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  Trump Seeks Reimbursement From Countries For Securing Strait of Hormuz

  In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump highlighted that petroleum shipments continue moving via the critical maritime route and contended that America ought to be compensated once the military confrontation concludes.

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  Columbia University Sued Over Failure To Protect Pro-Palestinian Students

  At a press conference at Columbia announcing the lawsuit, Mahmoud Khalil said the university exhibited a "rotten, institutionalized anti-Palestinian bigotry" entrenched in every department and backed by its board of trustees.

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  US Supreme Court Rejects Trump Mail Ballot Restrictions Ahead Of Midterms

  The Trump administration had asked the court, once again at the center of a roiling political controversy, to clear the way for restrictions before the pivotal November contests for control of Congress.

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  Prince Harry's Kids Moving School After 2 Days Over Security Concerns

  The couple stepped down from royal duties and moved to the US in 2020, leading to estrangement and awkward relations with the royal family as they delivered a series of barbed comments about the institution.

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  Zelensky Says Ukraine Ready For "De-Escalatory Steps"

  In his daily address, Zelensky highlighted "a strong proposal from the United States regarding a mutual halt to strikes on critical infrastructure".

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  US Scraps Limits On Carbon Emissions From Coal, Gas-Fired Power Plants

  The news comes amid growing signs of Earth's climate system destabilizing and loading the dice for more frequent and destructive extreme weather events.

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  Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch Funded For Trump Jr.'s Wedding: Report

  In a post on her Instagram, Bettina Trump wrote that the man, Umar Kremlev, was a "dear friend," who "very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding."

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  "SICK Conspiracy": Trump Rejects "Hoax" Warnings AI Could End Humanity

  Trump said the United States could not afford to lose a technological race with rival China and insisted the only guardrails necessary were a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!"

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  Trump Privately Met With OpenAI's Altman At Republican Convention: Report

  Altman requested the meeting with Trump, the report said, adding that a brief overview of the discussion, on artificial intelligence and its growing power, was provided to MS Now.

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  What Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk Have Said About AI 'Doom' Fears

  The debate has also started at a critical time for Anthropic as it prepares for a potential IPO and after OpenAI pushed back its own listing plans.

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  Palantir, Nvidia To Curb AI Use Over Data Safety Fears: Report

  Microsoft, meanwhile, is capitalising on such concerns by pitching isolated cloud environments and its own AI offerings to draw clients.

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  Trump Administration To Scrap Carbon Emmission Limits From Power Plants

  The changes would both roll back rules introduced by former president Joe Biden's administration in 2024 which required coal and gas power plants to eliminate nearly all their carbon emissions.

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  Pak Admits 26/11 Attack Was Launched From Its Soil, But Shields Hafeez Saeed

  The admission is buried in the fine print of the Federal Investigation Agency's 2026 'Red Book of Most Wanted High-Profile Terrorists'. It lists 19 Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives for their role in the 2008 attacks that killed 166 people.

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  With Just 51 Left In 1995, Rare Caribbean Snakes Reach Over 1,100

  The relocated snakes adapted well, and no deaths were recorded during the transfers or radiotelemetry studies.

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  "Sick Conspiracy": US, China On Same Page On Snubbing AI Slowdown Calls

  In a post on Truth Social on Monday, US President Donald Trump said the calls to hit the brakes on superintelligent AI development were a "sick conspiracy" against artificial intelligence and data centres.

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  Artificial Intelligence Sentient, Self-Aware: AI Risk Expert Nick Bostrom

  Artificial intelligence agents have attained human-like consciousness for all practical purposes, says Nick Bostrom

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  Wall Street In Shock After AI Slowdown Call, Nvidia, Intel Trade In Red

  Nasdaq fell by 305.17 points or 1.05 per cent at 29,060.42, while Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.2 per cent to 52,475.25. Meanwhile, the S&P 5000 fell by 0.54 per cent to 7,615.51.

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  'Need To Safeguard City's Security': Beijing To Ban Drone Possession

  The rules, announced on Sunday and due to take effect on November 15, forbid possessing or storing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Chinese capital and ban flights in its airspace.

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  Amazon's Revenue Soars, But 3 Times More Workers Now Rely On Food Stamps: Report

  The effects of the falling labour share are also being seen in the use of government assistance programmes.

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  US Immigration Arrests Have Soared. Why Deportations Did Not See Any Rise

  Even as arrests jumped to nearly 51,000 in August, setting a record for a third straight month, deportation numbers held mostly steady, averaging around 1,200 per day, preliminary government data showed.