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The sun-drenched paradise of Thailand's Phi Phi islands isn't the usual starting point for a Ph.D. But for Sarah Sajedi, those soft, sandy beaches—or rather, what she found under them—inspired her ...

We’ve all heard about the risks of public Wi-Fi networks, which might make anyone want to avoid it altogether. In theory, that’s what I should do, but in practice, I still end up logging in ...

The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional. By Charlie Savage Reporting from Washington The Supreme Court on Monday ...

U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Donald Trump's 2026 health care agenda on Capitol Hill in Washington,D.C. By Michael Erman and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary ...

Challenges to the administration’s use of the 18th-century wartime law have gone all the way to the Supreme Court. Here’s where they stand. By Yan Zhuang and Tim Balk A complex and high-risk legal ...

That bootleg stream you’ve been using to watch sports likely just went away. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the world’s leading anti-piracy coalition, announced Tuesday that notorious ...

U.S. service members may be drug-tested for suspected use of “magic mushrooms” under a new policy announced by the Pentagon last week. A memo issued Aug. 18 by the Office of the Under Secretary of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump's administration violated federal law in the use of National Guard troops during Southern California immigration enforcement operations and accompanying protests ...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that National Guard troops ran afoul of the law in Los Angeles when President Trump deployed them in June after immigration protests that turned violent. U.S. District ...