Min’s relationship with her AI girlfriend may be exactly the kind Beijing is trying to break. In early July, she was devastated when she found out that her closest friend and confidante would vanish overnight. Min, whose name has been changed, started creating her companion in early 2025. “My devotion to her is no less…
Pakistan has conducted further air strikes on Afghanistan, killing nine civilians and injuring 11 others, the Taliban government said. Islamabad’s information ministry confirmed the strikes, which it said killed twenty-two militants. Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman of the Afghan Taliban, said the strikes hit homes in the Kunar and Helmand provinces bordering Pakistan. Women and…
Dave Limp, chief executive officer of Blue Origin LLC, left, and Jared Isaacman, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), during the launch of America.gov in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. Daniel Heuer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said the company’s first-ever outside capital raise is…
Dehydration: One of the reasons the skin appears tired is because of dehydration. Lack of enough water in the skin causes it to look dry, rough and tight or less plump, with fine lines becoming more noticeable. Dehydration can occur due to weather changes, prolonged exposure to air conditioning, inadequate fluid intake or the use…
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said Wednesday that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.” “It doesn’t strike me as anything at all out of the ordinary,” Carr said of the ads, which have aired across the country in recent weeks. Asked about allegations that…
Once the outbreak was recognised, health workers began door-to-door screening in affected villages. Mobile medical units carrying oxygen, nebulisers, suction equipment, malaria tests and medicines visited more than 20 affected villages. One mobile doctor, Neeraj Sharma, says teams routinely saw more than 50 patients a day, about half of them children. They conducted 10 or…
A South Korean court has handed a suspended one-year prison sentence to K-pop singer Song Min-ho after he was convicted of violating the country’s military service law. The 33-year-old member of the boy band Winner was found to have been absent multiple times at a community centre in Seoul, where he had worked as a…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that investors shouldn’t jump ship despite signs of slowing activity across key parts of the economy. Cramer’s comments come as high interest rates, geopolitical uncertainty and political opposition weigh on stocks across industries. The U.S. housing market remains mired in a multiyear period of sluggishness, IPO and M&A activity has…
This one tops the list for a reason. It’s vague enough to mean literally anything, a five-minute scheduling question or a serious performance conversation, and that ambiguity is exactly what makes it unsettling. Career advice writers have noted that managers rarely realise how much anxiety a bare “can we talk” triggers, since it strips away…
Welcome to From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we take a look at where the billionaire tax campaign in California stands and what it signals about the Democratic Party’s…
