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U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last week to scale down the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise with South Korea came at an awkward moment, given Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent warning that North Korea’s military capacity is expanding. U.S. and South Korean military planners had designed this year’s drills to account for expected changes in modern warfare, including drones, GPS disruption, and cyberattacks. But the drills were also intended to help prepare for a North Korea that is gaining invaluable wartime experience from its involvement in Russia’s war with Ukraine. In the days after Zelensky’s warning—when he also appealed…

In August 2026, social media users recirculated allegations that U.S. President Donald Trump sexually assaulted six children and paid tens of millions of dollars in settlements connected to the alleged incidents. One Instagram video stated: Breaking news. An Australian man found a live frog inside of his salad bag. And here are six kids Donald Trump has formally graped in the span of six years. Michael Parker, just 10 years old, was orally graped by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Trump paid his parents $3 million in settlements. Kelly Foyer, just 12 years old, was forced into intercourse by Donald Trump…

Gudlaug Bjornsdottir had warned her family. If the talk over the dinner table turned to Iceland’s coming referendum on opening talks to join the European Union, she would get up and leave.Polls show a starkly divided country heading into the vote on Saturday. Many people have strong opinions about whether Iceland should maintain its hard-won independence or seek the stability and protections that would come with E.U. membership.So perhaps inevitably, despite Ms. Bjornsdottir’s admonitions, the dinner conversation in the tiny town of Talknafjordur one recent Friday eventually landed on the referendum. “I am leaving, like it or not,” Ms. Bjornsdottir…

The settlement focuses on limiting access to the app at certain times as a default setting, and in many of these areas, teens or parents will be able to switch from these settings to less restrictive ones. Senior Commission officials have previously criticized Meta’s parental controls for their complexity. But Meta will only give users the option to turn off the features most closely associated with engagement maximization, like autoplay and personalized feeds, instead of making them the default for every child, said Francesca Pisanu, senior policy officer at child rights group Eurochild. “The U.S. settlement establishes a combination of…

“All right, I’ve had enough!”Tracy Patterson’s old-school Brooklyn accent rang out in the bar in Arizona where a New York Jets fan club had gathered to witness its team losing — again. It was the first preseason game, and the offense had already given up back-to-back interceptions.Same old Jets.“Here we go again,” Ms. Patterson said as she glared at the TV screens in disgust, paid her bar tab and walked out into the reddish-brown desert landscape of Maricopa County.The fan club meets for every Jets game at the same bar, a masochistic ritual of perennial disappointment. But this season, the…

Andy Burnham has told Labour MPs that he will not cast a vote when the assisted dying bill returns to the Commons next month to avoid influencing the debate.While the move was welcomed by supporters of the measure, No 10 officials said the prime minister had no wish to affect the process in either direction, and was just doing what he thought was best to allow MPs to reach their own collective view.In a separate letter to his ministers on Friday, Burnham warned them against trying to influence the process. When an earlier version of the bill was before parliament,…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldThe US Treasury department is set to revoke US financial access to an Egyptian bank’s branches in the United Arab Emirates, in one of the Trump administration’s first steps towards implementing its threatened economic crackdown on Tehran.The move, announced on Friday, would cut off the UAE branches of Banque Misr, Egypt’s second-largest bank, from banking access to US financial institutions in an effort to block them from transacting in dollars.“Treasury promised to sever every economic lifeline Tehran has left and…

Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA — exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, and cinematic story scenes. But everything just looks much better than previous entries, with impressive graphics, densely packed rooms, and detailed environments. The footage was captured on PS5, according to the end of the video.A key focus of the game seems to be how protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos work together. In one scene, it appears you play as Duval as he hangs out of…

Author: Gene Moody, Field CTO at Action1 AI can help us find vulnerabilities faster than ever. But what happens when the rest of the vulnerability management ecosystem can’t keep up? When Vulnerability Volume Outpaces the System In April, NIST released a statement regarding updates to NVD operations that reflects a necessary response to scale. CVE volume has grown beyond what the current enrichment model was designed to handle. As part of the change, roughly 30,000 vulnerabilities published before March 1, 2026, were reclassified as “Not Scheduled.” Prioritization, automation, and selective processing are reasonable adjustments in principle. In practice, however, the…

In brief U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs saw net inflows of $225.8 million on Thursday, their biggest single day since October 28, 2025. The funds have now logged nine consecutive sessions of net inflows since August 17, worth $1.42 billion. BlackRock’s ETHA accounted for $1.02 billion of that, buying on every one of the nine days. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded their strongest day in 10 months on Thursday, taking in $225.8 million and extending a buying run that has now lasted nine consecutive sessions.The last day of net outflows was August 11, Farside Investors data shows, with August 14 the…