Qian Xuesen was a Chinese rocket scientist whose work was central to American military power. His exile had world-altering effects.

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The plight of temporary workers like Kim Hyoung-su, who’s been protesting for months at the top of a tower, has become an issue in Tuesday’s presidential election.

Beijing has intervened significantly in Myanmar’s civil war to protect its substantial investments in the country, handing a setback to resistance forces.

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A planned merger of the Japanese and American giants, announced in 2023, has traveled through an election, two presidents and strong union opposition.

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Pyongyang reportedly sent nine million rounds of artillery and rocket launcher ammunition and at least 100 ballistic missiles to Russia

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The imposter has reportedly fired off text messages and placed phone calls to Republican lawmakers, governors and business executives in recent weeks pretending to be Wiles, the WSJ reported.

Charles Barkley never holds back when he has an opinion, and he might have channeled every Knicks fan when he asked Karl-Anthony Towns one question.

Heroes and zeros from the Knicks' 111-94 Game 5 blowout win on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden.

Knicks fans attacked a doll adorned with Haliburton's head and a Pacers logo outside the Garden.

But on this night inside Central Park, a night when the city’s basketball back was against the wall, it did not end in despair, it did not end with Knicks fans crying in their beer.

The world's richest franchise cricket league is ongoing in India, a cricket- crazy country of 1.4 billion. The Indian Premier League features top players from around the world and attracts hundreds of millions of TV viewers.

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As he turned 80 this week, John Fogerty was in a mood to honor his past and to revise it

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As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage

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Businesses around Fort Bragg in North Carolina are facing a challenge now that the Trump administration has once again renamed the military post

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The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend without plugging a $770 million hole in the transportation budget

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The California high school track-and-field championship is set to begin Friday amid a controversy over the participation of a transgender female athlete

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been saying for months that he does not plan to run for president in 2028

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Deteriorating economic and social ties between the neighbouring cities tear at fabric of cross-border community

Wrigley’s gave me 5,000 to start me off. I’ve now used nearly 3m

I don’t know what to put it down to, but I’ve always been a collector, a completist, a statistician – and maybe a little competitive.

As a schoolboy in Canada, I was fascinated by the Guinness Book of Records and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!. I would memorise the records and amaze my friends by quoting them.

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Close-run race between pro-EU and nationalist candidates pits liberal vision against a radical-right, EU-critical stance

Poland’s presidential election runoff could have far-reaching implications for its place in Europe – either cementing the country’s hard-won seat at the EU’s top table, or heralding a return to altogether trickier times.

The mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, faces off against the historian Karol Nawrocki on Sunday in a neck-and-neck race, pitting a liberal vision of Poland at the heart of European policymaking against a nationalist, radical-right, EU-critical stance.

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The EU is Israel’s biggest trading partner – and that gives it leverage to finally change the course of this brutal war

European consciences have started waking up to the Israeli government’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories – and it is about time. What has caused this long and slow awakening? Is it Israel’s killing of more than 54,000 Palestinians since Hamas’s horrific attack on 7 October 2023? Thousands of babies at risk of dying from starvation and malnutrition? Civilians burning alive? Israeli ministers’ plans to reoccupy and recolonise the Gaza Strip, expelling Palestinians? Or perhaps it’s the Israeli army firing shots at diplomats, including Europeans, in the West Bank – or the racist chanting, during a state-funded march in Jerusalem, of “death to the Arabs” and “may their villages burn”?

It’s probably a combination of all the above, as well as the recognition that principled pressure on Israel will certainly not come from Washington. Whatever the triggers for it, Europe may be nearing an inflection point on the graph, turning the dark page of its complicity with Israel’s nearly 20-month war in Gaza.

Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian Europe columnist

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The indiscriminate, cruel and criminal killing of civilians may see us be banished from the family of nations and summoned to the ICC, with no good defense

The government of Israel is currently waging a war without purpose, without goals or clear planning, and with no chances of success. Never since its establishment has the state of Israel waged such a war. The criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has set a precedent without equal in Israel’s history in this area, too.

The obvious result of Operation Gideon’s Chariots is, first and foremost, the confused activity of Israeli military units deployed around Gaza. This is true particularly in neighborhoods where our soldiers have already fought, were hurt and fell while killing many Hamas combatants, who deserve to die, and many more innocent civilians. These have joined the statistics of pointless victims among the Palestinian population, reaching monstrous proportions.

Ehud Olmert is a former prime minister of Israel

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While students around the world dream of classrooms, students in Gaza dream of survival

Before the war, students in Gaza were surrounded by books, not bombs. They woke each morning to the voices of their mothers urging them to get ready for school, not to the sound of airstrikes and screaming. They were focused on building a future, working hard to shape a better life for themselves and their homeland.

Before the war started, my best friends and I used to go to the restaurants that were near the university, talking, laughing, eating and studying together, eating our breakfast together under a blue sky before going to the first lecture.

Nadera Mushtha is a writer and poet from Gaza who is studying English language education at the Islamic University of Gaza. Her writing has been published on Al Jazeera, Mondoweiss, the Electronic Intifada, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

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Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness

‘I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,” says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown), Eleanor Roosevelt (The First Lady), Emily Maitlis (the Prince Andrew/Newsnight drama Scoop) – as well as the formidable sex therapist in the Netflix hit Sex Education, a role that led to her being inundated with dildos from over-enthusiastic fans. “These are all women in control of themselves and their environment. Any time I have an opportunity to steer against that, particularly lately, it’s of interest to me.”

There is steering in another direction, and then there is the screeching handbrake turn represented by her role in The Salt Path, adapted from Raynor Winn’s 2018 memoir of homelessness and hope along the coastline of England’s south-west. Playing Winn, Anderson is shown making a single teabag stretch for several cuppas, withdrawing the final £1.38 from her bank account, and warming her blistered feet by a pub fire. A typical day begins with her peeing in the undergrowth. It’s a far cry from Agent Scully in The X-Files.

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Investors are fretting about a clause that would penalise foreign holders of US assets

The billionaire achieved a fraction of the savings he promised while damaging his business brands

The hacking attack on Marks and Spencer shows breaches are inevitable and firms must focus on resilience

A surge in claims for pension credit could exceed the reduced welfare savings

Alan Taylor says price rises are being driven by one-off factors as he stressed hit from Trump trade war

Karen Read's defense team challenges murder allegations in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, as the prosecution rests its case with key testimony.

As outdoor activities begin to ramp up ahead of summer, Connecticut officials announced Tuesday that they confirmed the first U.S. case of the invasive longhorned tick carrying Ehrlichia chaffeensis.

The Knicks get back on the plane. They get at least one more basketball game, which started in October and still offers the promise of June.

The applause was thunderous when Mitchell Robinson was announced as a starter to the Garden crowd for the first time in this year’s playoffs. 

Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak admitted the club “probably should have been more aggressive” on the transfer front last summer as he looked back on their 2024-25 season.Manchester United’s Amad Diallo said he did not regret his actions, alleging he had been reacting to insults about his mother, after the winger appeared to make an obscene gesture towards fans in Malaysia, while England boss Sarina Wiegman expressed her disappointment at no longer having Mary Earps to call upon.Khaldoon on transfersIn his annual end-of-season interview, Khaldoon reflected City should have done more to strengthen going into a campaign that saw them relinquish the Premier League title, finishing third, and exit the Champions League before the last 16.Savinho and Ilkay Gundogan were the only major signings last summer as Julian Alvarez departed, with City subsequently spending big to bring in a number of players in January.Khaldoon told City’s website: “I think when I look back, last summer, we probably should have been more aggressive in some of the changes we needed to do. We didn’t do that and that ended up costing us this year.”Amad addresses gestureI have respect for people but not for the one who insults my mom…I shouldn’t have reacted like that but I don’t regret what I did.🤞🏾We had a great time in Malaysia with good people😄❤️ pic.twitter.com/9d1WeCTMTd— Amad (@Amaddiallo_19) May 29, 2025With United on a post-season trip to Asia, footage shared on social media appeared to show Amad raising his middle finger as he passed a crowd outside the team’s hotel in Kuala Lumpur.United told the BBC the gesture was in response to “serious personal abuse”, while the 22-year-old Ivorian said in a post on X: “I have respect for people but not for the one who insults my mom.“I shouldn’t have reacted like that but I don’t regret what I did.”Wiegman reacts to Earps newsGoalkeeper Earps on Tuesday made the shock announcement of her immediate international retirement, just a

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At first, the box score didn’t look right. Tyrese Haliburton’s numbers were so dramatically different from what they were two nights prior. 

Zaki’s voice began to crack as he got near the final letters of his winning word, ‘éclaircissement’

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Knicks’ grades from their 111-94 Game 5 win over the Pacers on Thursday at the Garden.

Two moths the size of a hand, patterned in brown and pink around four translucent sections like window panes, mate for hours hanging from a line alongside cocoons like the ones they emerged from just hours earlier

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