EU pleads with Donald Trump on tariffs ahead of major G7 meeting
EU leaders look set to use this weeks G7 summit to persuade Donald Trump to ease his tariff dispute which threatens severe impacts for the global economy.
Day: June 16, 2025
OpenAI, Growing Frustrated With Microsoft, Has Discussed Making Antitrust Complaints To Regulators
Tensions between OpenAI and Microsoft over the future of their famed AI partnership are flaring up. WSJ, minutes ago: OpenAI wants to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its AI products and computing resources, and secure the tech giant’s blessing for its conve…
‘What is this smoke, Mom?’ A Tehran schoolgirl discovers war.
How Iranians are dealing with Israeli airstrikes, which are inflicting unexpected destruction on military and civilian targets.
Donald Trump is the first president in 116 years to not be invited to the NAACP convention
The NAACP says it will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Sources: Meta’s talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
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Sources: Meta’s talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B — The negotiations started as just one …
Israel-Iran conflict escalates
Israel’s attacks on Iran have escalated, with a state media station bombed, as Benjamin Netanyahu calls for regime change.
Trial opens for lawsuit against pardoned Capitol riot defendant over police officer’s suicide
Nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith shot and killed himself while driving to work.
Second patient death reported with gene therapy for muscular dystrophy
Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics have plunged again after the drugmaker reported a second death in connection with its gene therapy for muscular dystrophy.
Woman, 22, convicted of abusing 21 babies at nursery where she worked
Roksana Lecka, from Hounslow, admitted seven counts of cruelty and was convicted of another 14 offences A 22-year-old nursery worker has been convicted of abusing 21 babies, including kicking one little boy in the face and stepping on his shoulder duri…
Dismissed members of CDC vaccine committee call Kennedy’s actions ‘destabilizing’
The 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel say Health Secretary Robert F.