The program allows local law enforcement to carry out the duties of federal agents

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Two tropical storms have damaged more than 16,000 homes and caused widespread electricity cuts.

The move caps one of the most stunningly quick collapses in college football history.

The de Bruijn graph is a key data structure in modern computational genomics, and construction of its compacted variant resides upstream of many genomic analyses. As the quantity of genomic data grows rapidly, this often forms a computational bottleneck. We present Cuttlefish 2, significantly advancing the state-of-the-art for this problem. On a commodity server, it reduces the graph construction time for 661K bacterial genomes, of size 2.58Tbp, from 4.5 days to 17–23 h; and it constructs the graph for 1.52Tbp white spruce reads in approximately 10 h, while the closest competitor requires 54–58 h, using considerably more memory.

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

Report includes recommendations for EU member states.