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The shift to the right in Latin America comes as Washington promises to expand its influence and take a militaristic approach to cartels.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting three South American countries whose recently elected leaders are closely aligned with President Donald Trump’s administration.Rubio will visit Colombia on Tuesday to meet with newly elected President Abelardo de la Espriela. He will then visit Ecuador to meet with President Daniel Novoa, before heading to Peru to meet with the other newly elected leader, Keiko Fujimori.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe State Department has not yet released a…
Traders at work at the New York Stock Exchange on April 17, 2026. new york stock exchangeDow Jones Industrial Average Futures Stocks fell on Monday to begin a shortened trading week as Wall Street monitored wars in the Middle East and rising trade tensions between Canada and the United States.Futures tracking 30 stocks fell an average of 308 points, or 0.6%. S&P500 futures It fell 0.2%. Nasdaq 100 futures It bucked the trend and rose 0.1%. (U.S. markets were closed on Monday due to the Labor Day holiday.)Oil prices rose to a six-week high Monday night after Iran and the…
On September 6, 2026, an Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway and crashed at Miami International Airport (MIA) in Miami, Florida. A Boeing 767-300 operated by 21 Air as Prime Air Flight 7598 overshot the runway and burst into flames on Sunday, killing at least five people and closing the airport’s runway. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAn Amazon cargo jet that crashed at Miami International Airport on Sunday overran the runway by about 1,300 feet and struck vehicles both inside and outside the airport’s boundaries, killing multiple people, federal officials said Monday. At least five people were killed and…
AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF — and, as of last week, terms like “opaque recurrence,” the reasoning technique in OpenAI’s new Astra model that’s got AI safety researchers rattled. The vocabulary moves fast enough to make even very smart people in the tech world feel a little insecure. This glossary is our attempt to fix that: plain-English definitions of the AI terms you’re most…
Air Canada’s Bombardier CRJ-900LR aircraft seen at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, on October 5, 2025. Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said Monday. bombardierThe Canadian airplane manufacturer must manufacture its products in the United States in order to continue selling in the American market. The move comes amid a bitter trade war between the United States and Canada and on the eve of retaliatory tariffs scheduled to take effect on a wide range of American products on Tuesday. “Bombardiers are no longer selling in the US!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “If…
President Trump once again targeted the aircraft manufacturer, accusing Canada of misconduct and threatening to block sales in the United States.Published September 7, 2026September 7, 2026US President Donald Trump has said that Canadian-based aircraft manufacturer Bombardier can no longer sell in the US unless it starts manufacturing aircraft there.”Bombardier is no longer selling in the US! Their product is not good enough!” President Trump said in a social media post on Monday. “If they want our market, they have to build here and stop treating America like a ‘piggy bank.'”Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listPresident Trump’s comments come…
Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt — The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a historic victory in the eastern region of Saxony-Anhalt. This is the closest a far-right party has come to coming to power in a German state since World War II. The party leadership and its leading candidates were overjoyed when the results were read out, cheering and applauding their “historic” victory with 44% of the vote, according to preliminary results. The victory gave the AfD 39 of the 83 seats in parliament, just short of the 42 seats needed for an absolute majority. The party may need to form…
Ships near the Strait of Hormuz seen from Musandam, Oman, on August 31, 2026. Stringer | ReutersOil prices rose to a six-week high on Monday as tensions in the Middle East escalated after the United States and Iran traded strikes over the weekend.brent crude oil Futures, the international oil benchmark, rose 1.5% on Monday to $97.73 per barrel, and at one point reached $97.93 per barrel, the highest since July 23. west texas intermediateThe dollar, the U.S. oil benchmark, rose 1.8% to $93.10, also its highest since late July. “If you attack our assets, you will be attacked too,” Iranian…
london — A pilot project to trial a ‘calm space’ for neurodivergent tube travelers in London has been met with bewilderment and mild derision from the public due to the size, design and location of the new shelter. The initiative by Tube and bus authority Transport for London (TFL) aims to support neurodiverse travellers, who make up more than one in 100 people in the UK who are on the autism spectrum. Many of them face severe sensory disturbances due to noise and crowded spaces. In the experiment, a small open-fronted pod made by US company NOOK was installed at…
Laura Olivas | Moments | Getty ImagesHigher gas prices at the end of summer mean drivers are paying more for gas on Labor Day than ever before.Additionally, the holiday weekend is one of the busiest weekends of the year, which means road trip prices may be higher than usual, according to car rental company Hertz. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline on Monday was $4.15, the highest price ever for the holiday, according to AAA. AAA says prices have never exceeded $4 a gallon on Labor Day. The previous highest price was $3.82, achieved on September…