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PORTLAND, ORE.—A federal judge late Sunday dealt a severe blow to the Trump administration’s aggressive troop mobilization strategy, issuing a temporary restraining order that blocks the deployment of hundreds of California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut—a Trump appointee—issued the sweeping order, just hours after… Read more »

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday delivered a definitive blow to Ghislaine Maxwell’s efforts to overturn her conviction, declining to hear the imprisoned socialite’s appeal. The decision, issued without comment on the first day of the new term, ensures that Maxwell’s 20-year sentence for her role in… Read more »

France’s political crisis has escalated dramatically after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, a mere 26 days after his appointment. His departure, which sets a record for the shortest premiership in the history of the Fifth Republic, came less than 24 hours after he unveiled a new cabinet that… Read more »

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three pioneering scientists—Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Their work has fundamentally answered one of medicine’s most pressing questions: How does the immune system, powerful enough to destroy invading… Read more »

It appears Taylor Swift’s greatest commercial rival is simply her past self. The pop megastar has once again redefined industry-shaking success with the release of her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” which has not only dominated charts but obliterated multiple sales records previously set by her own… Read more »

In the face of an increasingly volatile global landscape, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and its partners are turning to a cutting-edge, high-tech weapon to future-proof national security: Artificial Intelligence wargames. No longer the realm of Hollywood fiction, these sophisticated simulations are becoming an essential, safe-to-fail laboratory for policymakers… Read more »

PHILADELPHIA, PA — After 63 years as a staple of American retail, the final chapter for Rite Aid has been written. The once-mighty pharmacy chain has officially closed all its remaining stores nationwide, concluding a dramatic and complex corporate collapse rooted in two consecutive bankruptcy filings, crushing debt, and the… Read more »

The revolution on four wheels is global, yet America is finding itself in the slow lane. The race to electrify the automotive industry is in full swing, but when comparing the US to its chief economic rivals, China and Europe, the numbers paint a stark picture of a country struggling… Read more »

In a dramatic escalation of air defense readiness, NATO member Poland scrambled its own and allied fighter jets early Sunday morning after Russia launched a devastating wave of missile and drone attacks that struck deep into western Ukraine, dangerously close to the Polish border. The deployment of quick-reaction alert aircraft… Read more »

DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE—Award-winning French photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed on Friday in a targeted Russian drone strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, marking a chilling escalation in the peril faced by reporters covering the war. Lallican, 37, a respected Paris-based photographer known for his powerful documentation of conflict… Read more »