Author: Rahul M

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. commands “great respect” from Beijing and that he will reach a “fantastic deal” with Chinese President Xi Jinping when the two leaders meet soon.Trump’s remarks come after Beijing infuriated him by expanding export controls on rare earth products that are used in smartphones, fighter jets, electric vehicles and more. Trump spoke as he hosted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House, celebrating an agreement with the U.S. ally as a potential counterpoint to China’s near-monopoly in processing those critical minerals.“I think we’re going to end up having…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media reported Monday.Myanmar is notorious for hosting cyberscam operations responsible for bilking people all over the world. These usually involve gaining victims’ confidence online with romantic ploys and bogus investment pitches.The centers are infamous for recruiting workers from other countries under false pretenses, promising them legitimate jobs and then holding them captive and forcing them to carry out criminal activities. Scam operations were in the international spotlight last…

Nicolas Sarkozy will become the first former French president in living memory to be imprisoned when he is expected to begin a five-year sentence Tuesday in Paris’ La Santé prison.Convicted of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya, Sarkozy maintains his innocence. Regardless, he will be admitted to serve his time in a prison that has held some of the most high-profile inmates since the 19th century. They include Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason because he was Jewish, and the Venezuelan militant known as Carlos the Jackal, who carried out…

Christine Bartolucci/Disney Soap operas are notorious for their high cast turnover rates, but when Chad Duell announced that he was leaving “General Hospital” in November 2024, the show’s devotees sat up and took notice. Duell’s run as Michael Corinthos (the son of the late A. J. Quartermaine and hellraiser Carly Corinthos) spanned fifteen years, taking his character through multiple twists and turns. Why did he leave the soap? Duell needed a change following a personal tragedy. “A lot of stuff’s been going on in my life,” he said on “The Daily Drama Podcast” in…

Google employees working at the company’s Chelsea campus in New York City received a notice on Sunday alerting them to a possible bed bug outbreak at the office. Exterminators arrived at the scene with a sniffer dog “and found credible evidence of their presence,” according to an email obtained by WIRED. The email was sent to all Google employees in New York on behalf of the company’s environmental, health, and safety team.Employees were told to avoid the office until the treatment was complete. On Monday morning, they were allowed to return. Google is performing additional inspections at other Google campuses…

20th Century Fox Thanksgiving is easily one of the most underrated holidays. Many will happily spend November 1 to the Wednesday before Thanksgiving celebrating Christmas, take a two day break for Thanksgiving that Thursday and Friday, and dive right back into planning for the December holiday. The fourth Thursday of November is typically thought of as an amazing day for food, but there are plenty of other ways to enjoy it. When you think about Thanksgiving media, episodes from your favorite sitcom are probably what come to mind. Nearly every…

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, I mean, I was talking to someone before these recent layoffs who’d worked at the CDC previously and had been pretty involved in efforts to study the impact of certain diseases or pandemics specifically on pregnant populations, and this person had told me a while ago, that entire team was gone. They didn’t have many people in place anymore who could look at particularly vulnerable populations from a health perspective, which I found pretty sad and disturbing, but now, I mean, it’s just getting so much worse. It’s getting so much worse.Jake Lahut: And Russell Vought seems…

MGM/UA She’s best known for being a sitcom queen, but Mayim Bialik’s Hollywood journey began in her childhood. The San Diego native was only 11 when she played one of the Wallace kids in the horror film “Pumpkinhead,” the directorial debut of special effects maestro Stan Winston. Her role is a minor one — she has a few lines of dialogue and can be seen taunting her little brother, Jimmy Joe Wallace (Joseph Piro), about the monstrous Pumpkinhead with the rest of her siblings. Little do they know that Pumpkinhead is about…

Folks, buckle up because the market’s throwing a curveball that’s got biotech investors buzzing like never before. As of this writing, early in the trading session on October 20, 2025, shares of Replimune Group Inc. (NASDAQ: REPL) are up a jaw-dropping 108%—that’s right, more than doubling from Friday’s close, hovering around $9.37. If you’re glued to your screens, you’ve probably seen this one lighting up the boards. What’s got everyone so fired up? A fresh nod from the FDA that’s breathing new life into their lead therapy for advanced melanoma. Let’s break it down, because in this wild world of…

Hey, folks, buckle up because the market’s throwing us a curveball today that’s got biotech investors buzzing like crazy. As of this writing, shares of Alto Neuroscience (NYSE: ANRO) are up a whopping 79.93%, trading around $10.94 after adding $4.86 in the morning session. That’s the kind of move that makes you spill your coffee and double-check your screen—did I read that right? You bet you did. But what’s got this clinical-stage pharma player lighting up the tape? It’s all about a fresh update on their lead drug candidate for folks battling tough-to-treat depression, fresh off a promising chat with…