Farewell, New Mexico. The war isn’t going well and nowhere on Earth is safe from the US president’s favourite displacement activity Busy times for crayon-wielding US president Donald Trump, Earth’s most tireless freelance cartographer, who at the weekend celebrated the US labouring under the highest diesel prices in its history while his “two-week” Iran war … Read more
The man, also accused of homophobic slurs on American Airlines flight, faces assault and disorderly conduct charges An Arizona realty company says it is “no longer associated” with an agent who was recently arrested after alleged unruly behavior – including racist and homophobic slurs – on an airline flight led to his being zip-tied, duct-taped … Read more
David Burke’s defense argues there is no evidence he had any intent of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez The family of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez has called for the singer D4vd, who is on trial suspected of killing the girl, to face the death penalty. D4vd, who was born David Anthony Burke, in July was … Read more
A natural history museum lets residents take home 1,400 specimens, from bobcats and beetles to snakes in jars On a hot afternoon in August, I walked out of the San Diego Natural History Museum carrying a whale rib, a leopard pelt, a taxidermized weasel and a small piece of fossilized dinosaur poop. It felt like … Read more
Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing priorities As the November election approaches with control of the House and Senate on the line, the stakes are high. With so much riding on the outcome, there is no shortage of debate about the message Democrats need to win. Affordability has … Read more
The U.S. has for years been the top weapons supplier in the world. Over the past five years, arms exports have gone to nearly 100 countries. “These weapons are sought after around the world because we have the best weapons,” said War Department Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey. The Trump administration says … Read more
Stalemate between two nations leads to tit-for-tat measures on wide range of imports. Plus: Captain Kirk recalls 60 years of Star Trek Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of US imports have come into effect, escalating a trade fight that … Read more
Canadian retaliatory tariffs on some 700 American products are going into effect as the trade war intensifies. It comes less than two months until the November midterms, with the ongoing war with Iran, tariffs and spiking gas prices on the minds of American voters. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.
From rare bacteria to ‘forever chemicals’, a series of cases of violations or alleged pollution has prompted alarm When officials in Wyoming conducted a routine test on the water that was being discharged from a massive under-construction Meta datacenter, it was a shock to find it contained a rare and potentially hazardous bacterium. While the … Read more
The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously hacked a major real-world company, Hugging Face, many assumed only one or two agents were involved. The truth, a … Read more
