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Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump said his foreign envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Russia in the coming days as the president calls for an end to the conflict in Ukraine. Trump revealed Witkoff’s previously unknown travel plans during an event at the White House Thursday afternoon, where he also said he planned to apply new sanctions on Moscow and described Russia’s continued assaults on Kyiv as “disgusting.” “He’s going to Russia, believe it or not,” Trump said when questioned about Witkoff’s current trip to the Middle East, where he is meeting with officials to discuss Israel’s war…

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump has been envisioning a new ballroom on the White House campus for a decade and a half. His dream is about to become a reality. Construction will begin in September on a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, his press secretary announced Thursday, fulfilling a 15-year ambition by the president to construct an event space on the White House grounds that expands the building’s entertaining capacity — but also resembles the gilded spaces of his private clubs. Renderings provided by the White House depict a vast space with gold and crystal chandeliers, gilded Corinthian columns,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Kramatorsk  —  When wars kill many over years, the names of the dead can bleed into faceless lists. But each loss still burns a black hole in the worlds they left behind. And few more so than Tymur Hryhorenko. Most of the bald facts of his death are horrifyingly unremarkable, after three years of Russian bombardment. He was the only death from a huge 4:40 a.m. local time, Russian airstrike that hit a top floor apartment in the frontline town of Kramatorsk on July 22. But Tymur, 10, one of the most recent children to die…

Facebook Tweet Email Link NFL commissioner Roger Goodell called Monday’s shooting in New York City an “attack on humanity” ahead of Thursday night’s annual Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio. Goodell, who typically attends the new season’s opener, stayed in New York to attend the funeral of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam, who was killed in the attack. Speaking remotely on NBC ahead of the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Chargers preseason game, Goodell told NBC’s Mike Tirico: “This attack is far more than on several individuals. This is an attack on humanity. This is an attack on our…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack, according to authorities. Hogan’s official cause of death is cited as “acute myocardial infarction” – which in layman’s terms means a heart attack – according to a cremation approval summary report from the medical examiner’s office in Pinellas County, Florida shared with CNN on Thursday. The medical examiner’s office also confirmed that Hogan, whose given name was Terry Gene Bollea, had a history of an irregular heartbeat and blood cancer, conditions that are cited as contributing factors to his death. His manner of death was ruled as…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Myanmar’s military on Thursday nominally transferred power to a civilian-led interim government ahead of a planned election, with the junta chief remaining in charge of the war-torn country in his other role as acting president. An announcement in state media said a decree that granted power to the military after its 2021 coup had been canceled and a caretaker administration had been formed alongside a special commission to oversee the election. The move signals no change to the status quo in Myanmar, with coup leader Min Aung Hlaing holding on to all major levers of power…

Facebook Tweet Email Link More than 400 million metric tons of plastic is produced annually, and only a small fraction is recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, or leaks into the natural environment, which is impacting everything from human health to the climate. Representatives from countries around the world will gather in Geneva in August to try to finalize a legally binding UN treaty to combat plastic pollution. Environmentalists hope that could help limit plastic production and better manage waste, but countries have failed to reach agreement in previous meetings. Many experts and advocates agree that structural, society-wide change…

President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has arrived at an aid distribution site in Rafah in southern Gaza, the director of a company working with the aid distributor Gaza Humanitarian Foundation told CNN. Yesterday, the White House announced the trip to Gaza by Witkoff and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. “Tomorrow, special envoy Witkoff and Ambassador Huckabee will be traveling into Gaza to inspect the current distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear firsthand about this dire situation on the ground,” White House press…

Facebook Tweet Email Link United States special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has arrived at a controversial US-backed food aid site in Gaza as the starvation crisis in the enclave deepens. An Israeli source told CNN Friday that Witkoff had arrived at the aid site, which is run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GFH). On Thursday, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Witkoff and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee would travel to Gaza Friday “to inspect the current distribution sites and secure a plan to deliver more food and meet with local Gazans to hear…

Facebook Tweet Email Link San Salvador, El Salvador AP  —  The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years. Lawmaker Ana Figueroa from the New Ideas party had proposed the changes to five articles of the constitution. The proposal also included eliminating the second round of the election where the two top vote-getters from the first round face off. New Ideas and its allies in the Legislative Assembly quickly approved the proposals with the supermajority they hold. The…