Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at Paris's La Santé prison to begin a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy tied to Libyan financing of his 2007 campaign — the first ex-leader of modern France to be jailed. Hand in hand with his wife, he left home to cheers from hundreds...
Apple’s latest iPad Pro largely mirrors last year’s model, retaining the 11- and 13-inch designs and starting prices of $999 and $1,299. The main updates are inside: an M5 chip and Apple’s in-house C1X and N1 networking, yielding modest everyday gains and bigger GPU improvements. A new 40W charger can...
Warner Bros. Discovery said HBO Max prices are rising as of Tuesday, Oct. 21, with new subscriptions increasing immediately. Existing monthly customers will get 30 days’ notice and see higher rates from their first billing date on or after Nov. 20, 2025; yearly plans rise at renewal. WBD last raised...
In the shutdown’s fourth week, Senate Republicans head to the White House for a show of unity with President Donald Trump, refusing Democratic demands as Senate Democrats keep rejecting a House bill to reopen government without talks on expiring ACA subsidies. With both sides dug in, federal workers face more...
A retired US navy veteran who says George Santos kept $3,000 raised for his dying service dog condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the ex-congressman’s seven-year, three-month sentence. On MSNBC, Richard Osthoff called Trump “a walking middle finger” and said Santos “should have done at least half” his term....
Remnant storms from Typhoon Halong pounded western Alaska on Oct. 12, with blistering winds and record-high water displacing more than 2,000 people and prompting one of the most significant airlift operations in Alaska history. At least one person is dead and two are missing. In Kwigillingok, Steven Anaver’s home ripped...
European leaders and Ukraine’s allies issued a carefully worded warning to U.S. President Donald Trump, endorsing his call to stop fighting while rejecting any territorial concessions to Moscow. In a joint statement signed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy and leaders including Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von...
French prosecutors charged a Chinese-born woman over the theft of six gold nuggets worth about €1.5m from Paris’s Museum of Natural History, after Spanish police arrested her in Barcelona with about a kilo of melted gold. The pre-dawn break-in hit the mineralogy gallery while alarms and surveillance were disabled by...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel to bolster a shaky U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire amid fresh bloodshed and fraught negotiations. He will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hostages' families and recently freed captives, after conferring with envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Israel said Hamas returned the body of...
The SNP has urged the UK government to formally strip Prince Andrew of his royal titles, as Westminster leader Stephen Flynn lodged a non-binding motion to force the immediate removal of his dukedom. The push follows days of revelations about his links to Jeffrey Epstein and Friday’s announcement that Andrew...
