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Privacy and civil rights advocates are worried the Trump administration could be persuaded to also lift restrictions placed on NSO Group, an Israeli company that makes the powerful spyware Pegasus that researchers say can turn a phone into a recording device in addition to accessing its contents. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle

Hailey Baptiste of United States plays a forehand against Madison Keys of United States during the Women's Singles Fourth Round match on Day Nine of the 2025 French Open at Roland Garros on June 02, 2025 in Paris, France. Adam Pretty/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Adam Pretty/Getty Images Europe The men's and women's

In conservative Utah, a group of communities joined forces to bring more renewable energy to the electric grid. The group ranges from the state's largest city to rural towns, such as Coalville. Their effort could be a model for other U.S. cities to take climate action, even as the federal government pulls back on clean

A US federal jury ruled Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its co-founders handing a decisive win to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Musk claimed that Altman betrayed the company's founding mission to serve the public good. In the civil lawsuit being tried in a federal court in Oakland, California, Musk

At least four people were killed and more than 30 injured during protests that erupted across Kenya on Monday, as a crippling public transport strike fueled anger over a sharp rise in fuel prices linked to the Iran war and disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz. Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said in a televised briefing a

Two police officers died in Pakistan's northwestern Bajaur tribal district while protecting health workers who were administering the polio vaccine to children on Monday, a security official said. The two separate attacks took place in Bajaur, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The killings came on the first day of Pakistan's nationwide campaign

Russia may celebrate its "no-limits" partnership with China — a phrase coined when President Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met just before the Ukraine war — yet those relations are increasingly one-sided. Although bilateral trade softened last year as a result of lower oil prices, Russia’s goods exports to China have nearly doubled since February 2022, when Moscow's full-scale

The United States and Nigeria conducted fresh strikes on Sunday against so-called Islamic State jihadists in northeast Nigeria's Borno State, the US military said Monday. At least 20 jihadists were killed in the weekend strikes, according to the Nigerian military. The strikes came shortly after another joint operation between the two militaries that killed Abu Bakr

Ostensibly, Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China this week to meet with his counterpart, Xi Jinping, is taking place to mark the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino‑Russian Treaty of Good‑Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.  But the timing of the trip — just days after US President Donald Trump's state visit to Beijing — is noteworthy

North Korea's Naegohyang Women's FC is due to play a South Korean women's team in Suwon on May 20 — the first time Pyongyang has permitted its athletes to travel to the South in more than seven years. For some, it is an indication that the North is deploying "sports diplomacy" to ease strained bilateral