President Donald Trump said U.S. Southern Command killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known as Niño Guerrero, in a strike coordinated with Venezuela. Guerrero Flores was indicted in New York and accused of leading Tren de Aragua as a transnational criminal enterprise.
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Gene Shalit, the pun-loving movie critic and arts reporter who spent four decades on NBC’s “Today” show, has died at 100. His family said he “passed away peacefully” after “an amazing life.”
A federal judge declined to block a UFC event planned for the White House South Lawn on President Donald Trump’s birthday. The lawsuit challenged the event as an improper private business opportunity and objected to a large temporary structure built on White House grounds.
The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance’s roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, a major step toward combining two historic Hollywood studios. State regulators, entertainment workers and European Union officials continue to scrutinize the deal.
Pope Leo used his Canary Islands visit to defend migrants, condemn traffickers and press Europe to protect people risking deadly Atlantic crossings. The islands received a record 46,843 migrants in 2024, while thousands died trying to reach Spain.
Four Palestine Action activists received prison terms of nearly five to eight years over a 2024 raid on an Elbit Systems factory near Bristol. A judge ruled the criminal damage had a terrorism connection, a finding the defence and supporters oppose.
A federal appeals court rejected Sam Bankman-Fried’s effort to overturn his conviction and 25-year sentence over the collapse of FTX. The panel said prosecutors’ evidence was “robust” and upheld the case against the former crypto billionaire.
US and Iranian officials said a ceasefire deal may be close, but conflicting accounts over sanctions, nuclear terms and the Strait of Hormuz left the outcome uncertain. Pakistan’s prime minister claimed a final text had been agreed, a statement neither Washington nor Tehran confirmed.