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S3133 and A399 would ban civilians from mounting guns, flamethrowers, or explosives on robots and drones. The bill is still sitting in committee.

A CNR Nanotec-led team reported in Nature that a photonic-crystal polariton condensate can be solid and superfluid at once. The Lecce experiment measured density order to parts in a thousand…

Ex-MCC Chicago officer Brittany Hall pleaded not guilty to eight federal sex-abuse counts involving four women on Unit 12, including Heather Mack. She is free on bond. The Bureau of…

On August 31, 2026, Hubei province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences retained White & Case to attack Missouri's $24.5 billion default over alleged COVID PPE hoarding. Attorney General Catherine…

Alexandra Bialousow was charged with two misdemeanors after the 2,059-acre Covington Drive fire near Myrtle Beach. The blaze smoldered for 95 days. On the morning of trial she accepted a…

The X-37B ended OTV-7 at Vandenberg after 434 days in a highly elliptical orbit. Six months later OTV-8 launched from Kennedy with a quantum inertial sensor and laser communications gear…

JetBlue pilot Jeremy Gudorf was pulled off a Boston-to-Paris pairing after CBP flagged a Huntersville child-exploitation warrant. He died in Revere on March 7, 2025, as a fugitive team moved…

On August 14, 2026, Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to interstate stalking and cyberstalking resulting in Brian Thompson's death. Sentencing is December 18. Prosecutors want life. The…

Reddit photos of a tarp-wrapped hull in Puget Sound forced DARPA to confirm USX-1 Defiant, the NOMARS crewless prototype now in final acceptance trials before a planned handoff to the…

A Vermont grand jury charged 25 Canadian nationals in a Montreal-based grandparent scam that prosecutors say took more than $21 million from elderly Americans. Most defendants are fighting extradition. Stefano…