President Donald Trump said talks with Iran would resume Monday and predicted an imminent deal on the Strait of Hormuz, but Iranian officials say they are negotiating only with Oman, not Washington.
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A cottage industry has emerged to supply AI developers with millions of physical books that are cut apart, scanned for training data and discarded. Unsealed court records name Anthropic's "Project Panama" as one confirmed example; other buyers remain anonymous.
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President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the White House Tuesday for separate meetings, with the wars in Iran and Ukraine both nearing pivotal moments.
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The United States and Iran each paused military action for a second consecutive day Sunday, a signal officials call encouraging as negotiators try to rescue a ceasefire deal that has been repeatedly violated since it was signed in mid-June.
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The US death toll in the Iran war has reached 17 after the Pentagon named the third soldier killed this month, as Yemen's Houthis declared a new blockade of Saudi Arabia alongside the ongoing standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
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Ferran Torres scored in the 106th minute to give Spain a 1-0 extra-time win over Argentina in the World Cup final Sunday, capping a tournament co-hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, was confirmed Monday as the UK's new prime minister after King Charles III asked him to form a government, succeeding Keir Starmer.
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The United States men's national soccer team was eliminated from the World Cup on Monday night after a lopsided 4-1 loss to Belgium in Seattle, a defeat that came amid controversy over FIFA's decision to reverse a suspension against U.S. striker Folarin Balogun after President Donald Trump personally intervened.
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Eleven days after twin earthquakes devastated northern Venezuela, the official death toll has climbed past 3,300, and preliminary estimates put reconstruction costs at close to 40% of the country's GDP.
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The eastern half of the country is settling into its most widespread heat wave of the summer so far, part of a global pattern that's already proven deadly overseas, where Europe remains locked in a historic heat dome with no real end in sight.
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