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Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Source link

President Trump’s threat of military action has confronted President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela with the gravest challenge of his crisis-ridden reign. Source link

Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, has been released from a US prison, according to online records of federal inmates, after receiving a pardon from US President Donald Trump for drug charges.The records show Hernández was released from the high security facility of USP Hazelton in West Virginia on Monday.Hernández was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.The US president said Hernández had been “treated very harshly and unfairly” in a social media post announcing the move on Friday.Hernández,…

The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country’s effort to stop exploitative recordings Source link

The deal with a company owned by Embraer gives Beta Technologies an additional source of revenue as it develops its own electric aircraft. Source link

Nvidia-backed video generation startup Luma AI is joining a growing wave of U.S. tech companies launching operations in the U.K., with major plans for a London expansion revealed on Tuesday.The Palo Alto-headquartered startup will look to hire around 200 employees — making up around 40% of its workforce — at its new London base by early 2027, across research, engineering, partnerships and strategic development. The expansion comes two weeks on from Luma announcing a $900 million funding round led by Saudi Public Investment Fund-owned AI company Humain, which saw it hit a valuation upwards of $4 billion. The startup previously received…

AFP via Getty ImagesProtests took place in cities across Bulgaria – the biggest for decadesBulgaria’s government has said it will withdraw its controversial 2026 budget plan after massive rallies were held against it on Monday night in the capital, Sofia, and in cities across the country.Tens of thousands of people joined protests to oppose the draft budget, which they said attempted to hide widespread government corruption. Clashes with the police broke out when some masked protesters attacked the offices of the ruling conservative Gerb party and also of the DPS party in Sofia.The government said on Tuesday it would abandon…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off. The downside is that this constant activity can strain your battery and burn through your data plan. The good news is that you can limit when apps refresh and choose to let them update only on Wi-Fi.We’ll walk you through how to switch Background App Refresh on iPhone to Wi-Fi only. You also get the Android steps so…

Images of the destruction caused by storms that have torn through South and Southeast Asia. Source link

Apple’s head of artificial intelligence and machine learning has stepped down from the company. John Giannandrea, the current senior vice president for machine Learning and AI strategy, will be replaced by former Microsoft AI executive Amar Subramanya. Mr Subramanya has overseen the development of Gemini, Google’s AI and spent two decades in the industry. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 3:03 UK ‘drops’ Apple encryption demands Mr Giannandrea will stay on as an advisor to Apple until he retires next spring.”We are thankful for the role John played in building and advancing our AI work, helping Apple…

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is under fire for an enormous graft scandal that is unfolding under his watch. One prominent voice is his sister Senator Imee Marcos. Source link

Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a program meant to fight the problem. Source link

We asked readers for their questions for The Times’s executive editor about how we cover the news and make judgment calls in our reporting and editing. Source link

China’s housing market is flashing fresh warning signs as the property downturn runs into its fifth year, with excess inventory dragging home prices. Sales of the top 100 developers plunged 36% in terms of value in November from a year earlier, despite a modest pick-up from a 42% decline in October, according to data published Monday by China Real Estate Information Corp . In the first 11 months of the year, home sales shrank 19% from a year ago. “The worsening of the property data was real and concerning,” Hui Shan, chief China economist at Goldman Sachs, said in a…

Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Speaking via teleconference, Son and OpenAI chief Sam Altman argued that advancing artificial intelligence would lead to new jobs that are not yet imagined, and the advancement of robotics will help kickstart a “self-improvement” loop. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son on Monday downplayed the decision to offload the conglomerate’s entire Nvidia stake, saying he “was crying” over parting with the shares. Speaking at a forum…

BBC Verify has tracked US assets in the Caribbean Sea, after military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats. Source link

Children as young as three are “being fed content and algorithms designed to hook adults” on social media, a former education minister has warned.Lord John Nash said analysis by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) suggesting more than 800,000 UK children aged between three and five were already engaging with social media was “deeply alarming”. The peer, who served as minister for the school system between 2013 and 2017, said that “children who haven’t yet learned to read [are] being fed content and algorithms designed to hook adults”, which, he said, “should concern us all”.He called for “a major public…

One of the four sons of notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in a US court. Joaquín Guzmán López’s guilty plea on Monday comes after US prosecutors pledged last May to not pursue the death penalty against him. Lopez, 39, is a member of Los Chapitos, a cell made up of El Chapo’s children, including his brother Ovidio, who pleaded guilty in July to drug trafficking, firearms and money laundering charges.Their father, who was one of the founders of the Sinaloa drugs cartel, is serving a life sentence in Colorado.US prosecutors…

Watch: White House defends Venezuela boat strikes, says Admiral Bradley acted legallyA top US Navy commander ordered a second round of strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat, the White House has confirmed.The “double tap” strike on 2 September has drawn bipartisan scrutiny among US lawmakers. The Washington Post recently reported that two people survived the first blast and were still clinging to the burning vessel when they were killed, raising fresh legality questions.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth authorised the strikes but did not give an order to “kill everybody”, as…

Watch: White House defends Venezuela boat strikes, says Admiral Bradley acted legallyA top US Navy commander ordered a second round of strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat, the White House has confirmed.The “double tap” strike on 2 September has drawn bipartisan scrutiny among US lawmakers. The Washington Post recently reported that two people survived the first blast and were still clinging to the burning vessel when they were killed, raising fresh legality questions.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth authorised the strikes but did not give an order to “kill everybody”, as…

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies. Source link

A prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut explosion and a waterfront Mass capped his three-day visit to the Middle Eastern nation with the highest proportion of Christians. Source link

ReutersThe park is named after Belfast-born Chaim Herzog, a former president of IsraelA proposal to rename a Dublin park which is named after a former president of Israel has been removed from the Dublin City Council’s agenda.Herzog Park, in Rathgar, was named after Belfast-born and Dublin-raised Chaim Herzog in 1995.Councillors were due to vote on a motion to change the park’s name on Monday, but it was withdrawn after the council’s chief advised of an error in the renaming process.The renaming bid received national and international criticism, with the Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin describing the proposal as “overtly divisive…

Honduras was on edge after tallies showed two candidates separated by about 500 votes. Then President Trump claimed that officials were rigging results. Source link