Saudi Arabia says it won’t establish ties with Israel without creation of Palestinian state – Reuters
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What to know about the El Salvadorian mega-prison Trump has promised to send U.S. prisoners – PBS NewsHour
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and imprisoned citizens to the tiny Central American nation, which has suspended some basic rights as it battles powerful street gangs. The U.S. government cannot
Hunt: Starmer should not retaliate if Trump hits UK with trade tariffs – The Guardian
Keir Starmer should not retaliate if Donald Trump hits the UK with trade tariffs, the former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said, with ministers braced for the president’s latest round of economic measures. The former chancellor told the Guardian the UK did not have enough economic firepower to start a trade war with the US, hours
Binyamin Netanyahu is about to discover if Donald Trump is friend or foe – The Economist
Feb 4th 2025 | Jerusalem and Washington, DC W HEN DONALD TRUMP visited Israel during his first term as president in 2017, the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said their policies were so close that “I think we quote each other.” Eight years later, Mr Netanyahu arrives in Washington for their first meeting since Mr
Today’s Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 5
Whether you’ve been playing Wordle from the very beginning or are starting fresh today, we can help you make the most of your daily game. Take a look at our tips if you’d like to brush up your general puzzling, or spend some time with the February 5 (1327) hint if you need a more
The Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark is here, and my poor RTX 3070 is now crying sub-60 fps tears
Is there a PC gaming experience more universal than poking at graphics settings one at a time, dropping anisotropic filtering and rendering distance from high, to medium, to low, in the forlorn hope of seeing the framerate counter inch over the 60 fps line? I found myself in that familiar spot this afternoon when Capcom
USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos
The United States Postal Services has abruptly stopped accepting all packages from Hong Kong and China until further notice, according to an international service disruption notice posted on the USPS website. The move comes after China imposed retaliatory tariffs on US imports, including coal and liquified natural gas, in response to President Trump’s executive order
Chris Anderson Is Giving TED Away to Whoever Has the Best Idea for Its Future
For 25 years, Chris Anderson has been the maestro of wit, wisdom, and, sometimes, gooey blather that is TED. Since he took over the reins of the small but influential annual conference of “technology, entertainment and design” in 2000, he’s built it into a renowned, if sometimes mocked, conglomerate of “ideas worth sharing” that includes
Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes
On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do. But when they
Snap says TikTok uncertainty benefited its business
During Snap’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said that the uncertainty surrounding TikTok’s future has positively affected its business. “We’re not trying to draw too many conclusions from some of the engagement lift we saw when [TikTok] went dark for that brief period of time. I would say that the overall environment