Year: 2025

MI6 appoints first female chief in 116-year history @ChrisMasonBBC MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time in the foreign intelligence service’s 116-year history. Blaise Metreweli, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1999, will become the 18th chief of the organisation and take over from Sir […]

Vance Luther Boelter, the 57-year-old man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses at their residences in the early hours of Saturday morning, was taken into custody Sunday evening, authorities announced. Boelter’s apprehension ends what Minnesota Gov.Tim Walz called a “complex and dangerous manhunt,” which involved local, state, […]

Israel has struck dozens of targets across Iran, damaging the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and assassinating top military commanders and nuclear scientists in Tehran. After the first wave of attacks on Thursday night, the Iranian foreign minister condemned what he called Israel’s “reckless” attacks on his country’s “peaceful nuclear […]

Today—250 years since the Continental Army officially formed to fight for the independence of the American colonies against the British monarchy—marks a milestone in President Donald Trump’s effort to politicize the U.S.military.Though they are rare, military parades have happened before in Washington, D.C.For the most part, these have been celebrations […]

CNN — Israel struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear, missile and military complex early Friday, in an unprecedented attack that reportedly killed three of Iran’s most powerful figures and plunges the wider Middle East into dangerous new territory. The strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and senior military leaders could […]

After decades of threats, Israel on Friday launched an audacious attack on Iran, targeting its nuclear sites, scientists and military leaders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation had “struck at the head of Iran’s nuclear weaponization program.” But international assessments, including by the US intelligence community, say that […]

Metais expected to make a nearly $15 billion investment in Scale AI.- Scale’s CEO, Alexandr Wang, will also become a top-level Meta executive, the startup confirmed. – In January, the 28-year-old wrote a letter to Trump outlining how the US needs to invest in AI. Mark Zuckerberg is making a […]

Chi Chi Izundu and James Stewart BBC News Investigations BBC/Ben Lack/Getty Images “Ticket Queen” Maria Chenery-Woods and Peter Hunter made millions as touts When a judge dismissed an appeal by prolific ticket tout Peter Hunter and his husband and accomplice David Smith against their landmark conviction for fraud, he sounded […]

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and President Trump’s former adviser, said early Wednesday he regretted some of his recent criticisms of the president, in the wake of their public falling-out last week. “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week.They went too far,” Musk wrote on […]

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr.announced Wednesday he’s naming eight new advisers to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine recommendations committee, after firing the committee’s entire previous roster of 17 advisers. “All of these individuals are committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common […]