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Today show host says her family ‘will always ache for’ mother Nancy, who has been missing for nearly six months Savannah Guthrie has posted a new video asking those responsible for her mother’s unsolved disappearance to “do the right thing” and point her family to their matriarch’s location after nearly six months. In a new Instagram video posted on Monday, captioned “Bring her home” alongside a yellow heart emoji, the NBC Today host issued an emotional public plea, saying: “It has been months s

The filing focused on the question of whether a photograph of seashells arranged to read “86 47” constituted a true threat under federal law.

Intensive nature of modern chicken farming creates ideal conditions for campylobacter, allowing bacteria to evolve Industrial chicken farming is accelerating the spread of the world’s most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea, scientists have found. The study found a dramatic increase in the exchange of campylobacter strains between wild birds and chickens as farming has intensified, creating the ideal conditions for the bacteria to mix, spread and acquire new traits. There has also been a rise i

The area around Bordeaux has many plants that work with sophisticated technologies and hazardous materials.

The Royal Shakespeare Company called off five preview performances of the epic four-hour production last week, including one just hours before its scheduled curtain.

Julie Masino faced backlash online when the company tried to shed its old-timey image. David Deno, a former chief of Bloomin’ Brands, will take over.

Andy Burnham’s first overseas visitor will be the Ukrainian prime minister, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a show of the UK’s ‘unwavering support’ for the country. But what else do we know about our new prime minister’s foreign policy? And, as Burnham sets out his ambitious plans for tackling the UK’s most intractable problems, including social care, what can he really do differently? Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot discuss what Burnham’s plan for change looks like Please keep sending your comments and

Lauren Bell restricts MI London to six runs in the final over to give Southern Brave a nervy one-run victory in the 2026 Women's Hundred at the Utilita Bowl in Southampton.

First of three rounds of voting held after weeks of protests during which dozens of people were killed.

Los Angeles prosecutors give detailed account of Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s last night Prosecutors on Monday gave a moment-by-moment account of the last night of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, showing that after a stream of text messages with the singer D4vd, her phone went permanently silent when she arrived at his home. The texts were shown in court on the fifth and probably final day of a Los Angeles hearing to determine whether he will go to trial in her killing. Continue reading...

Microsoft opened a new front in the AI security wars on Monday, unveiling its first custom-built cybersecurity model and a sweeping agentic defense platform — and making an argument that could reshape how enterprises buy AI: the future belongs not to the biggest model, but to the cheapest one that's good enough, routed intelligently. The company announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model developed in-house by its Microsoft AI (MAI) division, embedded inside MDASH, Microsoft's multi-ag

We’re getting the first look at footage of the penultimate season of The Chosen. In the just-released trailer, we see Jesus escorted to his crucifixion in his final hours. “This is the way,” a determined, yet ominous voiceover is heard. “Your will,” a chained Jesus whispers. The Chosen, from 5&2 Studios, is a historical drama based […]

With a sensational second weekend at the box office, it’s clear “The Odyssey” will have a long — and epic — journey in theaters. Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s 3,000-year-old poem, starring Matt Damon as the Greek king Odysseus, has generated a remarkable $652 million worldwide, including $289 million domestically and $362 million internationally after just […]

The police said that it was too early to say if the episode was linked to a shooting that targeted the diplomatic post in March.

The registration expands Securitize’s regulated platform for tokenized assets, adding investment advisory services to its institutional offering.

If you’re buying ‘physical’ copies of GTA 6 in Japan, you’d better act fast and download that code lickety-split, else it might expire while you’re not looking.

Crypto stocks proved some of the top gainers Monday even as the broader market sold off and capital rotated away from chip and AI infrastructure names.

In just his third professional start, Koivun fended off the world No. 1 for his first PGA Tour victory at the 3M Open

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President Trump's economic sales pitch is colliding with voters' sour moods on high prices and the economy as the 2026 midterms loom. Why it matters: Economic frustration is giving Democrats an opening on the issue that often decides elections — and could help them erase Republicans' narrow congressional majorities in November. Trump has previously dismissed economic concerns, assuring voters that prices will come down and that affordability is an issue made up by political rivals to hurt his ad

Regulated perpetual futures are officially landing in the U.S., but while agile trading firms and crypto exchanges race to capture massive retail demand, traditional Wall Street banks are holding back until liquidity, rules, and infrastructure mature.

Marc Lamont Hill speaks with sociologist Ali Kadivar on what history shows about the risk of a US forever war in Iran.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” continues her reign on top for a 15th week along with two other entries, newcomer Stella Lefty maintains her top thee slot with her viral hit, “Boston” and pop girls Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Olivia Dean help fill out the rest of the top 10. Tetris Kelly: History is being […]

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got…

EXCLUSIVE: Obscured Releasing has taken North American the psychological horror comedy, Ugly Cry, which made its world premiere at SXSW. The deal was negotiated by Justin Timms and Joe Yanick of Yellow Veil Pictures and Bill Guentzler and RJ Millard on behalf of Obscured Releasing. The feature directorial debut of actress Emily Robinson (Eighth Grade) […]

New prime minister wants to focus at home, but his first week already suggests the world has other plans It took just seven days in office for Andy Burnham to meet his first world leader. As he welcomed Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a naval base in Portsmouth on Monday, the new prime minister told the Ukrainian president it was “no accident” he was his first international visitor since entering No 10. “It is intended to send a very clear message,” Burnham told him. “We are with Ukraine 100%, I am perso

The Tribeca Festival suffered a data leak that exposed hundreds of thousands of records, as well as the contact information for thousands of celebrities, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and festival co-founder Robert De Niro. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed the leak in an ExpressVPN blog post over the weekend, […]

With LeBron finally signed in Philadelphia, we have offseason grades for all 30 NBA teams

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Kalshi traders are predicting Warsh will mention last week's supply shock at this week's Federal Reserve press conference.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker said that Lebanon's displaced endure ‘exhaustion and despair’.

We will be seated for when LeBron James tries to show Philadelphia 76ers fans how much he's tapped in to the city's favorite rap collective.

Apple is facing a lawsuit from three users who say they collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fraudulent crypto wallet from the App Store, challenging the company’s longstanding claims that its app review process keeps users safe from scams.

Netflix has announced Women Like Us, a new comedy from Charles D. King’s Macro Film Studios and the Obamas’ Higher Ground, to star Whoopi Goldberg, Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams, and Vivica A. Fox. Shooting in New York City this fall, Women Like Us watches as a recently widowed woman is dragged to the Hamptons by her lifelong best […]

Kentucky senator has been absent and not seen in public since mid-June after he was hospitalized due to a fall US politics live – latest updates US senator Mitch McConnell is still not cleared to return to work, his office confirmed on Monday, six weeks after he was hospitalized after a fall at his home. An update released alongside a new photograph of the Republican lawmaker – one of the highest-profile figures in Congress, as former Senate majority leader – said he was undergoing “intense phys

The qualifying offer would allow Watson to hit free agency next offseason and save the Nuggets an enormous tax bill

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For the first time since April, Savannah Guthrie posted a new video to Instagram directly addressing her mother’s kidnappers. “I’m coming on today with a very specific message. It has been months since our mom was taken from us. Our family is in agony. We are in a nightmare that will not end. Nothing about […]

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Maria Avila says the star's reps "have made no effort to satisfy any portion of the judgment."

Quasars, distant cores of galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, are among the most luminous objects in the universe. While not uncommon, their brightness can make it difficult to accurately measure the galaxies they reside in. This means scientists must use gravitational lensing to assist in analyzing these bright objects, a method that relies on studying how an object's strong gravity bends light around its host galaxy. Yet despite their own powerful gravity, quasars that can act as len

Amazon is expanding its plans for providing satellite connectivity to mobile phones.

Engineers and neuroscientists at the University of California San Diego have developed a soft, wearable fingertip patch that continuously tracks a patient's Parkinson's disease medication levels through sweat. The device operates using chemicals in the patient's sweat—no batteries required. Its measurements were comparable to those obtained by standard laboratory blood tests.

A short field note. I had to crawl every item in a public registry (~4 million of them) in about a day. One idea did most of the work. Split the sorted keyspace into N ranges, run one worker per range, done. That's the plan. It falls apart because keys aren't uniformly distributed. Cut the alphabet into even chunks and one chunk swallows all the dense prefixes while the rest finish in minutes and sit idle. My first cut had a single shard holding 71% of the work. And your crawl is only as fast as

EXCLUSIVE: Starz’s flagship Power franchise will soon be available on Netflix in most of the world. In a big licensing deal with Lionsgate Television, the global streamer has acquired non-exclusive international rights to Power, Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan and Power Book IV: Force, along with domestic rights to the mothership […]

Most RTX 5070 Ti equipped PCs sell for over $2000 and the GPU alone runs for $950-$1000.

While none expect it to happen during their time in college football, Stanford players hope their efforts will one day lead to a players' union in the sport

Gold House, the cultural platform behind the Gold Open movement and The Gold Gala is moving into production with the launch of Gold House Studios. Since its launch eight years ago, Gold House has been one of the most influential forces in entertainment and culture. The company has campaigned over 800 openings for films like […]

Points expert Jason Stauffer explains how to maximize your points by being flexible with your travel plans.

“This is high priority,” Lt. Pat Agema of the Michigan State Police says of the ongoing investigation to find those responsible for infant's death.

Previous apps for identifying animal calls regularly hit practical limits: Without a stable internet connection, real-time identification in forests or high mountains was impossible.

A new way to measure comorbidity—when a patient suffers from multiple diseases or health conditions—can be used to accurately predict a patient's risk of hospitalization and future health care costs across a population, Cornell researchers report.

The release of political prisoners is an urgent humanitarian measure in response to the human rights crisis in Venezuela Washington Office on Latin America | WOLA

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Xryma Plc announces the upcoming launch of XrymaCoin (XREUR), the regulated euro stablecoin designed to work like money PR Newswire UK