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Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump has sent a letter of support to Ukraine praising its courage and saying the United States believes in its future as an independent state, as the country marks the anniversary of declaring itself free of Soviet rule. Trump’s letter was shared on X by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on his country’s 34th Independence Day, as he delivered his own message: we will not lose. Other world leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Britain’s King Charles and Pope Leo XIV, also delivered messages to mark the day, which comes as the momentum around peace…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember thinking, ‘That’s not going to save us from a bomb,’” she told CNN. At that time, Dickson didn’t know that nuclear weapons were being detonated in the neighboring state of Nevada as the US tested its new stockpile. She lived downwind, in the direction much of the radioactive fallout from atmospheric tests traveled. She says she has suffered from thyroid…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed the face of education in New Orleans forever. The school system was utterly destroyed and then utterly transformed, becoming the first and only all-charter school district in the country.Ahead of the storm’s anniversary, The Associated Press asked three survivors to reflect on what it was like to be a student or a teacher during that tumultuous period. For some, connections they developed with educators who helped them through the crisis inspired careers as teachers. Their experiences also offer lessons for teachers and schools going through natural disasters today. What follows…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Two years ago, Gaza’s largest city was sprawling with life. Classrooms brimmed with schoolchildren, markets were full of shoppers and beachside cafes offered respite for those escaping the stresses of a besieged enclave. Gaza City boasts a rich history, inhabited for thousands of years and shaped by successive takeovers from ancient civilizations. It served as a key landing point for Palestinians displaced during Israel’s founding in 1948 and has hundreds of millennia-old sites documenting its past. It was therefore no surprise that Islamist militant group Hamas chose Gaza City as its de facto capital when it…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Tokyo, Japan — History was made this weekend. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung made his first overseas trip for bilateral diplomacy, with stops in both Washington DC and Tokyo. But unlike his predecessors, Lee didn’t visit the United States first. Instead, his first stop was Japan — South Korea’s former colonizer. Following a bilateral summit between Lee and Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Tokyo and Seoul issued their first joint statement in 17 years; pledging deeper cooperation on AI, trade, and denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. They also announced plans to launch a joint task force to…
“I P 6 8! I P 6 8!,” shouted late-night host Jimmy Fallon, trying and failing to fake excitement about the new Pixel smartphones. Fallon, who likely had never heard the technical term before, didn’t seem to realize that IP68 — a rating that indicates phones can survive being submerged in water — isn’t all that interesting as a selling point, nor is this water-resistance feature new to Google’s Pixel line. It’s been around since the 2018 Pixel 3. We’re on the Pixel 10 now, for reference. In a surreal moment that illustrated the tendency to overhype anything associated with…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Hong Kong — “Did you know your videos are leaked?” The message from an anonymous stranger was how Ms. D, a woman in her 20s, learned her ex-boyfriend had leaked her private photos and intimate videos in a private chat on a Chinese language Telegram channel with more than 100,000 subscribers. Countless Chinese women, including minors and relatives of the perpetrators, have had their photos and videos posted on the channel. Many have been insulted in the chat, often in explicit ways, according to screenshots provided by Ms. D, who CNN has agreed not to identify…
When Amazon hired the founders of AI startup Adept last year, it was one of the first examples of what became known as a reverse acquihire — a deal where a large company hires key startup team members and licenses its technology, rather than acquiring the startup outright. Adept’s co-founder and former CEO David Luan subsequently became the head of Amazon’s new AGI Lab, and while Luan’s recent interview with The Verge is ostensibly focused on Amazon’s vision for AI agents, reporter Alex Heath also asked him about the reverse acquihire trend. Luan replied that hopes to be “remembered more as…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Amid the sharp escalation in tensions between the United States and Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro mentioned China, the United States’ biggest economic rival, during a speech about education in the country. While speaking about tutorials to learn how to do new things during the closing of the “First Pedagogical Congress of Bolivarian Teachers,” Maduro paused to present his new cell phone, which, he said, was a gift from China’s leader Xi Jinping. Maduro said he communicated with Xi through that new phone by satellite. “You want to learn something, you look for a tutorial. I want…
Airline safety incidents and fires involving devices with lithium ion batteries are on the rise, according to a new report from a safety advocacy group. Battery incidents aboard aircraft have increased by 15% over the past five years, according to the report from UL Standards and Engagement (ULSE), a global safety organization that advocates for safety standards across consumer products. So far in 2025, there have been at least 46 lithium battery incidents involving smoke, fire, or extreme heat on board planes, according to data from the FAA. Last year, the FAA recorded the highest-ever number of incidents, with 89 lithium…