Daily News Report

Trump commerce secretary – who lived next door to Epstein in New York – urged to testify about extent of relationship

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and …

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner faced criticisms this week over a retweet of a far-right figure and more as he continues to lead in the polls.

Elie Mystal In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores how Trump’s State of the Union turned authoritarian violence into a titillating event. Plus Kansas’s vile ban on driving-while-trans and XBox’s depressing AI turn. The post The…

The primaries will stretch all the way into September.

The primaries will stretch all the way into September.

A National Press Club counter-event highlighted fear — and hope — ahead of the midterms

This is a lightly edited transcript of the February 26 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon: So let’s start with the Democratic race, which is probably of more intere…

The head of the national US bank regulator said yesterday he would consider a request to allow senior members of Congress to review the bank charter application of World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by the family of President Donald Trump.

When former President Bill Clinton testifies to a congressional committee Friday on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, he will be setting a precedent that President Donald Trump may come to regret.

The United States launched military strikes and "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, President Donald Trump said, targeting the country's missile capabilities.

President Donald Trump announced in a post on Truth Social overnight that the U.S. has begun "major combat operations" in Iran, that the Department of War says will be called "Operation Epic Fury." He urged Iranian civilians to...

The eight-minute recording laid bare both the president's objectives in Iran - which had been unclear - and the potential for dire consequences.

Israel and the US believe Iran's regime is vulnerable, dealing with an economic crisis and the aftermath of protests.

If Trump gets to nominate another justice before the midterm elections, he will likely have the 6-3 ruling against his tariffs on his mind.

Competing visions on the next big technological revolution are discombobulating markets

On Thursday afternoon in Washington, American Compass co-hosted a Summit on AI and Labor. Daniel has thoughts:

In December 2025, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, seeking access to the 2020 election records, citing the federal law that grants the Justice Department jurisdiction to investigate federal elections. Fulton C...

Fear of aggressive deportation raids is deterring foreign visitors, leading to a reduction in hours for workers and lost revenue.

DHS is pressing Virginia to cooperate with ICE after Fairfax police charged an illegal immigrant with second-degree murder in a bus stop stabbing that left a 41-year-old woman dead.

After Abundance the book was released, a wave of criticism rose from ostensibly pro-housing writers arguing that obsessing over housing regulations was at best, irrelevant, and at worst, evidence of nefarious intent.

In 1950 the physicist Enrico Fermi was dining with three colleagues at the nuclear weapons development facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the conversation turned to extraterrestrial life.

Israelis no longer lead the Palestinians in Americans' sympathies, with independents' shift toward the Palestinians driving most of the change.

In a wide-ranging interview with Vanity Fair, the US ambassador to Israel explained his controversial comments to Tucker Carlson and addressed a shift in public opinion against Israel over its bloody war in Gaza.

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee has poured gasoline on a region already in flames. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, he invoked Genesis 15 to argue that modern Israel is entitled to territory stretching "from the Nile to the Euphrates." W...

BMW USA's website already shows the names of the 2027 model lineup, including an M2 xDrive and an M350 performance sedan based on the next-generation 3 Series.

Here's the best deals and discounts you can find during Pokémon Day 2026, alongside the latest restock news on Pokémon TCG sets like Ascended Heroes.

Game Boy Jukebox features 45 cartridges bumping classics like “Pallet Town Theme.”

Pokémon Day Video Presentation Packed with New Updates Across the Franchise, Including PokémonXP and the 2026 Pokémon World Championships, Pokémon Champions, the Pokémon Trading Card Game and More   Pokémon FireRed Version and LeafGreen Version Released Tod…

Welcome Trainers! It is Time! Pokémon GO Tour: Kalos-Global is upon us. We are going back in time to Gen 6 and Pokémon X & Y days, a time when some serious new fan favorites dropped along with the very first and probably the best "gimmick" in Pokémon franchis…

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s long-awaited patch 12.0 launched this week, and with it came the new playable class, the Techmarine. And while fans are having fun getting to grips with this new Astartes, Space Marine 2’s first ever voice pack has sparked a…

Apple clearly needs some way of distinguishing the upcoming low-cost MacBook from the more expensive MacBook Air. We’d wondered whether...

From the Galaxy S26 phones to new earbuds and agentic AI, here's everything unveiled at Samsung Unpacked this week.

Marathon's Server Slam has started, and is already off to a great start on Steam in terms of players.

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.

Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.

"There were assumptions that were made in the strategy that obviously didn’t come to fruition."

Can two declining companies form a profitable one?

Interactions between neighboring materials is mediated by virtual photons.

Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says.

Director Gore Verbinksi and screenwriter Matthew Robinson on the making of this darkly satirical sci-fi film.

I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.

Lawyers tell Ars the state has a tough road ahead, even as Valve is uniquely vulnerable.

Toyota's small electric SUV is much-revised, much more efficient, and much better.

Netflix shares jumped following the announcement.

"Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success."

Most new Macs can still be downgraded with few downsides. Here's what to know.

CEO says "most companies are late" to realize how much technology will affect employment.

If this isn’t catnip to the average OSNews reader, I don’t know what is. Windows 95 is a comprehensive upgrade to the Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 products. Many changes have been made in almost every area of Windows, wi...

Bootc and OSTree represent a new way of thinking about Linux system deployment and management. Building on container and versioning concepts, they offer robust and modern solutions to meet the current needs of administrators and developers. ↫ Quen...

The file system of the Windows operating system is NTFS, whether you’re running it on a desktop/laptop or server. It’s the only file system Windows can run on and boot from, at least officially, so you’re not even given a choice ...

Encryption backdoors, social media bans for children, creepy age verification for applications – what will they think of next? The latest brilliant idea by US lawmakers sure is a hell of a doozy: legally mandated age verification in every si...

FreeBSD has its jails technology, and it seems NetBSD might be getting something similar soon. Jails for NetBSD aims to bring lightweight, kernel-enforced isolation to NetBSD. The system is intended to remain fully NetBSD-native. Isolation and po...

The Genode OS Framework 26.02 has been released, and its tentpole improvement is the completion of moving configuration from XML to the new human-inclined data syntax, as we talked about a few months ago. The project has been working on this for y...

You may not be aware that FreeBSD has a pretty robust set of tools to run Linux binaries, unmodified. The result? A fast, smooth, fully-featured remote development experience on FreeBSD running Linux binaries transparently via the Linuxulator. It ...

It seems the widespread efforts in Europe to drastically reduce its dependency on US technology companies is starting to worry some people. President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regul...

I’ve been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames. ↫ Tony S. An absolute horror story about Google’s dominance over t...

Only a few days ago we talked about the concept of client-side decorations, and how more and more desktop environments and operating systems – specifically GNOME and macOS – are putting more and more buttons, menus, and other widgets i...

Microsoft released an optional cumulative update for Windows 11, and for once, it actually includes something many of you might actually like: it adds Sysmon from Sysinternals to Windows natively, so you no longer have to install it manually. Here...

This must be a universal experience at this point for people who aren’t swayed by the latest and greatest marketing hype around new phone models: there’s just nothing out there that fits one’s needs. When I walked into a phone sh...

Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: Societies are deciding it’s no longer kid stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use, exposure to harmful content, and mounting concerns about adolescent mental health. So, m...

While Libadwaita applications running in a GNOME desktop environment look great and nicely consistent, they look utterly out of place and jarring when run in Xfce, Pantheon, KDE, and others. The biggest reason for this is GNOME’s insistence ...

Every OpenBSD admin has booted bsd.rd at least once — to install, upgrade, or rescue a broken system. But few people stop to look at what’s actually inside that file. It turns out bsd.rd is a set of nested layers, and you can take it apart on a ru...

Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro has been my notebook of choice in recent years, but it isn't perfect, and that led me to check out the competition — namely, Acer's $2,000 Predator Helios Neo 14 AI laptop.Two very different notebooks at very similar pr...

Choosing a high-resolution display for your Mac doesn't mean splashing out on an Apple Pro Display XDR, and the $2,500 Alogic Clarity 6K Touch monitor proves it.Alogic Clarity Touch 6K review: 32 inches makes for a huge canvasAt $4,999 before you ...

A global shortage is responsible for every electronics and computer manufacturer in the world — including Apple — paying twice as much for RAM and flash storage as it did in 2025, and 10 times more than it paid in 2020. Here's why there is little ...

Apple's current 15-inch MacBook Air equipped with the M4 chip has dropped to $1,049 as Amazon competes for your business this weekend.Grab weekend deals on Apple's M4 MacBook Air.The 15-inch M4 MacBook Air features a 10-core GPU, with the standard...

Code fragments found in the latest iOS 24.6 beta are being taken by some to mean that there will soon be two new models of the Studio Display, with one adding more ports and better speakers.Apple's current Studio Display, which has not been update...

Tim Cook made us want to skip the weekend and get straight to the new launches Apple has for us starting on Monday. That might include a low-cost MacBook, but then further ahead there's a hint of a touch-screen MacBook Pro later this year, all on ...

Sony's latest audio release, the WF-1000XM6, are flagship earbuds with improved active noise cancellation. Here's how Sony's flagship personal audio accessories compare against the AirPods Pro 3.AirPods Pro 3 vs Sony XM6 earbudsFebruary saw Sony b...

As Apple hits 50 years old, AppleInsider recounts the pivotal role of each of its CEOs, starting with the very first one, Michael Scott. He made bold choices, but he made them badly.Michael Scott, age unknown — image credit: Business InsiderSteve ...

The Reduce Interruptions Focus Mode aims to use Apple Intelligence to prioritize notifications to cut them down, yet not have you miss anything important. Here's how to use it.The Reduce Notifications Focus ModeA strength of Apple Intelligence is ...

The TerraMaster F2-425 may be a two-bay NAS, but it offers the functionality of bigger and more premium models on the market.TerraMaster F2-425 2-Bay NASThe typical expectation for a prosumer NAS is for it to provide extra features beyond data sto...

Apple has requested that the lawsuit against its AI delays and response to an Epic injunction be dismissed. It cites that both counts are unsubstantiated.Apple's AI delays are fodder for class action lawsuitsThere are multiple lawsuits around Appl...

Paramount is now on track to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery, as Netflix has announced it will not provide a competing offer to purchase the studio.HBO Max could soon become property of Paramount.Warner Bros. Discovery has been working to find t...

Sports MultiView is one of those features that makes Apple Vision Pro a viable purchase, so of course Apple is willing to rush out the visionOS 26.3.1 update just to fix an issue with that feature.Sports MultiView is an excellent feature on Apple ...

Apple TV is doing great in Brazil, but services chief Eddy Cue says Apple doesn't have any plans for new content developed in the country.Apple's SVP of services, Eddy Cue, says Brazil is Apple TV's fastest-growing market.During a special press ev...

Blender's long-anticipated native iPad app has been placed on hold as developers shift tablet priorities elsewhere.A previous mockup of the potential Blender for iPad appIn June 2025, Blender announced that it would be creating a native iPad versi...