Billionaire developer and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso is turning up the heat on city officials, claiming they failed in their duties to manage the devastating Palisades Fire. On Saturday, Caruso shared a new report by Fire Rebuild, an independent watchdog group, alleging that the blaze could have been controlled if local leaders had acted responsibly.
France descended into chaos following Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) Champions League victory over Inter Milan, as violence erupted across the country, leaving two dead and at least 192 injured. The deadly outburst included a 17-year-old boy fatally stabbed in Dax and a 20-year-old mowed down by a car in Paris. In Grenoble, a car plowed into a crowd, injuring several more.
U2 frontman Bono faced fierce pushback on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast after claiming the Trump administration’s disbandment of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) caused 300,000 deaths. Rogan and Elon Musk quickly challenged the singer’s claim, calling it baseless and untested.
Britain is set to implement its largest defense spending increase since the Cold War, aiming to send a clear “message to Moscow,” UK Defense Secretary John Healey said Sunday. The Labour government’s plan will push defense spending to 2.5% of national income by 2027—an increase of £13 billion ($17 billion) annually—and Healey expects it to reach 3% in the early 2030s.
The Trump administration has presented Iran with a new nuclear deal proposal, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Saturday. The plan, delivered by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, marks the first formal offer from the U.S. since negotiations restarted in early April.
The White House is celebrating a significant rise in Americans' personal income, highlighting a 0.8% increase in April—nearly triple the forecasted 0.3%.
A federal judge has ruled that AI chatbot responses are not protected speech under the First Amendment, allowing a wrongful death lawsuit to proceed against Character Technologies and Google.
Hudson County Sheriff’s Officer Justin Rivera, 29, tragically died early Friday after falling from a ninth-floor window at the Hudson County Administrative Building in Jersey City. Rivera, who was on duty with at least two other officers at the time, fell through the window and landed on Central Avenue. First responders rushed him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
