• Lammy’s rebuke of Israel marks turning point after weeks of growing frustration
    2025-05-22

    Shift in rhetoric follows tense meeting with Israel’s foreign minister and growing global alarm over Gaza Humanitarian Foundation plan Britain's foreign secretary, David Lammy, delivered his harshest criticism of Israel this week. Photograph: House of Commons HANDOUTEPA The anger inside the Fore...

  • Rod Wave's attorney says he's a burglary victim as rapper faces 14 criminal charges
    2025-05-22

    Police said they found bullet casings, damaged luxury cars at his residence. Rapper Rod Wave, whose legal name is Rodarius Marcell Green, was charged in connection to an alleged April incident that his lawyers say started with a break-in at his Georgia home. Green, 26, faces 14 criminal charges, i...

  • Why OpenAI’s deal with iPhone designer Jony Ive should be a wake-up call for Apple
    2025-05-22

    Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Apple chief design officer Jony Ive look at the new Mac Pro during the 2019 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, or WWDC, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, June 3, 2019. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Before Jony Ive left Apple in 2019, no m...

  • Trump ambushes South Africa's president with false claims of 'white genocide'
    2025-05-22

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Evan VucciAP JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa walked into an ambush when he met President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. After a cordial beginning, where Ramaphosa was at pains to...

  • New tourism craze - Shop in China
    2025-05-22

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  • China urges U.S. to stop politicizing COVID-19 origins tracing
    2025-05-21

    A COVID-19 testing site is seen on Times Square in New York, the United States, May 17, 2022. XinhuaWang Ying The United States still owes the international community a convincing explanation for the concerns raised by various parties about the origins and handling of the pandemic on its own terr...

  • Judge Presses Trump Administration About Reported Deportations to South Sudan
    2025-05-21

    The Justice Department said one migrant was flown back to his home country of Myanmar, but declined to identify the country that a second migrant was sent to, calling it classified. A protest last week outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. The Trump administration has turned to countri...

  • Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader
    2025-05-21

    Gen Michael Guetlein of Space Force will be in charge of defense system that could cost $540bn over 20 years Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration will move forward with developing the so-called “Golden Dome” missile defense system that he envisions will protect the United State...

  • More severe weather pummels the central US as thousands recover from deadly tornadoes
    2025-05-21

    LONDON, Ky. AP — More tornadoes plowed through the central U.S. on Monday, ripping apart buildings and knocking out power as people from Texas to Kentucky continued to clean up from days of severe weather that killed more than two dozen people and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings. At leas...

  • New Orleans jail employee arrested, accused of helping mass escape of inmates
    2025-05-21

    A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped has been arrested and accused of helping facilitate the breakout, officials said Tuesday. Sterling Williams, a 33-year-old maintenance worker at the Orleans Parish Justice Center, was arrested and booked into jail Tuesday morning, ...

  • 'Need to be honest': Vance questions Biden's health as president after cancer diagnosis
    2025-05-20

    WASHINGTON − Vice President JD Vance questioned whether Joe Biden had been fit for duty in the White House following news the former president has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Speaking to reporters on Air Force Two after meeting Pope Leo XIV in Rome, Vance said he wishes the best for Bide...

  • Minutes after departure, a deadly collision: Feds investigate Brooklyn Bridge crash
    2025-05-20

    Giulia HeywardGothamist It took just under five minutes for the Mexican Navy’s tall ship to crash into the Brooklyn Bridge after departing its Manhattan dock Saturday evening, federal investigators said Monday. Two crew members were killed and more than 20 others were injured. The National Trans...

  • Huawei launches HarmonyOS-powered PC rivaling Microsoft, Apple
    2025-05-20

    A view of Huawei MateBook Pro equipped with the HarmonyOS on May 19, 2025. [PhotoXinhua] Huawei Technologies Co officially unveiled its personal computers powered by its self-developed operating system on Monday in Chengdu, Sichuan province, aiming to break the dominance of Microsoft's Windows an...

  • DOJ says it has charged N.J. congresswoman with assaulting law enforcement at ICE facility
    2025-05-20

    The interim U.S. attorney in New Jersey said Rep. LaMonica McIver is accused of “assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement.” Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., holds a news conference at Delaney Hall ICE detention prison in Newark, N.J., on May 9. The Justice Department said it filed ...

  • Fishy or fabulous? Starmer hopes EU reset deal will transform UK fortunes
    2025-05-20

    Brexit campaigners symbolically dump fish into the River Thames next to the Houses of Parliament in 2018 during a previous row over UK-EU fishing rights. Toby MelvilleReuters Britain has agreed the most significant reset of ties with the European Union since Brexit. A new deal, signed on Monday, ...

  • ‘Dilbert’ cartoon creator says he has same prostate cancer as Joe Biden
    2025-05-20

    'I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,' Scott Adams said Monday during an episode of his YouTube show, Marcio Jose SanchezAPFIle AP - The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which was cancelled by most newspapers two years ago over the creator’s racist comments, said Monday that he has been ...