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June 26, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Meta fends off authors’ US copyright lawsuit over AI

June 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut legislation would effectively transfer wealth from younger Americans to older generations, nonpartisan analysts say....

June 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Nvidia’s stock hit a record high on Wednesday, and the chipmaker reclaimed the crown as the world’s most valuable company after an analyst said the chipmaker was set to ride a &ldq...

June 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

CHICAGO — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly reconstituted vaccine advisory panel said during its first meeting on Wednesday that it would study the schedule of ch...

June 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is creating two additional expanded military zones at the southwestern border, to be patrolled by U.S. soldiers, in the Trump administration’s latest step...

June 26, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

KYIV, Ukraine — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was weighing sending additional Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine amid intensifying Russian attacks. But it was not imm...

June 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A NATO summit designed to please President Donald Trump ended Wednesday with his European allies approving an ambitious spending goal to meet the threat of a mil...

June 26, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Republican President Donald Trump’s administration from eliminating union bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers at 21 agencies. U.S....

June 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on Wednesday, joined by crewmates from India,...

June 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell more than expected in May as high mortgage rates sapped demand, boosting the supply of unsold houses on the market. New home sales...

June 26, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

VENICE — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his journalist fiancee Lauren Sanchez arrived in Venice on Wednesday ahead of three days of lavish VIP parties in the romantic lagoon city to celeb...

June 25, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A Colorado man who was on his honeymoon in central Florida died after being struck by lightning at New Smyrna Beach on Friday in what may have been the state’s first lightning fatality t...

June 25, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A Brazilian woman who fell hundreds of feet while hiking on an active volcano in Indonesia and was unreachable for three days was found dead Tuesday, according to her family.

June 25, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Democrats on Capitol Hill are forging ahead with efforts to curb President Donald Trump’s ability to take further military action against Iran, moving amid a shaky cea...

June 25, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — A preliminary classified U.S. report says the American bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran set back the country’s nuclear program by only a few months, according to...

June 25, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged congressional Republicans not to leave Washington at the end of the week for a scheduled recess until they pass a sprawling bill to e...