Former International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda reported that the then-head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency Yossi Cohen pressured her to drop her investigation into alleged war crimes committed by the IDF.
Yossi Cohen is not a good human being.
Meta is the latest company to trim its workforce as a result of the growing use of AI within the industry. The company laid off 8,000 employees earlier this week, while also moving 7,000 more to AI-focused roles.
Former President Joe Biden filed suit against the Justice Department on Tuesday in an effort to block the release of recordings and transcripts from interviews he gave for his memoir that were central to a special counsel probe regarding his handling of classified materials after his time as vice president.
A video has gone viral of US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr picking up a pair of writhing snakes with his bare hands - but wildlife officials caution: don't try this at home. Kennedy wrote in a caption for the clip that he was removing the reptiles from his colleague Dr Mehmet Oz's Florida beach house. Read more
Democratic state attorneys general declined an invitation to VPOTUS JD Vance's anti-fraud initiatives roundtable at the White House on Tuesday, citing the fact that they were only invited on Friday, well after their Republican counterparts were asked to attend. In March 2026, Donald Trump appointed Vance to lead the new Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.
JD Vance Can Start Eliminating Fraud at the White House Any Day Now
Texas Republicans nominated scandal-plagued state Attorney General Ken Paxton in their U.S. Senate primary following an endorsement from President Trump, according to a race call by the Associated Press.
This effectively unseats Sen. John Cornyn, a pillar of the party's establishment wing. Republicans spent $100 million in what became the most expensive primary in Senate history.
Cornyn, 74, and Paxton, 63, made it to Tuesday's runoff after each failed to garner a majority of votes in the state's March primary.
Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor. SpaceX and the Pentagon have been bickering about the price of using Starshield satellite service during the Iran war, according to a Reuters report published today. It appears that SpaceX asked the military for more money after it started using satellite terminals on "kamikaze" attack drones in Iran.
Nasa has released details of robotic landers, hopping drones and vehicles it aims to send to the Moon as part of US plans to build a lunar base. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin is one of several companies picked to build the machines. The US wants to land Americans back on the Moon before President Donald Trump leaves office in 2029. Read more
Russia can falsify GPS signals deep into Europe at a radius of up to 450km (280 miles) from its Kaliningrad exclave due to hugely-expanded capacity, a Lithuanian official said on Tuesday. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, opens new tab, European nations have often accused Russia of electronic interference but President Vladimir Putin's government denies that, blaming Western smear tactics.
The White House has begun construction on a UFC fighting cage on its South Lawn ahead of next month's event to celebrate 250 years of American independence. Workers were seen assembling domed arches and a staging area, which based on online renderings, will form an octagon-shaped ring surrounded by a wire-mesh fence and thousands of temporary seats. Read more
In the early days of Operation Epic Fury, as Gulf states absorbed hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles, the US faced a crisis helping its citizens evacuate from the region. Improvising, American diplomats in Abu Dhabi phoned a friend: Canada.
South Carolina lawmakers dealt President Trump's national redistricting effort a blow Tuesday when the state Senate voted against redistricting there after three weeks of rushed hearings and long debate.
Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, had a physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday, and said that his doctors had given him a clean bill of health. "Everything checked out PERFECTLY," Mr. Trump, who will turn 80 next month, wrote on social media Tuesday afternoon after the fourth publicly disclosed medical exam of his second term. Read more
Analysis: On the eve of the 2022 midterms, Republicans had everything a party out of power could ask for. Democratic President Joe Biden's approval was deep underwater. Inflation was at a 40-year high. The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal was fresh in voters' minds. Pollsters and pundits predicted a red wave.
Former Waco attorney Adam Hoffman, who became the poster child for injustice and lax prosecution in the Texas U.S. Senate campaign, was released from the McLennan County Jail Monday morning after serving 29 days of his 60-day sentence. Hoffman, 49, who initially faced up to life in prison without parole, pleaded guilty April 16 to reduced charges of indecent assault and displaying harmful materials to a minor, both Class A misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail, in a plea bargain offered by the Texas Attorney General's Office. When asked about how the story of his plea agreement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office after his first trial ended in a mistrial has become national news and the forefront of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's campaign against Paxton, Hoffman said again he just wants to go home.
This story touches base on the tension between dreams, sacrifice, and leadership within the Black community, focusing on the NAACP's call for Black student-athletes to boycott major southern PWIs and what that demand means for younger generations...
