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President Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday and was set to celebrate with one of the more surreal spectacles both in sports and even in the nation's capital: cage fighting on the White House lawn. Against the backdrop of a 3-month-old war with Iran that’s been broadly unpopular with Americans and has rattled global oil markets and with inflation spiked to the highest level since April 2023, the White House — long known as the people’s house and a symbol of American democracy — opened its backyard Sunday night to stage a bruising UFC card on the South Lawn. M

Donald Trump turns 80 and celebrates with UFC cage fighting on the White House lawn

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Italian general launches far-right party, threatening Meloni's election hopes

General Roberto Vannacci launched his new far-right party on Sunday, posing a direct challenge to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's grip on power as he seeks to pull Italy in a more hardline, nationalist direction ahead of elections next year.Introduced by a party official as a modern-day Julius Caesar, the 57-year-old former paratrooper was greeted by chants of "Generale, Generale, Generale" as he took to the stage of Futuro Nazionale's inaugural congress."We represent the rejects and the dregs, and are proud of it," said Vannacci, who is looking to outflank Meloni's conservative coalition on

Trump endorses Rep. Mike Collins ahead of GOP Senate runoff in Georgia

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UK intercepts Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker for first time

The UK military has intercepted an oil tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet in the English Channel, according to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the first such operation by British forces.“In the early hours of this morning, I directed our Armed Forces to intercept a shadow fleet oil tanker attempting to pass through the English Channel,” Starmer said in a post on X.“This successful operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin’s war in Ukraine that we will not let them hide.”France has previously intercepted several vessels linked to Russia’s sh

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A night of raw emotion and chaos: 63 arrested as Knicks fans celebrate NBA championship

Jubilant Knicks fans flooded the streets of New York on Saturday night, crowding into intersections and climbing light poles and buses as they celebrated the team’s first NBA championship in more than 50 years.But the celebration turned chaotic as the night wore on, with five school buses set ablaze in Times Square, five police cars damaged on Sixth Avenue and a 17-year-old boy shot in the foot near the heart of the festivities.A total of 63 people were arrested overnight in connection with the Knicks game, the NYPD said. Charges include assault on a police officer, criminal possession of a

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Who was Niño Guerrero? The alleged drug kingpin the US killed in Venezuela

Shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday, US President Donald Trump made an unusual announcement on his social media platform Truth Social.Trump said that the US and Venezuela had collaborated to kill Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as “Niño Guerrero” and identified as the top leader of the notorious criminal gang Tren de Aragua, which the US designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization early on in Trump’s second term.The attack on Guerrero Flores was “swift and lethal,” Trump announced, adding that under his leadership, the US will “find these vicious murderers and drugs lor

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Trump says US military strike killed leader of Tren de Aragua gang with help from Venezuela

President Donald Trump said Friday that a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang. Tren de Aragua has been labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization. Guerrero Flores was charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, including lending support to terrorists in crimes that stretched more than a decade, authorities announced in December. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X that the strike occur

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James Harden is arrested in Houston on a misdemeanor charge of carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle

Cleveland Cavaliers player James Harden was arrested on Saturday in Houston on a misdemeanor charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon in a motor vehicle, according to the Harris County District Clerk’s Office. Harden was arrested at 3:41 a.m. and booked just before 5 a.m., then posted $100 bond and was released from police custody, according to charging documents, which said he had a handgun in plain view that was not in a holster. His arraignment is scheduled for June 22, according to the clerk’s office website. Harden is listed as a Houston resid

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Iran questions US commitment to peace moves as Israel strikes Lebanon

- Iran's top negotiator questioned the United States' commitment to peace efforts after Israel carried out new attacks on Lebanon, dimming prospects of Tehran and Washington signing a framework agreement on Sunday on ending their war.U.S. President Donald Trump and mediator Pakistan said on Saturday they expected the deal would be signed on Sunday, but Tehran cast doubt over the timing and hardline protesters in Iran voiced opposition.Qatari negotiators flew to Tehran on Sunday morning as part of an effort to finalise the agreement, a source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters.But Ira

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Trump turns 80 with a showstopping spectacle of cage fights at the White House. But big issues loom

President Donald Trump celebrates turning 80 on Sunday with a showstopping birthday spectacle that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House. This week, the hard realities of the office have threatened to overshadow the ostentatious UFC mixed martial arts extravaganza, where combatants sealed inside a wire-mesh octagon try to punch, kick, chop and pummel each other into submission. Trump has found himself boxed into an unpopular and costly war he helped start in Iran. An agreement to end the conflict coul

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Swiss reject population cap in referendum, avoiding EU clash

Switzerland on Sunday rejected a proposal to cap its population at 10 million, a projection showed, as voters prioritised economic stability and ties with the European Union over worries immigration was straining public services and pushing up rents.The projection by national broadcaster SRF, which traditionally calls referendum votes, showed about 45% of voters came out in favour of the proposal and 55% against.The vote, which was likened to Britain's 2016 Brexit referendum, had put businesses on edge due to concerns it could end the free movement of labour between Switzerland and the EU, th

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‘A bird that flies never leaves a trace’: Why is Japan always so tidy at the World Cup?

Nobody can predict how the 48 teams will do at the FIFA World Cup this summer, but if you wanted to gamble on Japan being the tidiest team, you’d surely clean up at the bookies. Thanks to a societal expectation of all Japanese people, you’d never know they were there.Nozomi Morgan, founder and CEO of Michiki Morgan Worldwide and an intercultural leadership expert, vividly remembers moving from Seattle to Tokyo when she was eight years old, partly because the school experience was so different.“One of the first things that really surprised me,” she told CNN Sports, “you take off your

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Trump and Pakistan say Iran deal could be signed Sunday but Tehran signals more time is needed

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Inside the crowd drawn to Trump's unusual UFC fight night at the White House

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Trump says US military strike killed leader of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang

President Donald Trump said on Friday U.S. forces carried out a strike that killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Niño

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Anthropic disables top-tier AI models after US order limiting foreign access

Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly disable" its most advanced AI models for all users after the U.S. government ordered it

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Judge orders Trump administration to restore National Park changes at sites that 'disparaged' US

OpenAI under investigation by group of state attorneys general, source says

A coalition of U.S. state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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Trump says US military strike killed leader of Tren de Aragua gang with help from Venezuela

President Donald Trump says a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang

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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