AUGUST 30, 2025
You can enroll in the Extended Security Updates program, and there's a way to do it for free. NurPhoto via Getty Images
Microsoft is about to pull the plug on Windows 10. Support for the decade-old operating system is scheduled to end on October 14, and users are encouraged to upgrade to Windows 11.
However, we're less than two months...
AUGUST 30, 2025
Micheál Martin speaks with Donald Trump during the taoiseach’s St Patrick’s Day visit to the White House in March - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America
Open the welcome book at Shannon Airport – thick with the pleasantries of visiting dignitaries – and you’ll find a rare pairing, a few lines apart.
“To all our friends at Shannon, with gratitude...
AUGUST 30, 2025
Plastic water bottle left in a hot car. - Linnea Bullion/ For TWP
The question
Is it true that you should not drink from plastic water bottles left in a hot car?
The science
Microplastics — plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters — are in our food, water, clothing, personal care products, cosmetics and environment.
And plastic water bottles.
Under certain circumstances, these bottles, particularly...
AUGUST 30, 2025
President Trump Holds Cabinet Meeting. - Aaron Schwartz / CNP / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Aaron Schwartz - Pool via CNP
A federal appeals court said Friday that many of the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Trump on dozens of countries earlier this year are not legally permissible.
The ruling will not immediately block the tariffs, but it marks a significant...
AUGUST 30, 2025
Consumers, shippers and small businesses domestic and abroad are in flux as an exemption that allowed low-cost goods to enter the United States duty-free came to an end.
For nearly a century, the de minimis rule allowed merchandise worth $800 or less to bypass import tax. But it expired at 12:01 a.m. Friday, meaning such shipments are now...
AUGUST 29, 2025
Barack Obama has slammed Trump for putting ‘all Americans at risk’ in recent crime crackdowns (Getty)
Barack Obama has slammed Donald Trump after he threatened to clamp down on crime in Chicago, as part of a major national crackdown.
On Thursday, internal documents obtained by the New York Times revealed the Trump administration was plotting a mass immigration operation in Chicago – involving 200 homeland...
AUGUST 29, 2025
‘Nowhere to go’: What happened after Trump ordered homeless encampments cleared. - Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post
The lights of half a dozen police cars bounced off buildings and the faces of 50 or so homeless adults as federal and D.C. officers lined up outside New York Avenue Presbyterian Church two blocks east of the White House.
Joyce Baucom leaned...
AUGUST 29, 2025
Then-Vice President Kamala Harris pauses while speaking during a campaign rally at the Rawhide Event Center on October 10, 2024, in Chandler, Arizona. - Brandon Bell/Getty Images
President Donald Trump revoked Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection on Thursday, according to a copy of a letter reviewed by CNN.
Former presidents receive Secret Service protection for life. Harris, as a former...
AUGUST 28, 2025
Rescuers work at the site of a residential building hit by a Russian missile on Thursday in Kyiv. (Kostiantyn Liberov / Getty Images)
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia unleashed a massive overnight attack on the Ukrainian capital that killed at least 10 people and injured 38, local officials said early Thursday.
The combined drone and missile strikes were the most significant to...
AUGUST 27, 2025
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen arrives for a meeting between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, in the Faroe Islands, on June 17, 2025. - Ida Marie Odgaard, via REUTERS
Denmark summoned the top American diplomat in Copenhagen following a report in Danish media alleging that American citizens have been conducting covert influence operations in Greenland aimed at interfering with...
