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Experts are warning against mixing these five things with your morning coffee.

Today marks former President Barack Obama's 64th birthday. And as the birthday wishes roll in from countless celebs, one particular voice seems to be missing: Michelle Obama.

One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record

The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the President to form a US "Cyber Force" too. …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast," he says. The 31-year-old electrical engineer says poor reception is a common frustration for residents of Vermont's Orange County. To address this issue, he's providing his community with a new way to stay connected. Schlott has taken old pay phones, modified them to make free calls, and set them up in three different towns across the county. He buys the phones secondhand from sites like eBay and Craigslist and restores them in his home workshop. With just an internet connection, these phones can make calls anywhere in the U.S. or Canada -- no coins required. And Schlott covers all the operating costs himself. "It's cheap enough where I'm happy just footing the bill," he says. "You know, if I'm spending $20 a month on, say, Netflix, I could do that and provide phone service for the community. And to me, that's way more fun." Hundreds of calls have been made since the first phone was installed back in March last year. "I knew there would be some fringe cases where it would be really helpful," says Schlott. "But I never expected it to get daily use and for people to be this excited about it." "One of the cornerstones that I want to stick to is, no matter what happens on the backend, the calls will always be free," he says. "And I will figure out a way to make that happen."

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Harris County Precinct 5 constable deputy Jennifer Escalera is under investigation for posting a TikTok vowing to issue tickets after she failed to have sex the night before.

Nightlife in Chelmsford has been described as 'going through a shift'

An Orlando woman experienced a serious infection after receiving a chin fat reduction procedure by someone not licensed to practice medicine.

Kelly Osbourne shared a heartbreaking message with fans on Instagram on Monday as she thanked them for their support following her dad Ozzy's death on July 22.

The beloved radio presenter was first diagnosed in 2000, and doctors predicted he had three months to live before he underwent surgery to remove one of his kidneys.

Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid'

Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power.…

The US President labelled the British car maker's recent advert, which featured brightly dressed models, as a 'total disaster' and 'stupid'.

Plastics are a "grave, growing and under-recognised danger" to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. From a report: The world is in a "plastics crisis," it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5 trillion a year in health-related damages. The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060. [...] Plastic pollution has also soared, with 8 billion tonnes now polluting the entire planet, the review said, from the top of Mount Everest to the deepest ocean trench. Less than 10% of plastic is recycled.

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Ashley Whitehouse, 42, was filmed looking straight into the lens outside a house in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, on March 23.

The Reform UK leader said it was 'absolutely disgraceful' that information about the men's background was not revealed to the public.

The Bible details how an ancient king received a doomsday warning about famine, war and exile. Now, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient seal linked to the ominous story.

Colin Griffiths was initially handed a reduced penalty of £18 but, despite paying it immediately, saw it increase more than 10-fold to £267 after the council claimed he had not coughed up the cash.

The former Suits star was given the unkind nickname by Palace staff after it was claimed she would send 'demanding' and 'angry' emails to them, sometimes as early as 5am.

In the days before his passing from a heart attack at age 71, WWE superstar Hulk Hogan was able to reconcile with his estranged daughter, Brooke.

Bruce Springsteen, Steven Spielberg and Sting recently gathered for a luxurious hangout in Salerno, Italy.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Indian IT sector has operated for decades under the dominance of major firms TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCLT. The historical growth of these companies was tightly coupled with the U.S. economy through a strong "multiplier effect," where Indian IT export growth significantly outpaced US GDP growth. This reliable growth model is now under pressure. The multiplier has weakened considerably, falling from a peak of 4.1x to a projected 1.6x. This is contributing to a prolonged slowdown period for India IT exports. A primary factor in this slowdown is a clear shift in client spending priorities. While overall enterprise technology spending remains strong, clients are now allocating a larger portion of their budgets to core digital infrastructure, such as cloud platforms and SaaS platforms, over traditional IT services. The firms are facing challenges on multiple fronts. Global corporations are increasingly establishing their own global capability centers in India, with projections indicating an accelerated pace of 120 new centers being added annually in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, up from some 40 six years ago. This insourcing trend diverts revenue from traditional IT vendors and creates direct competition for skilled technology talent.

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