President Donald Trump returns to Mount Rushmore on Friday to celebrate the U.S. national holiday, with events including a flyover, speeches, and fireworks. He returns to the site amid a political climate that is vastly different from that of his controversial visit there in 2020 (see photo).
Pope Leo XIV has excommunicated the ultra-conservative Society of St. Pius X after the group consecrated four new bishops in Switzerland without papal permission. According to the Vatican’s ruling, the bishops in question have been excommunicated, as have the movement’s priests and the laypeople who formally affiliate with it.
China has publicly unveiled a mobile electromagnetic catapult that launches a drone for the first time. Footage on Chinese social media shows how a system of three linked trucks propels an unmanned aircraft into the air using electromagnetic acceleration.
The so-called “Reflecting Pool” was supposed to become Donald Trump’s new showpiece in Washington—a symbol of patriotism and national unity. But instead, it has already been the subject of much negative press. The conflict has now escalated to the point that the U.S. president is taking an Olympic athlete to court.
According to a new report by the British think tank IISS, Russia has been spying on Europe with drones for a year and a half. It may have done so with the help of ships from its shadow fleet. The British think tank documented 144 suspicious incidents in more than a dozen European countries between August 2024 and February 2026 and states that the campaign put the air defenses of NATO countries to the test.
Will the Trump administration change course? OpenAI is pulling out all the stops.
Russian society is anything but united on the invasion of Ukraine. This is evidenced by the growing popularity of Zwarte Vonk.
Kyiv is in mourning following the heaviest Russian attack since 2022. At least 13 people were killed, and Ukraine declared a day of national mourning.
More than one million undocumented migrants have applied for legal residency in Spain as part of an exceptional regularization plan. With the move, Madrid is going against the stricter immigration policies that are gaining ground in the rest of Europe.
In Johannesburg, Malawian gardener Kaunga Nyirenda has been living in fear for weeks. He tells his story to CNN World. In early June, two men suddenly showed up at his door and demanded that he leave the country. “When are you leaving? We want to solve the problems in our country. If you don’t leave now, you’ll leave in a coffin, because after June 30, we won’t need anyone anymore,” they told him. So goes the shocking testimony of gardener Nyirenda to CNN World. It turns out this is not an isolated incident. A movement that opposes migrants and does not shy away from violence is rapidly gaining popularity in South Africa.