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Trump will award Elon Musk the National Medal of Science on Thursday, alongside Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su. See who else is being honored

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific as it returned home from a 265-day wartime deployment

Vance says Iran must cut enrichment to end the seven-month war, telling Reuters Tehran must make a “meaningful” reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Athens on Wednesday for high-level talks on defense and energy cooperation with Greek leadership, set against the backdrop of a major address at the ancient Pnyx calling for Western civilisational renewal

US President Donald Trump announced an upcoming discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the suspicious death of a Siberian plague research technician, while the WHO and US State Department press Moscow for transparent biological risk reporting

The White House denies Trump suggested Iran should 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego, calling the backlash a 'media freakout' not rooted in reality.

Trump's comment that Iran could 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego drew swift criticism from Gavin Newsom, mayors Karen Bass and Todd Gloria

The US Department of the Treasury issued a stern warning to foreign financial institutions to immediately terminate all transactions with Iran's banking sector and shadow financial networks or face unannounced secondary sanctions

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order deferring taxes on red-dyed diesel for highway use, a move designed to alleviate record-high fuel prices for commercial and everyday drivers ahead of the November midterm elections

The US midterms decide control of Congress, 36 governorships and thousands of state seats, with about $12 billion in ads and no Trump on the ballot

The Pentagon confirmed that all US Air Force B-1 Lancer heavy bombers stationed at RAF Fairford have been redeployed to their home stations in the United States following a security incident and an ongoing counter-terrorism investigation near the Gloucestershire facility

US president confirms Jay Clayton as AI czar to lead a new White House task force on artificial intelligence as researchers warn of the technology's dangers.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a 13-member national AI advisory council—including pioneer Yoshua Bengio—to guide federal AI strategy, manage safety risks, and steer public policy as global scrutiny over frontier models intensifies

G7 leaders agreed to immediately release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil through the International Energy Agency to stabilize soaring global fuel prices, prompting US President Donald Trump to drop threats of a domestic diesel export ban

The US has sent two additional Patriot missile batteries to protect Saudi and Qatari energy sites as Trump weighs renewed military action against Iran

US President Donald Trump cautioned that Tehran faces severe military retaliation if investigators link Iran to an Omani co-pilot's attempted mid-air crash of a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv, as UAE and Saudi authorities investigate suspected Islamist radicalization

Defense secretary says the US cut its generals and admirals by 20%, calling the move 'accountability' as he also announced a Musk-co-led future of warfare project

Iran Guards hail US withdrawal from Iraq as a "historic victory" and urge American troops to leave the Middle East after the anti-IS coalition ended its mission

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan before 2028 is increasingly unlikely, US officials say, citing military readiness delays and Taiwan's 2028 election

US Federal Trade Commission has initiated a broad inquiry into AI safety practices at leading developers OpenAI and Anthropic, evaluating consumer protection compliance following recent autonomous agent security incidents and model cancellations