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Facebook Tweet Email Link Official White House social media posts these days can more closely resemble troll-ish meme accounts than a sober dissemination of information from the United States’ highest political office. President Donald Trump’s White House likes it that way. Accounts associated with the administration have touted Trump’s landmark policy law using a “Bump It” hair accessory commercial that was popularized around 2010. They’ve shared AI-generated images of Trump as the pope, Superman and a jacked Star Wars character holding a red lightsaber typically wielded by villains in the series. They’ve depicted border czar Tom Homan as the sun…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A Ukrainian journalist who was held incommunicado by Russia for more than three years has been released on Sunday as part of the latest prisoner exchange between Moscow and Kyiv. For more than three years, Dmytro Khilyuk, 50, was one of the thousands of Ukrainian civilians detained in Russia, something illegal under international law. Khilyuk’s elderly parents had no information about his whereabouts but kept campaigning for his release, attending meetings with politicians in Ukraine and abroad, going to protests and tirelessly writing to Russian authorities. A video from the exchange on Sunday released by Ukrainian…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Israel struck Yemen’s Houthis on Sunday after the Iran-backed rebels fired a new type of missile at Israel. The Israeli military said it struck a military site where the presidential palace is located, as well as two power plants and a fuel storage site. Initial reports from the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV indicated that at least two people were killed and five wounded in the attack. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said “the strikes were conducted in response to repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel and its civilians.” More than 10…

Facebook Tweet Email Link London Reuters  —  Anti-migrant protests persisted across Britain on Sunday outside hotels housing asylum seekers, a day after police were forced to separate demonstrators and counter-protesters in multiple cities as tensions flared over immigration policies. With immigration polling as the public’s top concern, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been under pressure to deliver on its pledge to end hotel use, which is costing billions of dollars a year. Britain has seen regular protests in recent weeks outside hotels housing asylum seekers, spurred in part by concerns about public safety after a migrant who…

Environmental activists in Mexico have documented melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive strewn across the sands of Tamaulipas’ Bagdad beach — the result of SpaceX’s rockets exploding into smithereens. Despite concerns about wildlife and natural resources facing permanent damage from SpaceX’s activities, the company has insisted that it has found “no evidence of any floating or deceased marine life that would signal (rocket) booster debris impact harmed animals in the vicinity.” SpaceX has also asserted that Starship launches present “no hazards to the surrounding communities in the Rio Grande Valley.” “Previous independent tests conducted on materials inside Starship,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link South Williamsport, PA AP  —  Lin Chin-Tse retired the first 13 batters he faced and allowed just one hit in five innings as Taiwan beat Nevada 7-0 in the Little League World Series championship Sunday, ending a 29-year title drought for the Taiwanese. Taiwan won its first LLWS since 1996, although its 18 titles are the most of any country beside the United States, including five straight from 1977 to 1981. Lin, a 5-foot-8 right hander, also smashed a three-run triple in Taiwan’s five-run fifth. The 12-year-old from Taipei hit more than 80 mph with his…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Hanoi/Beijing Reuters  —  Vietnam announced plans to evacuate more than half a million people and ordered boats to stay ashore, while the southern Chinese city of Sanya closed businesses and public transport on Sunday as both braced for an intensifying Typhoon Kajiki. The storm is forecast to “brush past” the southern coast of China’s island province of Hainan from Sunday evening before heading for Vietnam, China’s National Meteorological Center said. As of 0900 GMT, the storm had gained strength, with winds reaching 166 kph (103 mph), according to Vietnam’s national weather forecast agency. It is likely…

The Middle East Race & ethnicity Israel-Hamas war Donald Trump See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link France’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the US ambassador to the country, Charles Kushner, after he authored a letter accusing the French government of a “lack of sufficient action” in confronting antisemitism. France strongly rejected the “unacceptable” allegations in Kushner’s letter, which the ministry said “fall short of the quality of the transatlantic relationship” between the US and France. “The rise in antisemitic acts in France since October 7, 2023, is a reality that we deplore and to which the French authorities are fully…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Tel Aviv  —  Nearly a week after Hamas accepted the latest Gaza ceasefire proposal from Qatari and Egyptian mediators, Israel has yet to respond – even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he is “immediately” starting negotiations to release all the hostages and end the war. The silence reflects a fundamental shift in Israel’s approach that has befuddled mediators and families of the remaining hostages, who have accused Netanyahu of abandoning and sacrificing their loved ones. After 18 months of agreeing only to partial, phased ceasefire deals, Netanyahu is now demanding a comprehensive agreement that would…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Melbourne, Australia AP  —  The sole survivor of a deadly lunch laced with toxic mushrooms said on Monday he felt only half alive following the death of his wife and he continued to grieve the loss of his two closest friends. Ian Wilkinson read the first victim impact statement in the Victoria state Supreme Court at the sentencing hearing of Erin Patterson. A jury convicted Patterson, 50, in July of murdering Wilkinson’s wife Heather Wilkinson, her sister Gail Patterson, and her husband Don Patterson with a lunch of Beef Wellington pastries and foraged death cap mushrooms…