ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conduct an immigration raid at a home in St. Paul, Minnesota. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo |
- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push and is laying out a process to deal with allegations of past misconduct among recruits, the agency said in an internal email, underscoring concerns about ICE's rapid expansion.
- Most Americans share President Donald Trump's view that immigrants living illegally in the US should be deported, but generally disapprove of his hard-line tactics, including masked agents in tactical gear who have clashed with US citizens, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
- The FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, now the FBI director and White House Chief of Staff, when they were both private citizens in 2022 and 2023 during the federal probe of Donald Trump, Patel told Reuters.
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- Iran pledged to show flexibility at indirect talks with the United States on their longstanding nuclear dispute, with Tehran under pressure to agree to a deal or face US military strikes.
- Cuba says it's killed four heavily-armed exiles, and wounded six, who sailed into its waters on a Florida-registered speedboat and opened fire on a Cuban patrol. Daniel Trotta is in Havana and tells the Reuters World News podcast this clash off the coast comes at a time of soaring tensions with the US.
- The president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, said he was stepping down, a few weeks after the forum launched an independent investigation into his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Hillary Clinton is due to testify to a congressional committee investigating Epstein.
- In the days surrounding Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's February election win, several dozen X accounts linked to a Chinese misinformation campaign attacked her deeply conservative views and hawkish approach to China, said a US research institute focused on national security and foreign policy.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter attended a military parade held in Pyongyang, state media footage showed, amid speculation that she is being groomed as a potential successor.
- Images of debris from Russian strikes on Ukraine strongly indicate that Moscow has used a cruise missile whose development led Donald Trump to quit a landmark nuclear pact in his first term, two experts said, confirming earlier Reuters reporting.
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How China is masking drone flights in potential Taiwan rehearsal |
A satellite image shows large drones at Qionghai Boao International Airport on Hainan Island, China, September 3, 2025. VANTOR/Handout via REUTERS |
A large Chinese military drone has conducted regular flights over the South China Sea in recent months while transmitting false transponder signals that made it appear to be other aircraft, including a sanctioned Belarusian cargo plane and a British Typhoon fighter jet. Military attaches and security analysts scrutinizing the operations say the flights represent a step-change in China's gray-zone tactics in the contested South China Sea and appear to be testing possible decoy capabilities in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. |
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Artist's impression of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, image released on February 25, 2026. Gabriel Diaz Yantein, Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro/Handout via REUTERS |
In Argentina's Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape including the fearsome meat-eater Giganotosaurus, at about eight tons, and immense long-necked plant-eater Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 tons. But this was no mere land of the giants, as a newly described fossil shows. Researchers have found a well-preserved and nearly complete skeleton of one of the world's smallest-known dinosaurs, named Alnashetri cerropoliciensis. |
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