KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces struck an airfield in southern Russia that was being used to launch Iran-designed Shahed dronesUkraine’s General Staff claimed Thursday, as France said it had delivered a first batch of Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine. The nighttime attack on the Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield in Russia’s Krasnodar region started a fire, the […]
(Reuters) – Lockheed Martin delivered a total of 110 F-35 fighter jets to the United States and its allies in 2024, the Bethesda, Maryland-based defense contractor said in a statement on Wednesday. The delivery total achieves the higher end of the range of 75 to 110 jet deliveries CEO Jim Taiclet gave in an earnings […]
By Nate Raymond and Dan Burns (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a once widely bipartisan measure that would have been the first major expansion of the federal judiciary since 1990. The JUDGES Act, initially supported by many members of both parties, […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brazil’s currency rout will continue to escalate unless the country’s central bank steps up its emergency measures and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government delivers fiscal reforms, investors and analysts have warned. The Brazilian real […]
The newly Grammy-nominated rapper brought Black girl power to her first Tiny Desk Doechii continues to tie up 2024 with a bang as the latest star of NPR’s Tiny Desk Series, where she and an apparent ensemble of exclusively Black women in complementary cornrows tore through their set. They kicked things off calmly with “Boom […]
Fox News host Laura Ingraham confused two different Black women during an awkward on-air moment Monday as she listed off officials who have taken part in the various legal proceedings against President-elect Donald Trump. “History is going to remember Jack Smith and Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis and the judges who let these cases get as […]
North Korea tests new missile. North Korea apparently completed a successful test of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile on October 31, lofting it nearly 4,800 miles (7,700 kilometers) into space before the projectile fell back to Earth, Ars reports. This solid-fueled, multi-stage missile, named the Hwasong-19, is a new tool in North Korea’s increasingly sophisticated […]
Cap is back… again! Marvel unveiled the latest trailer for “Captain America: Brave New World” at the first-ever D23 Brazil fan event on Saturday. Anthony Mackie, who plays Sam Wilson/Captain America, and Danny Ramirez, who portrays Joaquin Torres/Falcon, were there to greet fans before the new trailer was shown. The film includes Mackie as Sam […]
Jimmy Kimmel made his “closing argument” ahead of the 2024 election on his eponymous ABC late-night show on Monday. In it, delivered at the end of his monologue on Monday, he urged viewers to “move on already” from Donald Trump, who he likened to a “cancerous polyp” on “our collective national colon.” Telling people to […]
