Why Is It So Hot?
UK faces third heatwave of the summer.
Man killed outside five-star hotel in London’s Knightsbridge named
Blue Stevens, 24, died in a stabbing outside a luxury hotel in west London on Wednesday night.
They came here to bomb. They returned here to live.
“We weren’t adversaries,” a former North Vietnamese Air Force pilot said. “We were just wearing different uniforms, taking orders from different a–holes.”
Trump: Deal struck to send Ukraine weapons through NATO
President Trump said late Thursday that a deal was struck with NATO to send weapons to Ukraine, with the military alliance bearing the brunt of the cost. “We’re sending weapons to NATO, and NATO is paying for those weapons, 100 percent,” he said in a phone interview with NBC News. “So, what we’re doing is,…
Larry Summers is having a convenient short-term memory lapse on welfare reform
The economist is ripping Republican’s “cruel” efforts to rein in out-of-control Medicaid spending, even though he himself participated in one of the biggest welfare reforms of our lifetime.
Whole Hog Politics: Democrats diving headfirst into 2028 race
On the menu: Carry them back to old Virginny; Big mad mood; GOP senators fret about Musk; Liberian lingo; Reaching the checkered flag There’s “testing the waters” and then there’s going off the high dive — for instance, announcing a visit to the Iowa State Fair by posting a video of yourself that begins with…
FDA Commissioner: ‘We want to focus on food’
Dr. Marty Makary discussed the agency’s initiative to phase out artificial food dyes.
Rubio meets with Chinese foreign minister as U.S. tariffs roil Asia
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday met with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of a major Asian conference in Malaysia as President Trump’s tariffs roil U.S. partners in Asia. Rubio described his conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as “constructive and pragmatic” and emphasized the importance of keeping channels of communication open. …
Germany promised to double defense spending — now it must deliver
Chancellor Merz may find it difficult to maintain the generous social welfare regime that Germans have benefitted from for decades.
Trump praises Noem on flooding response: ‘Literally the first person I saw on television’
President Trump praised Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem for the federal response to the recent deadly floods in Texas that have killed at least 120 people, amid scrutiny over the speed of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) action in the Lone Star State. Trump, during a phone interview with NBC News…