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Puerto Rico governor announces emergency to fight worsening coastal erosion

Puerto Rico’s governor announced a state of emergency Wednesday to fight a surge in coastal erosion along the U.S. territory ’s north coast. Gov. Jenniffer González said the executive order would allow her administration to accelerate projects to protect natural resources and vulnerable coastal communities. The government said in a statement that rising sea levels, storm surges and other factors have intensified coastal erosion in Puerto Rico. González pledged to help northern towns including Loiza, where people have been evacuated and chunks of asphalt from

Community honors Nicole Amor, Minnesota soldier killed in Kuwait, with memorial stone

Canada turns from US to Europe as Iran war propels aluminium higher

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Sri Lanka's surprise rate hike risks choking off IMF-backed recovery

Sri Lanka's surprise 100 basis-point interest rate hike risks tipping into over-tightening just as a fragile, IMF-backed recovery takes hold, signalling a shift by policymakers back to crisis-prevention mode as external pressures mount, analysts said.The Central Bank of Sri Lanka's Tuesday policy rate hike - the first in more than three years - to 8.75% from 7.75% comes as authorities scramble to contain pressure on foreign exchange reserves, while preventing fiscal slippage under a $2.9 billion IMF programme that includes strict targets on primary surpluses, inflation and reserve accumulatio

Iran could open Strait of Hormuz within a month if terms agreed, state TV says

COSCO products tanker leaving Strait of Hormuz, oil traffic still limited

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GE Aerospace CEO says airlines still spending on engine upkeep despite fuel spike

GE Aerospace has not seen airlines pull back on engine maintenance or parts orders despite higher fuel prices and softer flight departures, CEO Larry Culp said on Wednesday, signaling continued strength in the aircraft engine maker's high-margin aftermarket business.Speaking at a Bernstein investor conference, Culp said departures had softened over the past eight weeks, with growth now "relatively flat." But he said GE Aerospace had seen no operational impact or change in commercial behavior from airline customers. (Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow use of congressional map helping GOP, despite racial bias ruling

UN raises alarm over Israel's killings of Gazans near armistice line

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Former President Biden sues DOJ over release of interview audio

Former Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation.The foundation sought them after they were used as part of then-Special ‌Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. H

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Iran state TV says draft deal with US would reopen Hormuz shipping, end naval blockade

(Corrects first paragraph to show that state TV obtained the draft, not Tehran. Changes headline source to state TV)DUBAI, May 27 (Reuters) - Iran's state TV said it had obtained a draft of an initial, unofficial framework for a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States on ending their conflict. Under the framework, Iran would restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels within a month, while the United States would withdraw military forces from Iran's vicinity and lift a naval blockade.State TV said the framework, which excludes military ve

Iran war spending drains US military budgets, triggering cancelled trainings, delayed maintenance

Minneapolis police chief resigns after interfering with an investigation, mayor says

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John Cornyn’s defeat raises a new question: Will he join the Senate Republicans rebelling against Trump?

Sen. John Cornyn’s landslide defeat immediately raises a pressing question for his GOP colleagues: Will he join the ranks of other Republicans recently vanquished by President Donald Trump and begin bucking the president more?Cornyn suggested prior to Tuesday’s loss that he will continue to be a team player, but that has not stopped Republicans from speculating about whether he will go the way of Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Tillis abandoned his reelection campaign last year after Trump threatened to back a primary challenger, while Cassidy lost reelec

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Ken Paxton’s controversies take center stage in his Texas Senate matchup with James Talarico

Ken Paxton weathered a long list of scandals in the years leading up to his decisive victory Tuesday in the Republican primary runoff for Senate in Texas.Through criminal charges and allegations of infidelity, the Texas attorney general has remained a force in state politics and maintained a close relationship with President Donald Trump, who gave him a crucial endorsement a week before his hard-fought runoff against Sen. John Cornyn.Paxton has often dismissed the allegations against him as politically motivated, and many of his supporters have been willing to overlook them because they like h

Billionaire Tom Steyer's ad spending breaks records in California governor's race

‘Slush fund for crooks’: GOP lawmaker faces criticism over ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, Epstein files and Trump at town hall

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NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list

NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II's record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will provide a pair of landers to deliver moon buggies to the lunar surface, at a spot near the moon’s south pole. These so-called lunar terrain vehicles will be built by Astrolab and Lunar Outpost. Firefly Aerospace, which landed

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The Latest: Trump convened his Cabinet as talks to end Iran war remain in flux

President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet Wednesday at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the war with Iran, saying “things are going very well” days after insisting a settlement was “largely negotiated.” Republican allies may find closure of his war of choice unsatisfactory, putting off critical issues to be resolved later. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth celebrated the U.S. military’s strength, even as a new analysis shows it could take three years for defense contractors to replenish the key weapons systems used in the Iran war. Trump also

Errant Ukrainian drones fuel tensions on NATO's eastern flank

Deported Cuban migrants are stranded in Mexico after suffering mistreatment in US detention centers, report says

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‘Exploding oil.’ What the heck is Trump talking about?

The clock is ticking for President Donald Trump to get a deal done with Iran.Or maybe it’s the other way around: Iran could be dealing with a ticking time bomb – in its own oil wells! With just days to go before they’re destroyed.That’s according to Trump, who can’t seem to stop talking about exploding oil.April 23, Oval Office: “If they don’t get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode. You know what that means? Because they have no place to store it and because they have no place to store it, if they have to stop it … something happens underground

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Five of seven people trapped in Laos cave found alive by rescuers

Five of the seven villagers who became trapped in a cave that flooded in Laos were found alive by rescuers Wednesday, in an incident echoing the dramatic 2018 rescue of teenage soccer players in Thailand.They were located by specialist cave divers and for now remain stuck in an underground cavern in the central Laotian province of Xaisomboun, as rescuers continue to search for the two remaining people.“5 people have been found safe. The search continues for the remaining 2,” Thai rescue diver Kengkad Bongkawong wrote on Facebook at 4.30 p.m. local time.A Laotian rescue group, Rescue Volunt

This year’s World Cup is testing the public health playbook

In the lowest place on Earth, a sea is rapidly dying — and no one can agree how to save it

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UFC fighting cage rises on White House lawn for bout celebrating America’s 250th anniversary

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US-Iran talks are heating up again. But the danger isn’t over for gas prices

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Trump completes his month of GOP revenge, and other takeaways from the Texas runoffs

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Near record highs, stocks face fresh test from bond yields

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Search continues for 7 villagers trapped in a flooded cave in Laos

A search operation for seven villagers trapped inside a flooded cave in central Laos has entered its seventh day as rescuers encounter difficult terrain and weather in their bid to reach the group

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Another surge for Micron, Wall Street's latest $1 trillion company, sends US stocks to records

The U.S. stock market rose to records as it caught up with climbs for others around the world from the day before, when President Donald Trump said negotiations were “proceeding nicely” with Iran on ending their war

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OpenAI's Altman says AI unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'

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Iran says new US strikes violate ceasefire

Iran said on Tuesday the United States had violated a ceasefire by striking targets near the contested Strait of Hormuz, potentially complicating efforts to bring the war to a close

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Trump administration proposes having all federal workers sign NDAs

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Israel will escalate strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Netanyahu says

Israel will escalate strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, as a U.S. official

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls