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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to reporters before touring “Camp 57,” a facility to house immigration detainees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption toggle caption Gerald Herbert/AP SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April…

Still on an energy price cap tariff? Martin Lewis has this warning for you ahead of the 2% rise on 1 October.

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August memo to staff seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen said the Model Behavior team — which consists of roughly 14 researchers — would be joining the Post Training team, a larger research group responsible for improving the company’s AI models after their initial pre-training. As part of the changes, the Model Behavior team will now report to OpenAI’s Post Training lead Max Schwarzer. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed…

Getty Images Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy was knocked out of Friday night’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers due to a shoulder injury after being involved in a brutal collision with tight end Travis Kelce on the Chiefs’ opening drive. The incident occurred when the two were running crossing routes and inadvertently ran into each other.Worthy took the worst of the impact. He was knocked over and was slow to get up before going to the locker room with a towel over his head. The play ended with quarterback Patrick Mahomes throwing an incompletion on a pass intended for Hollywood…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It’s a beautiful, clear night in July 2023 and over 70,000 people are packed into the open-air Lumen Field arena just south of downtown Seattle. They came decked in sparkles, glitter, and—naturally—handmade snake capes. Once inside, the lights go dark, a massive clock projection ticks, and then, Taylor Swift herself appears. Thousands jump, cry, and scream along to “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince.” The surprising result of this revelry? A 2.3 magnitude earthquake: the world’s first-recorded SwiftQuake. The Seattle SwiftQuake was the first, but certainly…

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In the occupied West Bank, Israel is demolishing one Palestinian-owned building every five hours.

Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, they have gone from being utilitarian devices that sweep your floor to full-fledged home robots that can vacuum and mop your home and then trundle off to clean themselves to be ready for the next run.I’ve been testing robot vacuums for seven years and have run over 70 robot vacuums all over my house. These are my top picks if you’re looking for the best: a…

Labour has scrapped ambitious plans to tackle Britain’s growing toll of lifestyle-related illness after lobbying by food and alcohol firms, health experts have said.Ministerial inaction on ill-health caused by bad diet, alcohol and smoking is so serious that the NHS could collapse as a result of conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, they warn.Bold pledges Labour made before being elected to drive through a “prevention-first revolution” have been replaced by “diluted ambition” and a lack of leadership on the scourge of avoidable disease.The charge against ministers has been made by Sarah Woolnough and Jennifer Dixon, the chief executives of…

The psychological thriller “The Man in My Basement” adapts Walter Mosley’s 2004 novel of the same name, but yields little by way of intriguing psychology or thrills. Set in the quaint Long Island village of Sag Harbor — a historically African American community — it follows a young Black slacker whose inherited home becomes the venue for a middle-aged white man’s strange experiment, while gesturing at themes of guilt, trauma and racial animus that go nowhere anytime quick. Mosley co-writes the screenplay alongside debuting director Nadia Latif, who shows immense promise early on, capturing the directionless young Charles Blakey (Corey…