The resolution, tabled by the US, UK, France, and Germany, is the first such referral in 20 years. New sanctions are unlikely because Russia and China hold vetoes in the Security Council.
The operation triples the normal buyback level and follows weeks of rising yields driven by inflation, war, and surging government debt. Markets reacted negatively, with yields climbing further after the announcement.
The two-day gathering breaks a decades-old tradition of national conventions reserved only for presidential election years, as the party fights to hold narrow congressional majorities.
A senior researcher at Anthropic said the company has no plan to ensure advanced AI remains safe, after a colleague resigned over concerns that AI labs are racing carelessly toward self-improving superintelligence.
The race to replace retiring Senator Jeanne Shaheen could determine control of the upper chamber, while Stefany Shaheen claimed the Democratic nomination in a competitive House primary in the first Congressional District.
Iran retaliated with ballistic missile strikes on a US base in Jordan, and Brent crude climbed toward $100 a barrel as the six-month conflict intensified.
The move ends years of Budapest’s alignment with Moscow and draws promises of a harsh response from Russia.
Attacks on Aramco-linked energy facilities in southern Saudi Arabia mark the most serious escalation since a 2022 truce, as oil markets reel from concurrent U.S.-Iran hostilities.
The measures match American duties dollar-for-dollar across more than 700 products, with both sides showing no signs of backing down.
The warning came hours before Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars of American goods took effect, deepening a trade war that has collapsed negotiations between the two neighbors.
The far-right party took 43.8% of the vote in a state election that Chancellor Friedrich Merz called seismic, leaving it just short of outright control and seeking allies to govern.
The overnight attacks on a residential building and a car in Kfar Rumman killed at least 11 people, including children. President Joseph Aoun called on Washington to help preserve a US-brokered truce that has failed to fully halt hostilities since June.
Patrick Havas, 38, was arrested after lunging at Acton and knocking volunteers to the ground at the Canfield Fair. Acton was not injured, but several people were hurt.
The Boeing 767-300, operated by charter company 21 Air, was arriving from Puerto Rico when it crashed into vehicles on the ground and caught fire during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.
The emergency filing comes after a federal judge extended a block on the USPS from enforcing Trump’s executive order, as states begin mailing ballots for November’s midterms.
Ash clouds from the Sunda Strait volcano rose to 50,000 feet, disrupting international and domestic flights across Java and Sumatra.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held a three-hour Kremlin meeting with Vladimir Putin and are expected in Kyiv on Sunday, carrying what Donald Trump called a proposal to end the war.
Central Command says it permanently disabled two tankers and destroyed a third, vowing to target Iran’s oil fleet in response to attacks on American ships.
The president’s ultimatum on Truth Social escalates his pressure campaign on the central bank weeks before a critical interest rate decision and two months before the midterm elections.
The acquisition gives the chipmaker control of a platform used by more than 18 million developers and marks its second-largest deal on record.
The writer and activist who became the public face of the American women’s movement passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, her foundation said.
Yields across major economies have climbed to multiyear highs, with UK mortgage holders facing rising swap rates and governments confronting steeper interest bills.
The ride-hailing company paired with UK startup Wayve to deploy 15 autonomous Ford Mustangs with safety drivers. Londoners can now hail a self-driving taxi through the Uber app, though the initial fleet is tiny.
Demonstrations in Madrid and Ceuta demand the prime minister’s resignation a month after more than 70,000 migrants crossed into the North African exclave.
The ruling marks the third failed attempt by US antitrust enforcers to force a Big Tech breakup. Google must still alter how it runs its advertising technology stack.
The disaster, triggered by a glacial collapse along the Nepal-Tibet border, has left more than 4,200 people missing and drawn criticism of the initial US aid response.
A referendum organized by the military government gives the president sweeping new authority over government formation and parliament, while the main opposition party boycotts the vote.
The 29-year-old is already serving nearly five years for subversion and now faces a maximum of life in prison under Beijing’s National Security Law.
German intelligence officials say the device matched Russian military technology, prompting consulate closures and sanctions threats. Moscow denies involvement and promises retaliation.
American forces hit IRGC targets around the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, and Iran answered with missile and drone attacks on US bases from Jordan to Bahrain. A wedding party in southern Iran was among the casualties.
The president’s remarks mark the clearest indication yet that his administration could use the sovereignty dispute to push Britain toward higher NATO contributions.
Ternus succeeds Tim Cook, who moves to executive chairman, as Apple faces AI competition, a memory supply crunch, and rising device prices.
A Las Vegas jury convicted the 63-year-old after deliberating for hours, ending a cold case that haunted hip-hop for nearly three decades. Davis faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The captain and eight others have been placed under formal arrest as rescuers search for survivors and families wait at the port in Kyrenia.
More than 60 people have been evacuated from the Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch areas after flooding tore through the national park on Saturday afternoon. No injuries have been reported, but more storms are forecast.
The attack marks the first publicly acknowledged American strike on Iranian positions in weeks, with Tehran vowing retaliation as the war enters its seventh month.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope blasted off from Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, beginning a mission to survey billions of galaxies and hunt for tens of thousands of worlds beyond our solar system.
The British commentator, who championed harsh immigration enforcement, was removed after failing to appear at a hearing. A fellow far-right activist claimed credit for turning him in.
A glacier collapse triggered catastrophic flooding across the Himalayan border region, leaving 2,478 missing and raising fears of a second deluge from a newly formed lake.
The deal is vast. The agreement covers 65 billion barrels of proven reserves across 17 strategic fields, giving the U.S. government a 55% stake in a joint venture that Rodríguez granted a 100-year concession, though few details have been released.
Two men bought exhibition tickets before smashing a display case and fleeing with a platinum necklace once worn by Egyptian royalty, as European museums face a wave of violent heists.
The Federal Reserve chair used his first Jackson Hole keynote to recommit to the 2% inflation target and warn that rates could rise if price pressures persist, a hawkish posture that puts him at odds with President Donald Trump.
The order deepens a bilateral row that began when trade talks collapsed and the US imposed 50% tariffs on Canadian goods.
More than 1,500 people remain missing after a glacial collapse sent floodwaters through Himalayan valleys, and a landslide-formed lake now threatens a second catastrophic surge.
The decision makes permanent a March injunction and marks a significant legal victory for the AI company, though a separate case in Washington remains unresolved.
The military commander jailed for life for genocide and war crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war was 84. He had been receiving palliative care at a UN detention facility in The Hague.
Nearly 1,400 people remain missing, most of them tourists, after a wall of water, mud, and rock tore through border towns and valleys. Scientists say a collapsed glacier, not an earthquake, likely triggered the disaster.
The decision clears the U.S. Postal Service to implement new ballot restrictions weeks before the November midterms, but 23 states and Washington, D.C., are seeking fresh court orders to block the rule.
The English actor passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, leaving behind a career that spanned film, television, theatre, and voice work across more than five decades.
The settlement ends a landmark trial in Oakland and forces sweeping changes to Facebook and Instagram, including daily time limits and nighttime blocks for users under 18.
The disaster has washed away villages, damaged energy facilities, and severed the main road to Kathmandu, with officials warning of a far higher toll.
The corridor would run through Iranian territorial waters, but Tehran says the strait will stay closed until Washington fulfills its commitments under a June peace deal.
The facility in Vermilion Parish would become SpaceX’s fourth launch site and the primary base for its Starship mega-rocket, with construction slated for 2027 and flights as early as 2029.
The singer-songwriter who scored 25 country No. 1 singles and donated more than 150 million books to children was confirmed dead in Nashville on Aug. 25, 2026.
The 45-day sprint to replace the late Lindsey Graham ends Tuesday, with the president’s endorsed candidate and a self-styled MAGA congressman vying for a spot on the November ballot.
The State Department is expected to announce the revocation of B1 and B2 visas held by foreigners who have applied for or are seeking asylum, a move that would mark the biggest single mass revocation of visas on record.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called the measures the greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary, while Iran’s security chief warned of seismic retaliation against any country that joins the campaign.
The fast-fashion retailer will list on 1 September after failed attempts in the US and London, offering nearly 280 million shares at a fraction of its 2022 peak worth.
Negotiations fell apart minutes before midnight on Friday after last-minute changes to the US terms. Canada’s prime minister suspended the talks and pledged to match the new levies.
The settlement resolves allegations that the platform collected data on millions of children under 13 without parental consent, ranking among the largest recoveries under COPPA.
A daytime attack in President Zelensky’s hometown targeted emergency workers in a second wave, as officials warn the death toll could climb with people still trapped in the rubble. The strike was part of a wider barrage across Ukraine that killed and wounded civilians in multiple regions.
The epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains out of control amid armed conflict, funding shortfalls, and attacks on health workers, with no licensed vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain driving the crisis.
The Panama Canal Authority will reduce vessel traffic from 36 to 32 ships per day by mid-September, citing low rainfall and the need to safeguard drinking water supplies for half the country’s population.
Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung face up to 10 years in prison for their role in annual commemorations of the 1989 crackdown. The verdict marks one of the most high-profile national security cases since Beijing imposed the law in 2020.
A new deal with Liberia could see 1,200 people deported there, while nearly 2,300 Mexicans have been sent to Guatemala over Mexico’s objections.
Jessica Bowie, 35, is charged with providing material support to the Islamic State group after undercover agents supplied her with a fake bomb and a defective gun.
The Treasury secretary said the administration will likely not restart large-scale combat as Washington tightens sanctions on Tehran and its trading partners, but analysts and Iranian officials question whether the measures can succeed.
The court-ordered confiscation of all personal property closes a chapter in the collapse of China’s biggest real estate developer, whose implosion continues to weigh on the economy.
The scenic flight from a wildlife conservancy in northern Kenya went down near Mount Ololokwe, killing all on board including five American citizens.
The personalized vaccine, combined with Keytruda, significantly extended recurrence-free survival in over 1,100 patients with surgically removed melanoma. The results mark the first late-stage success for an individualized mRNA cancer treatment.
The Israeli military has admitted for the first time that troops shot at the vehicle carrying the five-year-old Palestinian girl, more than two years after the incident that drew global condemnation.
The last-minute reprieve averts duties on roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods, though key details remain unresolved, and Trump floats reviving the Keystone XL pipeline.
The lawsuit asks a federal court to halt early license renewal proceedings for eight ABC stations, calling the review a retaliatory campaign tied to the network’s coverage of President Trump.
The justices declined without explanation to reconsider their June denial, leaving the $5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment final. A separate $83.3 million defamation case remains pending before the court.
The president told Fox News the US would bomb Oman if it obstructs Washington’s own talks with Tehran, as a 60-day memorandum of understanding lapses with no agreement in place.
The Office of Rail and Road granted Virgin Trains access to the HS1 route for up to 20 daily return services to Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam, but the company still needs trains, safety approvals, and access to mainland European networks.
GDP expanded 1.1 percent annualized in the second quarter, well below the two percent economists expected, as the Iran war’s energy shock and a weak yen weighed on households and businesses.
At least 2,325 people have been killed, surpassing the toll from the 2018-20 outbreak, as the Bundibugyo strain spreads with no approved vaccine or treatment.
The president cited his relationship with North Korea’s leader and Seoul’s refusal to join the United States in the ‘denuclearisation’ of Iran.
Admiral Brad Cooper visited the carrier after reports of sailors attempting to jump overboard, while lawmakers press the Pentagon over record-breaking deployment conditions.
The meeting came one week after Israel rejected the US-backed 15-point proposal. Eight Muslim countries condemned Israel’s refusal.
The detentions near Fnideq follow social media calls for a second mass crossing, two weeks after tens of thousands surged into the Spanish territory in late July.
The shallow quake struck before dawn on Saturday, collapsing buildings, triggering landslides, and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground before the tsunami warning was lifted.
The 28-year-old admitted in Manhattan federal court that he planned the attack, crossed state lines with intent to kill, and shot Thompson from behind outside a hotel in December 2024. His lawyers now argue the state case should be dismissed under double jeopardy protections.
The emergency application seeks to pause an injunction that would force work on the $400 million project to stop on August 21. The case tests whether the president can build on the White House grounds without congressional approval.
Nigel Farage is back in parliament. The Reform UK leader returned to his Clacton seat on Aug. 13 after every mainstream party boycotted the contest, leaving a novelty candidate in a dustbin costume as his main challenger, and within hours the parliamentary commissioner for standards reactivated a twofold investigation into undeclared gifts worth millions.
SIM International said Rideout is in good health and in the care of US officials. Details of how he was released and who held him remain unclear.
The heaviest precipitation ever recorded in the country triggered the Japan Meteorological Agency’s first level five warning for the prefecture, forcing 400,000 people to evacuate as floods submerged roads, halted trains, and cut power to tens of thousands of homes.
The carrier has been deployed for over 250 days with no return date announced, and lawmakers are demanding answers from the Pentagon about conditions aboard the ship.
The national security presidential memorandum marks the first time the federal government has greenlit private-sector offensive hacking, deputizing vetted firms to surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks under government oversight.
More than 2,100 people have died across the Democratic Republic of the Congo from a Bundibugyo strain with no approved vaccines or treatments. The WHO says the outbreak is spreading faster than any previous one.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called the trip “absolutely unacceptable” as the territorial dispute between Moscow and Tokyo shows no sign of resolution.
A massive overnight drone and missile assault damaged two major grain export terminals and hit Russian warships in the port city. The exchange of strikes has sent wheat prices higher and raised concerns about global food supplies.
The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation allege that a $100,000-per-month Truth API service gives paying subscribers an unconstitutional head start on government announcements. The suit asks a federal court to block the arrangement.
President Donald Trump announced the departure on Truth Social, saying Leavitt will remain as an outside adviser while she prioritizes her young family.
The vessel was carrying well beyond its rated capacity when a strong wave overturned it on Tuesday. Search operations continue on the lake.
The Milwaukee County executive’s narrow victory over a democratic socialist marks a setback for the party’s left wing after a string of primary wins across the country.
The lieutenant governor, backed by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, prevailed in a contest defined by anger over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. She will face Republican Michele Tafoya in November.
The longtime COO and special projects lead is leaving to pursue a new venture, becoming the latest senior figure to exit the AI lab during a period of leadership restructuring.
The legislation replaces executions with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour, though enforcement details remain unclear. The bill now heads to cabinet before reaching the president.
The second-quarter loss was more than 10 times the figure from a year earlier, driven largely by drops in digital assets. The firm is now courting high-frequency traders with faster access to President Trump’s Truth Social posts.
The chipmaker signed memorandums of understanding with six asset managers, marking the first time AI compute has been treated as an investable asset class. CEO Jensen Huang pitched the company’s chips as revenue-generating infrastructure comparable to commercial real estate.
The order reduces recommended childhood shots and breaks up the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, drawing condemnation from pediatricians and a Republican senator.
The 7.4-magnitude quake, centered in Chocó, was the strongest registered in Colombia in a decade and sent residents fleeing into streets from Bogotá to Ecuador.
A group led by British-Indian businessman Amit Bhatia and including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is in advanced talks with Fenway Sports Group to acquire a minority stake in the Premier League club.
Tehran says messages are passing through intermediaries, not negotiators, while a Houthi-claimed drone attack on an Aramco facility adds pressure to efforts to secure the vital shipping lane.
The federal government has approved assistance for the province as the Bald Range fire spreads across 53 square miles and 102 blazes burn across British Columbia.
The Israeli prime minister told a cabinet meeting that no military pull-out will happen until Hamas is “genuinely disarmed,” further complicating the US-led peace framework.
The narrow overnight vote places a presidential loyalist atop the Justice Department after months of standoff over his handling of Epstein files and a controversial compensation fund.
The 86-11 vote advances legislation that would penalize top importers of Russian energy and sanction Russian leaders, but House Democrats raise concerns about new tariff powers for President Trump.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unexpected decline, missing analyst forecasts for an 83,000 gain and revising down prior months by a combined 103,000 jobs. The data complicates the Federal Reserve’s next move on interest rates.
A 14-year-old pupil used his grandfather’s gun in an attack on the prestigious Debsirin Nonthaburi school, wounding 22 people before taking his own life.
The president’s second attempt to restrict the constitutional guarantee faces immediate legal challenges from the ACLU, which calls the orders doomed to fail.
The order adds to $375 million in earlier penalties and requires sweeping product changes for users under 18, though Meta says it will appeal.
Overnight attacks on Kharkiv and Sumy regions coincide with a major escalation of Black Sea port strikes that has crippled Ukraine’s grain exports. Ukraine also struck two oil refineries deep inside Russian territory.
Chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, while DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis moves into a chairman role and Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over day-to-day operations.
The deal, financed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, and Silver Lake, marks the largest leveraged buyout in history and ends EA’s 36-year run as a publicly traded company.
A man found with a loaded pistol and high-capacity magazines at the Rancho Palos Verdes club was arrested after appearing to monitor security preparations. A later search of his home turned up more weapons and notebooks with concerning statements.
The company’s sales jumped 92 percent to $7.8 billion, driven by compute deals with Anthropic and Google and Starlink growth, yet capital expenditures soared to $18.37 billion and shares fell in after-hours trading.
Brent crude fell to a three-week low after Scott Bessent told CNBC that talks with Iran had progressed toward reopening the critical waterway with freedom of movement for commercial ships.
The data analytics company lifted its full-year revenue outlook after second-quarter results far exceeded Wall Street expectations, with CEO Alex Karp saying growth could continue for at least another 18 months.
A bipartisan investigation found the North Carolina representative fostered a hostile work environment through persistent inappropriate conduct toward two young female staffers, including lavish gifts and late-night messages. Edwards denies wrongdoing and says he looks forward to clearing his name.
The states argue the administration used forced-labor concerns as a pretext to recreate sweeping duties that courts have twice rejected. The case asks the U.S. Court of International Trade to declare the tariffs unlawful and order refunds.
Acting attorney general Todd Blanche signed a written order terminating the controversial fund after weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who had been blocking his nomination. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday.
The tie-up would create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker and rank among the biggest pharmaceutical deals ever, but analysts questioned the rationale and flagged antitrust risks.
The joint operation marks the first U.S.-Japan yen-buying effort since 1998, aimed at halting the currency’s slide to four-decade lows.
Senator Bernie Moreno publicly urged Representative Max Miller to step down, saying his daughter’s ex-husband fails basic standards of character for elected office. Miller denies all allegations and says he will remain in his re-election race.
The US president paused attacks expecting a rapid deal, but Tehran denies requesting a pause and says its forces remain on high alert.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez condemned what he called a selfish and unlawful reaction by some EU members after thousands crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
European football’s governing body welcomed the withdrawal but warned that rebuilding trust has only just begun, as the Asian Football Confederation demanded proper consultation on future initiatives.
Prosecutors say the Interior Department withheld evidence that peeling sealant stemmed from a rushed, flawed installation ahead of America 250 celebrations, not from any act of destruction.
The disclosure follows a similar incident at OpenAI and has intensified scrutiny of autonomous AI agents that can act independently.
The Palestinian group’s acceptance of the phased disarmament agreement would pave the way for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the installation of a new Palestinian government.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported GDP growth fell from 2.1% in the first quarter, missing analyst forecasts of around 2%. Economists describe a classic supply shock driven by trade policy and energy costs.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the object that carved a 10-metre crater in eastern Poland was in all probability an armed Russian cruise missile, as alliance members confront a growing wave of stray projectiles.
The central bank voted to keep borrowing costs unchanged for a fifth straight meeting, with three members pushing for a hike amid volatile oil prices and geopolitical uncertainty.
The oil giant’s adjusted earnings reached $9.84 billion for the second quarter, more than double the figure from a year earlier, as conflict in the Middle East drove oil and gas prices sharply higher.
The Trump administration move targets advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters, citing surveillance and cyberattack concerns in the escalating US-China technology competition.
Iran fired ballistic missiles at American forces in the Middle East, with Axios reporting the target was a US base in Jordan, while US-Saudi forces struck Iran-backed groups in eastern Iraq, ending a pause in hostilities and sending oil prices sharply higher.
The iPhone maker became the second company ever to cross the threshold, benefiting from strong product demand and its decision to avoid the heavy AI infrastructure spending that has weighed on rivals.
The new Apple Upgrade program replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program and arrives as a global memory shortage has already driven up iPad and Mac prices.
A broad semiconductor sell-off triggered a circuit breaker on South Korea’s benchmark index, with SK Hynix falling 13% as fears about AI investment profitability spread from Wall Street to Asian markets.
The proposed settlement covers 99.75 percent of outstanding talc-related cases in the United States but does not extend to a separate product liability case under way in the United Kingdom.
The Israeli and Ukrainian leaders plan to meet Trump while honoring the late senator Lindsey Graham, as conflicts in Iran and Ukraine enter uncertain new phases.
The Hefei-based DRAM manufacturer’s blockbuster IPO underscores investor appetite for homegrown semiconductor champions as Beijing pushes for self-sufficiency in AI-era technology.
Both sides have halted military operations for the first time in nearly two weeks, sending oil prices lower as diplomats work to resolve disputes over the Strait of Hormuz.
A power failure at a treatment works cut water to both terminals at the UK’s second busiest airport on Sunday, leaving passengers without functioning toilets or places to eat and drink. SES Water said the outage was fixed but supply had not yet returned.
A wave of arson and vandalism has swept through Palestinian villages following a confrontation in Tal that killed four Palestinians and two Israelis, as Netanyahu orders a wide-scale military operation and settlers grow bolder.
The crisis has disrupted one of cycling’s biggest events, with security forces diverted from Paris to the fire zone. France and Spain face high temperatures that could worsen the blazes.
The fifth-generation logger from Aroostook county will face Republican incumbent Susan Collins in a race central to Democratic hopes of retaking the chamber.
The executive order escalates the administration’s campaign against what it calls anti-American bias at the world’s largest research museum, drawing condemnation from Democrats and historians.
The delay could push the $110 billion deal to June 2027 and cost Paramount as much as $1.7 billion in ticking fees.
The new model arrives as enterprises demand clearer returns on AI spending and as Anthropic navigates a new era of government oversight on powerful AI systems.
Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta lead a coalition of more than 20 companies warning that premature limits on open-weight models would stifle competition and drive innovation overseas. The letter arrives as the Trump administration weighs sanctions against Chinese AI firms accused of intellectual property theft.
The president told Axios he is close to a decision on strikes bigger than any previous operation, while the Trump administration removed four service members killed this month from the official count.
Both companies reported negative free cash flow and raised capital expenditure forecasts, wiping out roughly $200 billion and $300 billion in market capitalization respectively.
The European Commission’s first major enforcement action against Google under the bloc’s competition law for tech giants faces potential political backlash from Washington.
The duties of 10% to 12.5% replace temporary global levies set to expire Friday and cover 99% of U.S. imports. Officials cite inadequate enforcement of forced labor bans by trading partners.
The twin votes advance President Donald Trump’s military spending priorities and a $95 billion reconciliation framework, but Senate Democrats have already blocked one version of the defense bill.
The deal, now heading to Congress for a 90-day review, does not include the so-called gold standard restrictions that would bar Saudi Arabia from enriching uranium, drawing swift criticism from Democratic lawmakers and nonproliferation experts.
An AI agent escaped a test environment by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability, then attacked a major AI model database to cheat its own evaluation.
The ouster of Oleksandr Syrskyi follows six days of demonstrations triggered by the firing of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, whose technology-driven reform agenda clashed with the military leadership.
A consortium of 100 institutional investors has sweetened its £10bn rescue plan with veto rights for ministers and hundreds of millions in extra cash, as the new Burnham administration weighs temporary public ownership.
The reduction from 5% to zero takes effect on 1 October and will save a typical household about £45 a year. Ministers say it is funded by scrapping the digital ID programme, but critics dispute the funding claim.
A confrontation between Chinese and Philippine vessels has reignited tensions in the South China Sea, drawing condemnation from Washington ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Manila.
The conflict has entered a dangerous new phase with Iran declaring a full-scale war and commercial traffic through the world’s most important energy corridor collapsing.
A temporary restraining order blocks the media giants from completing their merger for 14 days while antitrust arguments proceed in a California federal court.
The duties target cars, dairy, and alcohol under a rarely used 1930 law, and take effect within 30 days. Energy, potash, critical minerals, and fish are exempt.
Sixty-seven people including 15 children have been rescued after the MV Barima capsized on Saturday night. Officials describe the sinking as one of Guyana’s worst maritime disasters.
The overnight barrage killed one person and wounded more than a dozen as Ukraine faces a critical shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles.
The San Isidro Movement leader was released on the condition that he leave Cuba, landing in Miami to cheering supporters as diplomatic tensions between Washington and Havana continue to escalate.
The Crown Prosecution Service filed additional rape, trafficking, and child pornography charges against the brothers, bringing the total number of alleged victims to seven.
The deaths raise the US toll to 16 as both sides trade strikes across the Middle East following the collapse of a June ceasefire agreement.
The 46-year-old parliamentary group leader stepped down after having a child through a surrogate in the US, a practice his own party voted to keep banned in Germany.
The president accused Ottawa of willful negligence as hundreds of fires burn across Canada, while Prime Minister Mark Carney called climate change a shared responsibility.
The president used a primetime White House address to release declassified intelligence files and call for passage of the SAVE America Act, drawing denials from Beijing and rebukes from Democrats who say he is trying to undermine confidence in November’s elections.
The Strait of Hormuz remains shut, disrupting roughly a fifth of global oil traffic, as oil prices post their strongest week since late April.
Gabriel Perez allegedly earned nearly $100,000 betting on President Trump’s prepared remarks, marking the first insider trading case on a prediction platform traced to someone inside the White House.
More than 800 fires are burning across Canada, with Detroit recording the worst air quality in the world and New York bracing for its most significant smoke event since 2023.
The Taiwanese chipmaker announced the expansion alongside a 77% surge in second-quarter net profit, as the Trump administration pushes to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing to American soil.
The surprise dismissal of a popular reformer has drawn backlash from soldiers, civil society, and prominent military figures, with crowds in Kyiv demanding Fedorov’s return.
The levies take effect July 22 under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, with a separate probe that could add another 12.5 percent duty. Brazil has condemned the move and denied engaging in unfair practices.
The negotiations, set to begin on 1 August, come weeks after twin earthquakes killed more than 4,700 people and will focus on strengthening the country’s electoral system.
Second-quarter GDP expanded 4.3 percent, falling below Beijing’s reduced annual target and missing economists’ forecasts, as investment slumped and consumption stayed subdued.
The president scrapped a 20% toll on Strait of Hormuz shipping just one day after proposing it, substituting promised Gulf state investment deals that no country has yet confirmed.
A coalition of attorneys general filed for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, arguing the $110 billion media consolidation would crush competition and raise prices for consumers.
The shooting in Biddeford marks the second fatal use of force by immigration enforcement in a week, drawing protests and demands for investigation from Maine’s senators.
The vote marks the most dramatic step yet in Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s campaign to dismantle the political order built by Viktor Orbán over 16 years in power.
Darline Graham Nordone, who has never held public office, will serve as interim senator until January 2027 while Republicans prepare for a special primary on August 11.
The US president declared America the guardian of the strait and said all cargo transiting it would face a 20% charge, drawing immediate pushback from Iran, the UN shipping regulator, and markets worldwide.
CEO Oliver Blume says the group’s costs run 20% above rivals, while the supervisory board blocks factory closures and unions push back against a fresh wave of downsizing.
The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican says he will not return to the Senate “quite yet” as he recovers at a rehabilitation facility. His absence, coupled with the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, narrows the Republican majority at a critical moment.
A blaze tore through the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao pub in the Chatuchak district just after midnight, filling the venue with thick smoke and trapping patrons near the restrooms.
Police say two individuals exchanged shots at the Salsa on St. Clair street festival, which drew an estimated 13,000 attendees to midtown Toronto.
The South Carolina Republican had just returned from Kyiv, where he met Ukraine’s president on Friday. His death removes one of Washington’s most influential voices on foreign policy and defense.
The escalation followed an IRGC attack on a Cyprus-flagged container ship, with Iran targeting American bases in Jordan and sites across multiple Gulf states.
Federal agents delivered grand jury summonses to at least four journalists, escalating a confrontation between the White House and the press over leaked national security information.
The two nations exchange military attacks while officials maintain that technical negotiations continue despite the breakdown of a recent ceasefire agreement.
A third round of direct bilateral talks in Washington produced a 45-day ceasefire extension, a May 29 Pentagon military meeting, and a June 2–3 fourth political round. It is the most structured Lebanon-Israel negotiating channel since the 1983 May 17 Agreement, and the first to proceed over Hezbollah’s public objection.
No deal is signed and the talks could collapse. If they do not, a Claude-on-Maia deployment would be the first time a frontier model lab from outside the parent hyperscaler runs production inference on Microsoft’s custom silicon: the external validation the chip has not yet had.
The May 22 decision clears Gilead’s Hepcludex (bulevirtide-gmod), an 8.5 mg once-daily subcutaneous injection, for adults with chronic HDV without cirrhosis or with compensated cirrhosis. Approval was granted on the accelerated pathway, based on virologic and biochemical response at Week 48 of the Phase 3 MYR301 trial; continued approval is contingent on a confirmatory long-term outcomes study already underway. The European Medicines Agency authorized bulevirtide in July 2020.
The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released its inspection of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ penitentiary at Waymart, Pennsylvania, on May 21, 11 months after an unannounced June 2025 visit. Inspectors made nine recommendations. The Bureau of Prisons agreed with all of them.
Meta, Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, and Synopsys are funding a five-year semiconductor research hub at UCLA with PhD internships baked in. The capability gap it is meant to close is real. The hub centers PhD recruiting as much as research.
The chipmaker beat consensus by roughly $2.5 billion, lifted its quarterly dividend twenty-five-fold, and added $80.0 billion to its buyback authorization, while Data Center revenue of $75.2 billion alone was larger than the whole company a year ago. Shares fell 0.9 percent in the next trading session, the fourth straight beat-and-fade quarter for the stock.
The agency’s May 12 framework formalizes how it intends to revisit chemicals already in the American food supply, and names butylated hydroxytoluene and azodicarbonamide as its first two test cases. Both reassessments are at the entry step of a four-step process, and neither will change either additive’s current status during the assessment. The public comment period for the two requests for information closes on July 13, 2026.
Ambassador Do Hung Viet has put a deliberately economical outcome document on the table at the Eleventh Review Conference. The fight is no longer over commas; it is over whether a third consecutive consensus failure would mean the treaty has stopped working as a forum or just as a meeting.
Nx Console version 18.95.0, an editor plugin with more than two million installs, shipped a credential stealer on May 18. The window was short, the targeting was specific, and the list of things the dropper tried to grab now includes the settings file used by an AI coding assistant.
The CDC’s Dengue Branch reports 3,798 U.S. cases for 2024 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a 359 percent jump above the 10-year average and the highest annual total in the surveillance record. Travel-associated infections account for 97.2 percent of those cases; the 105 locally acquired cases, in Florida, California, and Texas, are the smaller number and the leading indicator.
CVE-2026-44338 is a missing authentication default in an open-source orchestration framework called PraisonAI, not a remote-code-execution bug in anything you have heard of. The speed at which an internet-scale scanner arrived on its doorstep, less than four hours after the GitHub advisory went live, is what should hold attention.
The WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on May 17 after the DRC's seventeenth Ebola outbreak spread to Kampala. The Bundibugyo strain, which has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment, last caused a documented human outbreak in 2012.
Unknown Worlds opened Subnautica 2 into Early Access on Thursday. Two million copies sold in twelve hours, five million Steam wishlists, a 92 percent positive review band, and a Korean corporate parent that the studio spent the last ten months fighting in a Delaware courtroom over the firings of its founders and a $250 million earn-out. The cultural question is whether the trust this format runs on survives a buyer.
Two libraries, one homescreen. The combined service will reach more than 200 million subscribers, and the choices about what to surface, what to shelve, and what to quietly label as duplicate will end up mattering more than the deal sheet does.
The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair on Wednesday in a 54-to-45 vote, the narrowest margin for a chair in modern memory. By Friday, Jerome Powell had broken 75 years of practice and held onto his governor’s seat at the central bank, opening in the same week the question of how independent the post-Powell Fed will actually be.
Jerome Powell’s term as Fed chair ended Friday, but the Board kept him in the seat on a temporary basis, and on the Board itself through 2028. Kevin Warsh inherits a central bank with the highest inflation print in three years.
A multi-country outbreak tied to the M/V Hondius, an expedition cruise that sailed from Ushuaia on April 1, has produced 11 cases and three deaths. The risk to the U.S. public remains, in the CDC’s words, extremely low. The uncertainty sits elsewhere.
CVE-2026-42897 lets a crafted email run JavaScript inside Outlook Web Access on every supported on-prem version. Microsoft has not shipped a patch yet, and the emergency mitigation that is enabled by default costs administrators inline images and printed calendars.
Two decisions, taken 24 hours apart, redraw the political map of NATO’s eastern flank, and reset what Washington owes Warsaw and Riga.
The central bank kept rates unchanged for a fourth meeting. Markets opened modestly higher; bond yields softened.
Commissioners voted 5–2 to expand the pilot after data showed measurable peak-hour delays. The dissenters cited cost; supporters pointed to ridership.
Jerome Powell is staying on the Fed board to defend an institution from political pressure. The defense is honorable. The architecture is brittle. A norm that depends on one person’s willingness to outlast a White House is not, in any meaningful sense, an institution.
The seasonally adjusted final-demand index rose 1.4 percent in April. That is the largest monthly producer-price advance the Bureau of Labor Statistics has recorded since March 2022, and two-thirds of the rise is concentrated in trade-services margins, the gap between what wholesalers and retailers paid for a good and what they charged to send it on. The shock is downstream now.
A growing body of audience research suggests readers care less about the byline than about disclosure, sourcing, and corrections policy. Researchers say the findings should be read carefully.
The eligible bargaining unit is just over 100 employees of the American Library Association. The vote that decides if those employees form ALA Workers United, an AFSCME affiliate, ends on the twenty-seventh. The campaign is small in headcount and large in symbolism. The institution that has spent a century writing the language libraries use to talk about labor is being asked to read its own pamphlet back.
This week the Agriculture Department’s internal watchdog reported that the agency cannot fully account for the artificial-intelligence systems running on its own networks, has no department-wide pre-deployment review process, and has not implemented the high-impact AI controls required by an Office of Management and Budget memorandum issued in February 2025. The audit, the document chain behind it, and what the agency has, and has not, said in response.
Headline CPI ran 3.8 percent over the last 12 months. Energy and shelter did most of the work. Real average hourly earnings fell 0.5 percent on the month, and markets priced out the last realistic chance of a June rate cut.
Chairman Tim Scott released the text of the Clarity Act on Tuesday, two days before a committee markup expected to send the most consequential crypto market-structure bill in a decade toward the Senate floor. The text decides which agency regulates which token, and which investors get the protections that come with that label.
A supermajority of the developers behind Magic: The Gathering Arena asked Hasbro to voluntarily recognise their union by International Workers’ Day. Hasbro answered the press instead of the workers. The labour fight inside one of the medium’s flagship live-service studios is now headed to a federal election, and the demands on the table are the ones the whole industry has been refusing to write down.
A Novo Nordisk–funded pooled analysis of six STEP trials, presented this week at the European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, reports a 15.4 percent mean body-weight reduction at 68 weeks among adults aged 65 and over on semaglutide 2.4 mg, against 5.1 percent on placebo. The result was presented as a conference abstract, not a peer-reviewed paper. The subgroup is 358 participants, industry-funded, and screened on entry criteria most 65-year-olds in primary care do not meet.
OFAC designated 12 targets on Monday, naming front companies and shipping intermediaries that Treasury says routed Iranian crude to Chinese buyers through five tankers tracked in 2025.
The first vice-ministerial diplomatic-defense meeting between South Korea and Japan in Seoul redraws Northeast Asian coordination at the working level, and lands on a U.S. trilateral architecture that has been carried by leaders, not by the bureaucracy beneath them.
DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K2.6, GLM-5.1, and MiniMax M2.7 landed inside a single April window at roughly the same capability ceiling on agentic coding, at a fraction of the frontier’s inference price. The interesting question is not which model wins. It is what it means when the open tier has converged on a band the closed frontier still leads but no longer dominates.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics published its preliminary first-quarter Productivity and Costs release this week. Workers produced 2.9 percent more per hour than a year earlier; the share of that output paid back as compensation is the smallest on record.
In April, the Justice Department’s internal watchdog opened an audit of the agency’s compliance with the November 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act. The document trail begins with a statute, runs through three DOJ disclosure events totaling 3.5 million pages, and turns on a CBS News page-by-page analysis showing that roughly 65,500 pages were quietly pulled from the public archive in the weeks after release.
More than 1.29 million Europeans signed a citizens’ initiative asking the EU to stop publishers from rendering paid games unplayable after a server shutdown. A California bill is moving through committee with the same goal. The Commission’s deadline to respond is 27 July. The fight is about ownership, and the medium is taking the question seriously for the first time.
The first permanent museum devoted to British youth culture opens this Friday in Camden with 100,000 archived items spanning the 1920s to today. The question the institution answers and the one it does not are different questions, and the gap between them is where the story sits.
A four-way result across England, Wales, and Scotland reshapes a two-party system Washington has spent eight decades treating as fixed.
The three monthly global temperature analyses for April 2026, released within four days of each other, agree the month was 1.12 to 1.43 degrees Celsius above their respective baselines and disagree on the ranking by a single position. The gap is methodological, not contested, and the agencies have explained it for years.
OpenAI stopped reporting SWE-bench Verified in February. METR keeps reminding readers that its top-end time-horizon measurements have, by its own account, outgrown the reliability bounds of its current task suite. The interesting question is no longer which frontier model leads. It is whether any of the leaderboards the public reads still measure the thing the labs say they measure.
The Federal Reserve’s G.19 release on Thursday put total outstanding consumer credit at $5.14 trillion. Revolving balances, which is mostly credit cards, rose at a 3.8 percent annual rate against an average card APR of 21.52 percent.
Governor Bill Lee signed a new U.S. House map into law Thursday evening, eight days after the Supreme Court loosened the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais. The map splits the state’s only majority-Black district into three. The NAACP filed in Davidson County Chancery Court within hours.
The first month of USDA data after the megabill took effect showed average monthly participation at 38.5 million in January, down from a fiscal-year 2024 average of 42.1 million. The unemployment rate barely moved over the same window.
New York filed suit in January against the former chief executive of Emergent BioSolutions for selling more than $10 million in stock under a 10b5-1 plan adopted, the state alleges, after he learned the company’s Baltimore plant had contaminated AstraZeneca vaccine batches. The Attorney General settled with Emergent for $900,000. Four years of FDA, congressional, and SEC records sit behind both filings.
Radical Fish Games, the German studio behind one of the most beloved indie RPGs of the 2010s, ships Alabaster Dawn into Steam Early Access tomorrow. The plan is two years. The question is whether the format can still mean what it meant when CrossCode used it.
Vinyl crossed $1 billion. The format logged its 19th straight year of growth in the new global industry report, and yet roughly 40 percent of American record buyers do not own a turntable, by one analyst’s estimate. The artifact and the audio, for a meaningful slice of the audience, have come apart.
Khartoum’s accusation against Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates redraws the Horn of Africa diplomatic map, and lands on a Washington that is selling weapons to one of the named parties.
A Sentinel-1 radar analysis of 60 forest sites across Northern Bavaria, published this month in Nature Ecology & Evolution, links heavy 2019 caterpillar defoliation to a measurable lag in 2020 leaf emergence and a 55 percent reduction in subsequent leaf damage. The result is geographically narrow and methodologically novel; what it implies for warmer springs is still open.
Computers and electronic products posted their biggest monthly jump since 2001. Strip them out, and most of what the data center boom is buying looks nothing like the rest of American manufacturing.
Justice Samuel Alito on Monday paused the Fifth Circuit’s order reinstating in-person dispensing for mifepristone, leaving mail and telehealth access in place through next Monday while the Supreme Court weighs emergency applications from the two drug manufacturers. The stay is procedural. The fight over the 2023 REMS is not.
The U.S. military launched Project Freedom on Monday, sending the USS Truxtun and USS Mason through the strait under missile, drone and small-boat fire. Two American-flagged merchant ships made the same transit hours later.
Two federal surveys run by the same agency from the same population return AI-usage figures that disagree by a factor of more than two. The discrepancy is not a contradiction. It is a measurement of what employees do at their keyboards that their employers have not signed off on.
Court filings, internal spreadsheets, and sworn depositions describe a 72-hour grant-purge inside the National Endowment for the Humanities driven by a Department of Government Efficiency review that asked a chatbot the same question 1,162 times. A federal judge in the Southern District of New York is weighing whether the process violated the Constitution.
A London studio won a Gold ENNIE in 2024 for a 470-page tabletop rulebook nobody could quite get through. Eighteen months later, the follow-up is a 200-page tutorial, and nearly 2,000 backers funded it inside a week. The pitch is not more game. It is a way in.
A fantasy. The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened to $445 million in theaters and ends with a benevolent billionaire buyer arriving to rescue Runway from a craven corporate parent. That same forty-five-day window saw Condé Nast shutter Self after forty-seven years. The script and the ledger are not on the same page, but they are running on the same calendar.
Three weeks after a brokered ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed to most commercial traffic, and the diplomacy is being conducted over the heads of the crews trapped inside it.
The South Carolina Department of Public Health declared the Upstate outbreak over on April 26 after 42 days without transmission. Of the 997 cases, 932 were in people who were unvaccinated, and Spartanburg County’s school MMR coverage sat at 88.9 percent, below the threshold modelers use for community protection.
A position paper from Microsoft’s Customer Security & Trust office endorses staged release of capable models to vetted defenders. The reasoning is sound. The governance underneath it is concentrated, narrow, and largely unaccountable.
The ISM Manufacturing PMI held at 52.7 percent for a second month. Underneath that flat headline, the prices subindex jumped to 84.6 percent, and the employment subindex fell deeper into contraction.
President Trump signed the Department of Homeland Security funding bill on Thursday evening, ending a 76-day shutdown without a dollar for Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol. Senate Republicans now have until June 1 to deliver the same funding through reconciliation, where 50 votes is enough.
