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Children who do not reach the age of 18 before January 1, 2027 will never be permitted to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in the UK, once a new law that has now completely cleared parliament gets royal assent from King Charles III.  The Tobacco and Vapes Bill cleared its final parliamentary hurdle on Monday, when the

Data centers need vast amounts of energy to fuel servers and process the information that keeps our websites, applications and generative AI models running.  The United States has more data centers than anywhere else in the world and the extra energy demand is straining transmission grids and driving up the cost of electricity. Struggling grid operators are turning to polluting fossil

This handout photo released by the Iranian foreign ministry shows Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar (L) greeting his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi upon his arrival in Islamabad on April 24, 2026. /Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption /Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP via Getty Images/AFP Iran's foreign minister arrived in Russia on Monday

The average salary for a public school teacher in the U.S. rose to $74,495 in the last school year, up 3.5% from the year before. But adjusted for inflation, today's teachers are estimated to be earning less, not more, than they were in 2017. That's according to a new review of school-related data from the

Secret Service agents responded to a shooting at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday evening. President Trump and other administration officials were rushed out, and a suspect was arrested. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent

DrAfter123/Digital Vision Vectors/Getty Images Like so many in her field, The Ohio State University oncologist Ning Jin is alarmed by the number of patients in their 30s and 40s with late-stage cancer in their lower digestive tract. It's not just that these patients are decades younger than what had been typical for colorectal cancer; Jin

Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Oct. 6, 2015, in San Francisco. Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair hide caption toggle caption Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Two titans of the tech world will face off in court starting

The U.S. Supreme Court Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday about a relatively new law enforcement technique that allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved. Essentially the question

Jason and Colleen Warnesky are among the dozens of families in Altadena, Calif., who have opted to rebuild with manufactured homes, following the 2025 Eaton Fire. Vanessa Romo/NPR hide caption toggle caption Vanessa Romo/NPR When the Station Fire roared through the Angeles National Forest in 2009, Colleen and Jason Warnesky could see it from the

A Palestinian man votes in local elections, the first in two decades in Gaza and the first in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Al-Ubaidiya, West Bank, Saturday, April 25, 2026. Mahmoud Illean/AP hide caption toggle caption Mahmoud Illean/AP JERUSALEM — Palestinian authorities said Sunday that local elections in