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“Working closely with our European neighbours will make Britain a wealthier, safer country- that is why I am putting the European relationship at the heart of my agenda as Foreign Secretary,” Miliband said ahead of the meeting, which will take place in Wicklow in Ireland. The foreign secretary is set to hold a series of bilateral meetings, including with his EU counterpart Kaja Kallas and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul. He is also due to meet his Irish counterpart Helen McEntree, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha — the latter two also attending the meeting…

In early 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly of a heart attack on a Texas ranch, sending his Supreme Court colleagues into a period of grief and uncertainty. Behind closed doors, they had to contend with another piece of unsettling news.Justice Scalia, the leading light of the conservative legal movement, had left no plans for his working papers, according to five people aware of the situation. For a Supreme Court justice, this was the equivalent of dying without a will. With no instructions for creating an archive or opening it to the public, the definitive inside account of his work…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldDonald Trump has summoned oil groups to the White House on Tuesday as high petrol and diesel prices, triggered by his war in Iran, push up inflation across the US ahead of midterm elections.Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, Chevron, Delek US Holdings, PBF Energy and Valero Energy are among the companies called to the meeting to discuss refining capacity and prices, according to people with knowledge of the event. With less than three months until November’s midterm legislative elections, the US…

Waymo has started to offer its robotaxi service to the public in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa, extending the Alphabet-owned company’s commercial operations to 14 U.S. cities. The company said on Tuesday that it will begin inviting riders on a rolling basis and slowly ramp up access in the three cities, following its usual commercial playbook. The expansion has increased its fleet of self-driving Jaguar I-Pace hatchbacks and a new minivan called the Ojai to more than 4,000 vehicles. The launch in these three cities comes as Tesla is striving to close the gap in the robotaxi market. Tesla now…

The Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting footprint to infect Linux and Apple macOS systems using cross-platform remote access trojans (RATs) developed using Node.js and JavaScript. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky is tracking the malware strains under the names NodeRabbit and PollCat. The first sample of NodeRabbit was discovered on a system in Afghanistan, with subsequent sightings on two distinct machines located in Egypt and Ethiopia. “Its operators deliver [NodeRabbit] through spear-phishing messages on LinkedIn and other job search platforms…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are mixed with Hype leading; BTC at $78k ETF inflows stay green with $217M for BTC and $88M for ETH Kraken in talks with Hyperliquid to bring perps to the US (HYPE +3%) Former SEC & CFTC officials urge lighter rules for perps Robinhood Chain beats Hyperliquid in revenue as token leaders soar 💰 Saylor Sold BTC at $62,000 And Bought It Back at $80,000Strategy spent the summer doing something…

An international research team led by scientists in Canada has uncovered a likely explanation for one of the more unusual features of snake development: why embryos curl into tight spirals before hatching. This coiling behavior appears to help snakes accommodate the exceptionally long bodies that distinguish them from every other vertebrate. The findings, published in Current Biology, suggest that the spiral forms as the embryo’s body rapidly lengthens while its gut acts as a tether. That physical constraint causes the growing body to buckle and twist into a right-handed coil. “It’s like when you adjust the length of a strap…

A Texas volleyball coach who was the subject of an investigation last month by ProPublica and The Washington Post is now facing a federal child exploitation probe, according to an agent for Homeland Security Investigations, the main investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. The ProPublica and Post story detailed how Ryan Richardson continued to coach teenage girls for years at his gym in Pharr, Texas, amid allegations of misconduct, even after he was suspended in early 2025 and subsequently ruled “permanently ineligible” this February by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, an oversight group. On its public disciplinary list,…

For a world mired in conflict and desperate for an unbiased interlocutor, the election of the next United Nations secretary-general couldn’t have come at a better time. The U.N.’s top boss is expected to be the peacemaker-in-chief, at least in theory, and perhaps more importantly, the guardian of a collective moral compass, regardless of national affiliations. Are any of the eight candidates up to the task? As the race heats up, a former U.N. diplomat, who spoke with Foreign Policy on condition of anonymity, quipped that the key question is whether the P5—the permanent five Security Council members, which each hold…

A 32-year-old woman was killed and another victim is in hospital following a stabbing in Times Square, New York City late on Wednesday afternoon.The suspect, a woman wielding two knifes, was shot by police. All three people were taken to hospital, where the female victim and the suspect were later pronounced dead, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told a news conference. Mamdani said the second victim is in a “stable condition”. He also thanked NYPD officers for preventing a “horrific attack from becoming even worse”.New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the attack “an unprovoked double stabbing”…