At least two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike in the Caribbean Sea were rescued by helicopter and are in custody aboard an American vessel after their semi-submersible was hit, a person familiar with the incident said. The attack, the sixth targeting suspected drug smugglers, comes amid President Donald Trump’s...
Pressure is mounting on Birmingham police to reverse a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters at Aston Villa’s November 6 Europa League match, imposed over security concerns. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called it “the wrong decision,” with his office saying the government is working urgently to overturn it. UEFA urged...
China expelled its second-highest ranking general, He Weidong, and eight other senior officers from the Communist Party and the military over suspected serious corruption, the Defense Ministry said. Their cases, involving extremely large sums, were sent to military prosecutors. He, a Politburo member and vice chair of the Central Military...
OpenAI halted Sora from generating videos of Dr Martin Luther King Jr after his estate objected, acknowledging the tool had produced “disrespectful” deepfakes. The move comes amid a surge of clips of deceased and historical figures, including altered versions of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and scenes of him...
Forty-two years after Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper sits in a north Brooklyn studio with 26-year-old Gracie Abrams, trading stories and nodding to Rickie Lee Jones’ The Last Chance Texaco. They connect over writer’s block and the trance of a song arriving whole. Lauper, fresh off a...
An alleged first Geekbench 6 result for the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro shows the M5 hitting a record single‑core score of 4,263 — the highest logged for any Mac or PC in the database — from a 10‑core CPU (4 performance, 6 efficiency). The lone, unconfirmed entry also posts 17,862...
John Bolton, 76, pleaded not guilty in a Maryland federal court to 18 counts of possessing and retaining national defense materials after a grand jury indictment. The 26-page indictment alleges he shared classified information with two relatives while serving as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor from April 2018 to...
A 10-year-old Palestinian, Muhammad al-Hallaq, was shot dead by Israeli forces in al-Rihiya, south of Hebron, after troops opened fire during what the army called confrontations and rock-hurling. Witnesses said the boys had been playing football and ran at the sight of military vehicles before a soldier fired from the...
China’s Communist Party expelled nine top generals in one of its biggest public military crackdowns in decades, the defence ministry said, citing suspected serious financial crimes. The group includes Politburo member He Weidong, the military’s No. 2 under Xi Jinping, whose long absence from view had stirred speculation. All nine...
Relatives in Las Cuevas, Trinidad, mourn Chad “Charpo” Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, believed among six people killed in a US airstrike on a boat allegedly trafficking drugs from Venezuela. At wakes, family accused Donald Trump of killing poor people and denying due process, and said Trinidad and Tobago’s leaders ceded...
