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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – AUGUST 10: Ashlee Sullivan performs on the floor exercise during the senior women finals at the Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships at Smoothie King Center on August 10, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Alicia Malnati/Getty Images)Getty ImagesU.S. National team gymnast Ashlee Sullivan continued her blockbuster year with yet another individual win on Wednesday. Sullivan won the women’s division of the 42nd Memorial Arthur Gander tournament by over three points, a massive margin. A relative unknown heading into 2025, Sullivan won the Winter Cup in February and went on to earn an alternate spot for the…

Amazon sued a prominent artificial intelligence startup on Tuesday over a shopping feature in the company’s browser, which can automate placing orders for users. Amazon accused Perplexity AI of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing.“Perplexity’s misconduct must end,” Amazon’s lawyers wrote. “Perplexity is not allowed to go where it has been expressly told it cannot; that Perplexity’s trespass involves code rather than a lockpick makes it no less unlawful.”Perplexity, which has grown rapidly amid the boom in AI assistants, has previously rejected the US shopping company’s claims, accusing Amazon of using its market dominance to…

Your editorial (29 October) highlights the urgent need for better funding for end-of-life care. As a physician and academic who has worked in this area for 40 years, I would like to raise three underlying issues.First, it implies that hospices are the only model for delivering good end-of-life care. It is arguable that in Britain we have overrelied on the charitable sector. We now have NHS-funded hospital palliative care teams who can provide excellent care when patients are coming to the end of life but still needing specialist treatments – which very often hospices cannot or will not offer.In my…

Hazel Shearing,Education correspondent and Marthe de Ferrer,BBC NewsGettyEd Sheeran has celebrated changes to the national curriculum in England that mean more students will be able to study creative subjects.The singer-songwriter praised government plans to modernise what is taught in schools and to remove “outdated systems that stop kids from studying music and the arts”.Following the first review of the curriculum in England in more than a decade, children will also be taught how to spot fake news and disinformation as well as how mortgages work.Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the government wanted to “revitalise” the curriculum but keep a “firm…

BRASELTON, Ga. — Charlie Woods now shares one honor with Tiger Woods, as the son of the 15-time major champion was named as a first-team All-American by the American Junior Golf Association on Wednesday.Charlie Woods, a junior at The Benjamin School in South Florida, was among 12 boys named to the first team of the AJGA’s annual list. Miles Russell, the 17-year-old who was an alternate at the Walker Cup this summer, was selected player of the year for the second time.Tiger Woods was the AJGA’s player of the year in 1991 and 1992.Charlie Woods won his first big title…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Japan is calling in its army to wrestle its ongoing bear problem. Last month, the country’s Ministry of the Environment reported that Asian black bear or moon bear (Ursus thibetanus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations have attacked over 100 people since March. With at least 10 fatalities among the tally, the government announced on November 5 that it is stepping up control efforts by deploying soldiers to Akita prefecture on the island of Honshu in northern Japan. In a statement to reporters, Akita’s Governor Kenta…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

Mayor-elect of New York says he will not mince words on Trump, but ‘door open’ to dialogue.United States President Donald Trump has suggested that he is open to assisting New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, but warned that the trailblazing democratic socialist will need to be “respectful” of Washington to succeed.Trump made the comments on Wednesday as Mamdani announced his transition team following his historic election as the first Muslim and first South Asian mayor of the US’s largest city.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listResponding to Mamdani’s victory night remarks pledging to stand up to Trump, the US president described…

Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondentGetty ImagesPolicymakers at the Bank of England are widely expected to hold interest rates at 4% following their final meeting before the chancellor’s Budget.Some Bank watchers have suggested that the latest inflation data could strengthen the case for a cut, but most commentators think such a move is more likely in December.In September, the Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey said he still expected further rate cuts, but the pace would be “more uncertain”.The Bank’s base rate has an impact on the cost of borrowing for individuals and businesses, and also on returns on savings.Uncertainty over pace of…

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorBBCTech firms such as Microsoft, whose Majorana chip is pictured here, are racing to embrace quantumThere’s an old adage among tech journalists like me – you can either explain quantum accurately, or in a way that people understand, but you can’t do both.That’s because quantum mechanics – a strange and partly theoretical branch of physics – is a fiendishly difficult concept to get your head around.It involves tiny particles behaving in weird ways. And this odd activity has opened up the potential of a whole new world of scientific super power.Its mind-boggling complexity is probably a factor in…