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American Airlines A321XLR.Courtesy: American AirlinesAmerican Airlines announced Thursday it will add seven international routes to its 2027 schedule, with many of those on its Airbus A321XLR planes.Here are the additions:Charlotte, North Carolina, to Barcelona, Spain, starting May 27, on a Boeing 777-200ER.Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, starting March 19, on a Boeing 787-9.New York John F. Kennedy International Airport to Amsterdam, starting March 28, on an Airbus A321XLR.New York JFK to Nice, France, starting May 6, on an Airbus A321XLR.Philadelphia to Porto, Portugal, starting March 28, on an Airbus A321XLR.Philadelphia to Reykjavik, Iceland, starting May 27,…

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) speaks as U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick looks on before signing an executive order to limit mail-in voting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2026 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering new tariffs on U.S. semiconductors, as tech giants race to beat China in the AI infrastructure buildout. The duties will be imposed on an expanded range of tech products made alongside chips, including laptops, data center servers, and gaming hardware, eight people familiar with the matter told Politico in a…

Karl Johnson has had a whirlwind three months.Before May, he was a businessman who would drive around his home city of Wakefield wishing the potholes could be fixed.After standing for Reform UK in the local elections, the keen musician found himself the leader of Wakefield Council after his party won 58 of the 63 seats on offer and ended decades of Labour majority rule.It hasn’t all been plain sailing – already two councillors, Steve Lewis and Rhys Carr, have left Reform to sit as independents, and a third, Nick Farmer, has been suspended by the party.It is now 100 days…

CIA Director John Ratcliffe attends a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 27, 2026. Kent Nishimura | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise trip to Moscow this week to warn Russia against attacking NATO, according to multiple media reports, amid growing fears of further escalation in the Ukraine war.Ratcliffe’s first publicly known visit to the Russian capital as CIA chief came to light on Tuesday, when a U.S. Air Force jet was spotted arriving at a Moscow airport, and footage of a diplomatic motorcade…

Local politicians are also seeking reassurances. Mildenhall Town Council’s Mayor Russell Leaman said: “When a state like Russia says it may take retaliatory action and we have a large drone factory in Mildenhall, it’s of concern. “Day-to-day, I don’t think it will affect too many people, but obviously there are some people that are anxious and worry. It would be nice to have some reassurance.” Asked if the town council had been contacted by the authorities to offer any reassurance, Leaman said it had not. The drone factory is in the West Suffolk Council ward represented by Andy Neal from…

Children swim as ships are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz on August 10, 2026 off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran. Ali Saeedi | Getty ImagesAn oil tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said in a post Thursday, the latest in a string of sporadic attacks that have kept ships away from the vital energy corridor. The incident was reported Tuesday, off the Omani coast, the UKMTO said, which added that the resulting fire had been extinguished, all crew members were reported safe, and an investigation…

Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook participates in a board meeting at the Federal Reserve on March 19, 2026 in Washington, DC.Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesA lawyer for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on Wednesday pushed back on President Donald Trump’s revived effort to remove her from the central bank, telling the White House in a five-page letter that allegations of mortgage fraud against her “remain unfounded and untrue.”Lawyer Abbe Lowell’s defense of Cook came just before the deadline for a reply that Trump aide Dan Scavino set three weeks earlier, when he wrote to Cook that there is “sufficient…

The Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he faced more online homophobia in the weeks since he was appointed than in his whole life.Streeting said he had received an “unbelievable volume” of abuse because people “couldn’t cope” with the idea of an openly gay person leading the armed forces. In an interview with the Iain Dale All Talk podcast at the Edinburgh Fringe, he said his new role was an opportunity for him to demonstrate strength and “to challenge the sort of stereotype that clearly persists in dark corners of the internet”.Homosexuality started being decriminalised in the UK in 1967,…

Vice President JD Vance speaks with reporters after his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, May 28, 2026.Matt Rourke | AFP | Getty ImagesVoters are worried about the cost of living. Comments from the GOP this week are not likely to console them. President Donald Trump, in an interview Wednesday, said the word “affordability” was “devised” by Democrats to disparage him. The Republican National Committee sent out a fundraising text attributed to Vice President JD Vance that said groceries “cost what they cost.” And Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., who won the nomination for a full Senate term on Tuesday,…

Burnham said: “I am in South Wales today because the answers to the UK’s challenges will not come from an echo chamber. They will come from the places that know their own strengths, and from a government willing to listen and then act.”Good jobs in every community, in every part of the UK. That is what I want every leader in this country signed up to.”He will meet the Welsh government’s deputy first minister Sioned Williams at the visit.Williams said the visit was “a positive example of governments working together to improve people’s lives”.She will call for a “fair share…