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New York, Nov 20 (IANS) US President Donald Trump may be aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize, but he is also sending mixed signals about a conflict that could escalate to a war with Venezuela. As he ratchets up the confrontation with Venezuela’s Russia and Cuba-aligned President Nicolas Maduro, he is co-opting it into his war on drugs, rather than framing it as regime change in a country that is an outpost of anti-US radicalism. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called Maduro the boss of Cartel de los Soles, which the US has designated as a narco-terrorist organisation, anointing…

KYIV, Ukraine — A plan to end the war in Ukraine, negotiated between the Trump administration and Russia, would require Kyiv to surrender territory, significantly reduce the size of its army and relinquish some types of weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal. The 28-point proposal, drafted without Ukrainian involvement, reflects the maximalist demands the Kremlin has made throughout the war, which Ukraine has long denounced as amounting to capitulation. Parts of the plan were described by two officials who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly — one Ukrainian and one who…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers recovered more bodies in the search for people buried under landslides in two areas of Indonesia’s main island of Java, raising the confirmed deaths to 23, officials said Thursday.Workers dug through tons of mud and rubble with nearly two dozen excavators in the Cilacap district of Central Java province retrieved four bodies Wednesday after landslides triggered by torrential rains last week hit dozens of houses in three villages, said Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency.The finds raised the death toll to 20 in that area. He said the search for three people…

US President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order that would seek to challenge state efforts to regulate artificial intelligence through lawsuits and the withholding federal funding, WIRED has learned.A draft of the order viewed by WIRED directs US Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an “AI Litigation Task Force,” whose purpose is to sue states in court for passing AI regulations that allegedly violate federal laws governing things like free speech and interstate commerce.Trump could sign the order, which is currently titled “Eliminating State Law Obstruction of National AI Policy,” as early as this week, according to four…

Bill Inoshita/CBS Contains spoilers for “NCIS” Season 23, Episode 6 — “Page-Turner” Tim McGee (Sean Murray) has long been a moonlighter, keeping a double career as the author of the “Deep Six” books under pen name Thom E. Gemcity, and as an NCIS member. But the man who plays him doesn’t think he ought to go pro with it. “I think McGee was very successful early on in this Thom E. Gemcity outings, and I think maybe he’s not quite at the level that he was at one point,” Murray told…

Archive Photos/Getty Images When it comes to Thanksgiving, television tends to do the heavy lifting in terms of representing the holiday on screen — with things like the legendary “Friends” Thanksgiving specials and “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” being what families gather to watch over their turkey and stuffing — that is, other than parades and football, of course. When pressed to come up with movies about Thanksgiving, there’s a certain John Hughes-directed comedy classic starring John Candy and Steve Martin that most people immediately name, but not much else. In fact,…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang didn’t need any prompting on Wednesday to address the elephant in the room. “There’s been a lot of talk about an AI bubble,” he said on an earnings call before quickly getting to his main point: “From our vantage point, we see something very different.”Huang went on to spend about five minutes trying to explain how the chipmaker, which has soared to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company over the past three years, would be able to sustain unprecedented customer demand. His thesis is that AI is taking over the world, and Nvidia chips…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several high-ranking Army officials, including Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, are in Ukraine to help with peace talks, U.S. officials said Wednesday, as Trump administration efforts to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine have stalled.Driscoll had been planning a trip to Ukraine for some time to discuss the country’s drone warfare innovations and tactics, but last week President Donald Trump decided to identify him as a kind of “special representative” to kick-start peace negotiations and conduct a fact-finding mission, one of the officials said.That official confirmed Driscoll is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week as…

LOS ANGELES — A former Olympic snowboarder who allegedly became the head of a billion-dollar drug trafficking organization has been charged with ordering the murder of a witness against him earlier this year, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles.Authorities said Ryan Wedding, a Canadian who is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, issued an order to kill a witness in a 2024 federal narcotics case against him.The order resulted in the victim being shot to death in a restaurant in Medellín, Colombia, in January 2025, prosecutors said.Wedding, 44, is believed to be…

Google DeepMind has hired the former Chief Technology Officer of Boston Dynamics as the company pushes deeper into robotics. Aaron Saunders, who is partly responsible for giving the world backflipping and dancing machines, joined as the VP of hardware engineering earlier this month.The hire is a key part of CEO Demis Hassabis’ vision for Gemini to become a sort of robot operating system, similar to how Google supplies its Android software to an array of smartphone manufacturers.“You can sort of think of it as a bit like an Android play […] We want to build an AI system, a Gemini…