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U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reportedly reached a tentative agreement to extend the fragile ceasefire between the two countries by 60 days and launch negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, though President Donald Trump has not yet signed off on the deal. White House officials confirmed Thursday that negotiators had agreed to a proposed memorandum of understanding following earlier reporting by Axios, which cited two U.S. officials and a regional source involved in the mediation efforts. According to U.S. officials cited in the reports, the proposed framework would extend the ceasefire reached in April while opening a 60-day negotiating window focused…

Americans kept spending in April even as gasoline prices continued to surge, a sign that higher energy costs have not forced a broad retreat in household outlays. Consumer spending rose 0.5 percent from March, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Gasoline and other energy goods were a major driver, rising 5.7 percent for the month. But the gains were not confined to the pump. Spending excluding food and energy rose 0.4 percent in April. Spending excluding food, energy, and housing climbed 0.3 percent. Services spending excluding energy and housing also rose 0.4 percent, showing that consumers continued to spend across a…

Freedom 250 announced on Wednesday that country singer Martina McBride and rapper Flo Rida were among the musicians who would be performing at the Great American State Fair. In a post on X, Freedom 250 said, along with McBride and Flo Rida, musicians such as rapper Vanilla Ice, The Commodores, singer Bret Michaels, and more would be performing at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, DC. “Martina McBride, Young MC, C+C Music Factory, Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, The Commodores, Morris Day & The Time, Flo Rida, Bret Michaels … and many more,” Freedom 250 wrote.…

Poland has stripped refugees of benefits amid growing public frustration over their privileged status and the cost to taxpayers Germany is concerned about a potential flood of Ukrainian immigrants from Poland after Warsaw sharply reduced social benefits, Bild reported on Wednesday, citing a confidential report by the German security authorities.Germany and Poland have accepted the largest numbers of Ukrainian refugees in the EU since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, according to Eurostat data.Germany was hosting around 1.3 million people under temporary protection as of March 2026, accounting for more than 29% of the EU total. The…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced Wednesday it will launch paid premium subscriptions globally for its major social media platforms, introducing Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus and WhatsApp Plus alongside new Meta AI subscription tiers. CNET reports that Meta is expanding its revenue strategy with the worldwide rollout of paid subscription services across its social media ecosystem. The company announced Wednesday that it will offer premium tiers for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, along with separate subscription plans for advanced Meta AI features. The new subscription offerings will start at monthly rates of $4 for Facebook Plus and Instagram Plus, and $3 for WhatsApp Plus.…

A YMCA in San Francisco, California, has reportedly changed its nudity rules after patrons rallied against a transgender-identifying male who would allegedly expose his genitals in the women’s locker room. The Daily Mail reported that a trans-identifying man who goes by “Sammy” and still has an intact penis has been “banned from flaunting [his] pre-op privates at a YMCA in liberal San Francisco after a sustained freak out by gym goers.”  The Stonestown Family YMCA reportedly posted rules that read: “Nudity should be discreet, limited, and brief.” The policy was posted in a changing room with the title “NEW YMCA LOCKER…

As the party implodes under inept leadership, the former PM has come up with his own ten commandments – which will only poison it further This week, as UK Labour’s destructive leadership contest intensified, former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair staged a remarkable intervention in which he single-handedly sought to save the party from political oblivion.Blair’s dramatic intrusion into Labour politics took the form of a 5,600 word essay – in which he denounced Keir Starmer, criticized leadership contenders Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting, and, more importantly, set out a radical political manifesto that he believes the Labour Party must…

ToplineThe Trump administration’s reported criminal investigation into writer E. Jean Carroll—the latest highly politicized and controversial use of his Department of Justice to pursue the president’s perceived enemies—comes as Trump is running out of options to avoid paying nearly $100 million in damages (and counting) to the writer, with the Supreme Court poised to rule on whether it considers Trump’s appeal of the two verdicts against him.E. Jean Carroll attends Equality Now’s Make Equality Reality Gala on October 8, 2024 in New York City.Getty ImagesKey FactsThe Justice Department launched a criminal inquiry into Carroll and whether she committed perjury when…

College students are trying to figure out how to incorporate AI into their choice of major.gettyMidway through his master’s degree in computer science at Stony Brook University, Murtaza Mister realized the job market he had been preparing for was changing in real time.After applying to more than 3,000 jobs and internships over his time in school, the 23-year-old began noticing employers were no longer asking only for traditional computer science skills. “I saw the job descriptions evolve from asking for computer science fundamentals to being able to use AI tools, and then build with AI tools,” he says. “Halfway through…

Already teetering on the brink, the controversial Spanish socialist government of Pedro Sánchez received another blow on Wednesday when specialist police arrived at their party headquarters, just a days after officers raided the home of a former party leader and his allies, finding a golf bag of cash and jewellery of dubious provenance. Specialist police officers entered the headquarters of Spain’s ruling Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) to remove documents on Wednesday, just the latest development in what are now several concurrent investigations into various top party members accused of embezzlement, influence peddling, campaign financing irregularities, and money laundering. The PSOE and its…