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Huge attack by Putin's forces saw 27 locations targeted with nearly 500 missiles and drones
Arpan Rai, Tom Watling, Andy Gregory
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool.
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President Trump will meet with his national security team in the White House Situation Room at 1pm on Tuesday to make decisions about U.S. policy towards the war between Israel and Iran, three U.S. officials tell Axios.
Source: The Guardian, AFP, Reuters
Amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, the two nations have engaged in a fifth consecutive day of conflict, with Israel conducting targeted airstrikes on military sites and missile launchers in western Iran. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim they struck a centre of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Also, Iran’s senior army commander has called for residents of Haifa and Tel Aviv to evacuate immediately, Reuters reports, citing the semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr. Iran has previously struck the two Israeli cities over the five days of fighting that began Friday.
Updated 10:06 PM PDT, June 15, 2025
BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) — The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home, bringing an end to a massive, nearly two-day search that put the entire state on edge.
By Eric Ralls
Tiny mammals that weigh less than an ounce should not outlive German shepherds, yet many bats routinely do. Some even clock nearly thirty-five years in the wild, a lifespan that maps to about 180 human years and comes with an astonishing lack of tumors. A University of Rochester team set out to uncover why, zeroing in on four bat species spanning both major bat lineages.
Published on 15/06/2025
An Iranian missile hit the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, one of Israel's most prominent scientific centres, which is known for its technological support to the Israeli military in the fields of artificial intelligence, drones and advanced military technologies.
June 15, 2025
The UK will seek to restart trade negotiations with Canada, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, as he strives to strengthen commercial ties around the world to better insulate Britain’s economy from the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
June 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM PDT
Oil-watchers are bracing for a further price rally after Israeli strikes on Iranian energy assets heightened the risk to Middle East supplies.
Israel temporarily knocked out a natural gas processing facility linked to the giant South Pars field, Iran’s biggest, in an attack on Saturday, and targeted fuel storage tanks during strikes as part of its campaign against Tehran’s nuclear program.
Two Democratic legislators from Minnesota and their spouses were victims of targeted attacks by a lone Republican voter. One legislator and her husband are dead, while the other is in serious condition alongside his wife. The shooter remains at large. In a separate incident, another Republican voter plowed into a crowd at a "No Kings" protest in Virginia, striking at least one person. Additionally, a third "enraged" Republican opened fire during an anti-Trump protest in Salt Lake City, seriously wounding a man, while in Texas, authorities arrested a suspect linked to threats against lawmakers attending the Austin protest, prompting a brief evacuation of the state capitol.
These violent acts reflect the heavy toll Americans are paying for a President whose ego led him to desire a military parade in authoritarian fashion to celebrate his birthday, following his deployment of troops to suppress protests in Los Angeles. His actions have ignited nationwide demonstrations and deepened the already significant divide within American society.
