KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a large aerial **** ault in and around Ukraine's capital overnight into Tuesday morning, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than a dozen others, including three children, local authorities said.
Ukraine's air force said that Russia began the attack at 6 p.m. Monday, using ballistic, cruise and anti-radar missiles, as well as 218 drones and decoys. About a third of the drones were reportedly jet-powered.
The main targets were the Kyiv and Odesa regions, the air force said in a statement on Telegram.
The overnight strikes marked the sixth consecutive day of Russian attacks on Kyiv, following an unprecedented stretch of air raid alerts that began last week.
The warnings continued at a near-constant pace throughout the rest of the week, forming a sustained, multiday barrage that has increasingly involved the use of fast, jet-powered drones. The relentless attacks have subjected Kyiv and its residents to prolonged danger and disruption, with strikes coming during both the nighttime and daytime hours.

#strikes

Protesters have voiced their opposition to plans to expand Leicester's political boundary to incorporate nearby towns and villages.
The government has announced a major redrawing of local authority boundaries, which will see the city extended into areas currently served by neighbouring councils from 2028.
On Monday, about 50 people demonstrated against the political shake-up which will see communities, including Birstall, Syston, Thurmaston and Anstey incorporated in an enlarged Leicester unitary authority.
The protest took place outside Loughborough Town Hall ahead of a Charnwood Borough Council meeting where councillors voted by 29 to 16 to support a motion opposing the city expansion.
The motion was proposed by the council's Conservative and Green opposition who say some 45,000 people currently served by the borough council will find themselves become part of a larger Leicester authority.

#opposition

In August 2024, a woman wrote to Rebel Creamery to complain about her husband.
She had sent him to the store for Van Leeuwen ice cream and he came home with Rebel. "Your product was placed right next to Van Leeuwen and looked the same," she wrote. "I nearly did the same thing when I shopped! Later, my friend shared the same experience on the other side of the country!"
Two years later, that message turned up in a federal courtroom in Brooklyn, in a ruling that ordered Rebel to hand over $23.785 million and redesign its pints. On Friday, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Utah.
Van Leeuwen ice cream as seen during the Food Network's New York City Wine & Food Festival in 2024.
A screenshot of a picture of a Rebel icream pint on rebelcreamery.com.

#same #wrote #cream #august

The former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row has been found dead.
Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, emergency services said.
Metropolitan Police officers were called by the London Ambulance Service. A 41-year-old man was ***** ounced dead at the scene and his next of kin have been informed, the force said.
Arday resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education last week after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements. He had denied the claims.
In a statement, the Met Police said: "At this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious."

#arday #professor #dead

Aug 11 (Reuters) - Seven workers were killed at a Ukrainian steel plant on Tuesday during a Russian attack on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia in which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Moscow used North Korean ballistic missiles.
The ‌Zaporizhstal plant was forced to suspend production after being hit as Russia pummelled Zaporizhzhia with Zircon hypersonic missiles, ‌guided aerial bombs and ballistic missiles supplied by Pyongyang.
"The ballistic missile strike hit as employees were making their way to a shelter immediately after the air-raid alert was sounded," parent company Metinvest Group said in a statement that put the death toll at seven.
The attack brought production at the plant to a complete halt, and other damaged sites were operating at reduced capacity, the company said.
Regional governor Ivan Fedorov posted photos of buildings and vehicles ablaze after the strike, which also damaged four residential buildings. At least 24 people were injured. No damage ‌was reported at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

#zaporizhzhia #production #strike #damaged

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and the Justice Department are asking the Supreme Court to toss an $83 million defamation verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of ****** ual ****** ault, saying he can't be sued for comments he made while he was president.
It's the second time Trump has asked the justices to nix damages awarded by a jury to Carroll, a longtime advice columnist and former TV talk show host. The Supreme Court refused in June to hear his appeal of another verdict, for $5 million, that found him liable for ****** ual abuse and defamation.
The latest case centers on comments Trump made during his first term as president. The Justice Department wants to invoke the Westfall Act, which shields government employees from being sued for doing their jobs.
"Absent this Court's intervention, the sitting President is facing nearly a hundred million dollars of personal liability for conduct that was well within the scope of his federal office," federal attorneys wrote. "That alone deserves this Court's attention."
The documents were reviewed Wednesday by The ****** ociated Press and expected to be formally docketed with the court shortly.

#Trump #justice #supreme #carroll

As many of its candidates notch electoral wins nationwide, the pre-eminent socialist political group in the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), plans to roll out an updated platform that includes eliminating the Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress.
According to a source familiar with the DSA's planning, the organization plans to roll out an update next week to its long-term vision for a U.S. policy platform. The update includes eliminating the U.S. Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
Additionally, the updated platform would include amnesty for all immigrants and defunding the Department of War.
This would be in addition to the DSA's current policy platform, which calls for an "immediate end to all deportations," free migration between countries without restrictive immigration controls, and "extending full voting rights to people with criminal convictions and noncitizens."
Expert Who Fled Cuba Warns Of 'Vicious Cycle' That Will Lead To 'Communists In Double Digits' In Congress

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles and drones killed at least 12 civilians and injured 40 others in Ukraine on Monday in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as "horrific attacks."
Since Russia launched its all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, its forces have conducted bombing in an effort to destroy Ukraine's infrastructure and sap morale. More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, according to the U.N.
A Russian missile targeting infrastructure struck the central city of Dnipro, killing six people and wounding 29, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said. Russian drones also hit a passenger minibus in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three and wounding six, including a child, Zelenskyy said on social media.
Russian drones also killed a 69-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man in the northeastern Sumy region, National Police said. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a daytime Russian strike killed one person and wounded five others in the northeastern city.
Other deadly attacks occurred in at least six other regions of Ukraine, authorities said. No further details were immediately available.

Rescue efforts are continuing for a third day after two deadly back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening
At least 920 people have been killed and more than 3,360 are injured, according to the latest official figures
An update from acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez on Friday put the number of trapped people at 172
But tens of thousands of people are reported missing on a civilian-led rescue database
The UN's aid chief tells the BBC that today is "crucial" for relief efforts as international rescue teams arrive in the country

By Marie Mannes and David Shepardson
STOCKHOLM/WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - Polestar said on Thursday the Trump administration was forcing the electric-vehicle maker to stop selling vehicles in the United States beginning in the 2027 model year as Washington ramps up its crackdown on ‌Chinese vehicles.
Shares of Polestar fell 5.7% in early trading.
The U.S. Department of Commerce did not grant Polestar authorization to sell cars under ‌the Connected Vehicles Rule, which restricts the import and sale of cars with connected-vehicle technology linked to China beginning with the 2027 model year.
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular connectivity and some satellite communications technologies are covered under the rules based on national security concerns linked to the ability of vehicles to collect sensitive data on American owners.

MILAN, June 18 (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors investigating accusations of "sniper tourism" in 1990s Sarajevo do not currently have enough evidence to seek a trial for any suspects, a source with direct ‌knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.
Milan prosecutors have placed five people under investigation over ‌allegations that Italians and other foreigners paid to shoot at civilians during the 1992-95 siege of Sarajevo, the source said.
The investigation began last year after journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni filed a legal complaint over claims that wealthy foreigners travelled to Bosnia to take part in shooting excursions during the war in the former Yugoslav republic.
The source said the five suspects included a Milan aristocrat who, according to testimony gathered by Gavazzeni, allegedly boasted at a dinner ‌with former schoolmates that he had gone ⁠to Sarajevo to shoot people.
The source said prosecutors currently had only circumstantial elements and no firm proof. "Very frankly, at this moment the prosecutors could never ask for ⁠any of the suspects to be sent to trial," the source said.

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped propel artificial intelligence — stressed in an ****** ociated Press interview Tuesday that society needs to change with the advent of AI, arguing that a fuller embrace of the technology would improve people's lives.
Huang has been optimistic about AI’s potential to rapidly transform society, creating faster economic growth and more scientific breakthroughs. But as the head of a computer chip company now developing AI systems, he and others are confronting a public increasingly concerned about the potential harm the technology might bring. Huang has felt obligated to respond to critics who warn of job losses and threats to humanity itself.
“We need to create new social norms,” Huang said in an interview. “I would advocate that everybody use AI. Just go engage it.”
Huang made his case as AI has emerged as a political flashpoint, with objections to plans to build more data centers and fears that the speed with which it’s being adopted could spur the layoffs of workers who might not have a safety net. Such questions have threatened public support of the technology at a time when a race has kicked off with China, a contest Huang believes can best be won by a U.S. that is open to competing globally in AI.
His close relationship with President Donald Trump also has been a source of criticism among Democrats, even as he emphasized that the computing power created by AI is vital to adding the factory jobs that have been promised for decades without much enduring success. It was an argument delivered by a 63-year-old man who has watched the technology develop and described himself as “boring” because his own life revolves mainly around work and his family.

By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has settled his lawsuit accusing his niece Mary Trump of improperly leaking ‌information to the New York Times for its Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 probe ‌into his finances and his alleged effort to avoid taxes.
Both sides announced a settlement in a letter filed on Tuesday with a New York state court in Manhattan, and expect to seek a formal dismissal in the coming weeks.
No terms were disclosed. A dismissal would be with prejudice, meaning the U.S. president could not sue again.
Lawyers for Donald Trump ‌and Mary Trump did not ⁠immediately respond to requests for comment. The White House referred a request for comment to the president's lawyers.

A woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease saw significant improvements in brain function after taking psilocybin-containing mushrooms.
That's according to a case report recently published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, which focused on an elderly woman who had been living with Alzheimer's disease for about 10 years.
The ***** anese American woman, whose name was not shared, had experienced severe functional decline for roughly five years. The Brazilian study authors described her as having advanced dementia, with very limited speech or communication, severe cognitive impairment, urinary incontinence and reduced mobility.
The Key To Living Longer Could Be Tied To A Surprising Substance, Study Suggests
She also depended on caregivers for ***** istance with daily living activities.