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The US is withholding Sudan's army chief's UN visa unless he signs a 90-day ceasefire he has refused. The pressure lands as the RSF tightens a siege the UN warns could repeat
Heart of the Beast opens today with a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score, the best critical reception of Brad Pitt's career as a starring performer. Director David Ayer, eight years removed from the Suicide Squad debacle, earns the reviews he was
Casper Ruud gave Team Europe a 1-0 Day 1 lead at the 2026 Laver Cup, defeating Francisco Cerúndolo 6-7(4), 6-4, 10-8 in the afternoon session at The O2 in London. Alexander Zverev's
Trump hosted Xi for a state dinner heavy on ceremony after three hours of talks produced little beyond a two-month trade truce extension. Xi warned of a "Thucydides trap" as press bans
Denmark delivered a joint statement from 51 UN member states demanding Russia accept an immediate, unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine. Lavrov told the Security Council Moscow will not pause the war for negotiations
Benjamin Netanyahu told Zohran Mamdani 'shame on you' during his UN address, calling the New York mayor an antisemite as delegates walked out. Mamdani says the charge is meant to sanitize what
Jos Buttler's left hamstring ended England's promising chase at Headingley on Thursday as Kusal Mendis scored his seventh ODI century to anchor Sri Lanka's 321 for 6. Sri Lanka won by 16
A federal judge declined to approve the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery consent decree at a critical September 24 hearing, telling attorneys 'the court is not a rubber stamp.' With six days until the
Multiple September 2026 compensation reports document a permanent split in the AI labor market: frontier labs pay $600,000 to $2 million for senior ML engineers, while enterprise companies top out at $245,000
World leaders adopted a pandemic preparedness political declaration at the UN General Assembly on Thursday — but the PABS mechanism that would legally require pharmaceutical companies to share vaccines with low-income countries
Iran's FM Abbas Araghchi handed US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner a written 60-day ceasefire roadmap at the UN on September 23. Tehran's proposal phases a Strait of Hormuz reopening against
Team India named a 15-man ODI squad for the West Indies home series with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli returning after two months and Hardik Pandya excluded over fitness — but the
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