Ione Wells South America correspondent Georgina Rannard Science correspondent NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory The first image revealed by the Vera Rubin telescope shows the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae in stunning detail A powerful new telescope in Chile has released its first images, showing off its unprecedented ability to peer into the dark depths of […]
Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto EPA A self-imposed deadline for a new US-Canada trade deal came and went on Friday. So what happens next for these two deeply entwined neighbours? Canada and the US have been locked in a tariff war for six months and, despite talk of “intense” negotiations in recent weeks, a trade […]
Interim U.S. Attorney General for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro listens to President Donald Trump speak during her swearing in ceremony, May 28, 2025, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP WASHINGTON — The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s […]
The family of Israeli hostage Evyatar David held by Hamas in Gaza has accused the group of deliberately starving him as part of a “propaganda campaign”. The family statement on Saturday came a day after Hamas released a video showing an emaciated Mr David in a narrow concrete tunnel. Mr David, 24, has been in […]
Clare Lissaman BBC News, West Midlands Nue People who attend a wellbeing and cancer support centre made a mural for its walls after working with two artists Two artists have worked with children and users of a wellbeing and cancer support centre to create new murals in a Staffordshire town. Local artists Kate O and […]
Imogen Foulkes Geneva correspondent BBC In a small village in Switzerland’s beautiful Loetschental valley, Matthias Bellwald walks down the main street and is greeted every few steps by locals who smile or offer a handshake or friendly word. Mr Bellwald is a mayor, but this isn’t his village. Two months ago his home, three miles […]
Here are the key events on day 1,256 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Sunday, August 3: Fighting Kyiv’s military administration warned residents of the Ukrainian capital to take shelter on Saturday night due to the takeoff of a Russian MiG-31K, the carrier of the Russian Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile, […]
Joel Gunter Reporting from Kyiv BBC Pavlo experienced drone warfare. “You are being hunted,” he said. In a cramped apartment in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Pavlo, a 30-year-old drone operator who had recently returned from the front, unzipped a black case about the size of a pizza box. Inside, there was a four-rotor drone he […]
Newsportu’s Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about Bacon’s trip to Mexico to foster cooperation in ongoing trade talks. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Trade negotiations with Mexico continue in spite of the updated tariff rates on dozens of trading partners announced by the White House Thursday. That same day, President Trump spoke with Mexican President […]
Trust in experts is down. In all kinds of institutions and professions – in government, in media, in medical science… and lately, economists are feeling the burn acutely. In fact, President Trump just fired the economist who ran the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her – with no evidence – of faking a jobs report […]