Tornadoes damaged buildings, cut power and injured more than a dozen people in the two states as severe weather swept across the central United States.

China is learning lessons from the war in Iran. Chief among them, the United States may pose an even greater threat than Beijing thought.

For decades, enthusiasts rode the cresting Eisbach creek in the southern German city, some 200 miles from the nearest coast. But the wave has vanished, prompting arguments about how to restore it.

In his National Cybersecurity Strategy, President Trump sought an expanded role for private firms in cyberwarfare. He did not take on China or Russia in the document.

An anonymous reader The Guardian: Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth's temperature in 1880. "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030," said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study. [...] The researchers applied a noise-reduction method to filter out the estimated effect of nonhuman factors in five major datasets that scientists have compiled to gauge the Earth's temperature. In each of them, they found an acceleration in global heating emerged in 2013 or 2014. The findings have been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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The decisions by Darrell Issa and Kevin Kiley, made newly vulnerable by redistricting, demonstrated the challenges Republicans face in a difficult midterm environment.

Russia’s flag was paraded at the opening ceremony of the Paralympics for the first time since 2014 prompting a boycott by several nations led by Ukraine.

The large-scale, public event in Chicago on Friday caps two weeks of memorials for Mr. Jackson, the civil rights leader, who died at 84.

There are times when it is clear what it means to stand up for what is right.

President Trump, who values loyalty, has at times tried to distance himself from his administration’s own actions when they become politically toxic.

President Trump laid out yet another, more ambitious goal of U.S. military action, one that could extend the war.

The Trump administration had signaled earlier this week that it was ready to abandon four executive orders seeking to punish law firms, but abruptly reversed course the next day.

What had been a safe G.O.P. seat was looking more attainable for Democrats after Representative Tony Gonzales bowed out in favor of a hard-right candidate.

Rama Duwaji, Mr. Mamdani’s wife, had liked Instagram posts related to the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-processing system is "not well suited to a task of this scale." The Verge reports: The CBP's admission comes after the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) last month. This week, the International Trade Court ruled that importers impacted by the tariffs are entitled to refunds with interest. The CBP estimates that it collected around $166 billion in IEEPA duties as of March 4th, 2026. [...] The CBP says it currently processes imports through its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) system. In the filing, Lord says that using the department's existing technology, it would take more than 4.4 million hours to process refunds for the over 53.2 million entries with IEEPA duties. Despite these current limitations, the CBP says it's "confident" it can develop and launch new capabilities to "streamline and consolidate refunds and interest payments on an importer basis" -- but this could take 45 days. "The process will be simpler and more efficient than the existing functionalities, and CBP will provide guidance on how to file refund declarations in the new system," Lord says.

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Officials announced a massive deployment of security forces ahead of the world’s largest sporting event after recent violence prompted safety concerns for the millions of fans expected to attend.

In opening a military campaign against Iran, President Trump is the first president in modern times to take the United States to war without the backing of the public.

Smart ring maker Oura has acquired Doublepoint, a Finnish startup specializing in gesture recognition technology for wearables. Engadget reports: The Finnish startup uses smartwatches and wristbands as examples of products that benefit from its technology, but Oura will clearly be looking to incorporate it into its rings, in theory allowing you to control your connected devices with hand movements. Oura said in a press release that the deal sees it inherit an "exceptional team of AI architects and builders from Doublepoint," including Doublepoint's four founders. The newly-acquired company will remain in its native Helsinki, where it will work with Oura's international teams. It added that Doublepoint's expertise in helping devices register subtle hand movements will be key, as nobody wearing a smart ring is going to engage with gesture control if they have to thrash their hand around like a conductor.

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For some Democrats, generational change comes with a cringey social media past.

New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more.