US forces have shot down hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles in recent days, raising questions about how long American air defense interceptor stocks will last in a war that could continue for weeks or more. Iran responded to the massive US-Israeli air campaign launched over
The court’s ruling “is incredibly good news for small businesses and for the refund process,” said Sara Albrecht, chairman of the Liberty Justice Center, which argued the tariff case before the Supreme Court.
Joachim Trier knew when he was making “Sentimental Value” that it was a character study of two sisters and their father. “We did not want to make a film that felt like a chamber drama where people sit around the table and talk.” Trier wanted the characters to move. “Sentimental
During their search for food, most insects head specifically for the flowers that promise the highest reward. But how do they know which ones to choose? Researchers from the University of Konstanz and the University of Würzburg have now studied how bumblebees process
People in their 20s and 30s tell the BBC how they feel about their finances ahead of the chancellor's Spring Statement.
Using future climate scenarios based on wildfire damages in North America, scientists estimate that up to 10,000 or more lives may be saved annually in the United States if society is able to mitigate climate change by keeping the global mean surface temperature (GMST) at 1.5
Conservative clerics are meeting in Nigeria to choose a rival to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. forces "would not deliberately target a school" after Iranian state media reported over 160 were killed in a strike on a girls' school on the first day of the U.S. and Israeli attacks on
The United States and Israeli armed forces hit an array of military, nuclear and leadership targets inside Iran as they launched their large-scale military campaign early Saturday. The strikes, which are ongoing, have targeted the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command
Global oil prices spike after Iran launched strikes across the Middle East in response to attacks by the US and Israel.
Energy prices surged Monday as the war in the Middle East led to outages of key energy production operations and a critical waterway was essentially emptied of traffic. European natural gas prices finished the day up more than 39 percent after surging more than 50 percent
How do you keep a copper catalyst from losing its oomph? Just add a dusting of platinum, says a new study published in Nature Materials. A team of researchers, including scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, investigated a class of metal
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are getting into business with Netflix, setting a first-look streaming deal for Artists Equity at the streamer. Their company has forged a multi-year production and distribution pact with the tech giant. Under the terms of the partnership, Artists
The Ben Affleck and Matt Damon-led company recently released the crime thriller 'The Rip' on the platform.
President Trump said on Monday he will attend this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner, breaking his boycott of the annual Washington gala. “In honor of our Nation’s 250th Birthday, and the fact that these “Correspondents” now admit that I am truly one of the
"The Final Puzzle" challenge in Resident Evil Requiem has been solved. Here's how to decode the "Let's play" puzzle and complete "The Final Puzzle."
A retired U.S. general stuck in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday said Americans in the region feel “abandoned” as access to airspace remains limited and airports close following military strikes in the region. “One of the small things that does matter to tens of
No "sticky ends"? No problem. A new study by NYU chemists finds that DNA tiles can assemble into 3D structures without the sticky cohesion of hydrogen bonding. This finding, published in Nature Communications, turns a fundamental paradigm in the field of DNA self-assembly on
In many countries, austerity is a hard sell. Loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) can provide economic stabilization and financial support for developing countries—with conditions. Recipients typically need to restructure their economies, moving away from public
Disgraced mogul is now scheduled for release on April 25, 2028. He's currently serving a 50-month sentence for prostitution-related charges
Last year, Chemical unveiled their eponymous debut EP, establishing themselves as a reliable source for cockeyed, unpredictable tunes. Today the Philly band is back with the sufficiently sinister song “She She.” “She She” is as off-kilter as possible. The lyrics are littered
Who should be directly liable for online infringement – the entity that serves it up or a user who embeds a link to it? For almost two decades, most U.S. courts have held that the former is responsible, applying a rule called the server test. Under the server test, whomever
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled California is likely violating the constitutional rights of parents who object to policies preventing teachers from disclosing when their child changes their name or pronouns in school. The decision marks a major victory for parental rights
“One of the most famous women in the world, and you call her by another woman’s name?" the music mogul now known as Ye purportedly scolded Jeromy Holding
In 2022, a Russian whale researcher made a remarkable discovery on Bering Island off Russia's Pacific coast: a severed killer whale fin marked with the teeth of another killer whale. In 2024, it happened again. The two finds were two kilometers apart.
By Jana Winter WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Iran and its proxies could target the U.S. with attacks in response to the Saturday killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by Israeli and U.S. strikes, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment reviewed by Reuters. The
Republicans are pointing to the U.S. attack on Iran in order to ramp up pressure on Democrats to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Democrats have demanded that the White House significantly overhaul its immigration enforcement tactics following the deaths of two
Porpoises are entirely dependent on their hearing for survival. They navigate, hunt, and communicate by emitting rapid click sounds and listening to the returning echoes. However, with increasingly noisy oceans, it is getting harder for porpoises to "hear their way." Noise from
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Pentagon stuns Silicon Valley with Anthropic rebuke The Trump administration’s decision to cut off the government’s use of Anthropic and label the company a supply chain risk after a dispute over AI safeguards is sending
Beijing is now placing energy security at the top of its strategic agenda following the February 28 confirmation of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death. China now faces a halt, enforced by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz –
A fast-moving day saw the conflict widen in the region, with strikes being traded between opposing sides.
The Supreme Court blocked a state judge from redrawing Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ (R-N.Y.) congressional district, agreeing to her emergency request Monday to restore the lines that connect Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn. The high court’s intervention marks a new twist in
In their piece, published in Nature Human Behaviour, IIASA Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar Wolfgang Lutz and IIASA Senior Researcher Guillaume Marois, who is also an associate professor at the Asian Demographic Research Institute of the Shanghai University, respond to
A research team led by a Keele scientist has shed new light on how a mysterious rock formation in Oman was created, which could reveal new details about Earth's ability to store carbon dioxide (CO2). The study, led by Dr. Elliot Carter in Keele's School of Life Sciences, in
The Florida Everglades is a complicated climate actor. The 1.5-million-acre wetland system remains a carbon sink, removing an average of 13.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year, but the system also releases methane. In a new study, Yale School
As U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continue, the growing death toll in the Middle Eastern country includes a number of senior leadership officials. Among those killed in Iran is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled the country since 1989. In total, over 500
Christina Applegate’s memoir “You With the Sad Eyes” publishes March 3 and an exclusive excerpt is now available to read on Vulture in which the Emmy winner writes candidly about her body image struggles while filming “Married… with Children.” Applegate starred as Kelly Bundy
Democrat Rep. Sam Liccardo (Calif.) is ramping up efforts in Congress to push back on Trump administration's decision to cut the use of Anthropic’s technology in federal agencies after the company’s negotiations with the Pentagon over safety requirements fell apart last week.
The gleeful subversiveness of Duchamp at MoMA, the first major US show on Raphael at The Met, and exhibitions on spirituality, the body, fashion, and more.
For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves emanating from the Crab Pulsar, the remnant of a supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in the year 1054.
The latest travel advisory applies to nearly the entire region and comes as the US Embassy in Jordan evacuated all personnel due to an unspecified threat.
Former President Bill Clinton may have just put a massive hole in President Donald Trump’s claims about how he and deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein ended their friendship. In video testimony released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday, Clinton claimed that Trump
In 2024, the musician Anna "Nesey" Gallons accused Julian Koster, a member of Neutral Milk Hotel, of grooming her and sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager. In a series of Instagram posts, Gallons wrote that she and Koster began a phone and email correspondence in
Dublin, Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallinn among port cities more choked by sulphur oxides from ferries, analysis shows Fume-belching ferries spew more sulphur pollution than cars in several EU capitals, analysis has found . Dublin, Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallinn are among 13 of
Protected natural areas across Europe are changing. Climate change, with rising temperatures and heavy rainfall, is turbocharging the growth of shrubs and trees, choking the flowers and insects that need the light and heat of open spaces. Traditionally, this scenario prompts
Viruses such as human norovirus can travel in vesicles, small fluid-filled sacs that are like shipping containers for cells. Viruses hidden in these containers are often harder to detect and may be more infectious than free-floating viral material. In addition, their prevalence
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said Iran posed an “imminent threat” to the United States following a series of strikes in the region. “There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers through the end of video game “Resident Evil Requiem,” released Feb. 27 from Capcom. Gamers who spent their weekends playing through the jump scares and zombie fights in “Resident Evil Requiem” know that the survival horror
