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Blood and plasma donors will be easier to spot from this week with Australian Red Cross Lifeblood permanently replacing its white arm bandages with branded red ones. 

Inter Milan have appointed former player Romanian Cristian Chivu as manager in succession to Simone Inzaghi after four months' experience in the role at Parma.

US stocks have opened mostly lower as investors focused on trade negotiations with Chinese officials in London.

Ukraine’s battlefield prospects against Russia clearly dimmed when the Trump administration took office. Trump has consistently signaled that, at the very least, military aid resembling anything close to that the Biden administration bankrolled would not be forthcoming. Ukraine’s route to a secure and sovereign future thus became much narrower—so much so that a dark pessimism […]

Cheaper pharmaceuticals won’t be on shelves any time soon, says the CEO of Pfizer. That’s despite an executive order signed last month declaring a war on drug prices, which at one point President Trump promised to cut by 90% in 30 days. Pfizer’s Albert Bourla said on Monday that his company and others have been […]

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan was asked in an NBC News interview on Saturday whether Democratic officials in California, namely Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom, could be arrested if they interfered with the lawful execution of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Homan, speaking as National Guard troops were […]

Scrolling through Instagram one day in March, Ashley Light froze on a post showing a map of Texas with her ZIP code highlighted. Then a local reporter showed up. A few days later her bank called and a letter from the state arrived, all confirming what she had seen on social media. Her borderland neighborhood […]

As the protests over Donald Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown continued in Los Angeles, the president threatened to send Marines to quell what he described as “insurrectionist mobs.” “Looking really bad in L.A.,” Trump posted on Truth Social around midnight on Sunday. “BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!” Trump already deployed National Guard troops to the city, over […]

The state of California will file suit against the Trump administration over its move to take control of the state’s National Guard and deploy its troops to Los Angeles to protect immigration enforcement agents, Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a social media post Monday. The governor has argued that local law enforcement agencies were effectively […]

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever gave a convocation speech at the University of Toronto, his alma mater, last week. JACK GUEZ/ Getty Ilya Sutskever says it might take years, but he believes AI will one day be able to accomplish everything humans can. Sutskever, the cofounder and former chief scientist of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, spoke about […]