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Congress left Washington this week without renewing a foreign surveillance law that expires Friday, meaning America’s spy network will lose some of its powers used to thwart terrorist plots. House and Senate Republicans made separate attempts Thursday to pass three-week extensions of the law, but Democrats and a minority of Republican lawmakers blocked them. “I pray that we do not have a serious calamity on our shores over the next few weeks,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, condemning Democrats’ “shameful” and “dangerous” behavior. Democrats are blocking both short- and long-term renewals of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence…

A version of this story first ran in July. It also appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Let’s start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court. The Respect for Marriage Act codifies marriages and came about amid worries among Democrats that the same conservative majority on the Supreme Court that took away the right to abortion will target same-sex marriage in the future. The version that overcame a filibuster in the Senate passed the Senate Tuesday. A dozen Republican…

At least five states have declined to take part in the Great American State Fair, one of President Trump’s marquee events scheduled to begin this month to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday.The withdrawals add to the growing signs that a summer of national celebration has become an increasingly fragmented and partisan affair as Mr. Trump has sought to stamp his imprint on the events.The states known to have withdrawn are Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Oregon, each of which is led by a Democratic governor. Some, like Massachusetts and North Carolina, said they declined to participate in the fair,…

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Kaveh Zahed, Assistant Director-General and Director of FAO’s Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (left), speaks during a press briefing on agri-food system solutions at the GEF Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where he emphasised that agriculture can play a central role in addressing climate and biodiversity challenges. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS by Kizito Makoye (samarkand, uzbekistan)Thursday, June 11, 2026Inter Press Service SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, June 11 (IPS) – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved USD 6.4 million for a new conservation initiative in Papua New Guinea that seeks to protect 700,000 hectares of critical highland ecosystems by placing Indigenous Peoples and…

OpenAI is backing a California AI startup that recently emerged from stealth mode and aims to revolutionize complex automation processes for enterprises.San Francisco-based Poetic completed a $50 million Series A funding round at a $500 million valuation, led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, with Founders Fund and First Harmonic as other participants.What makes Poetic’s product proposition distinctive is the company’s promise of a fundamentally different approach to overhauling some of the processes that underpin key industries such as healthcare, banking and insurance — by using what the vendor says is a “new class of software that learns like AI…

In March 2024, Winfrey hosted a prime-time show on ABC titled An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame, and the Weight Loss Revolution, in which she talked about all things GLP-1, including her personal success on these drugs.[2]“In my entire life, I never dreamed that we would be talking about medicines that are providing hope for people like me who have struggled for years with being overweight or with obesity,” she told People magazine.[3]But she didn’t reveal one setback she’d had on her health journey. In a later interview with People, published in December 2025, Winfrey revealed that just six months after…

(I asked Shah if they were considering any worst-case scenarios more on the doomer end of the spectrum, such as widespread economic collapse. “Certainly not if we’re talking by the end of the year,” he said. That’s only six months away! He laughed. “Okay, a while after that.”) Shah and Fox both think that the only way to understand what might happen when large numbers of multi-agent systems interact with each other is to run realistic simulations. They want researchers to drop AI agents into sandboxes and study what they do. You can’t predict what’s going to happen by studying…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and UFC chief Dana White came together at the State Department on Thursday to discuss diplomacy, not fighting, as they signed a partnership to enhance sports diplomacy. “Everybody loves the fights,” White said, noting that when their cage matches go overseas, they see presidents or royal families attending. “If somebody looks like you, talks like you, and comes from where you come from, and they’re looked at as the best in the world when it comes to fighting, the entire country rallies around them, and it’s a pretty powerful thing.” The signing comes ahead of…

Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of a 10 June strike on Bemani, a small district about 2 miles from the strait of Hormuz.It’s unclear if the strikes deliberately targeted the district’s water tanks, or if they unintentionally destroyed a key reservoir for about 20,000 people living nearby. But if the tanks were the target, then the legal question becomes critical, Brian Finucane, a former state department lawyer, said. “It’s either a military objective or it’s a civilian…