BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a solemn ceremony on Aug. 15, the day then-Emperor Hirohito announced in a crackly radio message that the government…
xAI CEO Elon Musk paid a rare compliment to his rival Google on Wednesday. “Outside of real-world AI, Google has the biggest compute (and data) advantage for now, so currently has the highest probability of being the leader,” Musk wrote in an X post. But that “may change in a few years,” he added. “For…
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday could be a decisive moment for both the war in Ukraine and the U.S. leader’s anomalous relationship with his Russian counterpart. Trump has long boasted that he’s gotten along well with Putin and spoken admiringly of him, even praising him as “pretty smart”…
Orlando Bloom may be navigating post-breakup life, but he’s making sure he’s keeping the souls around him adorable. The Carnival Row actor was spotted leaving the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood on Tuesday with his partner in crime, Biggie Smalls. © The Grosby GroupOrlando and Biggie were spotted leaving the San Vicente Bungalows after…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived on Wednesday in Berlin for a virtual summit with European officials and United States President Donald Trump, convened by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The call was meant to bring European leaders together with Trump before the planned August 15 Alaska meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Those on…
View of the Anchorage skyline from the Don Young Port of Alaska on Tuesday. (Bill Roth / ADN) Local officials, military personnel and businesses are scrambling to figure out basic details and get ready for an influx of visitors ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit Friday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in…
A federal appeals court rules the Trump administration can withhold $4 billion approved by Congress for global health programs and more than $6 billion for HIV and AIDS prevention. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption toggle caption Ben Curtis/AP A federal appeals court handed President Trump a victory on Wednesday. The court ruled that the administration can…
Martina Navratilova joins reaction to viral claim on Baltimore Ravens and Elon Musk’s Tesla proposal (Image via Getty) Martina Navratilova, the famous Czech-American tennis star, cheered a social media post saying the Baltimore Ravens did not take a $500 million Tesla sponsorship offer from Elon Musk. This reaction came on August 13, 2025, when she…
Rosie O’Donnell is still getting used to shopping for a smaller wardrobe with her “new smaller body.” The 63-year-old actress is one of many celebrities on weight loss drugs, but she’s one of the few who are being honest about it. © Ethan MillerRosie O’Donnell has been on a weight loss journey for over a…
Donald Trump is looking to relax environmental rules for commercial spaceship companies. In an executive order titled “enabling competition in the commercial space industry” that he signed on Wednesday, he said it’s imperative to national security that the private rocket-ship industry increase launches “substantially” by 2030. That would mean, according to the executive order, that…