'Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else,' Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, wrote. ... Read full Story
Sophie Chandauka, the chair the Sentebale, says Prince Harry unleashed 'the Sussex (PR) machine' on her earlier this week when he resigned from the HIV/AIDS charity he co-founded. ... Read full Story
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated Sunday that his country had rejected holding direct talks with the Trump administration over its nuclear program but is willing to begin indirect talks. ... Read full Story
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Rebel officials are using elephants to help remove debris from roads closed by a massive earthquake that struck the southeast Asian country of Myanmar last week. ... Read full Story
Ukraine’s air force reported that Russia fired 111 exploding drones and decoys in the latest wave of attacks overnight into Sunday. ... Read full Story
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A specialized U.S. Navy dive team and a Polish engineering team joined the search for four missing U.S. Army soldiers whose armored vehicle sank in a Lithuanian peat bog on Tuesday. ... Read full Story
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Hamas' leader in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya, on Saturday said the terrorist group has agreed to release five hostages, including the American-Israeli Edan Alexander, as part of a 50-day cease-fire proposal. ... Read full Story
The Tesla Takedown movement hoped to rally protestors at 277 of the automaker’s showrooms in the U.S., as well as over 230 Tesla locations in other parts of the world. ... Read full Story
In his first statement since he was briefly hospitalized on March 27, Charles said that he was 'shocked and saddened to learn of the devastating earthquake in Myanmar.' ... Read full Story
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More than two million supporters of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu took to the city's streets in protest demanding his release after being arrested on corruption charges. ... Read full Story
'Many accusations and many allegations have been made. And of course we are open to criticism,' Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said. ... Read full Story
Elon Musk says his $33-billion sale of X to an AI company he also owns will make his social media platform an accelerator for "human progress." ... Read full Story
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The death toll from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar rose to more than 1,600 people on Saturday, one day after the quake, which was also felt in neighboring Thailand and China. ... Read full Story
A large-scale investigation into the Indigo bookstore vandalism, involving more than 70 police officers and 10 nighttime raids, is unlikely to achieve a single criminal conviction. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 3/28/2025 2:52 PM
Lithuania's President visited the site Friday where a M88 Hercules military vehicle was found submerged in a muddy forest bog, but four U.S. troops remain missing as crews work to get the vehicle out. ... Read full Story
Trump repeated his desire for U.S. control of Greenland on Wednesday. "I think we have to do it, and we have to convince them,” he said. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 3/28/2025 12:24 PM
Israel carried out an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs Friday in a first such attack since the Nov. 27 cease-fire agreement that ended the war with Israel. ... Read full Story
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Five people and 3 companies were sanctioned Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department for alleged involvement in a sanctions evasion network. ... Read full Story
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Top executives of South Korea's defense giant Hanwha Aerospace sought to calm angry investors at Tuesday's shareholders' meeting in Seoul. ... Read full Story
"Sly Lives! is exceptionally strong in its attention to musical detail—even more than Questlove's previous cinematic effort, the Academy Award–winning Summer of Soul, Sly Lives! feels like a film made by a great musician. The film's interviewees offer illuminating ruminations on Sly's vocal arrangements, including his penchant for switching back and forth between unison vocal parts and harmonized ones ..." — Jack Hamilton, Slate, 13 Feb. 2025
Did you know?
English has multiple p-words that imply a strong instinct or liking for something, including propensity and proclivity, but to keep things precise, penchant is the proper word for implying a pronounced, persistent taste in a person ("a penchant for pretty pendants") or a predominant predilection for performing particular actions ("a penchant for petting penguins"). Penchant traces back all the way to the Latin verb pendere, meaning "to weigh," but is more immediately preceded in English by the French word penchant, from the present participle of pencher, meaning "to incline."