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Pakistan claims it downed Indian Rafale jets amid deadly cross-border escalation

May 8, 2025

Pakistan says it downed 5 Indian aircraft, stresses right ‘to avenge’

May 7, 2025

Emboldened and out of government, Elon Musk breaks with Trump’s agenda
WASHINGTON — Just days after he left his powerful position as one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, Elon Musk is orchestrating a pressure campaign to sink the mammoth tax and spending package that is the centerpiece of the president’s policy agenda. Musk used X, his social media site, on Wednesday to implore Americans to call…
How Senate Democrats’ campaign chair sees the 2026 map: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, Bridget Bowman speaks with Kirsten Gillibrand, the chair of Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, about how the map…
Grim details revealed in the deaths of three Washington girls as the search for their father continues
Three girls believed to have been killed by their father had been zip-tied and were found with plastic bags over their heads in a remote part of Washington State, according to court documents obtained Wednesday. A prelimin examination concluded that the girls, ages 5, 8 and 9, likely died by asphyxiation, according to an affidavit…
Trump administration cuts ‘Safety’ from AI Safety Institute
The Trump administration says it’s reforming a Biden-era artificial intelligence safety institute, renaming and reformulating one of the only federal government departments dedicated to oversight of the burgeoning technology. Commerce Secret Howard Lutnick said in a news release Tuesday that the Trump administration would transform the former U.S. AI Safety Institute — which former President…
Senate Democrats’ campaign chief says ‘every state’s on the table’ in fight for majority
Democrats will have to win some red states if they have any hope of taking control of the Senate next year, and the senator tasked with leading that effort believes President Donald Trump has given them an opening after he won those states easily months ago. “I look at the map, and every state’s on…
‘Agroterrorism’ arrest in US spurs calls to bring back China Initiative
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have charged two Chinese nationals with smuggling into the U.S. a fungus that could cause significant damage to crops of wheat, barley, maize and rice and has been described as a “potential agroterrorism weapon.” Tuesday’s announcement has triggered calls here to revive the China Initiative, which was established by the U.S.…
Puerto Rican coquí frogs are loud. Islanders want to keep it that way.
For many Puerto Ricans, the nightly chirping of “coh-KEE” — the sound of a tiny frog known as the coquí — is like a national lullaby. But for one purported tourist, the noise felt more like a nightmare, according to a now-deleted Reddit post from May on the Puerto Rico Travel thread. The post, titled…
Toyota Industries buyout is undervalued: UK asset manager
LONDON — Minority shareholders are set to lose out on Toyota group’s bid for Toyota Industries because the tender offer is at a “really low price,” according to the co-founder of British investment firm Zennor Asset Management. “Toyota Motor is getting a different deal, a much better deal, than other shareholders,” said David Mitchinson, a founding partner…
Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident
The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involunt manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store. Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins were charged two days after their son Legend died from…