With the largest Olympic and Paralympic Games in history approaching, LA28 announced Monday it will open volunteer applications on July 14, the two-year mark before the Olympics officially begin. LA28 is searching for 60,000 volunteers to work during an Olympics that will feature more than 11,000 athletes across 15 days of competition. Volunteer responsibilities range…
FRANCE 24’s Gavin Lee speaks to Aisha Down, the Guardian’s AI correspondent, on why there may be more to the suspension of Anthropic’s “Fable 5” chatbot model and discuss whether there is a risk of a two-tier system for “haves and have nots”, with the chatbot programmed to judge overall trustworthiness and the nature of…
Thereβs the Scottish soccer fan who marveled at our wildly varied landscape and welcoming communities as he walked from L.A. to Boston, arriving in time to see Scotland play Haiti on Saturday. Thereβs the German traveling in the opposite direction from Atlanta who could not get over the wonders of the hospitable South, from Stone…
President Donald Trump has warned France must scrap a 3% tech “sales tax” or face 100% tariffs on U.S. imports of its wines and champagne, the NY Post reported Monday. The president issued the threat ahead of this week’s G7 summit in Γvian-les-Bains, France. “I asked [President Emmanuel Macron] not to charge American companies, and…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ President Trump said Sunday that the United States and Iran have reached a framework agreement to end the war in the Middle East, a breakthrough in months of negotiations aimed at ending the conflict. The deal, described by diplomats as a memorandum of understanding, commits Tehran to forgo the development or acquisition of nuclear weapons…
CHICAGOΒ βΒ Dodgers left-hander Jack Dreyer rubbed a new baseball between his hands as he walked back to the mound, a sold-out Rate Field coming alive around him. Fireworks crackled over the center-field scoreboard. Digital pinwheels spun. Dreyer had just surrendered his second home run of the inning, transforming a low-scoring battle into a lopsided White Sox…
Steven Spielbergβs latest sci-fi thriller, βDisclosure Day,β topped the box office this weekend, an encouraging sign for what could be a big summer for theaters. The film, which stars Emily Blunt and Josh OβConnor, brought in $44 million in the U.S. and Canada for a worldwide total of $92.9 million, according to studio estimates. The…
Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, left, works with Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, at 10 Downing Street in London, UK, on Sunday, June 14, 2026. Andy Rain | Bloomberg | Getty Images World leaders welcomed the U.S.-Iran agreement to end the Middle East war, with some European nations reportedly signaling they were prepared to lift…
Iranβs World Cup team arrived in Tijuana last week bearing gold lapel pins on their jackets honoring the 168 victims, most of them schoolgirls, killed in a Feb. 28 U.S. missile strike on an elementary school in southern Iran at the outset of the war. The World Cup kicked off last week as that war…
The U.S. menβs soccer team isnβt only trying to win games in this World Cup. It is trying to win hearts and minds as well. βWe want the game to grow,β star midfielder Christian Pulisic said. βWe want to get Americans excited to watch this game, to watch our team. Thatβs obviously a big goal…