Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Data and real-time intelligence are critical for every business. In banking alone, three-quarters of financial institutions are investing in new technology to meet customer needs, and 90% prioritize technology that makes transactions faster and more accurate. But without systems to intelligently harness the resulting data flows, organizations risk information overload. At the same time, the total transaction value ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
The Department of Homeland Security argued the Ivy League school had created an unsafe campus environment as it announced the decision. The Trump administration has revoked Harvard's ability to enrol international students, meaning thousands must transfer to other universities or leave the US entirely. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which announced the action, said the Ivy League school had created an ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Last year, in a what's-that-guy-been-up-to profile in the New York Times, legendary former Apple designer Jony Ive explained how he'd been filling his time. He'd founded a small design firm, LoveFrom, which was working on projects including a "Christie's auction stand, Airbnb graphics and a Ferrari interior," and expanded his real-estate holdings in his favorite neighborhood in San Francisco. He'd attempted to ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
T wo Israeli embassy staff were killed in a shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night. The victims have been named as . The couple were leaving an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee when they were fatally shot. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) arrested Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old man from Chicago, at the scene. On Thursday, Rodriguez was charged with ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
THURSDAY, May 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered Pfizer and Moderna to expand their warning labels on COVID-19 vaccines. The updated warnings highlight a rare risk of heart inflammation in teen boys and young men, CBS News reported. The warning applies to males ages 16 to 25 and is based on new data from FDA safety monitoring and a 2023 study. This ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4. The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation's first religious charter school. But it leaves the issue unresolved ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Racial justice advocates decried Wednesday's announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice that it will end law enforcement reform and accountability efforts, including the Biden administration's agreements with the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville—a move that came just days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis cop. The Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Judge Rules Trump's South Sudan Deportations Violate Court Order "I don't see how anybody could say that these individuals had a meaningful opportunity to object." Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. A federal district court judge in Boston ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration's attempt to send several immigrants from other countries to South Sudan violated a court ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters are predicting an active Atlantic hurricane season with more storm activity than typical. "We're really looking at an above normal season," said Ken Graham, a meteorologist and the director of the National Weather Service. "We're calling for 13 to 19 named storms." Storms get names when their wind speeds reach 39 mph or higher. Six to 10 of the forecasted ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The archipelago in the Indian Ocean is home to a strategically important naval and bomber base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia. Starmer says the agreement secures the future of a base that is "right at the foundation of our safety and security at home." The ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
As the House of Representatives has been debating its one big, beautiful bill this week, the Senate has been considering a contentious vote of its own. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R–S.D.) said that the Senate would move forward with a vote over three Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions—a law that allows Congress to overturn federal rules with a simple majority—to rescind ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump to remove two members of federal independent labor boards while legal proceedings over their firings move forward. The high court granted a request for emergency relief from the Trump administration to pause a pair of lower court rulings that voided Mr. Trump's removals of Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board and Cathy Harris ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
The musical artist Kid Cudi, a celebrity makeup artist and a hotel employee were among those who testified Thursday to end the second week of testimony in Sean "Diddy" Combs' federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial. The rapper, referred to in court as Scott Mescudi , provided the most dramatic testimony of the day. He accused Combs of breaking into his home and being involved in the destruction of his ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Howard Lutnick says Trump's tariffs won't raise prices (despite Walmart, Nike and others saying they are) 'I would expect that prices in America will be unaffected,' Commerce Secretary says Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is convinced that the tariffs put in place by President Donald Trump won't raise ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
End of the Penny Grows Near The cost of producing a penny has skyrocketed in recent years, reaching 3.69 cents, according to the Treasury Department. Listen to this article · 2:27 min The Treasury Department is winding down the production of pennies, after ordering a last batch of the blanks used to print the coins this month. The end of penny production, reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal , comes a ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Universal has officially added another theme park to its Orlando repertoire — and it may be one of its best yet. Epic Universe officially opened to the public on Thursday, and it's the first major theme park to debut in Orlando in over 20 years. It was first officially announced in 2015 and is located a few miles away from Universal's other Florida parks: Universal Studios , Islands of Adventure, and Volcano ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
The White House on Thursday released its long-awaited "Make America Healthy Again" report, painting a dire picture of American children's health. The lengthy federal assessment's goal is to identify the root causes of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and neurodevelopmental disorders in children. "Our kids are the sickest kids in the world," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now O n Monday, Israel launched an intensive ground offensive named Operation Gideon's Chariots as part of its plan to cause as much pain and damage as possible to everyone in Gaza. Israel has announced its intent to gain full indefinite control over Gaza, in effect aiming for annexation. ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
SEOUL, May 22 (UPI) -- A 5,000-ton North Korean destroyer suffered a "serious accident" during a launch ceremony, state media reported Thursday, with leader Kim Jong Un calling it a "criminal act" and warning of consequences. The accident took place Wednesday at the Chongjin Shipyard on the country's east coast, the official Korean Central News Agency said. Due to "inexperienced command and operational ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
By Marcus Hayes The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — If the Eagles have a sense of humor, regardless of score or field position, the first play they run in their season opener against Dallas on the night of Thursday, Sept. 4, will be the Tush Push. It would be a fitting middle finger at a league that so deeply resents the town and the team that it tried to legislate a completely legitimate play that is ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
The Very Best Memorial Day Sales of 2025, According to Shopping Experts These are the only deals worth your time and money this weekend. By We've been independently researching and testing products for over 120 years. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more about our review process. Jump to: Best Memorial Day Mattress & Bedding Deals Our Favorite Memorial Day Deals at Amazon Best Memorial ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
I take off my regular Tom Ford prescription frames that help me see and swap them for a pair of Android XR glasses that look like something Poindexter from Revenge of the Nerds would wear. In the right lens, I see tiny white text displaying the time and weather: 2:24 p.m., 73 degrees. If this were all that smart glasses could do, I'd be happy. But that was just the home screen. I used the prototype frames to take a ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Researchers have developed a prototype infrared contact lens that could allow people to see in the dark – or with their eyelids closed. The cutting-edge prototype, developed by the University of Science and Technology of China uses nanoparticles that convert infrared to visible light. Contact lenses imbued with the nanoparticles were given to volunteers to wear during the study , which was recently published ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Anthropic says Claude 4 beats Gemini on coding benchmarks; works autonomously for hours. On Thursday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, marking the company's return to larger model releases after primarily focusing on mid-range Sonnet variants since June of last year. The new models represent what the company calls its most capable coding models yet, with Opus 4 designed for complex, ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
has raised uncomfortable questions about potentially shadowy buyers using the anonymity of the internet to buy access to the president. While Democrats charge that Trump is using the power of the presidency to boost profits for his family business, even some pro-Trump crypto enthusiasts worry that the president's push into meme coins isn't helping their efforts to establish the credibility, stability and legitimacy ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defense concept revives a controversial, decades-old initiative whose ambitious construction could upend norms in outer space and reshape relations between the world's top space powers. The announcement of Golden Dome, a vast network of satellites and weapons in Earth's orbit set to cost $175 billion, could sharply escalate the ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
SAN DIEGO -- Multiple people on board a private plane that crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood early Thursday are dead but no one on the ground was injured, authorities said. The plane could hold eight to 10 people but it's not yet known how many were on board, Assistant San Diego Fire Chief Dan Eddy said at a news conference. Authorities will be investigating whether the plane hit a power line, ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
More than half of sleep sessions end with the snooze button, with people sneaking in an extra 11 minutes on average, a new study reveals — but experts say it may not be a good idea. Researchers from Mass General Brigham analyzed data from the Sleep Cycle app, which included sleep habits from more than 21,000 people globally. Among the more than three million sleep sessions tracked, nearly 56% ended with the ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
INDIANAPOLIS — Jim Irsay started his football career as a ball boy. He finished it as a team owner. Along the way, the NFL's music man created his own, unique brand. Irsay worked his way up through the organization, learning how to run a football team, restoring the Colts' once-proud tradition to glory and created what some have dubbed the greatest guitar collection on Earth — all while battling health ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Tyrese Haliburton tied the game with a long jumper that bounced high off the back of the rim and in as time expired in regulation, then the Indiana Pacers went on to finish off their stunning rally by beating the New York Knicks 138-135 on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. The Knicks led by 14 points with under three minutes remaining in regulation, but Aaron Nesmith brought the Pacers ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Mortgage rates are inching back toward 7%, highlighting the ongoing strain on US home buyers. The average rate on a standard, 30-year fixed mortgage was 6.86% in the week ending May 22, the highest level since mid-February, according to data released Thursday from Freddie Mac. Growing concern about the national debt impacted home borrowing rates this week. Mortgage rates track the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield, ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts has charged a student at Assumption University with hacking into two U.S.-based companies' systems and demanding a ransom. Matthew D. Lane, 19, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of cyber extortion conspiracy, one count of cyber extortion, one count of unauthorized access to protected computers, and one count of aggravated identity theft. ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
People who have a higher vitamin D intake may be slowing down a biological process linked to aging, according to a study published this week. But don't rush out to buy supplements just yet. The findings need to be confirmed with additional research, and the vast majority of people in the United States are already getting enough vitamin D from diet and sunlight, experts say. In the new analysis, researchers at ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Signal has released a new version of its end-to-end encrypted communication app for Windows that prevents Microsoft Recall and users from screenshotting text-based conversations happening in the app. The new "Screen security" setting is enabled by default and can be easily disabled through privacy settings. Crucially, though, it's difficult to disable it by mistake. "Turning off 'Screen security' in Signal Desktop ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's sweeping deregulatory agenda was dealt a blow on Thursday when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to block Trump's executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and ordered reinstatements of laid off workers. Massachusetts federal Judge Myong Joun wrote in an order that the administration has provided no evidence to back its arguments that they are simply seeking to ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
By & Molecules in urine and blood can reveal how much of a person's diet comes from ultra-processed foods, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine today. The paper suggests that these measurements provide an objective way to track consumption of ultra-processed food — and would be useful for investigating links to diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Ultra-processed foods are industrially ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
A California federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from terminating the immigration status of foreign students, granting nationwide relief to thousands of students caught in the crosshairs of the administration's crackdown on alleged antisemitism on college campuses. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California wrote that the Trump administration "likely exceeded ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill clashed this week over who should police artificial intelligence technologies – the Federal government or states – and on what AI regulation should look like no matter which level of government has the upper hand. Arguments made during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on May 21 centered on a provision in the GOP-backed reconciliation ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
"There is no concrete agreement about the next meetings," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "They are yet to be agreed upon." During two hours of talks in Istanbul on May 16, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, in what would be their . Apart from that step, the meeting delivered no significant breakthrough. Several months of intensified U.S. and European pressure on the two ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men who broke out of a New Orleans jail last week clogged a toilet to get the water shut off so that they could escape through a hole behind it, a lawyer for a maintenance worker who is charged with helping them said Wednesday. The worker, Sterling Williams, did not know about the men's plan and did not allow the inmates to cut a pipe behind the toilet to create an opening for their ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
In women with dense breasts (breasts with relatively low levels of fatty tissue) and a negative mammogram, supplemental imaging techniques detect early-stage cancers, with imaging techniques three times more effective than ultrasound, finds a phase 3 randomized control trial published in The Lancet . Women with extremely dense breasts, about 10% of those aged 50-70 years in the UK, face a fourfold increased risk of ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Study Says Mouth Taping Is Ineffective—and Risky for Some People The mouth-taping trend might not just be ineffective—it could be dangerous. The popular "sleep hack" involves taping your mouth shut at night to encourage nose breathing, with influencers claiming it cures everything from mouth breathing and bad breath to reshaping your jaw. Despite viral claims on social media, new research shows the ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Investor unease over President Donald Trump's economic program drove the government's borrowing costs to their highest level in nearly two decades, following House approval of tax legislation that is expected to add trillions of dollars to the ballooning U.S. national debt. The yield, or interest rate, on the 30-year Treasury bond briefly topped 5.15 percent Thursday morning before closing just shy of 5.05 percent, ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Although the state of New Jersey has reported only three recent cases of measles, two major events may have sharply increased the odds of an outbreak in the state. On May 15, the state warned residents and travelers about an exposure event at the troubled Newark Airport , on May 12 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. ET. On May 20, the New Jersey Department of Health announced that a person infected with measles attended ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
The FDA and CDC are investigating a cucumber recall linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 26 individuals, the agencies said this week. Cucumbers grown by Bedner Growers in Florida and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales were recalled earlier this week . The cucumber recall has been linked to a salmonella outbreak in 15 states, including New York, that caused nine people to be ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Unveiling details of a pro-doping athletics event planned for 2026, organizers of the Enhanced Games said Wednesday they envisioned it as "the next evolution of sports." While athletes who want to compete clean will be welcomed, organizers will not only allow but encourage and oversee participants on full cycles of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). "In 50 years, we will look back and realize that biology was ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 -
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed dozens of Palestinians since dawn, medical sources said, as limited supplies of humanitarian aid trickled into the Palestinian territory after Israel eased its total blockade. Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 51 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Thursday, including 25 in Gaza City and northern areas of the Strip. At least 10 people, including nine members of ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Gerry Connolly, a longtime Democratic member of Congress from Northern Virginia known for his advocacy of the federal workforce, died Wednesday. He was 75 years old. "We were fortunate to share Gerry with Northern Virginia for nearly 40 years because that was his joy, his purpose, and his passion," the family said in its statement. "His absence will leave a hole in our hearts, but we are proud that his life's work ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Trump Admin Forges Ahead With Taking Luxury Jet From Qatar So much for the Constitution. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. So much for the Constitution. The Trump administration has accepted the offer of a free jet from Qatar despite ample concerns from both Democrats and Republicans that the gift would potentially violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
A suicide attack on a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killed three students of a military-run school on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest attack that underscores the deteriorating security situation in the region. The explosion took place in the city of Khuzdar in restive Balochistan province and targeted a school bus carrying "a large number" of children of military officials, according to Yasir Dashti, ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Apple kicked the popular game out of the App Store nearly five years ago, prompting a court battle that was partially resolved on Tuesday. Listen to this article · 3:48 min Apple restored the popular game Fortnite to the App Store in the United States on Tuesday, nearly five years after it was kicked out of the store and its developer sued the tech giant in an antitrust case. The reinstatement of Fortnite, a ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
Target Corp. cut its sales forecast following a sharp pullback in spending and a hit from tariffs, boycotts and consumer confidence. The report sent shares falling and raised questions over Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell's ability to execute on plans to recapture growth after two years of choppy results — especially as economic turbulence is growing. The company now expects net sales to decline by a ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
More than two dozen tanks, 34 horses, 50 helicopters and thousands of troops — many in period costume from past wars — will be part of the sweeping military celebration in D.C. next month to honor the Army's 250th birthday, officials said Wednesday, offering new details on the multimillion-dollar event. The festivities for June 14 — which is also President Donald Trump's 79th birthday — will ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
An off-the-cuff remark about never paying for rice has cost Japan's agriculture minister his job, as pressure mounts on the government to solve the nation's rice crisis. Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday, telling reporters that he had concluded he was "not the right person for this role" after sparking a public backlash by saying that he had "so much rice at home that (he) could sell it." The cost of rice – ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
It comes after a Russian missile attack killed six Ukrainian soldiers and injured 10 more, according to Ukraine's national guard. Vladimir Putin has visited Kursk for the first time since his troops ejected Ukrainian forces from the Russian city. The Russian president met with volunteer organisations and visited a nuclear power plant in the region on Tuesday, the Kremlin said. Mr Putin said late last month that his ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
West Nile virus, which mainly spreads between birds but can also infect people if they're bitten by an infected mosquito, has been detected in UK mosquitoes for the first time, UK health officials say. Although the virus can sometimes make people seriously ill, there is no evidence it is spreading in the UK and the risk to the general public is "very low", the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said. The virus is ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 -
DOJ complains of "sweeping, intrusive discovery" after DOGE refused FOIA requests. The Department of Justice today asked the Supreme Court to block a ruling that requires DOGE to provide information about its government cost-cutting operations as part of court-ordered discovery. President Trump's Justice Department sought an immediate halt to orders issued by US District Court for the District of Columbia. US ...
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