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The brief shutdown of El Paso airport by the Federal Aviation Administration because of safety ‌concerns posed by the use of a military laser-based anti-drone system was unacceptable, said the top Democrat on the Senate’s commerce committee said on Thursday. Source link

Syrian government forces have taken control of a base in the east of the country that was run for years by U.S. troops as part of the war against the Islamic State group, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Source link

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and the deaths of two U.S. citizens is nearing an end, U.S. President Donald Trump’s border czar said Thursday. Source link

Vizsla Silver Corp.’s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel. Source link

Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the U.S., Iraq is one of the most overlooked, at least outside the Middle East. But U.S. reaction to the reappearance on the political scene of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki — a candidate for the job once more — is a sharp reminder of the tightrope […]

The Trump administration is expected this week to rescind a legal opinion that has guided emissions controls in the U.S. since the Obama era, withdrawing the so-called endangerment finding of the Environmental Protection Agency. Source link

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington to discuss U.S. nuclear talks with Iran, but nothing definitive was decided. Meanwhile, thousands in Tehran marked the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Source link

The International Olympic Committee is not an organization that generally begs, but they are begging Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych not to compete in a customized helmet showing the faces of more than 20 Ukrainian athletes and coaches killed since Russian invaded Ukraine in 2022.  Source link

James Van Der Beek, the actor best known for his role on 1990’s TV show Dawson’s Creek, has died. He was 48. Source link

Over the decades, Greenland has gained more autonomy from the Kingdom of Denmark. But recent threats from U.S. President Donald Trump about taking over Greenland has brought the autonomous territory closer to the country that colonized it. Source link