White House begins demolishing part of East Wing for Trump ballroom
Crews tore down a massive covered entryway and windows in the East Wing to make way for Trump’s new event space.
Lisbon funicular crash initial report reveals litany of failings
A preliminary report says a cable that broke on the Glória funicular last month had never been certified, and mentions other failures.
Catholic clergy sex abuse survivors hopeful after Pope Leo meeting
The Pope acknowledged “resistance in some parts of the world” to permanently remove a priest who abuses a child, the group said.
Hamas is a pale shadow of what it was – but it could yet reinvent itself
After governing with an iron rod for so many years, is Hamas really prepared to relinquish control in Gaza?
Double comet alert! Comets Lemmon and SWAN will reach their brightest tonight and tomorrow — here’s how to spot them
Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) makes its closest approach to Earth on Oct. 21, about 24 hours after the fainter Comet SWAN (C/2025 R2) does the
Omni Group devs explain how they use Apple Foundation Models
With Foundation Models, Apple has given developers the power to use Apple Intelligence large language models (LLMs) from within their own apps using a few lines of code.
Protestors arrested in the middle of the night as Greg Abbott forces removal of rainbow crosswalks
Houston Police arrested protesters as the demonstrators tried to stop road crews from paving over rainbow crosswalks in the city’s Montrose neighborhood. “We know we
NASA’s acting leader seeks to keep his job with new lunar lander announcement
NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space agency’s plans to return humans to
Claude Code gets a web version—but it’s the new sandboxing that really matters
Anthropic has added web and mobile interfaces for Claude Code, its immensely popular command-line interface (CLI) agentic AI coding tool. The web interface appears to
With SpaceX Behind Schedule, NASA Will Seek More Moon Lander Ideas
Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, and Lockheed Martin are among the contractors that may compete with Elon Musk’s company in the race back to
Trump has power to command National Guard troops in Oregon, 9th Circuit rules
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration after Oregon challenged the president’s authority to deploy the National Guard.
US man who fled to Scotland to avoid rape charges jailed
Nicholas Rossi, an American man who faked his death and fled to Scotland to escape rape charges, has been jailed for at least five years.
‘Ukraine can’t win war,’ says Trump – as reports emerge of tumultuous meeting with Zelenskyy
Tweety McTreason has said he doesn’t think Ukraine can win the war against Russia – as reports emerge of a less-than-harmonious meeting between the US
Who can enforce the Gaza ceasefire deal?
Israel has breached the Gaza ceasefire with Hamas, killing dozens of Palestinians.