiff, Booker deflect on shutdown blame amid terror concerns, thousands of DHS workers without pay

Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., deflected blame when pressed whether their party should vote to end the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown on Sunday, which has left workers without paychecks for weeks."We saw terror attacks in West Bloomfield, Michigan, in Norfolk, Virginia. This morning, the CEOs of the nation's major airlines and cargo carriers have written a letter to Congress calling for them to end the shutdown, talking about the importance of American secu...

CachyOS Dethrones Arch As ProtonDB's Top Linux Gamer Desktop Distro

Linux gaming "has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does," according to the Android site XDA Developers. And there's a new surprise on ProtonDB, an "unofficial" community website with crowdsourced data about videogame compatability with the Linux software/gaming compatability layer Proton: On ProtonDB, one operating system had reigned supreme since 2021: Arch Linux. And I say 'had,' because its streak has just been ended by [Arch-based]...

Pope Leo urges war leaders to halt fighting after deadly strike on school sparks outrage

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an immediate ceasefire in the war involving Iran, delivering his strongest remarks yet on the conflict and urging leaders responsible for the fighting to halt violence after deadly strikes that hit schools and civilian areas.The Associated Press reported the pope made the remarks at the end of his Sunday noon blessing at the Vatican, where he appealed to leaders involved in the conflict to halt the fighting and pursue dialogue instead of continued military escal...

Spring Break crackdown: Southern towns roll out alcohol bans and new restrictions

Certain popular spring break destinations are introducing stricter rules ahead of the busy travel season.In Panama City Beach, Florida, officials have approved temporary overnight beach closures as part of the city’s spring break safety plan.The closures will run from March 12 through April 30, with certain sections of the beach closed nightly between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., according to the Panama City Beach official website.VACATION HOT SPOT MAY BAN ALCOHOL SALES DURING KEY HOURS IN SWEEPING NEW C...

Spring break crackdown: Southern towns roll out alcohol bans and new restrictions

Certain popular spring break destinations are introducing stricter rules ahead of the busy travel season.In Panama City Beach, Florida, officials have approved temporary overnight beach closures as part of the city’s spring break safety plan.The closures will run from March 12 through April 30, with certain sections of the beach closed nightly between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., according to the Panama City Beach official website.VACATION HOT SPOT MAY BAN ALCOHOL SALES DURING KEY HOURS IN SWEEPING NEW C...

Bessent Leads Trade Talks With China In Paris Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit

Bessent Leads Trade Talks With China In Paris Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit Ahead of the upcoming Trump-Xi summit, China and US have begun a fresh round of trade talks to set the stage for the main event.  Trade negotiators led by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng held talks in Paris on Sunday to map out plans for a leaders’ summit later this month. The first day of the talks concluded around 6 pm local time, a...

Middle East conflict live updates: US attacks on Iran have cost $21 billion so far, Seymour says no request for NZ military support

'They certainly have capabilities, but at this point, we're not being asked to use them.'

Marvel Wants to Remind You ‘X-Men ’97’ Season 2 Is Really Close

Why not spend part of your summer reading the exploits of the 'X-Men '97' cast before the show returns in full?

Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia The company

Illegal immigrant released under Biden charged with groping female students at Virginia high school

An illegal immigrant released during the Biden administration has been charged with multiple counts of assault and battery after allegedly groping female classmates in the hallways of a Virginia high school, according to parents and school officials."I think this entire horrifying situation is the direct consequence of policy with really dysfunctional priorities, and that's to shield adult illegal immigrants at the expense of children's safety, even in their public schools," Stephanie Lundquist-...

CarGurus breach linked to ShinyHunters exposes 12.4M records

If you've ever searched for a car on CarGurus, your personal information could now be circulating online. A hacking group known as ShinyHunters has published what it claims are 12.4 million records taken from CarGurus, a popular auto shopping platform used by millions of people each month.The leaked data includes names, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses and even finance pre-qualification details. While most of the records were already exposed in past incidents, about 3.7 million...

Oprah Winfrey fires back at internet trolls mocking her '90-year-old' walk at Paris Fashion Week

Oprah Winfrey is clapping back at online haters who trolled the longtime talk show host for walking like she was "90 years old" during an appearance at Paris Fashion Week earlier this month. "On the internet, somebody was, you know how people drag you on the internet. So they were dragging me and Gayle [King] saying, ‘Look at them walking like they’re 90 years old,'" Oprah said, per a video clip on Instagram posted on Friday. "And so there was a moment where we’re walking into the Chloe fashion ...

How One Company Finally Exposed North Korea's Massive Remote Workers Scam

NBC News investigates North Korea's "wide-ranging effort to place remote workers at U.S. companies in order to funnel money back to its coffers and, in some cases, steal sensitive information." And working with the FBI, one corporate security/investigations company decided to knowingly hire one of North Korea's remote workers then "ship him a laptop and gain as much information as possible" about this "sprawling international employment scheme that is estimated to include hundreds of American ...

Trump Administration Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee From TikTok U.S. Deal

Trump Administration Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee From TikTok U.S. Deal The Trump administration is poised to receive roughly $10 billion in payments from investors involved in the recently completed transaction to take control of TikTok’s U.S. operations, delivering an unusual financial windfall tied to the government’s role in keeping the popular social-media platform active in the United States. ByteDance is the Chinese parent of TikTok. John G Mabanglo/EPA/Shutterstock The pa...

It’s Sinners vs One Battle After Another for the top honours on the movie world’s big day

Academy Awards will be hosted for a second year running by comedian Conan O’Brien.

Tori Spelling sets the record straight on 30 years of plastic surgery rumors

Tori Spelling said this week that throughout her career, tabloids and fans have made "horrific" claims that she’s had plastic surgery she didn’t get done."Since I was 17, since before there was internet, wow, there was the Enquirer, The Globe, it was like the tabloid paper magazines," the 52-year-old told Dr. Terry Dubrow while they were discussing plastic surgery on her "MisSpelling" podcast on Monday.  "And the Globe came out with something when I was 17," she said. "I had started ‘90210’ and ...

Some Lapu-Lapu Day attack survivors say it’s too soon for the Vancouver festival to return

Some survivors of the Lapu-Lapu Day festival attack say it’s not the right time for the cultural event to return to Vancouver next month about a year after 11 people were killed at the Filipino festival in 2025.

FCC chair Brendan Carr warns broadcasters must 'correct course' on 'news distortions' before license renewals

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr issued a warning to the media on Saturday calling on networks to "correct course" before their license renewals come up. "Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up," he wrote on X, in response to a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump about coverage of the war in Iran. "The law is clear. Broadcasters must ope...

Three questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ Forms a Physical Collection After Netflix Delisting

'Voltron: Legendary Defender' may no longer be on Netflix, but in a few weeks, it can be with *you*...at least until you remember its ending.

Arc Raiders replaced some of its AI-generated voice lines, using professional actors instead

In an unexpected twist, humans have taken some jobs back from AI. Embark Studios' CEO Patrick Söderlund recently told GamesIndustry.biz that the studio "re-recorded" some of the AI-generated voice lines in Arc Raiders with human voices, only after its successful launch in October. "There is a quality difference," Söderlund told GamesIndustry.biz. "A real professional actor is better than AI; that's just how it is." With Arc Raiders' player count peaking at nearly half a million users on Steam, t...

String of attacks connected to naturalized citizens raises national security questions

The United States is left vulnerable even by its own naturalized U.S. citizens from hostile foreign lands, proving a free country can be exposed to security risks by the very freedoms the Constitution endows, an expert warned on Fox News."That's partially because of legal reasons: They can't just monitor constitutionally protected free speech and opinions after they become a naturalized citizen, indefinitely, just to keep tabs on them," Mauro Institute president Ryan Mauro told Fox News on Satur...

French Municipal Elections Provide Early Test For Le Pen's National Rally Ahead Of 2027 Presidential Race

French Municipal Elections Provide Early Test For Le Pen's National Rally Ahead Of 2027 Presidential Race Takeaways France held the first round of municipal elections on Sunday in nearly 35,000 municipalities, serving as an initial indicator of political momentum ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) is seeking to expand its limited local presence, with ambitions focused on southern cities such as Perpignan, Marseille, Nice and Toulon. Pre-vot...

How Trump’s ‘911’ marine unit could wrestle for control of Strait of Hormuz

The redeployment leaves the Pacific without a US quick reaction marine force.

Iran arrests dozens accused of spying for Israel in new internal crackdown

Iranian authorities say they have arrested dozens of people accused of spying for Israel across several provinces, according to state media reports over the weekend.Fars, a news agency affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported Sunday the West Azerbaijan prosecutor’s office had arrested 20 individuals in the northwestern city of Urmia for allegedly providing Israel with information about military, police and security sites.On Saturday, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligen...

Rihanna shooting suspect’s disturbing posts emerge as star joins growing celebrity list facing fan threats

Rihanna's star status nearly cost her her life last weekend during an attempted drive-by shooting at her Beverly Hills home.Ivanna Lisette Ortiz allegedly drove up to the "Diamonds" singer's mansion and fired multiple rounds from a semiautomatic weapon at the house, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Ortiz, 35, was charged Tuesday with attempted murder and faces life in prison if convicted on the charges.Following the shooting, cryptic posts were unearthed from Ortiz's social media c...

Companies Are Starting To Enforce AI Use. Is That A Good Or Bad Thing?

Companies Are Starting To Enforce AI Use. Is That A Good Or Bad Thing? Via the AIX Files, Years ago, I was working on the editorial side for what was then a hot new media company, and found myself spending more and more time with Johan, the lead programmer, and his team, asking them a lot of annoying questions as it was all so new – certainly to me. I was standing over Johan’s left shoulder, mesmerized by whatever new video game he was obsessing over that week…when suddenly, out o...

Common vitamin could bring relief from long COVID symptoms, study suggests

Vitamin D supplements may offer researchers a new clue about lingering COVID symptoms that persist after infection, according to a new study.Researchers at Mass General Brigham examined whether high doses of vitamin D could influence COVID-19 outcomes, including the risk of developing long COVID, a condition in which symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath and brain fog continue weeks or months after the initial infection.The findings were published in The Journal of Nutrition.HIGHLY CONTA...

Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick's Newest Venture? 'Gainfully Employed Robots'

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick launched a new venture that "will focus on creating 'gainfully employed robots' for the food, mining and transport industries," Bloomberg reports. "I left Uber in 2017 heartbroken," writes Kalanick on the new company's web site. Kalanick resigned under pressure in 2017, and complains he was "torn away from an idea and a movement that I had poured my life into... I bled, but I did not perish. I got back up and fought my way back into the arena, back to my calling...

DAVID MARCUS: In an age of broken institutions, the filibuster is one relic we can't afford

The filibuster, which is in essence a 60-vote threshold to pass legislation in the United States Senate, is a well-intentioned instrument meant to protect the rights of states, markets and individuals from excessive federal law. But it must now be abandoned.Under the filibuster, the Senate can only act when a piece of legislation is overwhelmingly popular, and in the current case of the Save America Act, which has widespread public support, not even then.When the Senate abdicates this power, the...