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US President Donald Trump checks his phone as he departs from Trump National golf course in Sterling, Virginia on August 31, 2025, en route to the White House. Andrew Caballero-reynolds | Afp | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Secret Service during a security screening missed finding a gun carried by a member of President Donald Trump’s golf club in northern Virginia while Trump was there, the agency confirmed Wednesday.The member self-reported shortly afterward that he inadvertently carried the gun to Trump National Washington, D.C., in Sterling on Aug. 31, according to a senior Secret Service official.The incident occurred about a year after…

Former Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry said he doesn’t believe L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer attempted to circumvent the NBA’s salary cap by working with a third-party company to surreptitiously pay superstar Kawhi Leonard in 2021″It’s not something I would ever believe,” Lasry told CNBC in an exclusive interview. “I’ve always found him to follow the rules and do what’s right.”Journalist and podcast host Pablo Torre reported earlier this month that Leonard had signed a $28 million sponsorship deal with a company called Aspiration. The deal required the NBA forward to do almost nothing with Aspiration to collect the money.Ballmer…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced the enforcement of climate and agriculture emergencies across Pakistan in response to heavy monsoon rains and widespread flooding that have devastated the country. The decision was approved during a federal cabinet meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday. Shehbaz warned that recent monsoon rains and floods had caused widespread destruction, killing over 900 people, displacing thousands and submerging vast tracts of farmland. Addressing the cabinet, he said assessments were under way to determine losses to key crops such as wheat and cotton. “The danger is not yet over as the flood deluge is moving towards Sindh…

An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesLONG BEACH, Calif. — Air India CEO Campbell Wilson said the carrier has embraced a “new normal” and a stepped-up safety focus following the crash of one of its planes in June, the deadliest aviation disaster in a decade.All but one of the 242 people on board Air India Flight 171 on June 12 were killed when the Boeing Dreamliner, bound for London, crashed seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad in western India. Another 19 other people were killed on the ground.A preliminary report released in July showed confusion in…

Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property oversight hearing of the United States Copyright Office, Nov. 13, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.Mariam Zuhaib | APA Washington-based federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from firing U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter while she appeals a lower court’s ruling against her attempt to stop the administration from terminating her.In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted Perlmutter’s request to reinstate her to the position temporarily and…

Workers picket outside the Boeing Defense, Space & Security facility in Berkeley, Missouri, US, on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. Neeta Satam | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe union that represents striking Boeing defense workers said Wednesday it has reached a tentative agreement with the company, subject to final voting this Friday.The agreement, set for five years, includes better wages and restores a signing bonus, according to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union. Members of the union, largely based in St. Louis, Missouri, will vote on the tentative agreement on Friday morning.Specific details of the new agreement were not…

A District and Sessions Court in Islamabad on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur in the long-pending liquor and arms recovery case, after he failed to appear in court. The court directed that CM Gandapur be arrested and presented on September 17. A case against him has been registered at Bara Kahu Police Station. Judge Magistrate Mubashir Hassan Chishti had issued arrest warrants for CM Gandapur after dismissing his application seeking exemption from personal appearance. Gandapur’s lawyer, Raja Zahoor-ul-Hassan, requested the court to suspend the warrants, citing public embarrassment caused by media coverage. The…

Oracle co-founder, CTO and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison (C), U.S. President Donald Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (R), and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (2nd-R), share a laugh as Ellison uses a stool to stand on as he speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, the war in Ukraine, cryptocurrencies and other topics.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesLarry Ellison became more than $110 billion…

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Religious Liberty Commission meeting at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s order blocking him from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while a lawsuit challenging his removal of her continues.The appeal came a day after U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb, in her decision, said, “The public interest in Federal Reserve independence weighs in favor of Cook’s reinstatement.”Cobb also said that Cook has “made a strong showing” that Trump’s purported removal of…

Iranian authorities shot dead six Afghan migrants allegedly attempting to cross over into the country via Sistan and Baluchestan province, it emerged on Wednesday.  According to a report by human rights group Halvash, the six migrants were killed on September 8 while several others were injured as around 300 Afghans attempted to make past the border crossing. Iranian forces opened fire on 120 migrants, using RPGs [grenade launchers], detaining 40 of them in Sistan and Baluchestan province at the Golshan border crossing.  Recounting two survivors’ accounts, Halvash said that Ehsanullah Tajik, Nasrullah Barkzai, Hezbullah Barkzai, Wai Barkzai, and Basheer Ahmad Barkzai, were among…