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Netflix buys Warner Brothers Discovery studios for $72 billion. A Florida judge clears the way to unseal Jeffrey Epsteingrand jury transcripts. The 2026 World Cup draw is announced as FIFA awards President Donald Trump...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny as questions mount over the Pentagon’s strikes on suspected drug boats. The Supreme Court greenlights a new Texas map with big implications for the 2026 midterms...

New Orleans is the latest front in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. H-1B visa applicants will also now face enhanced vetting. The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put troops at risk. And...

President Vladimir Putin warns Europe that Russia is ready for war after U.S. talks stall on a Ukraine compromise. Trump pardons an ex-Honduran president convicted for drug trafficking. Michael Dell donates more than $6...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is running out of options after U.S. President Donald Trump gave him an ultimatum in a November phone call. Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Moscow to...

President Donald Trump confirms he’s spoken by phone to Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asks for a pardon in his multi-year corruption trial. And keeping AI data centers...

U.S. President Donald Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be considered closed as tensions mount with Nicolas Maduros’ government. Ukraine says naval drones hit two tankers from Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’. Hondurans vote...

Airbus recall halts flights around the world. Pope Leo visits Istanbul's Blue Mosque. President Trump’s immigration crackdown pledge. Plus, icy swims in Russia. Recommended Read: How the deadly Hong Kong inferno spread...

U.S. President Donald Trump calls for a sweeping crackdown on immigration from developing nations after a deadly attack near the White House. Rescue efforts are called off in Hong Kong after a massive fire leaves more...

Two National Guard soldiers are critically injured in a shooting near the White House. Dozens are killed and hundreds are still missing after a huge fire engulfs an apartment complex in Hong Kong. Discounted turkeys...

Reuters reveals the US-backed Ukraine peace plan drew from a Russian-authored document. More than 300 students remain missing after gunmen abducted them from a Catholic school in northwestern Nigeria. Thanksgiving...

A judge has thrown out the criminal charges against ex FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trials of Novo Nordisk’s pill version of its semaglutide drug have failed to slow the...

The U.S. and Ukraine continue to hammer out the details of a peace plan after Kyiv said the initial proposal was too much of a capitulation to Moscow. We look at President Trump's frenetic 2026 midterm strategy. And...

High-stakes peace talks begin in Geneva as questions mount over a US-proposed peace plan. The United States prepares a new phase of military operations against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. More than 300 children...

Ukraine under pressure to accept a U.S. peace plan or risk losing American support. President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's warm White House meeting. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be hoping to dodge a Zelenskiy moment at his meeting with President Trump at the White House. The Ukrainian president says he’s ready to work on a US plan to end the war in...

A U.S. plan to end Ukraine’s war with Russia is based on Kyiv giving up territory, sources say. Nvidia’s results surprise Wall Street and stymie AI bubble fears. A court block of the new Texas congressional map is bad...

President Donald Trump defends the Saudi Crown Prince over the Khashoggi murder and threatens to pull ABC’s broadcast licenses. Congress approves the release of the Epstein files, sending the bill to the Oval Office...

The UN Security Council greenlights President Trump’s Gaza peace plan. After Trump’s U-turn on the Epstein files, the House pushes forward on a vote. A judge finds evidence of government missteps in the case against...

In a 180, President Trump tells Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files and dismisses Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim that his attacks put her at risk. The Saudi crown prince, widely known as MbS, heads to the...

Federal agents launch immigration raids in Charlotte, North Carolina. Pope Leo hosts Hollywood stars at the Vatican. Gen Z-styled protests spread in Mexico, fueled by mayor's murder. Plus, a Tokyo bar is smashing beauty...

President Trump cuts tariffs on coffee, beef, and hundreds of other grocery staples. The U.S. president threatens to sue the BBC for up to five billion dollars over an edited speech. Russia pounds Kyiv in one of its...

The BBC apologizes to President Trump over its editing of his January 6 speech but declines to pay him compensation. The U.S. is cutting tariffs on bananas and coffee to ease the burden on consumers. Starbucks baristas...

A severe water crisis has taps running dry in Tehran. What we know so far about the new Epstein emails. And the loophole that has blue states inadvertently sharing driver data with ICE. Plus, an opening at the Fed. Sign...

Even as the end of the shutdown is in sight, it will be some time before U.S. flights are operating normally. One of President Trump’s top supporters in the House – Marjorie Taylor Greene – pushes back after he says...