Category: World
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The carrier under construction carries the name of a mess attendant who manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor without ever having been trained on one. The Navy is considering replacing it with the president’s.
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An ICE agent charged with wounding a Venezuelan man in Minnesota was released in Texas after a judge blocked the extradition. Interstate extradition is supposed to be an administrative formality. Why this one wasn’t.
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The order renames Lake Ontario “effective immediately”. Half the lake is Canadian, the name predates both countries, and an executive order reaches federal maps and nothing else. What the gesture actually changes.
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Six months of defending bases and allies against Iranian drones and missiles has left American interceptor stocks in Europe badly depleted — and a rival that reads stockpiles as a measure of strength has noticed.
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Saja Moussa Sharara, 28, was killed when an Israeli strike destroyed the house in Arabsalim she had moved into two days after her wedding. Six others were wounded. It was the first strike on the village since the ceasefire framework took effect.
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Ten long-open mathematical problems were published this month with machine-checkable proof certificates attached. That is a different kind of claim from a benchmark score — and a useful standard to hold other AI announcements against.
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Mediators have asked Tehran to set out what it wants in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran says it is drawing up the list. President Trump says the United States is not talking to Iran at all.
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The publisher, editor-in-chief and a reporter at Stars and Stripes are suing Pete Hegseth and two Pentagon officials to stop their firings. The paper is funded by the Defense Department and legally independent of it. That contradiction is now before a judge.
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An ICE charter landed at Cap-Haïtien on Thursday with 57 people aboard, including children born in the United States. A US citizen cannot be deported — but a citizen child can accompany a deported parent, and nobody counts those departures.
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A glacial lake outburst, a rock-ice avalanche and a debris flow are three different things, and the difference decides whether a warning was ever possible. What is known about how the Nepal disaster started — and what is not yet known about why.