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$19,100,000,000,000: Americans Are Drowning In The Largest Ocean Of Consumer Debt In The History Of The World Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse Blog , Total household debt in the United States just hit a brand new all-time record high . For a large portion of the U.S. population, debt is a suffocating financial reality that never goes away. Millions upon millions of Americans found themselves drowning in debt the instant that they left college, and a very large percentage of them will still be deep in debt when they die. The entire system is designed to get

"He Wants This To Go Fast": Nvidia's Top Lawyer Kept Name-Dropping Trump To Strong-Arm Regulators, According To Report Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter told more than a dozen government officials working on terms & conditions for the company's H200 chip exports to China that he was in a meeting with President Trump and Jensen Huang to discuss the issue , Semafor reported Friday. Tim Teter, EVP, General Counsel and Secretary " He wants this to go fast ," Teter said on the January call, according to people with access to a detailed account of it. The line went quiet. In

Operation TorNado: 354 Arrested, $234 Million Seized In Global Dark Web Drug Crackdown Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times , U.S. and international authorities arrested hundreds of people and seized drugs, guns, cash, and cryptocurrency in Operation TorNado , a crackdown on dark web sales of fentanyl and other drugs, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Nov. 12. The department put the total at 354 arrests and said the cash and cryptocurrency seized were worth more than $234 million . Vendors and buyers on dark web marketplaces such as Archetyp, Bohemia, Nemesis, Kingdom, and Tor2Door were caught

The Nuke Question: Wall Street's Top Defense Analyst Says US Nuclear Use In Iran "Cannot Be 100% Ruled Out" For eight months, every Iran headline has come with the same two-way trade: peace deal on Monday, "locked and loaded" by Friday. This week was no exception: Monday, November 9 was the date that a handful of media reports had penciled in for the resumption of major US strikes (a new moon, three carriers on station, the midterms safely in the rearview mirror). Instead, President Trump walked out of a meeting with Qatar's prime minister and told reporters that military action

Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Files 178-Page Appeal, Blames Trump-Appointed Judge Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA , Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh filed a 178-page appeal on Monday, asking to have his conviction overturned on the grounds that he didn't receive a fair trial . Routh was the man found hiding in some bushes at Trump's golf course on Sept. 15, 2024. As Trump was golfing on another hole, a Secret Service agent spotted Routh pointing a rifle at the agent. The agent shot at Routh six times from about five feet away - missing all his shots

SpaceX Aborts Starship/Booster 'Double Chopsticks' Recovery Update (1800ET) : Unfortunately, SpaceX’s attempt for a Starship double catch was thwarted this evening. A few minutes after launch, the company canceled plans to retrieve the booster of its powerful Starship rocket, citing a technical issue, sending the so-called Super Heavy into the Gulf of Mexico, where it promptly exploded. SpaceX had previously said it would only proceed with the maneuvers if conditions were optimal. ~~~~~~~ A 75-minute launch window for Starship’s 15th test flight from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas opens at 5:45 p.m. EST. Looks like a scene from a

Is Mamdani's Plan To Disband NYPD Riot Control-Unit A Gift To The 'Protest Industrial Complex' Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to dismantle the NYPD's roughly 600-officer protest unit could hand far-left activist networks, including NGOs linked to China-based Marxist financier Neville Roy Singham , a gift by weakening the city's ability to respond to large demonstrations or riots. JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shutting down the NYPD’s 600-officer unit that handles riots and crowd control. Great. So now when the Left feels like rioting again, there will be no one to stop them. Designed chaos.

RFK Jr. Bets Millions On Psychedelic Ibogaine, Taps Mark Cuban To Make It Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times , The federal government is slated to invest millions to develop treatment with ibogaine, a psychedelic drug , Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Nov. 12. The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, part of Kennedy's agency, is investing up to $4.9 million to lay the groundwork for regulatory and manufacturing needs for future ibogaine clinical trials, rather than directly funding trials. Veterans and Americans struggling with serious mental illness deserve new hope and better treatment options.

Donors Have Given Nearly $100K To Ole Miss 'Monkey Noises' Student - On One Condition Last week, two women were caught on a Ring camera making monkey noises outside an apartment shared by three black Ole Miss students. One apologized - and is no longer a student. The other one has not apologized, and instead has a GiveSendGo page about to bust through $100,000 - which its organizer says he'll pull the moment she says sorry. "Stand with Lauren," launched Tuesday by Tom Hennessey for Lauren Mayfield, who has been identified online and in news reports as the second woman

Villainy Abides Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com , "Sometimes things are happening that are bigger than what the headline flow suggests." - Tom Luongo, Gold, Goats and Guns The Party of Victims (a.k.a., the Democratic Party), the so far designated "winners" of the midterm election, spent the past week talking smack to the country about how they aim to go after the president and everyone in his cabinet . . . impeachment-o-rama. . .persecutions. . . a veritable Grand Guignol of Jacobin-style political bloodletting in the next Congress - until Mr. Blanche, the attorney general, had to remind

The Last Man Defending 'Open' AI Just Left The Building: How Jensen's Fall Clears The Way For A Federal Crackdown... Four months ago, Jensen Huang was the most powerful voice in Washington arguing that Americans should be allowed to download AI models and run them on their own hardware. This morning he resigned as Nvidia's CEO, and he gave up his board seat too. A few hours earlier, The Information reported that Alice Huang (no relation), the former Megaspeed executive whom US intelligence believes was recruited by Beijing, had promised Nvidia chips to DeepSeek , the Chinese lab whose open-weight

Democratic Senator Says 'Beauty' Of Ukraine War Is Paying Ukrainians To Kill Russians Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com , Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said on Monday that the "beauty" of the nearly five-year-old Russia-Ukraine war is the fact that the US is "paying Ukrainians to kill Russians." Graves of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war with Russia at a cemetery in Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 27, 2025. (IMAGO/Andreas Stroh via Reuters Connect) Gallego, who joined the Senate last after serving in the House for about 10 years, made the comment on X , where he insisted that Ukraine could win

'Decoy Dan' Voters Ranked Peltola Over The Real Sullivan... And Her Lead Just Hit A New High Democrat Mary Peltola's lead over Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) jumped to 5,800 votes in Thursday's count, her widest of the race , one day after a smaller update had pushed her margin back below the vote total of the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot. The Alaska Division of Elections' Nov. 12 report gives Peltola 125,157 first-choice votes, or 49.08%, to Sullivan's 119,357, or 46.8%. Republican Gerald Heikes has 5,490, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., the namesake Republicans call "Decoy Dan," has 4,199, and

AOC Suggests Impeaching Supreme Court Justices Because They "Legalized A Lot Of His Criminality" Authored by Jonathan Turley , Democrats appear to be adopting an "impeach-them-all-and-let-God-sort-them-out" approach to the upcoming session of Congress. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested this week that Democrats may want to impeach United States Supreme Court justices because "you know, they kind of legalized a lot of his criminality." The democratic socialist has been promising "many, many, many" investigations into what she now calls the "criminals" in the Administration. In an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, she added the justices to the list of potential targets:

Tanker Collides With Riverboat Near Port Of New Orleans, 130 On Board, Local Outlet Says Live Feed .... New Collision Footage Watch the moment a tanker struck a cruise ship in New Orleans. Rescues are underway. 📷: Kern Studios https://t.co/ZPspGtM0Yr pic.twitter.com/O1qGr8kImf — wdsu (@wdsu) November 13, 2026 Maritime Traffic Data Tanker collides with river cruise ship on Mississippi River A major rescue operation is underway in New Orleans after the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Atlantic Asphalt collided with the US-flagged river cruise ship American Heritage on 13 November. The passenger vessel was… pic.twitter.com/dFWKr6yrQp — MarineTraffic (@MarineTraffic) November 13, 2026 130 On

Obama CIA Chief John Brennan's Son Arrested On Child Porn Charge: Report Kyle Brennan, the 40-year-old son of former CIA Director John Brennan, was taken into custody by FBI agents at his workplace in Herndon, Virginia on Friday afternoon and charged with a felony count of transportation of child pornography , the Daily Mail reports. According to a sworn affidavit entered into court on Friday, the FBI's review of Brennan's iPhone "observed approximately 88 images that appeared to depict minor girls, including prepubescent girls, engaged in sexually explicit conduct." The affidavit also describes an image of a female toddler, and

Stephen Miller Cracks Down On Lobbyist Access After Wiles 'Pay-For-Play' Allegations Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times , New White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has imposed tighter rules regarding personnel meeting with lobbyists , after several former top officials alleged corruption within the Trump administration. "No President in history has fought more relentlessly, selflessly or courageously for the American People than President Trump. Following his example, White House staff are expected to dedicate their time unwaveringly to the working people of the nation," the White House Chief of Staff's Office said in a Nov. 12 memorandum

ARM CEO Leads Pack To Replace Huang At Nvidia: Polymarket Nvidia's board has approached Arm chief executive Rene Haas about succeeding Jensen Huang , people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times on Friday - and prediction-market bettors wasted no time crowning him the favorite. ARM CEO Rene Haas, Jensen Huang Polymarket's "Next CEO of NVIDIA?" market priced Haas at a 33% chance shortly after the report , putting him atop a field of two dozen names. BREAKING: Arm CEO Rene Haas is now the favorite to replace Jensen Huang after Nvidia's board approached him, per FT. 33% chance.

"A Deal For The World": Russian Diesel Exports Double Under Trump's Waiver, And America Gets None Of It Five weeks after Trump announced that Putin would "immediately" supply diesel to the "American and Global Marketplace," we can now check the receipts. The global marketplace did fine. The American one got nothing. According to the FT , citing Kpler data, Russia shipped 271,000 barrels a day of diesel in October, double the 135,000 b/d it exported in September . The extra barrels went to Brazil, Turkey and elsewhere. Meanwhile, not a single cargo generated by the sanctions waiver has reached a

This Case Is Insane... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity , In Britain's two-tier policing system, law-abiding citizens who try to report real dangers now risk prosecution for private mutterings inside their own vehicles , while actual criminals face little consequence. A Glasgow father handed over dashcam footage after nearly being forced off the road, only for Police Scotland to charge him instead. The case, detailed by Free Speech Union general secretary Toby Young in The Spectator , centers on a man referred to as Craig. He was driving his four-year-old son home to Glasgow after a day at an

Heavy rain and strong winds have also caused disruption across British Columbia, Canada, over the last week Storm Charles has brought destructive weather to the Iberian peninsula this week, particularly in Portugal and the far south of Spain. Heavy rain and strong south-westerly winds arrived first in the Portuguese island of Madeira, before the system headed towards the mainland on 11 November. A wind gust of 84.5mph (136 km/h) was recorded at Funchal airport, alongside rainfall totals reaching 355mm (13.97in) in 12 hours. In Lisbon, 183 flights were cancelled on Wednesday, about a third of its normal daily traffic, while

Remains believed to have belonged to Africans or Afro-Brazilians repatriated after being flown back by diplomats Two skulls, including that of a man believed to have taken part in Brazil’s greatest slave revolt but whose remains were taken to the United States and used in racist eugenics studies at Harvard University, were repatriated on Wednesday. The remains had been outside Brazil since the 19th century. One was taken about 190 years ago from Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia; the other, about 160 years ago, from Rio de Janeiro – and were welcomed back in moving, subdued ceremonies

Leonardo Bertulazzi, 74, awaiting extradition to Italy, reportedly used harness to flee custody A 74-year-old former member of Italy ’s radical Marxist group the Red Brigades has escaped from house arrest in Argentina , the country’s security ministry confirmed on Wednesday, after he reportedly hid his ankle monitor inside a tube of pork and lowered himself from a fifth-floor balcony. Authorities placed Leonardo Bertulazzi under house arrest in Buenos Aires in 2024, prior to his extradition to Italy to serve a 27-year prison sentence. He had received the sentence in 1987 for joining a subversive association and belonging to an

Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that crown has sovereignty over parts of oceans Britain should not be permitted to act as a 17th-century colonial power treating the waters around the Falkland Islands as a Dominium maris Britannici , Argentina has told an international tribunal. Marcelo Kohen, representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg, mocked Britain for apparently believing in the historic doctrine that the British crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans. Continue reading...

Tomás Beltrán was shot dead amid gang warfare that has turned Latin American country into one of its most violent Tomás Beltrán was manoeuvring his car into his garage on Sunday night when the Ecuadorian journalist was shot dead. Beltrán ran a Facebook page with news about Calceta, a small city in the province of Manabí, whose Pacific coastline has made it a key flashpoint in the gang warfare over drug trafficking routes that has transformed one of Latin America’s safest countries into one of its most violent . Continue reading...

US commerce secretary faces sack as questions emerge over senior Trump officials’ knowledge of alleged Chinese spy’s ties to Jensen Huang US politics – live updates The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is facing growing pressure over his apparent lack of action over the Nvidia spying scandal as other Trump administration officials publicly raise questions over his decisions. Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, blamed Lutnick’s commerce department for the fact the US had not imposed export restrictions on certain Nvidia chips to China. Continue reading...

Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law and journalist Danny Vincent on the sentencing of the iconic Hong Kong campaigner Joshua Wong to another 10 years in prison. Send your comments and questions to tif.questions@theguardian.com He has been leading protests since he was 14. Joshua Wong has been on the cover of Time magazine, the focus of a Netflix documentary and an icon for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. Wong has been leading the fight against a Chinese squeeze on freedoms in Hong Kong for the last 15 years. He will now spend more than 16 years in prison. Continue reading...

Decision disappoints experts hoping for world’s biggest emitter to take global lead on climate crisis China has ruled out hosting the Cop33 UN climate summit in 2028 after months of deliberations, leaving the field open for other Asian countries to hold it, the Guardian understands. The decision will disappoint many countries and climate experts, who had hoped the world’s biggest emitter would take the lead on the global stage, as the US under Donald Trump has vacated all forms of international cooperation on the climate . Continue reading...

In today’s newsletter: US intelligence reportedly believes the former tech executive was recruited by Beijing, raising questions about the security of the AI industry and Trump’s close ties to Nvidia chief Jensen Huang Good morning. Espionage is supposed to be a secretive business, and spies are supposed to be virtually invisible. That hasn’t been the case for Alice Huang, the mysterious Shanghai executive who formed a romantic relationship with Jensen Huang, the founder of Nvidia, one of America’s most powerful tech companies. Many questions have arisen since it emerged that US intelligence believes that Huang (no relation of Jensen’s) is

Capture of man from Java follows reports that hundreds are being recruited from the south-east Asian country as Moscow seeks to boost its war effort Ukraine says it has captured its first Indonesian prisoner of war, amid what it says is a spike in recruitment by Russia from the south-east Asian nation. The 49-year-old man from Java was taken to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region to take part in a Russian assault, but managed to reach Ukrainian-held territory after the group came under drone attack, according to Ukraine’s state-run I Want to Live project. He was then captured by the Ukrainians. Continue

Sydney and Melbourne airports say flights were affected by now-lifted ban on departures in US US flight outage – live updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Some US-bound flights from Sydney airport were grounded or delayed on Saturday after American authorities halted departures and delayed landings at all US airports . Flights from Melbourne airport were also affected, with travel for passengers expected to depart for Los Angeles shortly after 10am being delayed by more than two hours. Continue reading...

The former coalminer’s claim Australians are being ‘demographically replaced’ sparked wide criticism, but his party has shown no signs of dumping him Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In a Facebook video from a Sydney anti-immigration rally on Sunday, as a man dressed like a medieval knight watches on, One Nation’s lead upper house candidate, Stuart Bonds, launches into a speech against “mass” migration. “Make no mistake, we are being demographically replaced inside our own nation,” he says. Continue reading...

Experts say outage exposes ‘Australia’s reliance on foreign technology’ as software giant says services being restored Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Microsoft outage could be a disaster for the Australian economy that forces some small businesses to close, with costs expected to run into the billions of dollars, experts have warned. The US software company has said it is “deeply sorry” for a widespread outage that caused disruption to millions of users, organisations and businesses across the globe – and that it has “addressed the underlying issue”. Continue reading...

Tech firm says it is ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption that took services down and has now addressed the underlying issue What caused the outage and when will it be fixed? Microsoft outage hits UK hospitals, GPs, schools and police Tell us: have you been affected by the outage? Microsoft has said it is “deeply sorry” for a widespread outage that caused disruption to millions of users, organisations and businesses across the globe – and that it has “addressed the underlying issue”. The company said the outage was a “technical issue” not related to cyber-attacks or AI agents, and that it

Young people are being found with ‘hard drives full of what can only be described as gore’, one expert says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In March, Guardian Australia revealed that most people who have been charged with the new federal crime of possession of violent extremist material are under 18. This week Australian federal police sounded the alarm about a surge in teen extremism: 32 of the 37 young people prosecuted in counter-terrorism cases since 2020 were charged in the past two years. Continue reading...

Anti-corruption agency carried out searches as part of investigation into Orbán-era minister accused of taking bribes Hungary’s anti-corruption agency said on Friday it had seized cash worth $19.5m (£14.8m) buried in forests and hidden elsewhere while investigating an ex-minister of nationalist former leader Viktor Orbán’s cabinet. Miklós Seszták, Hungary’s minister of national development between 2014 and 2018, is accused of taking bribes in a scheme involving the state transport company, purchasing secondhand buses at inflated prices. Continue reading...

Kaja Kallas says Moscow is trying to divert attention from its aggression by raising issue of European security The EU’s foreign policy chief has warned against “walking into the traps that Russia is setting” as she said Moscow was trying to start a debate about European security in order to divert attention from its aggression. “We have one aggressor and one victim, and the aggressor does not have security concerns,” Kaja Kallas said on arrival at an EU leaders’ summit in Dublin. “Nobody has ever attacked them. They have attacked others. I mean, keep the focus, people.” Continue reading...

Mohammed Alfatih rearrested over alleged plot to target Israelis in Europe while detained for attack on bailiff A former Hamas bodyguard convicted of knife crime in the UK is wanted in Germany for allegedly plotting to murder Jewish people. Details of the alleged plot can now be reported after Mohammed Alfatih, also known as Mohammed Naim, was found guilty on Friday of a knife attack on a bailiff outside his home in Birmingham. Continue reading...

This blog is now closed Hungary’s Péter Magyar is also here, looking very elegant as always… … but it looks like he took a slight detour on the way back to hotel last night to try and pour a perfect pint of Guinness. Continue reading...

Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems The Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His two incompleteness theorems , published in 1931, transformed mathematics and paved the way for the digital age. After his seminal results of the 1930s, Gödel published only a few papers. His unpublished work, however, runs to tens of thousands of pages, and is of great interest to historians of science. Continue reading...

Statement is rare instance of a prominent Jewish political leader taking a strong stand in defence of Arab Israelis Israeli prime ministerial hopeful Gadi Eisenkot accused caretaker premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday of fuelling a “racist” campaign against the country’s Arab minority, after he sought to delegitimise the community’s lawmakers by linking them to Hamas. Eisenkot’s statement was a rare instance of a prominent Jewish political leader taking a strong stand in defence of Arab Israelis, who make up more than 20% of the population. Continue reading...

First direct attack on US military installations for months was in response to US airstrike on communications tower Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has targeted and destroyed a US early-warning radar in Bahrain in response to a US airstrike on a communications tower in Sirik overlooking the strait of Hormuz. It is Iran’s first direct attack on US military installations for months. “This is a serious warning to the aggressor enemy to end its aerial mischief and oil smuggling in the strait of Hormuz,” the IRGC said. “In the event of repeated violations and aggression, the IRGC aerospace

Political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, one of seven athletes at risk of execution in Iran, given prestigious Magnitsky humanitarian award A boxer and political prisoner on death row in Iran said he will “never surrender” as he accepted a prestigious human rights prize on behalf of “the generation that is paying the price of freedom with their lives”. Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani , an Iranian boxing champion, coach and political prisoner, has been sentenced to death three times and is one of seven athletes at risk of execution in Iran . He was given the Magnitsky award for outstanding

Mostafa Sepahvand and Farhad Javadi Manesh carried out surveillance in an effort to inflict violence on targets Two men of Iranian origin who were hired through social media as part of a plan to “eliminate” journalists in the UK have been found guilty of assisting Tehran’s intelligence services. Mostafa Sepahvand, 41, and Farhad Javadi Manesh, 46, carried out surveillance and reconnaissance between August 2024 and March last year in an attempt to inflict violence on “subjects” in the UK. Continue reading...

F1 driver urges Israel to let aid into Gaza Trip involved tour of facilities with aid workers Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton said on Wednesday that Israel must allow aid ⁠trucks into Gaza, a day after he visited the Rafah border crossing in Egypt. Hamilton, a seven-time ⁠world champion, arrived ⁠in ​El Arish on Tuesday, where he was briefed on how aid is prepared and coordinated before it ⁠is sent into Gaza, as he toured the Rafah crossing and the Egyptian Red Crescent’s aid warehouses. Continue reading...

Former prime minister faces death penalty upon return after being sentenced in absentia over deaths in 2024 uprising Sheikh Hasina is “confident” she will return to Bangladesh in December, according to exiled members of her party, after the disgraced former prime minister applied for a new passport this week. Hasina has been living in self-imposed exile since August 2024 when she was toppled from power by a mass uprising against her authoritarian rule. She crossed the border to India, where she has since been allowed to live freely in Delhi. Continue reading...

From the assassinations of her husband and mother-in-law to press stonewalling under Modi, Belonging offers an insider’s account of India’s political evolution • Don’t get This is India delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Few love stories have been as closely entwined with a nation’s history as that of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi. The former’s much-awaited political memoir, Belonging, offers a strikingly candid account of her journey from a small town in Italy to the highest echelons of power in India – all for love, she says. The veteran Congress party leader has been fiercely protective of her personal

Mumbai facility is part of Reliance Industries, owner of world’s biggest oil refinery and funder of controversial mega-zoo The Prince of Wales’s Earthshot prize will host its forthcoming annual awards ceremony at a venue owned by the billionaire Ambani family conglomerate, drawing criticism from conservationists over their fossil fuel businesses and their foundation’s controversial mega-zoo . A spokesperson for the Earthshot prize, which awards £1m to five winners every year to invest in conservation work, confirmed to the Guardian and the news outlet Mongabay that this year’s ceremony will be held at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai on

A previously unseen family archive offers a glimpse into the Indian Nobel prize winner’s artistic process and personal relationships in his final years • Don’t get This is India delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It’s easy to run out of words to describe Rabindranath Tagore. The first non-European to win the Nobel prize in literature, Tagore was a Bengali poet, musician, novelist, philosopher, songwriter, painter, humanist and educator. Born in 1861, Tagore left an indelible mark on the subcontinent’s literature, music, education and art. Among his enduring legacies are the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. Continue reading...

Guardian and Mongabay reveal approaches to officials and MPs on behalf of Vantara zoo ahead of UK-chaired Cites meeting on endangered animal imports British government ministers were told not to engage formally with Vantara, the controversial mega-zoo run by the Indian billionaire Anant Ambani, after lobbying efforts by the private animal sanctuary in the run-up to a UK-chaired meeting on the trade in endangered species, according to documents. This week, the UK heads a 32-country committee meeting in Geneva of Cites, the United Nations body that regulates trade in endangered species. The meeting will examine how India has responded to

No personnel, aircraft or infrastructure at Suffolk site affected, says US military The US Air Force has said it responded to “suspected unauthorised drone activity” on Friday night at an RAF airbase in the east of England. No personnel, aircraft or infrastructure were affected, the air force said. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Report says restricting cars and freeing up pavement space could be a cheap way to bring shoppers back The long decline of the high street is a problem that has gripped British governments for years. But what if there was a solution no one had considered before – doing it all on the cheap? Spending less money is, admittedly, just one element of a report led by the urban thinktank Create Streets. But it does argue that rather than multimillion-pound revamps, a better answer could be smaller changes aimed at making town and city centres more appealing. Continue reading...

Move deals blow to government’s plans to release thousands of prisoners early to tackle prison overcrowding The government’s plans to release thousands of prisoners early were dealt a blow on Friday after probation officers across England and Wales voted to strike over pay and excessive workloads. Members of the union, Napo, backed overtime restrictions and other forms of action short of a strike, which is likely to start on 23 November. Plans are being made for strike action to follow at a later stage. Continue reading...

Barrister say law does not adequately recognise power imbalance between young people and much older adults Allegations against Russell Brand and, separately, David Walliams, which he denies, have led to calls for greater legal protection for 16- and 17-year-olds from sexual exploitation by older adults. A staggered consent law is one route favoured by campaigners, supported by some Labour MPs. Claire Waxman, the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales, has called for “serious conversations” on the potential for legislative change. Continue reading...

Parents take action while several independent bookshops say they had already stopped stocking his titles In Sarah’s house, David Walliams has been a bedtime staple for years. Her children, aged eight, six and four, have dressed up as his characters for World Book Day – they love the over-the-top, unusual names and illustrations. Now, all the books are going. “I’ll probably take them away and replace them with other authors,” says Sarah, a mother in west London. “Sooner rather than later, so they don’t realise.” If any of her children ask why, she will tell them “that his choices aren’t

Sean Duffy says ‘it’s going to take us some time to unwind what’s happened’ but also points finger at Congress, claiming lack of funding for systems upgrades US aviation agency lifts nationwide ground stop affecting all air travel Chaos at US airports as flight stoppage grinds travel plans to a halt Sign up for the Breaking News US email In other tech-related news, the Microsoft outage is still going. The longest in the company’s history. My colleagues are covering the latest and how it’s affecting millions and pretty much every industry … As I noted earlier, the calls for Howard

Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said the airspace was now open and the problem had been identified FAA grounds thousands of flights – live The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted a nationwide ground stop that was declared Friday afternoon, delaying or canceling more than 11,000 US flights, according to aviation tracker FlightAware , and throwing airports into sudden chaos. The FAA confirmed the airspace was open in an advisory on its website . “So at 8.15 tonight, Eastern Time, we’ve opened up the airspace,” Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, said. “But it’s going to take us some time

No passengers or crew were killed or critically hurt after a tanker collided with a river cruise ship on the Mississippi River, officials say New Orleans river collision – latest updates In what the city’s mayor declared a “miracle on the Mississippi”, all passengers were accounted for – with none killed or critically hurt – after a tanker collided with a river cruise ship docked on the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Friday afternoon. Thirty-two people were taken to local hospitals after the Atlantic Asphalt tanker struck American Cruise Lines’s American Heritage at about 12.30pm – but none of

Flight 15 expected to orbit Earth about 14 times over 22 hours, before company catches it at Starbase, Texas SpaceX’s Starship megarocket blasted off from Texas on Friday afternoon as the aerospace company sought to make history with a double catch of its reusable rocket. Starship, the world’s largest rocket, standing at 407ft, is expected to orbit Earth about 14 times over the course of 22 hours, before the company catches the rocket at its launchpad at Starbase in south Texas. Continue reading...

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for all planes due to take off in the US, delaying and canceling thousands of flights Flights grounded at all US airports due to communications outage – live The US Federal ⁠Aviation Administration said in a statement that the nationwide halt to departures and delays to landings at all US airports that began at about 4pm ET on Friday was caused by “a temporary telecommunications outage”. “Every flight has been accounted for and international flights will be handled on a case by case basis,” the FAA added. Continue reading...

Microsoft on Friday apologised for a global outage that disrupted public services and businesses around the world, as it reported a “broad recovery” for Outlook email and other services. The company ruled out any malicious “cyber or AI” activity as the cause of the outage, which affected several Microsoft products and disrupted healthcare services, delayed corporate earnings reports and left schools struggling to communicate. “We are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident has caused our...

Pope Leo held the central event of his 12-day South America tour on Friday, an outdoor mass in northern Peru where he told a vast crowd of people who once knew him as their bishop that he thanked God he was alive to see them. People arrived on foot and in lines of vehicles at an arid field outside Chiclayo, a city 10,700km (6,650 miles) from Rome, where the former Robert Prevost, elected leader of the Catholic ‌Church last year, is still described as “Padre” (Father) or “amigo” (friend). Cheers...

The EU must “act now” to ensure Europe stays in the AI race with the US and China, French AI firm Mistral’s Chief Executive Arthur Mensch told a summit of the bloc’s leaders on Friday. The leaders heard from Mensch and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the “godfathers” of AI, as they discussed how Europe can balance its AI ambitions with its desire to protect citizens from the growing risks posed by the technology. “Europe has all the technology and the talent to lead...

Six people died ⁠near Kenya’s capital Nairobi ⁠after the top floor of a building under construction collapsed on Friday, a police official said, the latest in a string of construction accidents to ‌hit the country recently. “So far we have confirmed six bodies, but also five people have been rushed to Imara Daima Hospital,” Duncan Ochieng, the assistant inspector general of police in charge of disaster management in Kenya, told media ⁠gathered at the scene. A total of 405 workers were on ‌site...

America’s AI bubble is starting to look like a Ponzi scheme. Artificial intelligence companies increasingly rely on a data centre boom that allows them to raise more money from debt markets. But the midterm elections have swept in state governments sceptical of a mass data-centre buildout. Without the data centres to raise debt, chips don’t ship and the circular financing among AI companies might face a short circuit. Market bubbles grow out of excessive investor optimism, which can accelerate...

When massive lay-offs took place at BMW’s manufacturing base in northeast China – the German carmaker’s largest production hub worldwide – the entire city felt the shock. Starting from November 2, BMW Brilliance – a joint venture between the German brand and Chinese firm Brilliance Auto where BMW holds a 75 per cent share – in Shenyang, Liaoning province, began a major round of lay-offs, aiming to cut an estimated 1,800 to 2,000 jobs, multiple sources told the South China Morning Post. “You’re...

Iran’s Middle East rivals are set to accelerate their push for greater foreign and defence policy autonomy from the United States following the Democrats’ sweeping victory in the midterm elections. Key regional partners of the US – Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and Egypt – will also look to diversify their relationships beyond Washington, according to analysts. Rather than being a knee-jerk reaction to American voters’ rebuke of President Donald Trump, these...

We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO amid affairs scandal Jensen Huang has resigned as president, chief executive officer and board member of the AI chip giant Nvidia with immediate effect, the firm announced on Thursday, amid media...

A lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi sold on Thursday for nearly US$5 million in an auction. The lightsaber, which was used in the climactic duel in Cloud City where Vader tells Luke Skywalker “I am your father”, sold for US$4.875 million at the Ultimate Star Wars Auction held by Heritage Auctions in London, Britain. The sale marks a world auction record for any Star Wars collectible, according to Heritage Auctions. The sale also...

Urgent action is needed to help countries hardest-hit by the effects of climate change, small island leaders said on Thursday at the United Nations climate talks in Turkey, describing global warming as a life-or-death issue for their people. “It is time to move past the talking,” said Alix Sebastien Pillay, vice-president of Seychelles, who said the survival of his country, a 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, is at stake. “For Seychelles, climate action is not simply an environmental...

Pro-Palestinian activists have asked a French court to ban an Israeli real estate fair in Paris which they say offers a bonus to prospective Jewish settlers in the occupied territories, sources told Agence France-Presse on Thursday. The Franco-Palestinian NIDAL association filed an emergency motion to a court against the 9th Icube real estate and investment salon, arguing that the fair violates human rights. The event is to take place on Sunday at the European Centre for Judaism in the French...

Senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out amid a spy scandal surrounding Nvidia’s now-former CEO Jensen Huang, two people familiar with the situation said on Thursday. A growing number of lawmakers criticised Lutnick for the administration’s refusal to add dozens of Chinese companies to a key US trade blacklist, and over whether the government was properly overseeing Nvidia’s exports to China. Criticism ‌of Lutnick’s actions...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and US envoy Jared Kushner said Thursday Europe would join the next round of talks with Russia, as Vladimir Putin indicated Moscow will not compromise on its hardline demands to end almost five years of war. In a packed day of shuttle diplomacy following negotiations in Abu Dhabi, Kushner and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff held over four hours of talks with Putin in the Kremlin before jetting to debrief Zelensky in Dublin. As they spoke to journalists on the...

Israeli fire killed 11 people in Gaza on Thursday, six of them in the bombing of Nasser hospital in south Gaza early in the day, health officials said, the deadliest single strike since Israel’s elections last month. The Israeli military confirmed the attack, saying they targeted “the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis brigade Muhammad Abu Ismail and additional terrorists hiding inside of Nasser hospital”. The hospital, located in the southern city of Khan Younis, confirmed the six deaths in a...

A South Carolina man accused of burying his 11-month-old son in a dog crate in a clump of scrubby pines was denied bond Thursday. Michael Comer, 25, has been charged with attempted murder, burglary and unlawfully placing a child at risk in connection with the disappearance of Koah Sharp, who survived and is expected to make a full recovery. Tyler Douglas, lead investigator for the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, told Magistrate Gary W. Reinhart on Thursday morning that Comer showed no...

Armed robbers stole goods worth more than €1 million (US$1.1 million) from a De Beers jewellery shop in Paris on Thursday before fleeing on scooters, authorities and a police source told Agence France-Presse. The suspects, carrying long guns, targeted the shop in the city’s 2nd arrondissement at around 11am local time. During the robbery, they brandished their weapons but did not open fire, and no one was injured, according to the Paris police. A police source estimated the value at more than €1...

A disgruntled resident shot dead his building manager and wounded four other people in an upscale neighbourhood of Washington on Thursday before killing himself, police said amid a massive law enforcement response that shut down part of the city. The shooting, which occurred about a mile north of the White House, sparked a massive police response in the nation’s capital with dozens of law enforcement vehicles racing to the scene and police helicopters hovering overhead. Dramatic dispatch audio...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday the US does not need a deal with Iran and directed Vice-President J.D. Vance, who has played a role in efforts to resolve the war, to focus “his complete and total attention” on alleged crime and corruption in Democratic-run cities and states. Trump’s directive came a day after the ‌Wall Street Journal reported that Vance was considering face-to-face peace talks with a hardline Iranian security official and a week after the vice-president blamed the...

Investigators began what could be a long search for the cause of a Brooklyn residential building collapse that killed eight people as the fire department ended rescue operations Thursday after the last victim was freed from the wreckage. The three-storey building gave way while construction workers were digging Wednesday afternoon at an adjacent lot, causing New York City’s mayor to order inspections at about 100 building sites involving companies related to the project. “If there is anyone, or...

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to double tariffs on Mexico if it does not stop ‌more than a thousand migrants walking north towards the United States after last week’s US election, warning that they would not be allowed to enter. “Here we go ⁠again!” Trump wrote on social media. “They will not ‌be accepted! MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do ‌not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico ⁠will ⁠be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED. MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE ‌VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF...

Britain’s ⁠media regulator Ofcom ⁠said on Thursday ⁠it had fined Meta £450,000 (US$597,000) for providing inaccurate information about its WhatsApp Business service in response to requests it made as part of its ‌telecoms market review. Ofcom reviewed the market for business bulk SMS text messages in 2025 to better understand the services available to businesses. Ofcom sought information in 2025 about WhatsApp for Business, including messaging ⁠volumes and revenues. The regulator said Meta had...

South Korea is ramping up diplomatic efforts as fresh hurdles loom for its nuclear-powered submarine ambitions following a Democratic Party takeover of the US Congress. Seoul’s Defence Acquisition Programme Administration last week approved preliminary plans for the submarines, with design work set to begin next year under an initial budget of 96.6 billion won (US$72.5 million) and delivery targeted for the late 2030s or beyond. While US President Donald Trump endorsed the submarine plans at a...

Washington’s key Gulf allies are expected to come under scrutiny as Democrats use their new congressional majorities to investigate business dealings involving US President Donald Trump and his inner circle. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar could all be dragged into congressional investigations over allegations that Trump, his family and influential members of his administration abused their positions to enrich themselves in return for political favours, according to...

Famed ocean liner SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America and the world’s fastest, headed for the sea floor near Florida on Wednesday in a deliberate sinking designed to transform the vessel into the world’s biggest artificial reef. The finale to a year-long process preparing the ship to meet its destiny, 75 years after it was first launched at sea, was presented in a live stream showing aerial views of the once-grand vessel’s rusted hulk, stripped of its two...

Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected on Wednesday, making him the Southern state’s first black senator since the Reconstruction era that followed the US Civil War. The result was a stunning upset in the heavily Republican state and expanded on the national drubbing the Democrats delivered to President Donald Trump’s Republicans in the November 3 midterm elections. ‌It was also a historic...

A soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier issued a verbal reprimand to a group of advisers and staffers with US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Video shows Hegseth taking photos on the empty steps in front of the tomb with his wife, Jennifer, chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver and senior adviser Tami Radabaugh. As the group broke from taking photos, a loud laugh could be heard, and the soldier...

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is set to take place in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19. Shenzhen will also be playing host to the first of two further meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump this year. When the two leaders met in May and September, they called for “constructive strategic stability” as a prescription for US-China relations. Both sides are keen to maintain the fragile detente, in part due to domestic considerations. Beijing wants to...

Joe Biden says he did not know he had cancer while he was US president and would not have sought a second term if he already had been diagnosed. The former Democratic president’s comments came in an interview with People magazine before the release of his White House memoir on Tuesday. “If I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer,” said Biden, who turns 84 on November 20, “I would’ve not gone forward” with a 2024 re-election bid that ended after a disastrous debate performance...

Pope Leo drew vast crowds to Argentina’s holiest shrine on Wednesday, the final day of his visit before he departs for Peru, where he spent nearly two decades as a missionary. Authorities said over 3 million people packed the streets around the Basilica of Lujan, with some climbing fences, barriers, trees and lamp posts for a glimpse of the pontiff. Crowds chanted “Thank you, Leo!” to the 71-year-old pope, who is on a 12-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru less than a month after undergoing...

US President Donald Trump defended the war against Iran Wednesday at a US Veterans Day commemoration that saw his defence secretary publicly admonished for a lack of decorum. “The bravery and skill of our amazing American warriors has absolutely been incredible,” Trump said in an address at Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington. “When this conflict is over, and it will be soon, the entire world will be a much safer and better place, more peaceful place, and a place without the kind...

Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, has died “suddenly” at the age of 66 after just one and a half years in the job, Moscow’s foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. The ministry called Darchiev an “outstanding diplomat, an experienced leader and a kind colleague”. He was appointed in March 2025. Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a separate statement that Darchiev died in Moscow from an unspecified chronic illness. Darchiev previously served as Russia’s...

Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large exchange of prisoners of war, both sides said Wednesday as two days of US mediated talks concluded, but they announced no major breakthrough on ending the conflict that began after Moscow’s full-scale invasion nearly five years ago. Hopes had been low for any significant development in the first meeting in nine months between the delegations. Russia and Ukraine have from time to time swapped POWs but have remained far apart in their demands for accepting a...

Price volatility in critical minerals, largely shaped by China’s market, is delaying or derailing nearly one in four energy-storage investments worldwide, according to a new report, highlighting the extent to which strategic materials have become a growing geopolitical flashpoint. Some 23 per cent of investors, lenders, developers and producers said otherwise viable energy-storage projects had been deferred or scrapped because of unpredictable pricing, said a report published by law firm DLA...

When the Magnificent Seven, America’s top tech companies, shed more than US$1 trillion in a single trading session, the usual question returned: is artificial intelligence (AI) a bubble? Yet as global headlines are transfixed by the personal and governance crises shaking Silicon Valley’s titan icons, that debate is already stale. Separate technology from stock prices and a harder truth emerges: multitrillion-dollar empires cannot merely survive on founder mythology and self-policing. The public...

Schools across Italy were evacuated on Wednesday after around 6,300 of them received bomb warnings, the latest in a series of threats and cyberattacks around Europe against supermarkets, blood banks, air ‌traffic and broadcasters. Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland said many of their schools also received a similar email threat from abroad, but it was quickly classed as a hoax and did not disrupt classes. In Italy, many parents had to drop what they were doing and hurry to...

A federal judge has allowed US President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar defamation suit against the BBC to proceed, rejecting a bid by the British broadcaster to dismiss the case. Trump has accused the BBC of deceptively editing a documentary to make it seem as if he was inciting violence when he told supporters to march on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. He has sought at least US$5 billion each for one claim of defamation and a separate claim under a Florida consumer protection law. US...

A general strike by 4 million Spanish workers – around one-fifth of the total workforce – against the country’s housing crisis was mostly peaceful on Wednesday, unions said, though by the evening clashes erupted in some areas of Barcelona and Madrid. Workers endured stormy weather to set up picket lines, with large marches taking place in Madrid, Barcelona and cities across Spain less than three weeks before a snap general election. In the evening, clashes between police and some protesters...

World leaders began arriving on Wednesday to start formal discussions at the United Nations climate change conference in Turkey, hoping to agree on concrete actions to curb global warming after a year of deadly floods, heatwaves and other climate-related disasters. But what can and will be accomplished at the 11-day Conference of the Parties, called Cop31, remains to be seen. Past talks have been criticised for making promises that later fell flat, and some big names are missing from this year’s...

US Treasury Secretary Scott ‌Bessent has recently moved from his Washington DC residence to a US military base after Iranian threats against his life, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The New York Times first reported the move. A senior intelligence official in the Trump administration warned in a memo seen by Reuters late last month that Iranian plots against US personnel and American citizens had reached an advanced stage. Bessent has led the ⁠US sanctions and economic...

The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against three men it described as “Iranian operatives”, including one already in jail, over their role in an alleged terrorist plot at Britain’s RAF Fairford airbase. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani allegedly helped plan and direct the September incident at the base, which has been used by the US military in its operations against Iran. Police were called to the Fairford site in southwest...

The 82-year-old estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, was ordered to jail Tuesday because he removed an electronic monitoring device from his ankle, just days after he was charged with possession of child sexual abuse material. Thomas Markle was arrested and appeared in federal court in Tampa, Florida, after authorities learned he had cut off the device at 1.45am, First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli said. “Release conditions are court orders, not suggestions,” Essayli...

⁠A senior US ⁠Army soldier was arrested in ⁠Britain on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence, British police said on Tuesday, after the US removed aircraft from British military bases over a separate apparent threat from Iran. FBI Director Kash Patel ‌said the arrest of the 41-year-old man related to “allegations of espionage, which is of the utmost concern to the United States and our allies”. Brigadier General Sean Stinchon, the commanding general of US Army Counterintelligence Command,...

China dismissed concerns on Wednesday that it interferes in Canadian affairs, after Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would raise the issue with President Xi Jinping when the two meet at a summit next week. A Canadian public inquiry last year into allegations of election meddling identified China as “the most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting Canada’s democratic institutions”. Carney said on Tuesday that he would discuss “many things” with Xi during the Asia-Pacific Economic...

Trinidad ⁠and Tobago’s law criminalising ⁠consensual sexual relations between ⁠male same-sex couples was overturned by a London court on Tuesday, after a legal challenge by a gay man who said the law breached his human rights. Jason Jones challenged the Caribbean nation’s ‌Sexual Offences Act – which made “buggery” and “gross indecency” illegal – as breaching his fundamental rights under the country’s constitution. London’s Privy Council, the final court of appeal for Trinidad and Tobago, ruled...

After recent attacks on supermarket fridges, home appliances could be next, the EU’s cyber chief said on Tuesday, as he urged Europe to invest more to counter growing cyber threats. Supermarkets in at least 12 European countries were hit by cyberattacks in October and November, with France the worst affected. “Security should not and cannot be an afterthought,” Juhan Lepassaar, executive director of the EU’s cybersecurity agency ENISA, said. “Today it was fridges, tomorrow it could be routers,...

The Nvidia founder’s signature look branded him as a maverick. Does that image read differently now?

Ms. Boebert’s loss to Eileen Laubacher in a conservative House district represents a significant victory for Democrats.

To win a Senate seat in a highly polarized, deeply Republican state, Scott Colom needed a perfect storm. He got it.

The G.O.P. was able to avoid more House midterm losses — on top of the advantage it already had from gerrymandering.

Eileen Laubacher, a retired rear admiral, defeated one of the highest-profile supporters of President Trump in a deep-red district that she knows will be tough to hold.

The hard-line position of Russian officials in closed-door negotiations about ending the war thrusts European security into the heart of the talks.

After coveting a seat in the Ukraine war discussions, Europe is poised to get one. The continent wants to fill it with a six-member team.

The former president’s new memoir trumpets his achievements while justifying his decision to run for a second term and his embrace of Israel’s war in Gaza.

The 46th president defends his decision to run for re-election, which many in his party now regard as a mistake, and revisits the disastrous debate that forced him to end his campaign.

By winning approval for a three-story building, then seeking to add more stories, the Brooklyn developer was not subject to the more rigorous oversight required for larger projects.

The Department of Buildings has also hired an engineering firm to provide an independent report on what caused the three-story building to collapse, killing eight people.

A prolonged outage left many without email and other services, the most recent reminder that the world’s technological underpinnings rely on just a few companies.

The company described “encouraging” progress on efforts to overcome a second day of disruptions to its email, messaging and other services.

The president plans to also discuss the war against Iran, but is not expected to bring up Russia’s war in Ukraine or the scandal that has engulfed Jensen Huang.

The administration appears to be moving toward a long-term economic pressure campaign as President Trump expresses little urgency in securing a nuclear agreement.

Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana called it a “literal miracle on the Mississippi” that all of the nearly 200 people aboard the riverboat were rescued.

Heirs say “Blossoming Chestnut Trees” was sold under Nazi-era duress. The auction house says it is “committed to working toward a mutually satisfactory resolution.”

Boss Tweed used New York as a personal piggy bank. The Times brought him down, ushering in a new era of muckraking journalism.

Facing resistance from the left but no challenger, the Democratic leader is sewing up support from key coalitions as his allies say he deserves a unanimous vote.

Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said he wouldn’t run for president to focus on his leadership challenge to Senator Chuck Schumer, who remained confident he would prevail.

The request to extend a high-profile warrantless surveillance law would add a thorny issue during waning Republican control.

The secretary of commerce is almost as responsible for Nvidia’s crisis as the fallen chief executive Jensen Huang.

A lot of Republicans have moved to Florida since Covid, and those newcomers really like the way Republicans are running it.

Now there are only two practicing members of the last active Shaker community in the United States. Sister June was 88.