By attacking Iran, President Trump has shown he is willing to engage in a distant war. This raises questions in Beijing about what he might risk for Taiwan.

Many Muslim Americans in New York City were impressed by Mr. Mamdani’s campaign and thrilled at being able to see themselves reflected in a mayoral candidate.

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Tulsi Gabbard and the CIA director say Iran’s nuclear sites were ‘destroyed’, amid reports of White House efforts to limit sharing of classified information with Congress

Donald Trump’s administration ratcheted up its defence of the US’s weekend attacks on Iran, citing “new intelligence” to support its initial claim of complete success and criticising a leaked intelligence assessment that suggested Tehran’s nuclear programme had been set back by only a few months.

The growing row came amid reports that the White House will to try to limit the sharing of classified documents with Congress, according to the Washington Post and the Associated Press.

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The 2025 NBA Draft has featured plenty of trades.

Knox County Sheriff's deputy Dalton Swanger was beaten in the head with a rock or a brick while searching for a suspect in a residential Knoxville, Tennessee, neighborhood, according to reports.

The 2025 NBA Draft had its first real stunner just past the midway point of Wednesday's proceedings.

Cooper Flagg said Jason Kidd explained “good vision” for a partnership in Dallas, adding the Knicks and their pursuit of the coach never came up.  

Basketball conspiracy theorists opined that the fix was in when the Mavericks landed the No. 1 overall pick in May’s draft lottery, but one person went a step further on Wednesday after Dallas drafted Duke product Cooper Flagg with the selection. 

It was easy to read what Collin Murray-Boyles' reaction was to his shining moment at the NBA Draft.

"Couldn’t possibly be prouder," Duwaji wrote on Instagram after the Queens assemblyman's historic win, which, if elected, would see him become the youngest Big Apple mayor since 1914.

There's one major problem when a player tries to gamble with a draft: The teams hold the cards.

The deep state leakers and their Democrat media mouthpieces are so blinded by their hatred for the president that they will go to treasonous lengths just to deny him a victory.

More than 80% of China’s rare earth reserves are located in Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desert

Central Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desert in north China, feels just like any other second-tier Chinese city. Large shopping malls featuring western chains including Starbucks and KFC stand alongside street after street of busy local restaurants, where people sit outside and children play late into the evening, enjoying the relative relief of the cooler temperatures that arrive after dark in Inner Mongolia’s baking summer.

But a short drive into the city’s suburbs reveal another typical, less hospitable, Chinese scene. Factories crowd the city’s edges, with chimneys belching white plumes of smoke. As well as steel and silicon plants, Baotou is home to China’s monopoly on rare earths, the metallic elements that are used in oil refining equipment and car batteries and that have become a major sticking point in the US-China trade war.

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Jessica Bailey Sowell, 32, of Charlotte, was part of an identity theft ring that used stolen credit cards and fake driver’s licenses to wrack up nearly a half-million dollars in debt, according to Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

By Wednesday, the only red in Chisholm’s sight was the color of the right-field seats where his moonshot of a two-run homer was landing.

Chloe Kitts was overcome with emotion on Wednesday night after boyfriend Collin Murray-Boyles was selected ninth overall by the Toronto Raptors in the 2025 NBA Draft. Upon hearing NBA commissioner Adam Silver call the former South Carolina star’s name at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Kitts — a member of the Gamecocks’ women’s basketball team...

San Diego authorities seek a sexual assault suspect who impersonated a rideshare driver, described as a mixed-race man with beard and mustache in a possible red Toyota.

"Boop" is the fourth play to shutter its theater doors after losing out at the 2025 Tony Awards.

A lineup that’s been desperate for production finally got it, as the Mets scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth of a 7-3 win over Atlanta.

The "Party of Five" star and the "Real World" alum announced earlier this month that they were separating after 21 years of marriage.

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of carbon monoxide gas from it's solid icy core.

The sanctions – the first implemented under the Fentanyl Sanctions Act and the FEND Off Fentanyl Act – targeted Mexican banks CIBanco and Intercam Banco and the brokerage firm Vector Casa de Bolsa, which have a combined $22 billion in assets, according to the Treasury Department. 

Dylan Harper’s mom stole the show Wednesday night.

Amid corruption probes and opposition demands for his resignation, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez declares intention to run for re-election in 2027.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would hold a meeting with Iran next week but cast doubt on the need for a diplomatic agreement on the country’s nuclear program, citing the damage that American bombing had done to key sites. Read More

Cooper Flagg, the Dallas Mavericks' newest rookie set to hit the floor, was asked about the conspiracy theories around how the team was able to obtain the top pick.

Skilful guitarist and songwriter with the bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company

In 1974, Bad Company hurtled to the top of the US chart with their eponymous debut album, which also reached No 3 in the UK. Featuring former members of Free, Mott the Hoople and King Crimson, they were rock’s latest supergroup, their pedigree confirmed by the fact that they shared a manager with Led Zeppelin, the formidable Peter Grant. Bad Company was also the first act signed to Zeppelin’s Swan Song label.

While the singer Paul Rodgers was the voice of Bad Company, the band’s guitarist and songwriter Mick Ralphs, who has died aged 81, was a vital ingredient in its success. Though modest about his own accomplishments, he was a versatile and skilful guitarist who could play anything from crunching power chords to delicate acoustic picking, and was also a major songwriting contributor.

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“We will root out bigotry across the five boroughs,” Mamdani said

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Zelensky has urged Kyiv's 32 allies at the Nato summit to bolster Ukraine's defence industry, after signing a deal with Keir Starmer on Monday

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The vaccine advisory panel will vote on whether to ban a preservative called thimerosal

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The new images taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover raises fresh questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of years ago

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The administration suggested an initial report of less-severe damage was already outdated as the president continued to defend his assertion that key facilities had been “obliterated,” though no intelligence official has yet directly echoed his view.

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It was mother’s day at the NBA draft Wednesday night

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Honduras President Xiomara Castro and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem discuss immigration and border security during their first meeting

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not been seen publicly or heard from in nearly a week. That absence has surprised and unnerved everyone from political insiders to the general public.

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Distributions from settlements are nearing $200 million, regulators announced

Darrell Harris, a high school student, died after an encounter with men who were having a water gun fight at a local park, an official with knowledge of the incident said.

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In a heated hearing, Kari Lake, the Trump ally in charge of the federally funded international broadcasting network, called the media agency “a rotten piece of fish” that should be defunded.

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Authorities in Ecuador have recaptured fugitive drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías, also known as “Fito,” more than a year after his prison escape

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