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World’s richest man Elon Musk now claims he became too consumed by politics during his alliance with President Donald Trump and his brief stint running DOGE. The Economist reports that Elon Musk has publicly admitted he became overly involved in politics during his volatile partnership with Donald Trump, acknowledging in a new interview that he should have focused on his business ventures instead. The billionaire made these admissions during a wide-ranging conversation in which he also shared his predictions about AI, political conflicts, and the future of human work. “I got carried away, frankly,” Musk said of his relationship with Trump, whom…

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is close to deciding whether to order a “massive attack” on Iran “bigger than ever before,” as the United States expands its military campaign against the Islamic Republic, reinforces its force posture across the region, and warns Tehran that further escalation will bring increasingly severe consequences. “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,” Trump told Axios, describing a potential operation that the outlet reported would exceed the scale of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. campaign that began…

The tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on 60 countries Thursday night utilize one of the mechanisms that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh laid out in the dissent of February’s Supreme Court ruling striking down Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs. Trump imposed the latest tariffs, ranging from 10-12.5 percent, under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. They follow an investigation under Section 301 finding failure to prevent the importation of goods as a result of forced labor in the respective countries. Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 is one of the pathways forward that Kavanaugh highlighted in…

NATO has shot down what is thought to be a Russian drone over Romanian airspace for the first time after F-16 and Eurofighters were deployed to intercept the rogue aircraft. The Romanian military tracked a drone crossing over from Ukrainian airspace into NATO skies on Thursday morning before taking it out over a rural area. The President of Romania Nicușor Dan said the drone was shot down at 1100 local time (0900 London, 0400 New York) and emphasised “The area was uninhabited, so the pilot was able to fire without any risk involved”. Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoons, two Romanian F-16s, and…

Mohammed Shahabuddin oversaw the country’s transition after the ouster of then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024 Bangladesh’s president, Mohammed Shahabuddin, has resigned, citing health issues. The speaker of the National Parliament will now become the country’s interim president until a new person is elected.Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad confirmed Shahabuddin’s resignation at a press briefing on Friday evening. In his resignation letter submitted to the speaker, Shahabuddin said that he was suffering from several health conditions.He said he was diagnosed with autonomic neuropathy and that he occasionally loses consciousness for brief periods as a result of this illness.Reports said Shahabuddin…

Defense attorney Brian Karalus absolutely unloaded on the media outside the courtroom late Thursday night after a Minnesota jury returned a split verdict in the case of Shiloh Hendrix, the Rochester-area mother whose viral playground confrontation last year ended up with a disorderly conduct prosecution. Hendrix was found not guilty of the misdemeanor count tied to her interaction with an 8-year-old Somali boy at Roy Sutherland Playground in Soldiers Field Memorial Park in April 2025. She was convicted only on the second count involving the adult bystander, who has previously been charged with a sex crime against a minor, and…

There are “a lot of common mistakes” college applicants make that are “often not obvious until it’s too late,” says admissions expert Lauren Lynch.gettyChristopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has put an epic journey back home on movie screens. If you’re a high school student searching for an educational home away from home, the college application process can feel like an odyssey of its own. At the start of that journey is the Common App, which opens August 1st for students applying to enter college in fall 2027. It allows you to use one core application to apply to as many as…

Major automakers are raising vehicle prices due to an ongoing shortage of memory chips, with the impact of AI-related demand now extending beyond computers and consumer electronics into the vehicle sector. Tom’s Hardware reports that General Motors and Chinese automaker BYD have announced significant price increases attributable to the current memory chip shortage, marking a troubling expansion of supply constraints that have primarily affected the technology sector. GM has revised its 2026 forecast, now expecting new vehicle prices to rise this year, a departure from previous projections that anticipated stable or slightly lower costs. During the company’s recent earnings call, GM…

During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said that congressional oversight includes seeing how much spending “is being funded for the Iranian situation and where is the endgame”, which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was “vague on” and said that the timeline for “a promised shorter endgame” in Iran has “been exceeded.” Capito said, “I do think that the American public’s growing weary. Sen. Justice (R-WV) and I represent the same folks. We can feel that in our local conversations, and I do think a promised shorter endgame has now been —…

Mary Kate Golding — a set designer for TV shows, including Amazon Prime Video’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel series — died Tuesday at the age of 34 after she was fatally stabbed in New York City. Golding — who also decorated the set of the 2023–2025 show, Goosebumps, and the 2024 series, Mr. & Mrs. Smith — was fatally stabbed at her apartment in Queens, New York, according to multiple reports. Police responded to a 911 call regarding an assault at the residence just after midnight. “Upon arrival, officers observed a 34-year-old female victim with a stab wound to the back. EMS responded and pronounced the victim…