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A judge has blocked the U.S. Postal Service's proposals responding to President Trump's order, including not delivering ballots in states that don't turn over voter lists to the federal government.
A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.
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Delays and rising prices have made the promise of space travel for ordinary people more elusive than ever. Will that ever change?
President Trump abruptly scrapped plans to sign a major housing bill. It could still become law, with or without a presidential signature. But Mr. Trump could also try to kill it.
GLM-5.2 — the latest Chinese open-source model capturing Silicon Valley's attention — is raising fresh concerns among security researchers that advanced AI hacking capabilities are becoming dramatically cheaper and more accessible. Why it matters: The barrier to entry for malicious hackers eager to automate and personalize their attacks is getting lower and lower. Driving the news: Z.ai's GLM-5.2, which was released last week, has agentic capabilities that rival those of Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 while costing roughly half as much to run. - Two separate security evaluations from Graphistry and Semgrep found that GLM-5.2 performed on par with leading U.S. models on cybersecurity investigation and vulnerability-discovery…
The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to turn away asylum seekers at the southern border who haven't yet crossed into U.S. territory. Why it matters: The Court's decision resolves a years-long legal fight over a Border Patrol practice when there's limited bandwidth to process people at a port of entry. Driving the news: "An alien standing in Mexico does not 'arriv[e] in the United States' by attempting, and failing, to set foot in this country. An alien 'arrives in the United States' only when he crosses the border," Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion for Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. - The turn away system, sometimes called metering, was first used by Customs and Border Protection under the…
The decision renders 1.3 million people from more than a dozen countries, many who have lived in the United States for decades, vulnerable to deportation.
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As temperatures pass record levels in France, the heat wave-related death toll continues to rise.
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The continent’s second heat wave since May continued to disrupt daily life for millions. Officials in Spain said it might have contributed to a spike in deaths.
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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Thursday from enforcing key parts of his executive order aiming to create a citizenship list of eligible voters and restricting mail-in voting. The big picture: Fueled by unfounded claims of a rigged election, President Trump has consistently railed against and attempted to undermine mail-in voting. Thursday's decision hands the president yet another loss on his attempts to unilaterally change American elections . Driving the news: U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts barred the administration from implementing the sections of the order that instruct feds to compile lists of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote and direct the Postmaster General to propose a rule that…