United Airlines has a new friend in Queens. The airline is returning to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport again, this time through a partnership with JetBlue Airways. The partnership, called Blue Sky, will allow JetBlue customers to earn frequent-flyer miles on United and vice versa. It also includes …
Read More »Trump gives Putin two weeks. What’s next?
Moscow has done little to dispel that reputation of slow-balling the president in recent days. Putin is yet to deliver a memorandum for a peace agreement that he promised shortly after the two leaders spoke on the phone over a week ago. The Kremlin insists the document is in its …
Read More »Stocks and U.S. dollar rally as Trump tariffs hit court roadblock
SYDNEY — Asian shares and Wall Street futures jumped in Asia on Thursday after a U.S. federal court blocked President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs from going into effect, sending the dollar up on safe haven currencies. The little-known Manhattan-based Court of International Trade ruled that Trump overstepped his authority …
Read More »Israel authorizes more Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank
The top United Nations court ruled last year that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately. Israel denounced the non-binding opinion by a 15-judge panel of the International Court of Justice, saying the territories are …
Read More »Harvard agrees to relinquish early images of enslaved people, ending a long legal battle
BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one of the subjects’ descendants. The photos of the subjects identified …
Read More »Trump commutes sentence of Chicago gang founder after lobbying by Ye
Many Americans may not know Larry Hoover Sr. beyond a passing reference to him in Rick Ross’ 2010 hit single “B.M.F (Blowin’ Money Fast),” in which Ross sings, “I think I’m Big Meech (Woo), Larry Hoover …” But on Wednesday, President Donald Trump commuted the six life sentences that Hoover, …
Read More »Trump admin’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil is likely unconstitutional, judge rules
A federal judge in New Jersey ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s effort to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is most likely unconstitutional but stopped short of releasing him from detainment. In a lengthy order, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz said Khalil was “likely to succeed” …
Read More »No doubt remains: Thunder answer all questions, all critics with dominating win to advance to NBA Finals
We do this thing as sports fans where we say a team or player can’t win it all, until they do. Some fans wanted to break up Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown in Boston until the organization’s patience paid off with a banner No. 18. It’s not new — there …
Read More »Oklahoma City Thunder advance to NBA Finals
Just three years after they finished with one of the worst records in the Western Conference, the Oklahoma City Thunder are now best in the West. The Thunder beat the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday, 124-94, to win their conference finals in five games and advance to the team’s first NBA …
Read More »The internet thinks this video from Gaza is AI. Here’s how we proved it isn’t.
New video posted to social media from southern Gaza became the center of a heated internet debate about whether it was generated using artificial intelligence. The video, which started circulating Tuesday, shows a person in a camouflage-print face covering and baseball cap making a heart sign and a “shaka” sign …
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