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At least six killed and dozens wounded in Russian ‘double-tap’ strike on a Ukrainian shopping center, officials say
Myanmar military strike kills 14 people at a Buddhist monastery, opposition group says
Court slashes $50M judgment against Infowars' Alex Jones over falsely calling school shooting a hoax

At least six killed and dozens wounded in Russian ‘double-tap’ strike on a Ukrainian shopping center, officials say
Myanmar military strike kills 14 people at a Buddhist monastery, opposition group says
Court slashes $50M judgment against Infowars' Alex Jones over falsely calling school shooting a hoax

At least six killed and dozens wounded in Russian ‘double-tap’ strike on a Ukrainian shopping center, officials say

At least six people have been killed and dozens wounded in a Russian “double-tap” strike on a shopping center in central Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday.“The attack drones struck in two waves: half an hour after the first strike and the resulting fire, there was a second strike targeting emergency responders,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on Telegram.Footage geolocated by CNN shows a drone hitting a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih, causing a fireball to erupt into the sky as it explodes, all while smoke from an apparent earlier strike is still visible.Smo

Myanmar military strike kills 14 people at a Buddhist monastery, opposition group says

Court slashes $50M judgment against Infowars' Alex Jones over falsely calling school shooting a hoax

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Federal appeals court halts ruling allowing thousands of college players extra year of eligibility

A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily halted a court order that would have granted thousands of athletes who left college after last season an extra year of eligibility. The lawsuit was filed by players who graduated high school in 2022, whose college eligibility ended last season and who were not included in the NCAA’s controversial new rule that grants most players five years of eligibilty, beginning next season. After winning a ruling in district court last month, many of those players were trying to figure out how to return to their former schools to

Enrollment in SNAP grocery aid is dropping faster than expected

‘Life is not rosy here’: Migrant workers in Spain’s greenhouses tell of poor pay and hardships

The Latest: Trump warns of ‘economic D-Day’ against Iran days before 6-month mark of war

Nearing the six-month mark of the Iran war and facing diminishing stockpiles of key weapons, the Trump administration is touting a crushing financial campaign against Tehran, promising an “economic D-Day” against a country that has so far withstood nearly five decades of punishing American sanctions. With sparse details, President Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. would be imposing an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare and isolation on Iran, aiming to force its leadership to cave to demands to end its nuclear program and fully reopen the

‘My Guardian and Protector’: Natalie Harp letters express her devotion to Trump

2 US Army Corps of Engineers workers among 8 killed in small plane crash in Alaska near radar site

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Federal court is asked to block Kennedy Center from returning Trump's name to building

Rep. Joyce Beatty made an emergency request on Thursday that a federal court block the Kennedy Center from returning President Donald Trump’s name to the building. The Trump-aligned board at the Kennedy Center voted earlier this month to inscribe the president's name on the venue’s facade so it would read “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.” If the Trump Kennedy Center Fund reached $100 million, another inscription would be added reading “Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.” The

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Trump, former fixer Michael Cohen have warm interview at political low point for president

U.S. President Donald Trump had a warm public reunion on Thursday with Michael Cohen, his former fixer turned foe whose court testimony contributed to Trump's 2024 conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial.Cohen, who is seeking a pardon, interviewed Trump on his New York radio program. He called Trump "boss" and gave a six-minute monologue on friendship and forgiveness.In 2018, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison — and served more than a year — for a $130,000 hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election — as well as for other crimes, includ

Duane Davis said he’d never told anyone the story. Jurors just heard him walk police through the night Tupac was killed

Storms spark tornadoes and flash flooding in Mid-Atlantic

Charter plane crash kills 8 near remote radar site in western Alaska, military says

A charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed at a remote radar site in western Alaska on Thursday, killing all on board, the U.S. military said. The crash happened near Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, approximately 450 miles (725 kilometers) west of Anchorage, Alaska. “This is a devastating loss for our military family and the communities we serve,” U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, commander of Alaskan Command, the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region and Eleventh Air Force, said in a statement. The radar s

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Democrat Aisha Wahab will win Swalwell’s House seat, CNN projects, overcoming millions in AIPAC spending

Democratic state Sen. Aisha Wahab will win the special election runoff to finish former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s term in California’s 14th District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects.In recent weeks, the Bay Area race to replace the former congressman, who resigned amid sexual assault allegations, became another test of Democratic divides over Israel. Super PACs aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee poured millions of dollars into ads attacking the progressive and bolstering her opponent, Democrat Melissa Hernandez, who is president of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board.“I’m

Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump

Woman charged with planning ISIS-inspired attack on New York State Capitol building

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Python receives pioneering cancer treatment usually used in humans

A 15-foot python has made an impressive recovery after becoming what is believed to be the first snake in the world to receive a pioneering cancer treatment usually used in humans.The 50-kilogram (110-pound) reticulated python, named after Hollywood star Jodie Foster, lives at Chester Zoo in England’s northwest. Keepers first became concerned for Jodie, aged 23, when her appetite declined and her activity dropped, the zoo said in a press release Friday.Tests revealed Jodie had a fibrosarcoma – a malignant tumor – in her jaw, which was removed with surgery but later returned and began to

This Mexican engineer has made it his life’s mission to empower people with disabilities

Francisco “Kiko” Trujillo’s efforts helping disabled patients along the US-Mexico border has saved and changed thousands of lives. It is work that found him and unexpectedly became his life’s mission.In 2008, he was contacted by Dr. Burris “Duke” Duncan, a pediatrician in Tucson, Arizona, who specializes in treating children with disabilities. Duncan, then in his 70’s, was seeking a community partner across the border to help provide all-terrain wheelchairs for people whose disabilities left them unable to work or care for themselves.When Duncan reached out to Trujillo, Trujillo

Fishermen floating in cooler rescued after 5 days stranded at sea

Pakistan’s former leader Imran Khan taken back to prison after hospital check-up

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Fishermen survive five days adrift on a cooler in the Pacific

Two fishermen were rescued Wednesday after floating adrift more than 100 miles off the coast of Mexico with no food or water for five days, the Mexican navy announced.Search and rescue efforts began on August 14, when the men’s fishing cooperative sent out a distress call saying it had lost contact with the 53-year-old and 32-year-old fishermen.The Mexican navy searched a vast area of the Pacific Ocean by sea and air, eventually finding the two men floating in a large fishing cooler about 150 miles off the coast of Chiapas, a southern state in Mexico that borders Guatemala.Both men were airl

This photojournalist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iranian prison. She refuses to be silenced

“Don’t forget me.” This is the desperate plea of Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, who has spent more than two decades documenting life under the Iranian regime, including most recently the bloody crackdown on protests in January, the war with the United States, and a new campaign of repression currently underway.Moaiery, whose stories and photographs have appeared around the world, has now herself become a target and was sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this month by an Iranian court with “activities in furtherance of the interest of the Zionist regime against national sec

After a sexual assault case went viral, China’s corporate drinking culture is under fire

Charter plane crashes near remote Alaska radar site, killing all 8 on board

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US imposes more sanctions on Cuba, including mining sector

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Michael Cohen says no modern dispute has been more public than his feud with Trump

Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen tells CNN's Jake Tapper that he doesn't want that time to be the defining moment of his life

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Huge Russian strikes on Kyiv leave 17 dead as attacks spill over to Romanian and Moldovan territory

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Five Americans, Ecuador intelligence chief killed in tourist helicopter crash in Kenya

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Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister says she is ‘completely unaware’ if he contacted Trump

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Trump plays White House tour guide to show off work on his helipad and ballroom

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Woman charged in ISIS-inspired terror plot to detonate explosive device at New York State Capitol, feds say

Tens of thousands in Indiana are still without power a week after deadly storms

Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana remain without power, more than a week after deadly storms leveled trees and knocked down power lines across the region

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls