Author: Alade Adisa

Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who has been publicly questioned over her affinity for foreign dictators and promoting conspiracy theories, has been confirmed as director of national intelligence by the US Senate. The Senate voted 52 to 48, with just one Republican – the senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky – voting against her confirmation. Gabbard, 43, faced a tense confirmation hearing last month that saw her respond to questions from both Republicans and Democrats over her past comments sympathetic to Russia and defense of the government of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who she visited in 2017 while…

Angela Sequera heard from her son in immigration detention twice a day every day for nearly five months, until Sunday. That afternoon, another detainee called her with a message that left her panic-stricken: Her son, 25-year-old Yoiker David Sequera, had been taken away to a notorious offshore prison. “Señora Angela, I’m calling to tell you that your son is going to Guantanamo,” she recalled the man saying, “he gave me your number.” “We’re in a country where the laws should be respected,” she told USA TODAY by phone in California, after three days without word from her son. “To me,…

…Ability to enter buildings would relate to financial rules…It could be used if club has not complied with inquiry The Premier League has asked its clubs for expanded investigatory powers, including the right to access club premises, as part of new financial rules. The proposals are included in the latest draft of the squad cost ratio (SCR) mechanism which is expected to replace the profitability and sustainability rules that limit spending. It is understood that the league has asked for the ability to enter buildings in the event that a club is found not to have complied with an inquiry…

A two-day summit in Paris was supposed to bring the world’s leaders together to create a united front AI – but the UK and US left without signing anything. World leaders and tech bros descended on Paris this week, with some determined to show a united stance on artificial intelligence. But at the end of the two-day summit on Wednesday, the UK and the US walked away empty-handed, having refused to sign a global declaration on AI. Earlier on Tuesday, US vice president JD Vance told his audience in Paris that too much regulation could “kill a transformative industry just…

Elon Musk, standing beside President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, defended the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE’s) efforts to drastically cut spending and dismiss workers across the federal government, insisting that Americans voted for major change and the Trump administration is delivering. Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, took questions for the first time since the president gave him broad authority to overhaul the executive branch. “The people voted for major government reform and that’s what the people are going to get,” Musk said, with his young son by his side. “They’re going to get what they voted for.”…

U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about starting negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine. “We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform. The Kremlin said Putin and Trump had spoken for nearly an hour and a half by telephone and that the two men had agreed to meet. Trump has long said…

Don’t let age hold you back: it’s never too late to build a more resilient brain and body We used to think that the only thing that could happen when you get older is that things go downhill. Thankfully we’ve moved past that phase. We now recognise for example that dementia is an abnormal trajectory of ageing. While some change in our cognition is expected, it does not need to interfere with our daily lives. In 2008 Prof Emily Rogalski at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, coined the term SuperAger, defining them as someone over the age of 80 that has memory performance at least as…

Tinubu discusses AI advancement in Nigeria with Google in France President Bola Tinubu has had discussions with Sundar Pichai, who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary, Google in Paris, the French capital city, in images posted by the presidency. The President is currently on a private visit ahead of his trip to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the upcoming African Union (AU) Summit. The president wrote on his official X.com handle: “I enjoyed engaging in crucial discussions about advancing Nigeria’s role in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital innovation with you in Paris, Sundar @sundarpichai. “We…

If walking is becoming difficult and physio isn’t working, cutting-edge treatments could be the next step. But which ones are worth trying? You probably know someone with a dodgy knee, if you don’t suffer yourself. Around 5.4 million people in the UK are estimated to have knee arthritis, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), the most common type in the body. This represents about one in five adults over 45 years old accounting for almost 5 per cent of the global population. The need for effective management and treatment of knee arthritis is critical to avoid the…

Another bout of blackout and loss of income occasioned by businesses shutdown is imminent as Nigerians were thrown into yet another round of power chaos with the nation’s electricity grid suffering a “grid disturbance” just before noon today, causing widespread outages across several parts of the country. The Nigeria National Grid, in a brief statement on X (formerly Twitter), confirmed the collapse but provided little detail on the extent of the disruption. The agency posted, “There was a ‘GRID DISTURBANCE’ before noon today. Parts of the country experienced an outage. Further information shortly,” This latest power failure has sparked outrage…