An accord brokered by President Donald Trump to sell Russian diesel to the U.S. appears to have failed to clear a key hurdle: finding a willing customer.
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President Trump suggested Thursday that former Apple CEO Tim Cook should be the one to take Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's place after his exit following reports of his extramarital affairs, one of which was with an alleged Chinese spy. "NOW THAT Nvidia CEO JENSEN HUANG, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned, there is only one man to take his place " TIM COOK of Apple," the president wrote in a Truth Social post Thursday. "A Legend replaces a Legend!" he added.
An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza overnight Wednesday killed at least six people, including a doctor and a child, Palestinian officials say. The strike on Nasser Hospital shortly after midnight hit the complex's surgery unit, according to a Gaza Civil Defense spokesman. The attack tore through part of the hospital in the dark of night, Ezz Eddine Abu Sabha said, leaving charred debris scattered across the destroyed unit.
Four oil tankers were hit by explosions in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's military said on Thursday, adding that the vessels had ignored warnings and entered what it considers restricted areas of the strategic waterway.
No hard feelings, soldier. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pinned a medal on the U.S. serviceman who loudly reprimanded his entourage after someone was heard laughing at the hallowed Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Memorial in Arlington. The moment was captured in photos posted by Hegseth in an X post on Thursday morning. The text above the photos read, "We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist. Carry on Patriots."
Wittingly or not, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were outplayed by Team Russia during the trilateral peace talks just held in Abu Dhabi between the U.S., Ukraine and Russia.
Moscow didn't attend to negotiate peace in Ukraine.
Rather, Russian President Vladimir Putin saw an opening " gullibly handed to him by Witkoff and Kushner " to undermine European unity and to attempt to lay the groundwork to reshape NATO.
INTERPOL informs: An international operation (Madre Tierra VIII) coordinated by INTERPOL has dismantled environmental crime networks across nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, leading to 233 arrests, the recovery of more than 1,000 animals, and the identification of 60,000 hectares of illegally cleared forest. Investigators from Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama determined that illegal timber and wildlife trafficking networks were operating on an industrial scale along the corridor connecting Central and South America.
Caged lion recovered in Mexico"FUNNY"
The FDA informs: Laub's Feeding and Cubing, Inc. of Beryl, UT is voluntarily recalling up to 89 tons of Grade A Mini Hay Cubes because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium that can cause botulism, leading to severe and potentially fatal toxicity in animals. This recall was initiated after the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF) received recent reports of illness and death in horses in southern Utah and surrounding areas.
Horses and man have an ages long sacred covenant to look after each other. The callous and sinister Trumpf junta undid that covenant in the meager span of two years."FUNNY"
On Tuesday 7 Nov 2028, in one of the largest turnouts in US election history, Americans will vote in US Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) President of the United States, alongside his running mate, Congresswoman (and Retired USN Admiral) Nancy Stewart Lacore (D-SC) as Vice-President. Their winning campaign platform:
Anthropic has introduced Claude to Google Meet with a new product called Claude Meetings. The AI joins video calls, listens to discussions, and helps teams turn conversations into tasks during a meeting.
A ship that was once the fastest in the world and is longer than the Titanic has intentionally been sunk off the coast of Florida, turning into the world's largest artificial ocean reef. The SS United States spent nearly 30 years docked in Philadelphia before it was moved to Florida, where it will become a home for sealife and an underwater attraction for marine enthusiasts. Read more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it brought 348 enforcement actions in fiscal 2026, the fewest cases since 1991, according to a Reuters review of agency statistics. The agency's actions were down from 456 a year earlier, as the Wall Street watchdog said it levied nearly $1.1 billion in fines and other financial remedies. That was the lowest level of penalties it has imposed since 2008, on a non-inflation-adjusted basis, according to the Reuters review of figures published on the SEC's website.
Dozing off in your armchair in the middle of the afternoon is one of life's simple pleasures. But depending on how often you find yourself doing it, those daytime naps could be a warning sign of worsening cognitive health, research suggests.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released a majority staff report titled, "A Review of the Federal Government's Mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Criminal Investigations." The report culminates the Committee's 15-month investigation, which included 19 transcribed interviews and depositions with key witnesses, the release of documents from the Department of Justice and the Epstein estate, and an extensive review of financial records.
If there was one obvious conclusion from Democrats' sweeping victories in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, it seemed to be that the Republican effort to redraw congressional districts in their favor backfired.
But, says one expert, it would be misleading to say that gerrymandering did not work at all in this election
