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Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump made big news Monday, shortening his 50-day deadline for Russia to get serious about peace in Ukraine to “about 10 to 12 days from now.” “There’s no reason in waiting,” Trump said. “I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.” Trump has said that Russia failing to meet this deadline would result in strong tariffs and secondary sanctions, going after countries that purchase Russian oil. What this means, practically speaking, is that Russia now has until about August 9 – instead of early September – to reach…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link London  —  President Donald Trump may rate Sunday’s trade agreement with the European Union as the “biggest deal ever,” but for some within the 27-nation bloc, it feels a lot more like economic appeasement. French Prime Minister François Bayrou called Sunday a “dark day” for the region in a post on X. “An alliance of free peoples, gathered to assert their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,” he wrote. The agreement, struck between Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, sets a 15% tariff on most imported goods from the…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link Álvaro Uribe, president of Colombia from 2002 to 2010, was found guilty Monday of bribery in a witness tampering case. He is the first former president of the South American country to be criminally convicted. The ruling was issued by Judge Sandra Heredia of Bogotá’s 44th Criminal Court who concluded that there was sufficient evidence to convict the former president, a member of the opposition Centro Democrático party. The judge is still reading the sentence. Since the investigation against him began in 2018, Uribe has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He maintained that position throughout…

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CNN  —  Editor’s Note: Americans have come up with a lot of incredible foods. Does this list satisfy your appetite? Or have we frankly left out one of your favorites? Let us know in the comments below. America is called a melting pot – and that’s certainly true of its food. The USA’s culinary history is that of reinvention. Waves of food influences – Native, African, British, continental European, Asian and Latin – have landed on our shores (and still do). People take those classics, mix ’n’ match ’em and then slowly (or quickly) turn them into definitive American dishes.…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link If his latest remarks are anything to go by, US President Donald Trump’s loss of patience with the Kremlin appears to be gathering pace. Speaking from his golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump unexpectedly shortened his own 50-day deadline on Moscow, imposed two weeks ago, to agree a peace deal with Ukraine or face tough new economic sanctions. “Yeah, I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “There’s no reason in waiting. I want to be generous but…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link Days of heavy rain have killed at least 30 people in the mountainous northern outskirts of Beijing, state media reported Tuesday. Intense rainstorms have battered northern China in recent days, triggering flooding and landslides. A landslide in Hebei province, which neighbors Beijing, killed four people, with eight others still missing, according to state media. The rains intensified around the Chinese capital on Monday, killing 28 people in Miyun, an outlying mountainous district in the northeast; another two were killed in Yangqing, another northern district, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported. The downpours have also damanged dozens of…

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CNN  —  Nick Hogan, the son of wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, posted an emotional tribute to his father over the weekend. The elder Hogan died last week at the age of 71 and his son began his post Saturday thanking everyone “who has reached out to me and comforted me over the last few days.” “It truly means a lot,” Nick Hogan wrote in the caption of a series of photos showing him with his father over the years. “I’m sorry to everyone I have not responded to yet. This has been overwhelming and extremely difficult.” The younger Hogan added,…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link A Colombian judge on Monday convicted former President Alvaro Uribe of abuse of process and bribery of a public official in a long-running witness tampering case, making him the country’s first ex-president to ever be found guilty at trial. Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia read her decision aloud to the court over the course of some ten hours. She found the right-wing politician not guilty of a separate bribery charge. The ruling, which Uribe is expected to appeal, is the latest decision in a hugely politicized case that has run for some 13 years. The decision comes…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link The fourth installment of the “Meet the Parents” film franchise will officially be titled “Focker In-Law.” Universal Pictures announced the news Monday in an Instagram post, which also confirmed that the film will be released on Thanksgiving 2026. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo and Owen Wilson will all return to reprise their characters. Ariana Grande will also be joining the cast, although details about her character have yet to be announced. “The Focker family is expanding,” the caption for the post – which was also shared by Stiller and Grande’s Instagram accounts…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link Longtime Chicago Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg died Monday at age 65, his family announced on Sandberg’s verified Instagram page. “It is with heavy hearts, we announce that Ryne passed away tonight in the comfort of his home. Ryne was surrounded by his loving wife Margaret, their children, and grandchildren,” the post read. “We thank you for all of the kind words, support, and love during this difficult time. Ryne will forever be in our hearts.” The Hall of Famer had been battling metastatic prostate cancer. “Ryne Sandberg was a hero to a generation of Chicago…

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