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Most governments and people in Europe agree with Trump’s stated premise that they need to spend more on their militaries — and stop their historical, postwar reliance on the United States. But Trump’s unpredictability still causes great anxiety on the Continent, particularly his repeated questioning of the mutual defense promise at the heart of NATO, which was established after World War II to counter the Soviet Union.NATO members voted Wednesday to more than double their defense spending targets to 5% of gross domestic product, acceding to Trump’s demand. This caused some disquiet when Trump first suggested it in January, but…
A DoorDash executive and members of his family have been identified among the eight people who died in a boating accident on Lake Tahoe over the weekend.Joshua Antony Pickles, 37, from San Francisco, died in the accident, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday. He worked as the global head of strategic sourcing and procurement in DoorDash’s finance team.His parents, Paula Bozinovich, 71, and Terry Pickles, 73, from Redwood City, also died in the accident.The other victims were identified as Pickles’ uncle Peter Bayes, 72, from Lincoln, California; Timothy O’Leary, 71, from Auburn, California; Theresa Giullari, 66, from Honeoye,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has found that the California Department of Education and the state’s high school sports federation violated civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams.The federal Education Department announced the finding Wednesday and proposed a resolution that would require California to bar transgender women from women’s sports and strip transgender athletes of records, titles and awards. It’s the latest escalation in the Republican administration’s effort to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports teams nationwide.If California rejects the proposal, the Education Department could move to terminate the state’s federal education funding.“The…
London CNN — The United Kingdom will host Donald Trump for a state visit this year, but King Charles and the US president won’t be able to meet informally over the summer due to their busy diaries, CNN understands. The “Manu Regia” – a formal invitation signed by the British monarch – was hand delivered to the White House by representatives of the British embassy in Washington last week. Charles, 76, had initially suggested in a letter delivered to Trump in the Oval Office in February by the UK prime minister that the pair could first meet in Scotland at…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The case behind the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide a decade ago is known as Obergefell v. Hodges, but the two Ohio men whose names became that title weren’t so at odds as it would seem, and are now friends. One year after the Supreme Court’s June 26, 2015, decision, lead plaintiff Jim Obergefell was at an event for an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization when its former director asked if he wanted to meet Rick Hodges, who’d been the title defendant in his capacity as state health director in Ohio, one of the states…
LONDON (AP) — This week, thousands of music lovers from across the U.K. and beyond will flock to a farm in the southwest of England for the legendary Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. But just how many?Find out in this guide to Glastonbury — and all of its quirks — by the numbers.210,000: Full capacity of the festival The festival’s current license allows up to 210,000 people on-site, including fans, staff and performers — but, this year, a few thousand fewer tickets have been sold, to avoid overcrowding. Revellers queue for entry, on the first day of the Glastonbury…
Lithium-ion batteries have dropped in cost by 75% over the past decade, a marvel of research and development that isn’t the result of a singular breakthrough but of myriad incremental improvements. Few know that better than Chaitanya Sharma, founder of the stealthy Nascent Materials. Sharma spent a little over two years working at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada and another two leading iM3NY, a lithium-ion manufacturer in New York. Since leaving iM3NY in November 2023, he’s been working on a new way to process cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries — one of those small improvements that promises to continue driving down…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio signaled on Wednesday that it will swiftly appeal a court ruling declaring the state’s private school voucher system unconstitutional, a decision celebrated by public school advocates and condemned by a prominent Christian education organization.Republican Attorney General Dave Yost said in a statement that he is confident the state will ultimately win. He assured Ohio families that the judge’s order allows the program to remain operational as the lawsuit is argued, “so parents don’t have to panic or worry about other options while the court process plays out.”Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Jaiza Page granted summary…
CNN — For over than three decades, Iran built a web of proxy networks to push its battles far beyond its borders – keeping enemies at bay, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tightened his grip on power. Direct strikes on Iran remained inconceivable. That image of invincibility crumbled in the space of hours on June 13, when Israel launched a surprise, unprecedented attack deep inside Iran, shattering Tehran’s sense of security and unraveling its carefully cultivated aura of strength. Its strikes took out top military leaders and some of Iran’s most prominent nuclear scientists, including a few as they…
Houses undergo construction in a neighborhood on April 17, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesSales of new single-family homes dropped 13.7% in May compared with April to 623,000 units on a seasonally-adjusted, annualized basis, according to the U.S. Census. That sales total was 6.3% lower than May 2024 and well below both the 6-month average of 671,000 and the one-year average of 676,000. It also lags the pre-pandemic average in 2019 of 685,000 units sold. Wall Street analysts were expecting May new home sales of 695,000, according to estimates from Dow Jones. This count is based on…