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Trump on Friday shared video of a recent airstrike on Houthi rebels, writing, “They will never sink our ships again.””These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!”The black and white aerial footage appeared to show a group assembling before a massive blast leaves nothing but a crater. The Trump administration has been conducting daily airstrikes on the Iranian-backed rebels for the last 20 days following renewed Houthi threats against Israeli vessels last month after Jerusalem cut off humanitarian aid headed for the…

A daredevil YouTube influencer has been arrested after visiting a remote Indian island, where he tried to make illegal contact with indigenous people, according to global reports.Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, of Arizona, allegedly traveled to the restricted North Sentinel Island, where he tried to offer a coconut and can of Diet Coke as “offerings for the Sentinelese,” The Andaman Chronicle and The Washington Post reported, citing local police.Police in Andaman and Nicobar Islands reportedly said he visited the region because of “his passion for adventure and his desire to undertake extreme challenges,” police said. It was apparently his third time…

Boyle Street Community Services (BSCS) is inching closer to opening its brand new service centre that will support thousands of people in Edmonton. In a few months, okimaw peyesew kamik — in English, the Cree name translates to King Thunderbird Centre — near 107A Avenue and 101 Street will be completely transformed, as construction now is halfway done.“This is a project that has been almost a decade in us trying to find a purpose-built facility for our community,” said Aidan Inglis, director of okimaw peyesew kamik programs and partnerships, with Boyle Street.Construction at the 75,000-square-foot facility has been underway since 2023.BSCS has…

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ELECTION PUSH On the sidelines of the BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok, Min Aung Hlaing met with the prime ministers of Nepal, India and Thailand.The BIMSTEC, or the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, grouping also includes Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.The junta leader’s discussions with the Thai prime minister included disaster prevention and transnational crime, Thai officials said.Thailand’s foreign ministry said the Thai and Malaysian foreign ministers would visit Myanmar on Saturday.At the summit, Thai premier Paetongtarn urged the group to forge a free trade agreement and to cooperate on completing a highway connecting Thailand, Myanmar…

A Russian missile strike Friday on Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine, killed at least 16 people, including six children, and wounded more than 50, local officials said. It was the latest in a series of Russian attacks on urban centers in recent days, despite ongoing cease-fire talks, that have caused significant civilian casualties.Serhii Lysak, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk region, which includes Kryvyi Rih, said on social media that the missile struck a residential neighborhood, with a playground nearby. Other officials warned the death toll could rise as rescuers continued to search the rubble for victims.Russia’s defense ministry…

The Trump administration on Friday rejected a Biden plan that would have required Medicare and Medicaid to cover obesity drugs and expanded access for millions of people.Under the law that established Medicare’s Part D drug benefits, the program was forbidden from paying for drugs for “weight loss.” But the Biden administration’s proposal last November had attempted to sidestep that ban by arguing that the drugs would be allowed to treat the disease of obesity and its related conditions.Expanding coverage of the drugs would have cost the federal government billions of dollars. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the federal expense would…

His order claimed that the Smithsonian, in particular, had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” and that it promotes “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”The executive order presents a test for Mr. Bunch, who was not told of it in advance. Though he has not commented publicly, he last week sent an email to Smithsonian employees indicating an intention to persevere, saying that “we remain committed to telling the multifaceted stories of this country’s extraordinary heritage.”Mr. Bunch won praise for creating and leading the African American museum. But in an indication…

For years, the singer and songwriter has avoided the spotlight. But she is breaking her silence to look back on her self-titled debut and its powerful hit “Fast Car.”

Jerome Dewald sat with his legs crossed and his hands folded in his lap in front of an appellate panel of New York State judges, ready to argue for a reversal of a lower court’s decision in his dispute with a former employer.The court had allowed Mr. Dewald, who is not a lawyer and was representing himself, to accompany his argument with a prerecorded video presentation.As the video began to play, it showed a man seemingly younger than Mr. Dewald’s 74 years wearing a blue collared shirt and a beige sweater and standing in front of what appeared to be…