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WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 29 directing federal agencies to replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence,” or “SI,” in government communications, according to the White House.

The order directs executive departments and…

JERUSALEM — A flydubai flight carrying 174 passengers from Dubai to Tel Aviv was diverted to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after an altercation in the cockpit in which the co-pilot stabbed the pilot and the aircraft plunged nearly 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds, Israeli officials…

Jalen Brunson had already spent much of 2026 learning what it meant to carry New York. On Saturday night, he tried something different: making the city laugh.

Brunson opened the 52nd season of “Saturday Night Live” on Sept. 26, taking the stage at NBC’s Studio 8H less than four months after…

NEW YORK — NBA teams across the league are gathering Monday for media day as preparations begin for the 2026-27 season, with 28 clubs scheduled to meet reporters before training camps officially open on Tuesday.

The Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks held their media days earlier this month…

The Athens building explosion that killed six people, including four U.S. tourists staying in a short-term rental, has put renewed scrutiny on how safety rules are applied to tourist accommodation in Greece, even as investigators have yet to establish the precise cause of the blast.

The…

SANAA — Seven people were killed and 40 injured, including children, in a strike on shops at a market in Yemen’s Taiz province, according to the Houthi-run health ministry, while Yemen’s internationally recognised government said its forces had targeted a Houthi military camp and vehicles at the…

On Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping stood alongside U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House and spoke about a problem that did not exist when the two men first entered national politics: how to keep increasingly capable artificial intelligence from turning a technical failure into an…

FAIRFORD, England — British police arrested several men on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act on Sunday and evacuated residents from homes near RAF Fairford, a southwest England air base used by the U.S. Air Force, as military bomb-disposal experts examined vehicles in the area…

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday moved to cancel $810 million in federal spending approved by Congress, using a rarely employed rescission procedure just days before the end of the fiscal year that has drawn objections from congressional appropriators and a federal watchdog…

BANGKOK — Bangkok authorities declared a flood disaster across all 50 districts on Saturday after almost 48 hours of torrential rain inundated roads and homes, while two people were reported killed in flooding across Thailand, according to local reports.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said…