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NATO jets shoot down drone over Lithuania and Russian ship fires flares at Danish helicopter
VILNIUS, Lithuania | NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace overnight, officials said Tuesday, the day after the head of the alliance said strikes close to its territory would only increase its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia’s full-scale invasion. Military officials in Lithuania, a NATO member, said the […]
FBI chief Kash Patel defends loosening of employment standards on bestiality, prostitution
WASHINGTON | FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday defended the bureau’s loosening of hiring requirements regarding prostitution and bestiality, saying the changes were meant to enable victims of those acts to apply for employment without fear of automatic disqualification. The FBI quietly issued guidance this past spring lifting a categorical hiring ban on applicants who […]
Pope celebrates his 71st birthday but it’s Vatican employees who get the gift
VATICAN CITY | Pope Leo XIV celebrated his 71st birthday on Monday but it was Vatican employees who got the gift. The Vatican published a papal decree repealing 2021 salary cuts that Pope Francis had imposed on many Vatican employees as part of the Holy See’s COVID-19 cost-saving measures. In the decree, Leo said the […]
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will pause strikes on Russia if Kremlin spares critical infrastructure
KYIV, Ukraine | President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Ukraine is ready to halt its strikes on Russian territory if allies can secure a genuine Russian commitment not to hit Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. His comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed in a social media post that Russia and Ukraine had agreed “not to […]
Trump says he’s lifting a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey because ‘everybody’s been bugging me’ about it
DOONBEG, Ireland | U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday at the close of a golf tournament in Ireland that he plans to remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey. Trump said during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he had been asked about the issue by everyone, including Irish Prime Minister Micheál […]
Trump agreed to new ethics rules to get a crypto bill across the line. But that might not be enough
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump had been hearing the message loud and clear for weeks about the sweeping cryptocurrency bill being written in the Senate: to get it across the line, he would have to agree to ethics provisions that apply to him, too. First, Trump agreed to a measure that would bar him and […]
Carney pitches Canada to global investors as Trump tries to pull investment south
TORONTO | U.S. President Donald Trump wants factories and investment moving south to the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting he can make billions flow north. About 300 CEOs and senior executives from some of the world’s biggest investment firms will descend on the Four Seasons in Yorkville, a tony Toronto enclave […]
Russians are still fleeing abroad, citing fears of a new mobilization and a loss of freedom
This summer, a 28-year-old digital content marketer packed up his suitcases and duct-taped boxes and fled Russia, leaving behind his family and friends and not knowing when he’ll be able to return. “It is very sad to leave Russia,” he said in the southern city of Krasnodar before heading for the border with Georgia. He […]
NATO chief Rutte vows more support for Ukraine after Russian drone strikes near Polish border
WARSAW, Poland | NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Monday that Russian drone strikes near the Ukraine-Poland border — one of which hit a train shortly after senior visiting officials had passed through the same station — would drive the military alliance to increase its support for Kyiv, calling Sunday’s attacks a sign of Moscow’s growing […]
New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate
LOS ANGELES | New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario. The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said […]