Trump, still negotiating to conclude the war, claims it’s already over. Some Republican lawmakers have had enough Donald Trump has two things to say about his war with Iran. The first is that it’s already over. And second, a symbolic congressional vote to end it – carried by four members of his own party – is a stab in the back that could derail the peace talks he’s conducting for the war that’s already over. By a 215-208 margin on Wednesday, the US House of Representatives v

Four-part TV documentary examines the aftermath of Operation Peyzac, where officers posed as music industry figures to gather intelligence on crime It was the undercover police operation that led to 37 people being jailed for more than 400 years in total after officers set up a fake recording studio and record shop on a north London housing estate. Now, a four-part television documentary has brought Operation Peyzac back under the spotlight, prompting renewed scrutiny of the

Want to spend less time on your phone? We asked psychotherapists, professors and specialists for practical (and achievable) ways to cut down • The best screen-free activities Everywhere you look, people are glued to their smartphones. If you haven’t noticed this phenomenon, it’s likely because you, too, are glued to the little dopamine-deliverer. In March, Meta and YouTube had to pay a combined $6m after a US court found that the tech companies’ platforms were designed to be

A novel instrument (gradient chamber) and method for measuring the exhalation rates of radon (²²²Rn) and thoron (²²⁰Rn) from surfaces (e.g., soil, rocks, building materials) have been developed and tested. Determining radon and thoron exhalation rates is essential both for protecting human health from radon/thoron exposure and for providing valuable data relevant to climate change research. The chamber is cylindrical with open bases: the upper base is covered with a porous ma

About 9,000 years ago, the settlement was an egalitarian, matrilineal society with no evidence of organised violence.

If confirmed by the Senate, Trump's former personal lawyer would become the administration's number one prosecutor.

USDA confirms first case of New World screwworm in cattle in six decades, posing threat to livestock industry A flesh-eating parasite rarely seen in the US in six decades has been found in a calf in Texas, agriculture officials said, in an alarming development for the country’s cattle industry. The New World screwworm fly ( NWS ) was confirmed in the animal in the south of the state, about 50 miles from the Mexico border, Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary, said late o

Daniel Frost admits throwing bins at police and Matt Styler pleads not guilty to assaulting officer A man has admitted throwing bins at officers and arming himself with a makeshift knuckle duster during the disorder in Southampton after the sentencing of a man for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. Daniel Frost, 44, from Southampton, admitted violent disorder and possession of an offensive weapon when he appeared before a district judge on Thursday. Continue reading...

Police allege the 44-year-old lauded for disarming one of the gunmen in December’s attack put his father in a headlock Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Sydney man who disarmed one of the Bondi terror attackers has been charged with assaulting his father. Ahmed al-Ahmed, 44, is accused of allegedly putting his father in a headlock on 9 March at a house in Bankstown, in the city’s west. Continue reading...

On account of their environmentally-benign composition and structural stability, lead-free halide double perovskites have drawn increasing attention. Even though the charge-transport behavior of Cs₂NaInCl₆, one of these perovskites, remains poorly understood under illumination, it shows strong self-trapped exciton (STE) emission. Through a combined optical and electrical approach, this work investigates the interplay between electrical transport and exciton dynamics. With a w

Prosecutors say they intend to try all five killings together next year after brief arraignment in Portland Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email An accused serial killer in Oregon was arraigned on Wednesday for the murder of a fifth woman. A lawyer for Jesse Calhoun, who was already facing charges in the deaths of four women whose bodies were discovered in 2022 and 2023, entered a not guilty plea for the second-degree murder of Ashley Real, a 22-year-old who prev

Beluga whales, which Marineland threatened to euthanize in 2025, will be moved to sanctuaries in Spain or across US Canada and an embattled marine park have reached a tentative deal on the future of 30 beluga whales , ending a saga that has captivated the public and angered animal rights groups. The federal fisheries ministry announced this week that all of Marineland’s belugas would be shipped to either Spain or one of four locations in the US , ending whale captivity in Can

Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous alloying significantly extend the spectrum of available materials and properties. In this study, (Mo,W)S2 monolayer alloys in the full composition range were grown by a modified atomic layer deposition process. The mixture of Mo and W in the crystal lattice can be controlled by the pulsed precursor schema and either a homogeneous distribution or nanostructures such as line structures and elongated islands were realized. The distribution of m

The tournament comes after a period of fractious relations between the US, Canada and Mexico.

Deletion of the bureau’s website content is just the most recent part of a larger plan to ‘undermine an agency that’s helped people’ The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau deleted at least 2,200 webpages from its website last month, a move advocates say is part of the Trump administration ’s latest effort to dismantle the federal consumer finance watchdog. The removed content was all published before Trump’s second term, and includes press releases, consumer advisories, con

Germany lost its Security Council bid to Austria and Portugal, which secured the two available seats.

Microsoft has announced the wider testing of its new Autopilot feature at the Microsoft Build event this week, backed by a post on the company’s’ website. Autopilots are described as a new category of agents that can work autonomously on a user’s behalf. Microsoft says each Autopilot has its own identity, and so multiple agents can co-exist within different rule sets, letting users run Autopilots at home, or at work, with separate governance and stipulations limiting or allow

Facebook parent company says proposals violate Australia's commitments under its free trade agreement with the US.

The aerodynamic noise produced by the annular axial cooling fan significantly impacts the NVH performance of automobiles. In response to this challenge, the paper proposes a low-noise annular axial cooling fan design, which based on the principle of small-hole jet flow. To balance the aerodynamic performance and the benefits of noise reduction, an L16 orthogonal array was utilized to optimize the perforated blade parameters at the fan rated operating condition (rotational spe

Early-warning indicators in ecosystems, neural activity, financial markets, and climate systems are often interpreted as evidence that a system is approaching a tipping point, typically understood as a bifurcation at which a previously stable state loses stability or disappears. Such indicators include increased variance, autocorrelation, and dimensional reduction. Here we identify a different mechanism that generates the same statistical signatures without any loss of stabil