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Congress has told Trump to stop Iran war- why does it matter?The White House has asked lawmakers to approve $87.6bn (£66.5bn), mostly for “urgent needs” connected with the US war on Iran, a day after Congress passed a resolution rebuking the military action.The bulk of the funding – $67bn – is for the Defence Department, including $21bn for munitions, $17.3bn for operational costs and $12.1bn for classified programmes, said the White House.The other money is for unrelated measures including $11bn for US farmers and $1.4bn to tackle the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.But the proposal faces an uphill battle in…
Watch: Moment quake shakes Venezuela, causing widespread damage and evacuationsVideo filmed by BBC reporters and contributors shows the aftermath, as frantic residents evacuate.2 hrs agoLatin America
Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter.The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than cotton candy.That makes them the lightest known planets of their size, said the University of Oxford’s George Dransfield.“These two planets have densities comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam, fresh from the can,” Dransfield said in an email. She and her team reported their findings Wednesday in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.Dransfield suspects these fluffy, wispy worlds…
WASHINGTON (news agencies) — The Pentagon said Wednesday that boot camps for all the military services are once again requiring the flu vaccination for all recruits after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the shot optional for the military at the end of April.The development, confirmed to media by a Pentagon official, comes amid a growing, weekslong, flu outbreak at the U.S. Air Force’s boot camp at Lackland Air Force Base that has sickened nearly 300 people. However, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details not cleared for public release, maintained that the permission to mandate the…
ReutersTourists with umbrellas outside the Pyramid of the Louvre museum as it closes early due to the heatwaveA heatwave gripping western Europe has led to a series of unprecedented temperature highs, with France experiencing its hottest day ever, the UK seeing record heat for June and Spain reaching its highest daily average since 1950.Tens of millions of people are grappling with punishing temperatures, which hit almost 41C in Paris and have led to red heat alerts across swathes of the continent.France’s national temperature indicator – an average of day and night temperatures across dozens of locations – hit 30C on…
Watch: Two men are making $50,000 to watch the World Cup, with nowhere to hideThe World Cup is ramping up with six matches scheduled each day until the end of the group stage, which makes tuning in something of a full-time job. That is literally the case for Kevin Akoto and Austin Franklin, who are getting paid $50,000 (£37,800) each to watch all 104 World Cup matches.The BBC caught up with the two football fans, just over a week into their roles as Fox One “Chief World Cup Watchers” to see what the experience has been like.It’s hard to miss…
Getty ImagesElon Musk during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024.Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status on Tuesday, less than two weeks after becoming the first person to achieve it following SpaceX’s public debut, according to data from Bloomberg. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index – updated daily at 17:30 in New York (22:30 BST) – valued his fortune at $957bn (£727bn) on Tuesday, down from the $1.11tn valuation less than 14 days ago.The reversal followed a sharp retreat in SpaceX and Tesla shares as technology stocks broadly tumbled, fuelled by growing doubts over the long-term profitability of artificial…
Getty ImagesSenate Majority Leader John Thune (L) and US President Donald Trump (R) speak to reporters at the Capitol.President Donald Trump cancelled his approval of a landmark bill aimed at lowering Americans’ housing costs just hours ahead of a planned signing ceremony at the US Capitol. Both chambers of Congress had earlier approved the legislation in a rare bipartisan move, signalling how pressing the issue has become for American voters across the political divide. Trump wrote on social media that he would not sign the bill until a separate law on stringent voter ID requirements is passed. But unless the…
LIVEScotland take on Brazil with World Cup history awaiting – join the conversationWatch BBC TV coverage, listen to Radio 5 Live commentary and follow live text updates as Scotland take on Brazil in their final Group C game at the Fifa World Cup.
Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAt polling stations across New York City on Tuesday, an electoral storm was brewing.Less than seven months after Zohran Mamdani completed his stunning run to defeat former Governor Andrew Cuomo and become the youngest mayor of New York City in a century, a trio of Mamdani backed left-wing congressional candidates accomplished similar feats.Two of the candidates Mamdani endorsed, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and community activist Darializa Avila Chevalier, unseated incumbent Democratic congressmen.One of the defeated, 79-year-old Adriano Espaillat, had served five terms in the House of Representatives and was the leader of the Congressional Hispanic…