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Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
on Iran yesterday, sparking retaliatory strikes on Israel from Iran. This is the most intense exchange of fire in decades between the two heavily-armed countries, and raises the risk of a wider regional war that launched its attack yesterday after it was reported that Iran had advanced its nuclear program. The strikes targeted Iran's nuclear sites and decimated its top military command, killing its leaders as well ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
Millions of people expected for potentially biggest day of demonstrations since president's second term began As tanks and soldiers parade through the streets of Washington on Saturday, millions of people around the country are expected to turn out in their communities to speak out against the excesses of Donald Trump's administration in what's expected to be the biggest day of protest since his second term began. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
Grieving families waited Saturday for news after one of the deadliest air disasters in decades, with the toll rising to 279 people killed in the Indian passenger jet crash. The Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner issued a mayday call shortly before it crashed around lunchtime on Thursday, bursting into a fireball as it hit residential buildings. On Saturday, a police source said that 279 bodies had been recovered ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
Variations on the theme have surfaced among longtime NATO allies in Europe, one-party and authoritarian states and history's darkest regimes. On July 14, 1789, French insurgents stormed the Bastille, which housed prisoners of Louis XVI's government. Revolutionaries commenced a Fête de la Fédération as a day of national unity and pride the following year, even with the First French Republic still ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 15 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter as the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied for a gritty 111-104 victory over the Indiana Pacers that levelled the NBA Finals at two games apiece. Frustrated for much of the game by Indiana's relentless defence, NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) Gilgeous-Alexander found a way to fight through on Friday. He followed a 3-pointer with a pull-up jumper to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
NEW YORK – The fifth week of ' sex trafficking trial featured four days of testimony from a former Combs' girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym Jane and a surprise appearance at the courthouse on the fifth day by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Ye said he came to show his support for his good friend but couldn't get into the courtroom and watched for a few minutes on an overflow courtroom ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla has continued to defend himself and refute claims by the Trump administration that he "crashed" Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference before federal officers shoved him outside the room , pushed him to the floor and handcuffed him. Padilla, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration , Citizenship, and Border Safety, ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Simply using a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud isn't enough. After a rocky Thursday afternoon on the internet, both Google and Cloudflare services appear to be operating normally as of Friday morning. When trouble started, the question wasn't what's wrong with what cloud service; it was, what service isn't down? What happened on Thursday? First, this was not just an American problem. Google Cloud reported that it ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
News Analysis How Kennedy's Purge of Advisers Could Disrupt U.S. Vaccinations Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, dismissed 17 scientific advisers to the C.D.C. Critics fear newly appointed members will roll back vaccine recommendations. If government advisers pare back thier recommendations, parents may have to pay for some childhood vaccines out of pocket. With two extraordinary moves, Health Secretary ...
Source: nytimes.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
By MATT O'BRIEN Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing "superintelligence" at the tech giant. The deal announced Thursday reflects a push by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to revive AI efforts at the parent company of Facebook and Instagram as it faces tough competition from rivals such as Google and OpenAI. Meta ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. NY appeals court rejects bid to overturn Trump's convictions in E. Jean Carroll case Trump's final chance to overturn the verdict is with the Supreme Court President Donald Trump has lost his latest bid to challenge a civil jury verdict holding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Crude oil prices surged on Friday after Israel launched strikes at Iran, prompting fears of energy supply disruptions from the Middle East. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures jumped as much as 14% late Thursday. They've since come off highs and were trading almost 8% higher at about $73 a barrel at 8:30 a.m. ET. International benchmark Brent crude oil futures gained as much as 13% and were up ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
June 13 (UPI) -- Anker Innovations Technology Co. is recalling more than 1.1 million of its power banks over fire concerns related to the products' lithium-ion batteries. The publicly-traded Chinese company is recalling 1.158 million of the A1263 models of its Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks, according to a recall notice issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The power bank batteries "can ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
June 13 (UPI) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Friday formally pleaded not-guilty to federal human trafficking and conspiracy charges. Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, also said a court appearance this week was the first time she was able to see her husband since he was arrested and detained in March. The Salvadorian migrant was returned to the United States earlier this month after being deported to a prison ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
by issuing recalls, suing errant companies and more. Trump announced last month his decision to fire the three Democrats on the five-member commission. They were serving seven-year terms after being nominated by President Joe Biden. After suing the Trump administration last month, the fired commissioners received a ruling in their favor Friday; it will likely be appealed. Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Airlines around the world canceled flights to Israel and were skirting a large swath of airspace in the Middle East on Friday after Israel's overnight missile strikes on Iran. Iran later launched drones toward Israeli territory. Delta Air Lines on Friday afternoon said it was suspending its service to Tel Aviv, Israel, until at least September, just weeks after resuming flights there. It had most recently resumed ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Trump signed resolutions blocking California's landmark efforts to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles. US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed resolutions blocking California's landmark efforts to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles, a move the state immediately contested in court. Trump's action, a rebuke of Democratic climate change policies, comes after the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Some users of a new Meta Platforms Inc. artificial intelligence app have inadvertently made their chatbot conversations public. TechCrunch and other outlets reported the phenomenon on Thursday. According to the publication, a cybersecurity researcher has determined that some of the publicly shared chatbot conversations included users' addresses, information about court cases and other sensitive data. This ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment improved for the first time in six months in June as trade tensions between the U.S. and China eased, but households worried about the economy's trajectory. The rise in sentiment reported by the University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers on Friday was, however, overshadowed by Israel's missile strikes against Iran, which boosted oil prices to multi-month ...
Source: reuters.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
ATLANTA — A federal judge on Friday blocked President Trump's attempt to overhaul elections in the United States, siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional. The Republican president's March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone registering to vote for federal elections, accept only ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Four detainees have escaped from a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey, which has been the center of protests since its opening in May and where both a sitting congresswoman and Newark's mayor have been arrested. The detainees were held at Delaney Hall , a privately owned 1,000-bed facility Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses as a detention center. Lawmakers and demonstrators have protested ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Google says a new AI tool on its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: the current chapter of online history is careening towards its end. Welcome to the "machine web". The web is built on a simple bargain – websites let search engines like Google slurp up their content, free of charge, and Google Search sends people to websites in exchange, ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. The sole survivor of the Air India crash that killed the other 241 people on board has said the emergency exit door broke open and he was able to force himself out of the plane. A Boeing 787 en route to London crashed just minutes after takeoff on Thursday, hitting a residential area of Ahmedabad in ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
A crew mission has been delayed until next Wednesday at the earliest. There's another leak on the International Space Station, and NASA has already delayed one crew launch to the orbiting laboratory as a result. Beyond that, the space agency is not offering much information about the unfolding situation in orbit. However, multiple sources have confirmed to Ars that the leak is a serious concern for the space agency ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge who barred the Trump administration from deporting Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil declined Friday to order his release from an immigration detention center, saying the former Columbia University student hadn't yet proven he was being held illegally. The ruling is a setback for Khalil, who was detained in March. He had appeared to be close to winning his freedom after U.S. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
The companies said they had entered into an agreement with the U.S. government to alleviate any national security concerns. Listen to this article · 5:38 min Our columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and his Times colleagues help you make sense of major business and policy headlines — and the power-brokers who shape them. U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel announced on Friday that they had entered into an agreement ...
Source: nytimes.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Authorities in Miami-Dade County have issued a warrant for the arrest of former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown on a charge of attempted murder with a firearm, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Post . The charge stems from a 16 May shooting outside a celebrity boxing event in Miami . The warrant, signed Wednesday, alleges Brown punched a man during a brawl, then grabbed a firearm from a security ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, stepped down from her role Friday, two weeks after President Donald Trump said on social media that he had fired her . The resignation stunned leaders in the museum world, who had been relieved earlier this week when the body overseeing the Smithsonian Institution affirmed that only its secretary could hire and fire museum leaders . Sajet's ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
LOS ANGELES, June 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines deployed to Los Angeles made their first detention of a civilian on Friday, the military said, part of a rare domestic use of its forces sent to the city after days of protests over immigration raids. The Marines joined National Guard forces already deployed to Los Angeles ahead of nationwide demonstrations expected on Saturday in what may be the biggest backlash to ...
Source: reuters.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Tesla on Friday announced it's launching new versions of its Model S and Model X vehicles in the U.S., with new price tags to match. The electric-vehicle maker said the upgraded cars, which it's rolling out Friday, come with a number of enhancements, including better battery range, improved aerodynamics, aesthetic upgrades and more. Buyers will have to fork over an extra $5,000 for the new features, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
A Thursday congressional hearing meant to examine the Defense Department's $1 trillion budget request instead focused heavily on a metastasizing debate over politicization of the U.S. military, with members of both parties declaring the other's principles extremist and an existential threat to the institution's nonpartisan foundation. Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee accused President Donald Trump ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
A second officer has been arrested in connection with the death of a teacher in custody in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the police watchdog said Friday, a case that has sparked nationwide outrage. Albert Ojwang, 31, died in custody last weekend after being arrested for criticising a senior officer online. Police initially said Ojwang had fatally injured himself by banging his head against a wall, but a government ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Vehicles swept off road by fast-rising waters after Thursday downpour as Texas authorities focus rescue effort on creek Authorities in San Antonio on Friday said at least 11 people had died in heavy storms and flooding – and that some remain missing. Rescue crews were still searching for missing people following Thursday's downpour as the flooding recedes, San Antonio fire department spokesperson Joe ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
SUNRISE, Fla. — Falling behind three goals after 20 minutes, the Edmonton Oilers scored three of their own over the next 20 to erase their deficit. They took the lead, only to give up the tying goal to the Florida Panthers in the final seconds of regulation to send another game between the hockey heavyweights to overtime. Riding the waves of emotion through what's turning into an epic showdown in the Stanley ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Jun 12th, 2025 -
The cuts to the lowest-income households come from proposed cuts to social safety net programs including Medicaid and a food assistance program for lower-income people, known as Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program. The bill also proposes expanding work requirements to receive food aid and new "community engagement requirements" of at least 80 hours per month of work, education or service for able-bodied ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Jun 12th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Thursday approved budget cuts proposed by the White House that would claw back funding for public broadcasters NPR and PBS, as well as foreign aid that Congress had previously approved on a bipartisan basis. The measure passed 214 to 212, with four Republicans and all Democrats opposed. Republicans argue the $9.4 billion in spending cuts are necessary to address ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Jun 12th, 2025 -
"Even those who recognized the violence of the day eventually partnered with the man who both inspired and minimized it," the suit says. More than 100 law enforcement officers were injured in the attack. Hundreds of people were convicted of Capitol riot-related crimes, but Trump erased all of the cases in a In 2022, Congress passed a law directing the Architect of the Capitol to install a memorial honoring the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Jun 12th, 2025 -
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were given special permission to come to the US will be told that they must leave the country immediately. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement Thursday that Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who were previously temporarily shielded from deportation will be emailed notices telling them to go. The DHS said that more than half a million ...
Source: bbc.com