Atef Najib, former head of political security in the Deraa province, is charged with ‘crimes against the Syrian people’. Published On 26 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 Syria has begun its first public trial of officials who served under longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, 15 years after the start of the civil war. Trial proceedings opened in…
High-energy laser weapons are a natural fit for large, power-rich aircraft carriers—with limits. When U.S. Navy leaders declared that “the dream of a laser on every ship can become a real one” earlier this year, they apparently had one particular ship in mind.
Law enforcement agencies have identified Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, southern California, a suburb of Los Angeles, as the suspected gunman arrested at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night. Allen, 31, has no record of criminal charges or a civil court history in Los Angeles county, according to a records…
Despite decades of effort, scientists have never recovered dinosaur DNA. Most paleontology research today still focuses on searching for traces of original organic material in fossils, but DNA has not survived the passage of time. Much of what we understand about dinosaurs comes from fossilized bones and teeth. These durable remains preserve well, but they…
Nikola Jokić and Julius Randle were ejected after Jaden McDaniels made a meaningless – and provocative – layup at the end of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ playoff victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night. With Minnesota already all but guaranteed victory in a game that ended 112-96, McDaniels chose to make the layup with 2.1…
WASHINGTON — Mentalist Oz Pearlman was supposed to dazzle an audience of hundreds on Saturday night here with mind tricks in a well-lit hotel ballroom. Instead he found himself doing his act for a small handful of media executives in a darkened underground event space close to midnight. MS NOW had planned to host a…
Keir Starmer has said he will lead Labour into the next general election as his Downing Street allies denied claims of any wrongdoing over the appointment and vetting of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime minister, told Sky News’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday show that “no wrongdoing by…
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26 April 2026 US leader Donald Trump has described being president a “very dangerous profession” after shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday (25.04.26) night. President Donald Trump thinks he has a dangerous job The 79-year-old president, his wife Melania, and Vice President JD Vance were rushed from the ballroom at…
The US government released likely the last report from Pepfar (President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief) earlier this month and the chief science officer announced his resignation days later as the US moves to a patchwork of individual partnerships with each country, potentially driven by resource extraction. While more leadership with other countries has long…
