Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife will appear in federal court in Manhattan for a pretrial hearing two months after U.S. special forces captured the couple in Caracas. Lilia Luciano has more.
Iran rejects U.S. proposal to end war as Trump claims Iranian leaders want to make deal
As strikes continue, Iran has rejected a proposal from the U.S. to end the war. But on Wednesday, President Trump repeated his claim that Iran’s leaders wanted to make a deal. Holly Williams reports.
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B — French AI company Mistral released a new open-so…
Germany flip-flops on green energy plans
Exiting oil and gas would “deindustrialize” German Chancellor Merz has said after previously pushing for a hydrocarbons phaseout
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Alleged Hezbollah member on U.S. terror list is arrested in Ecuador
The Syrian man has been identified as a terrorist threat by the U.S. for belonging to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
Abortion anarchy: What the new UK law will really achieve
With massive immigration and free rein on self-terminating pregnancies, one can’t help but think if the ‘conspiracy theories’ are true
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Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
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Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software — The company, which develops au…
Interviews with 37 Anduril sources detail safety concerns and project challenges at Anduril’s manufacturing operations; Anduril calls the claims “inaccurate” (Paresh Dave/Wired)
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Interviews with 37 Anduril sources detail safety concerns and project challenges at Anduril’s manufacturing operations; Anduril calls the claims “inaccurate” — From drones to missiles to submarines, …
Jury finds Meta, YouTube liable for social media addiction: What we know
Jury recommends Google and Meta pay $6m damages in landmark social media addiction lawsuit.
Venezuela’s Maduro set to again appear in US court: How strong is the case?
March 26 hearing will be second court appearance since Maduro’s January 3 abduction by US military.