MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Some age-verification systems are no match for enterprising children, who have found that drawing on a fake mustache with a makeup pencil is enough to skirt the blocks of adult websites. U.K.-based ...

The US Supreme Court sharply limited the use of the Voting Rights Act to create predominantly Black or Hispanic election districts in a major ruling that buttresses Republican efforts to keep control ...

A survey found denominational differences in pastors’ use of the technology, as well as widespread skepticism about its reliability. As the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) grows in the ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Sack did not intend to retire when he left the Star Tribune in 2022 after a 42-year career. “I had no choice, really,” Sack said.

With the iOS 26.4 RC released earlier today, Apple solved one of the longest-standing limitations of Family Sharing. Here’s what’s new. Family Sharing gets a long-needed billing fix in iOS 26.4 One of ...

March 16, 2026 - In 2025, U.S. courts issued the first substantive, merits-stage decisions addressing whether the use of copyrighted works to train generative artificial intelligence systems ...

The trauma treatment is growing in popularity. It worked for Ellie Wyse, now in college and seeking to help teens hurting like she was. Ellie Wyse still remembers the day: May 7, 2019. She was a high ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

A recent study that shows how cows can use tools recalls the controversial 1982 cartoon from "The Far Side" comic strip called "Cow Tools." In case you haven't heard, cows are using tools now. Well, ...

Ellipses and cylinders are foundational to drawing forms in perspective. This short shares a practical method to improve accuracy, consistency, and confidence when drawing rounded forms—making complex ...

Not even Mega Millions, one of America's biggest jackpot games, is immune to scams. Lottery officials in the Mega Millions division issued a warning on Tuesday, Dec. 15, about "scammers who are ...