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 demonstrated 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 is now escalating to such an extent that the U.S. president is taking an Olympic athlete to court.
A Dutch man driving a flashy convertible performed a life-threatening maneuver in Monaco this week, putting not only himself and his passenger but also everyone else on the highway in mortal danger.
An 11-year-old Canadian boy died of rabies in 2024 after a bat landed on his nose and mouth while he was sleeping in a holiday home in Ontario. The incident was reported earlier this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Starting in January 2028, Sony will discontinue the production of physical discs for new PlayStation games. From then on, new titles will only be available for purchase digitally, via the PlayStation Store or at select retailers. PlayStation announced this in a blog post.
Céline Dept's YouTube channel temporarily surpasses MrBeast as the most-watched in the world
Last Friday, a small plane crashed into the CITIC Tower, Beijing’s tallest skyscraper. The pilot was killed, and 13 people were injured. Several days later, the cause remains unclear.
Identical quadruplets were born at a hospital in Veldhoven, which is extremely rare: worldwide, this occurs in only about 1 in 11 million pregnancies.