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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf speaks at a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2, 2025.Shadati | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesIran’s chief negotiator has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of staging “theater diplomacy,” as Washington and Tehran offer conflicting accounts of bilateral engagement aimed at ending their months-long hostilities. “‘Massive attack coming … wait, never mind, they want to negotiate.’ That’s theater diplomacy on loop,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and top negotiator, wrote in a post on X on Thursday in an apparent jibe at Trump.The remarks came days after Trump called off planned strikes…

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is seen in the U.S. Capitol after a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., March 26, 2026.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesMeta was ordered to pay $567 million into an abatement fund in New Mexico as part of a public nuisance case that’s just one of many suits the company faces related to alleged harms caused by its apps. The fund comes on top of the $375 million in civil penalties that Meta was forced to pay earlier this year when it was found to have violated…

Arrests of migrants working illegally in the UK have doubled since Labour has been in government, the Home Office has said.It said more than 17,000 arrests had been made since July 2024, a 122% increase on the previous two years, with a record number of immigration raids and arrests in the last six months. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: “This surge in enforcement activity takes us to the highest level in British history. Illegal workers and rogue employers have nowhere to hide.”Reform UK said Labour was “insulting the intelligence of the British public” with these new figures.The number of people…

Horror story NFH made headlines when reports surfaced about a 2021 incident in which a Kentucky man in his 30s began visibly crying, pulled his knees to his chest, and shook his head as he was wheeled into surgery to have his organs harvested. The man, Anthony Thomas Hoover II, had overdosed and had been unresponsive for two days before his family agreed to donate his organs, believing he would not recover. But as the organ retrieval neared, he began showing signs of improvement, which allegedly went ignored by organ procurement workers while making the hospital staff deeply uncomfortable. NFH’s…

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives with incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh for Warsh’s swearing-in ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersAfter years of hostility toward the Federal Reserve, President Donald Trump has lately taken a new tack. He treats Chairman Kevin Warsh as almost a member of the Cabinet.There is nothing in U.S. law that requires the Fed chairman to hang up if the president calls, and it is arguably beneficial for the nation’s two most influential economic policymakers to understand where each is coming from.But Trump’s embrace of Warsh…

Grindr CEO George Arison in New York, June 4, 2026.Emma Rose Milligan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGrindr is betting that artificial intelligence can do more than just improve the dating app experience. It believes AI can simultaneously create a new premium subscription business while also dramatically changing how quickly its engineers build software. “Our strategy has always been to use AI everywhere we can,” said CEO George Arison in an exclusive interview with CNBC.The LGBTQ-focused dating platform on Thursday reported second-quarter revenue of $138 million, up 33% from a year ago. The company also raised its 2026 guidance and now…

In a profile for WalesOnline, external, Gwenllian said of her husband’s death: “It was a very difficult time for me but it taught me so much about myself. It taught me to have empathy, that really grew during that time.”I can empathise with lots of people in vulnerable situations but it also taught me, ‘gosh, well, if I can do that, I can do anything’.”The article was posted to a WalesOnline Facebook account, which highlighted the tragedy in the headline.In the comments on the post, the Reform branch account said: “We have all had family tragedies, but we don’t use…

The incident has already spurred Roderich Kiesewetter, a lawmaker and member of the German parliament’s intelligence committee, to more directly describe Russia as being responsible for the “attempted act of terrorism.” As a major hub for air cargo, Leipzig/Halle airport frequently oversees the transit of shipments for NATO and the German military. It is also the current home base for Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines, which operates a charter cargo service fleet that includes the world’s largest operational cargo aircraft, the Antonov An-124 Ruslan. The incident also evoked a potentially telling reaction from Alexander Sosnowski, a pro-Kremlin propagandist who regularly appears as…

Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 11, 2025.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersElon Musk’s DOGE promised to slash $2 trillion in federal spending and to make the federal workforce lean and efficient. But even the cost savings it has claimed in an online “Wall of Receipts” of the smaller amount of $110 billion didn’t check out, according to a report the Government Accountability Office published Thursday. The GAO evaluated $110 billion of savings DOGE claimed on a website with its “Wall of Receipts” from cuts including…

Brian Chesky, chief executive officer of Airbnb Inc., during the Airbnb annual product event in San Francisco, US, on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAirbnb reported second-quarter results that topped analysts’ estimates and issued a better-than-expected forecast for the current period, citing strong demand “across all regions.” The stock jumped 9% in extended trading on Thursday. Here’s how the company did compared with LSEG’s consensus of analyst estimates:Earnings per share: $1.37 vs. $1.25 expectedRevenue: $3.61 billion vs. $3.58 billion expectedRevenue climbed 17% from $3.1 billion a year earlier, Airbnb said in a statement. Net…