The Italian annual inflation rate rose slightly less than initially estimated in April. The Japanese April PPI rose +2.3% m/m and +4.9% y/y. Japan’s monthly wholesale inflation jumped in April by the most in 12 years. The U.S. import price index jumped +1.9%.
Salt is mostly already in the foods we eat, rather than something we sprinkle on top. Having a one-off, high-salt meal isn't going to impact your long-term health. A diet packed with fruit and vegetables will contain potassium, which can counteract some of the impact of salt.
New Ebola outbreak kills 65 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far. An Ebola outbreak from 2018 to 2020 in eastern Congo killed more than 1,000 people. The new outbreak has been confirmed in a remote province of eastern Congo, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Texas Children's Hospital plans to create the first "detransition clinic" in the U.S. The clinic will provide free sex-change detransition services for its first five years. All services provided through the Detransition Clinic will be funded by Texas Children’s.
The State Department said it was offering the island $100 million in aid. The aid would have to be distributed "in coordination with the Catholic Church and other reliable independent humanitarian organisations", bypassing the Cuban government. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel suggested on X that Cuba would be open to receiving aid from the US.
Guyana’s Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud says Guyana is interested in attracting U.S. investors to the mineral, oil and gas-rich country in the coming months. The visit comes amid concerns in the U.s. governmen about Guyana. The Trump administration is increasingly eyeing Latin American energy and minerals.
A jury found Peters guilty in August 2024 of allowing a person affiliated with MyPillow founder and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell to access Mesa County voting systems. He says Peters committed a crime, and he was personally disgusted with what Peters said about the 2020 election. “We have to make sure our justice system is blind and fair.”
Lebanon was dragged into the Middle East war on March 2 when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Israeli attacks since then have killed more than 2,900 people in Lebanon, including more than 400 since the truce took effect. The Israeli military said another of its soldiers was killed in southern Lebanon.
Russkaya Obshina is the biggest of a network of nationalist groups in Russia. The number of raids it has carried out has rapidly increased in the past two years. It is not registered to do this, in spite of the police's involvement in some of its raids. The Russian embassy in London said the broad public support reflects the growth of interest in national culture.
Weinstein had been in a New York prison serving a 23-year sentence after his initial conviction in 2020. Weinstein is currently serving 16 years in prison for a 2022 rape conviction in California, which he has appealed. Some of those accusations generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and California.
One body has been found in a cave in the Maldives. The other four are believed to be still inside the cave. The cave is so deep that even the best equipment can't reach them, officials say. The cause of the incident is still unknown, but is believed to have been caused by a landslide.
Musk’s lawyer Steven Molo argued that Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman broke their promise to use money Musk donated to maintain OpenAI as a nonprofit. Musk testified that he discovered OpenAI had abandoned its nonprofit mission only in 2022, when Microsoft was preparing to invest $10 billion in OpenAI.
Turkish authorities face an uphill battle in winning widespread buy-in to partner with the US. “The Chinese will give you whatever you want on paper, and then keep Turkey occupied for years just to prevent the country from developing anything with any other partner,” says one expert. The US has long eyed the possibility of partnering with Turkey on rare earths.
Court-appointed lawyers called Trump’s lawsuit against his own administration “unprecedented” in a court filing. They said there was “no blueprint” for resolving his $10 billion claim against the IRS. The legal experts also pointed out that the government failed to point to potential defenses against the laws.
Gold traded at 4,544.53 dollars an ounce on Friday, down from 4,688.75 dollars on Thursday. The pound fell against the dollar to 1.3319 dollars on Friday afternoon from 1.3480 dollars. The price of silver was 8.5% lower from the day before and copper 5.0% lower.
Court-appointed lawyers called Trump’s lawsuit against his own administration “unprecedented” in a court filing. They said there was “no blueprint” for resolving his $10 billion claim against the IRS. The legal experts also pointed out that the government failed to point to potential defenses against the laws.
The president did not explain which types of risks, but when asked by a reporter if this will mean biological, nuclear or cyber, Trump nodded yes and said, “Could be, yeah.”Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Thursday that the U.S. can hold AI talks because the country is “in the lead”