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Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum this spring to Iran's Supreme Leader: Strike a nuclear deal in 60 days, by mid-June, or face consequences. He urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off on attacking Iran to give the negotiations space to progress. But even as Trump administration figures were publicly projecting determination to pursue a diplomatic solution, Israel was privately warning ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cities large and small were preparing for major demonstrations Saturday across the U.S. against President Donald Trump, as officials urge calm, National Guard troops mobilize and Trump attends a military parade in Washington to mark the Army's 250th anniversary. A flagship "No Kings" march and rally are planned in Philadelphia, but no events are scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C., ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive military parade that President Donald Trump has long wanted is set to step off from the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday evening, with tanks, bands and thousands of troops. And the biggest question marks are whether it will be overshadowed or delayed by either the weather in Washington or planned protests elsewhere around the country. Falling on ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Saturday, Jun 14th, 2025 -
The Oklahoma City Thunder reached the NBA Finals by producing one of the season's statistical marvels. Their longest losing streak was just two games. And over an eight-month season, they lost consecutive games only two times. For much of Friday night in Indianapolis, it appeared as though the Indiana Pacers were close to doing the unthinkable and hand the Thunder only their season's third losing streak, and with ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
Longtime Republican strategist Sarah Longwell urged sitting senators in her party to defend Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who was handcuffed and forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem 's press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday. "Republican senators should be very careful on this right now," Longwell told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace . "If they do not come out and defend Sen. Padilla 's ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
Among the eight people who Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are an emergency physician who posted Islamophobic commentary on social media and two doctors who were paid to provide expert testimony in trials against a vaccine maker. Kennedy, who was himself an influential anti-vaccine advocate before taking the ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
As Meta intensifies its A.I. race against Big Tech rivals, it's recruiting Alexandr Wang , founder and CEO of Scale AI , to strengthen its efforts. Wang, 28, announced yesterday (June 12) that he will step down as CEO to join a newly formed A.I. team within Meta. The announcement came after Meta acquired 49 percent of Scale AI in a deal that valued the startup at $29 billion, which Wang confirmed in a memo to ...
Source: observer.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court won't reconsider its ruling upholding a $5 million civil judgment against President Donald Trump in a civil lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a writer in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. In an 8-2 vote Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump's petition for the full appellate court to rehear arguments in his challenge to the jury's ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
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. JPMorgan analysts wrote on Friday that further Israeli strikes and Iranian retaliation could have a significant impact on global energy markets. "Our comfort zone remains with oil prices in the $60-65 range, as sustained gains in energy prices could have a dire ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
This week, accessory maker Anker announced one of its most sweeping recalls to date. Due to a series of incidents resulting in fires, explosions, and minor burn injuries, Anker is recalling 1.1 million PowerCore 10000 power banks with model number A1263. Anker recalls PowerCore 10000 power banks Anker says affected models were manufactured between January 1st, 2016, and October 30th, 2019, and sold between June ...
Source: bgr.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
The Salvadoran migrant at the heart of a row over US President Donald Trump's hardline deportation policies pleaded not guilty on Friday to human smuggling charges. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29, was summarily deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in March and brought back to the United States last week. He was immediately arrested on his return and charged in Nashville, Tennessee, with smuggling ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston barred the Republican administration from carrying out much of its plans to reorganize and slash departments while she hears a legal challenge brought by labor unions and others. She said that Illston, who was nominated to the bench by former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, was not convinced. "If the State Department has any question about whether planned actions fall within ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Global airlines on Friday cancelled flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran and other Middle East destinations, or rerouted planes, as airspaces shut following Israeli strikes on Iran. Israel, Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Syria closed their airspaces after Israel hit military and nuclear facilities in Iran. Israel said Tehran launched drones in retaliation. Air India's New Delhi-Vienna and Mumbai-London flights were about to enter ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
A man wants to know how to help his friend come out of the closet. An aunt struggles to find the right words to congratulate her niece on her graduation. And one guy wants to know how to ask a girl — "in Asian" — if she's interested in older men. Ten years ago, they might have discussed those vulnerable questions with friends over brunch, at a dive bar, or in the office of a therapist or clergy member. ...
Source: washingtonpost.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 -
Washington — A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked President Trump's administration from implementing portions of his executive order that imposed new requirements involving proof of citizenship to register to vote in U.S. elections. U.S. District Judge Denise Casper agreed to grant a preliminary injunction sought by attorneys general from 19 states, who brought their legal challenge to Mr. Trump's ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Four detainees broke through a wall and escaped from a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, amid reports of disorder breaking out there, according to Sen. Andy Kim and the Department of Homeland Security. Kim, a Democrat from New Jersey, spoke Friday outside the Delaney Hall detention center. He said he was told detainees managed to break through an interior wall that led to an exterior one ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Google on Friday began letting people turn online searches into conversations, with generative artificial intelligence providing spoken summaries of query results. With Audio Overviews, Gemini AI models quickly sum up query results in conversational style, according to Google. "An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient, hands-free way to absorb information whether you're ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
Chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary's first astronauts in decades delayed indefinitely A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary's first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station . The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said on Thursday that it had postponed the Axiom Mission 4 to the ISS to monitor ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil can remain in federal detention on allegations he lied on his green card application, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz said days earlier the Trump administration cannot detain or deport Khalil based on Secretary of State Marco Rubio's determination that he could harm foreign policy. The New Jersey judge wrote that Khalil had shown ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that concerns over national security risks posed by Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel can be resolved if the companies fulfill certain conditions that his administration has laid out, paving the way for the deal's approval. Shares of U.S. Steel rose 3.5% on the news in after-the-bell trading as investors bet the deal was close to done. Trump, in an executive ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Former NFL player Antonio Brown is facing an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting that took place during an altercation outside an amateur boxing event in Miami, according to an arrest warrant. Brown, 36, is accused of grabbing a handgun from a security staffer and firing two shots at a man he had gotten into a fistfight with earlier. The victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told investigators one of the ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.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 -
Marines deployed by US President Donald Trump temporarily detained a civilian on Friday at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, the first known incident of its kind amid ongoing protests over ICE raids, the US military has confirmed. A spokesperson for the US Northern Command clarified that while military personnel are not authorised to make arrests, they may temporarily detain individuals "in specific ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.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 -
James Mukhwana prosecuted over death of Albert Ojwang, who was arrested after criticising police official online A Kenyan police officer has appeared in court in connection with the death of a teacher in police custody in a case that has caused rage and protests and brought renewed scrutiny on the country's security forces. Constable James Mukhwana is the first police officer to be arrested over the death of Albert ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
At least 11 people are dead and several others are missing after intense flash flooding covered roadways and swept away vehicles in San Antonio, Texas, triggered by heavy rainfall the area has not seen in more than a decade. The death toll increased Friday afternoon as search and rescue operations continued in two main areas of the city, according to a news release from the San Antonio Fire Department. Authorities ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jun 13th, 2025 -
Leon Draisaitl scored in overtime for the fourth time this playoffs, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Florida Panthers 5-4 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night to tie the series, erasing a three-goal deficit and bouncing back after allowing the late tying goal. Jake Walman gave the Oilers their first lead with 6:24 left in the third period before Sam Reinhart scored with 19.5 seconds left to send it ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jun 12th, 2025 -
The president's latest round of tax cuts for the rich will be funded, in part, by taking money from the poorest 30 percent of American households As the Senate debates the latest iteration of Donald Trump 's massive reconciliation package, the latest report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that the "Big, Beautiful Bill," is, in fact, a massive giveaway to the rich, at the expense of the ...
Source: rollingstone.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 -
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to compel Congress to follow one of its own laws and install a memorial to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack . The officers claim the failure to install the memorial plaque on the Capitol reflects an effort by President Donald Trump and his congressional ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Jun 12th, 2025 -
MIAMI (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it has begun notifying hundreds of thousands of that their temporary permission to live and work in the United States has been revoked and that they should leave the country. The termination notices are being sent by email to people who entered the country under the humanitarian parole program for the four countries, officials said. Since ...
Source: aol.com