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The US has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks

By Joseph Menn
Nov 29, 2025 3:29 pm - The federal government’s ability to counter cyberespionage, destructive hacks and organized criminal scams is declining under the Trump administration just as artificial intelligence supercharges those threats, according to interviews with current and former officials as well as outside cybersecurity experts.
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.

By Jonathan Edwards and Dan Diamond
Nov 29, 2025 3:12 pm - President Donald Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations.
Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars

By MARCIA DUNN
Nov 29, 2025 3:11 pm - Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a microphone on the rover, a French-led team reported Wednesday.
Trump says he wants to ‘permanently pause’ migration to the US from poorer countries

By JOSH BOAK
Nov 29, 2025 1:06 pm - President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status. He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”
Zelenskyy’s chief of staff resigns after anti-corruption investigators search home

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and ISOBEL KOSHIW
Nov 29, 2025 1:04 pm - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who was also the country's lead negotiator in talks with the U.S, after Yermak's residence was searched by anti-corruption investigators.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

By Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima
Nov 28, 2025 9:49 pm - The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a verbal directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said.
Northwestern University reaches deal to restore federal funding, officials say

By Tre Ward
Nov 28, 2025 9:49 pm - Federal troubles that loomed over Northwestern University in Evanston for months seem to be over.The university announced Friday that it has reached a deal with the federal government to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding, while also ending what the school's interim president calls “a deeply painful and disruptive period in our university's history.”
Communities honor West Virginia National Guard members shot in Washington

By JEFFREY COLLINS, BRUCE SCHREINER and SARAH BRUMFIELD
Nov 28, 2025 6:30 pm - West Virginia communities and officials were honoring two members of the state's National Guard who were shot in Washington, D.C., this week, lauding their dedication to serving their country.
DC police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attack

By Jenny Gathright, Emily Davies, Olivia George
Nov 28, 2025 4:39 pm - National Guard troops patrolling in Washington, D.C., will be paired with local law enforcement personnel, at least temporarily, in the wake of the Wednesday attack that killed one Guard member and critically injured another, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post and two D.C. police officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss planning that is still in progress.
National Guard shooting suspect was in one of CIA’s ‘Zero Units’

By Joshua Partlow, Dana Hedgpeth, Nicole Asbury, Warren P. Strobel and Victoria Bisset
Nov 28, 2025 4:35 pm - The man suspected of shooting two National Guard members near the White House this week — one of them fatally — is an Afghan national who came to the United States in September 2021 because of his work with the U.S. government, including the CIA, according to authorities.

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