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U.S. airlines began cancelling hundreds of flights on Thursday as the Federal Aviation Administration sought to reduce traffic at the country’s busiest airports because of the government shutdown. ‘Risk is further increasing,’ as overworked air traffic controllers try to keep up, FAA says. U.S. airlines began cancelling hundreds of flights …

With U.S. President Donald Trump choosing not to attend Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments on his tariff regime — saying somewhat uncharacteristically: “It’s not about me” — it looked like the most famous person watching the proceedings would be his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. White House lawyer faces sharp questions …

Zohran Mamdani wasted little time after becoming mayor-elect of New York City before addressing the man who threatened to not only defund the city, but also to arrest and deport him if he won. New York City’s new mayor-elect tells Trump that New York is ready to fight. Zohran Mamdani …

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has been in the news of late, with claims that he has changed his stance on climate change, following a memo he posted on his website. But is that really the case? Scientists say philanthropist’s open letter is misguided. Over the past week, you …

FILE – Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican for Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Pope Francis and deceased cardinals, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini), File) VATICAN CITY— Pope Leo XIV called for “deep reflection” in the United States …

Democrat Zohran Mamdani made history in New York Tuesday, elected as the city’s first Muslim mayor, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an Independent, and Repubican Curtis Sliwa. Voter turnout was highest the city has seen in decades. Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on …

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to go “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria over what he claims to be deadly persecution of Christians are prompting pushback in the West African nation. A long-running insurgency in northern Nigeria has killed thousands, Christians and Muslims included. U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to go “guns-a-blazing” into …

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 66 people dead with 26 others missing in the central Philippines, many in widespread flooding that trapped people on their roofs and swept away cars in a hard-hit province still recovering from a deadly earthquake, officials said Wednesday. Most of the deaths were reported …

In Dobropillia, a coal-mining town just a few kilometres from the front line with Russia in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, its few remaining inhabitants shuffle to find food or water under the constant gaze — and hum — of the drones that now rule the battlefield. Drones now outnumber inhabitants …

FILE – Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka leaves, Feb. 21, 2019, at the end of the opening session of a four-day sex abuse summit called by Pope Francis at the Vatican.(AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, file) PRAGUE (AP) — Cardinal Dominik Duka, a former Archbishop of Prague who was persecuted by the communist …