House backs Russia sanctions

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2026-06-05 12:59

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By Kate Turton

Hello. In the US, the House backs Russia sanctions and Ukraine aid as the Senate passes a $70 billion bill for immigration enforcement. Meanwhile, Hezbollah rejected a new ceasefire in Lebanon and Israel said it would not withdraw troops from the country.

Plus, drone crashes and severed fingers at a $13 billion Silicon Valley military startup.

Today's Top News

Firefighters work at the site of a car repair workshop damaged during Russian strikes. Kyiv. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo

The US House of Representatives passed legislation to provide aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on Russia, the latest sign that some Republicans are willing to defy party leaders and push back ‌against President Donald Trump.
The Senate handed Trump a victory, passing a bill that would provide the Department of Homeland Security with an additional $70 billion for immigration enforcement and sending it to the ‌House of Representatives for final consideration.
The US State Department has waded into a British political storm that has erupted over the murder of a student in England, condemning what it called "ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing". This as Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for Elon Musk to stop interfering in UK politics.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah militia rejected a new ceasefire in Lebanon and Israel said it would not withdraw troops from the country, undermining the US president's efforts to halt fighting there and forge peace with Tehran. Here's how Trump's ceasefires are failing to stop Middle East violence.
Most of the 13 US treatment centers in a government-funded hospital network for severe infectious diseases are ready to handle patients, including those with Ebola if needed, even as plans for US citizens exposed to the virus but with no symptoms to be quarantined in Kenya persist.
The flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite has been confirmed in a Texas calf, after advancing through Mexico over the past year. Cassandra Garrison tells the Reuters World News podcast, the timing couldn't be worse, warning that one confirmed case likely means more are coming.

Business & Markets

A cargo ship full of shipping containers is seen at the port of Oakland, California. August 4, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Trump's threat to slap new tariffs on trade partners the US accuses of failing to crack down on forced labor will do little to fight modern slavery — and could even make things worse, experts, business groups and some human rights groups ‌say.
S&P Global said it was not changing the requirements for entry into its major indices, dealing a setback to Elon Musk's SpaceX by ‌effectively ruling out a swift entry for the world's biggest-ever IPO into the benchmark S&P 500 index.
The US Supreme Court in a pair of rulings backing the power of federal agencies has reaffirmed limits it previously imposed on government regulators but rejected bids by challengers to push those constraints into new territory.
South Korea's labor minister called on the country's major tech firms to share the spoils of their massive windfall profits, warning that unprecedented chip-sector gains stemming from the AI boom risked widening a gap in inequality.
A months-long dispute between Trump administration officials and AI firm Anthropic is showing signs of easing across parts of the US government as the company prepares to go public, according to sources familiar with the relationship.
Anthropic said frontier AI developers should establish a coordinated, verifiable way to slow down or temporarily pause development if advanced systems begin improving themselves faster than society can manage the risks..

The Week Ahead

Sunday is elections day, with, Armenia holding parliamentary elections, along with Kosovo holding its third parliamentary election in 16 months as the country grapples with growing polarization, and Peru holding national runoff elections for president.
On Tuesday, primary elections will be held in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina.
On Thursday, the ECB is set to become the first among the biggest central banks to hike rates since the Iran war.
Later the same day the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off.
Here's what you need to know about the coming week ‌in financial markets.

Drone crashes and severed fingers at a $13 billion Silicon Valley military startup

A South Korean Navy V-BAT unmanned aerial in the waters off Busan, South Korea, September 26, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo

A year ago, Ryan Tseng, the head of US defense tech startup Shield AI, announced his company had turned a new page.

After a gory incident that partially severed a US Navy official's fingers during a test of its V-BAT drone, Shield AI had addressed safety concerns with new landing gear and warning stickers near the propeller.

"(The) aircraft is, tip to tail, just a radically better airplane," Tseng told Forbes last year.

Now it's happened again.

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And Finally...

An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event. Handout image released on June 15, 2018. NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA/Handout via REUTERS

After five decades of trying, astronomers have finally discovered the wind emanating from the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, though it turns out it is more of a gentle breeze than a hurricane.

Using data from the Chile-based ‌ALMA telescope and NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, the researchers viewed the cosmic neighborhood around the black hole - called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* for short.

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