Former Alaska Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman, an engineer by training with Russian ancestry, told RIA Novosti the Bering Strait tunnel is technically doable but warns of 'tremendous resources' required, offering the most credible American engineering voice yet on Moscow's grand infrastructure wager.

European Council President Antnio Costa said Ukraine's EU membership bid will not feature at the G7 summit in vian a deliberate choice that reveals how Brussels is keeping enlargement inside its own sovereign process, away from the transactional politics of great-power summitry.

The 33rd World's Largest Casino Chip and Collectibles Show opens Thursday at South Point, drawing dealers from across the globe to buy, sell, and appraise artifacts from casinos that no longer exist. It arrives as Las Vegas confronts a sharp question: what does the Strip owe its own history?

More than 80 cybersecurity executives signed a letter Sunday asking the Commerce Secretary to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Several of the signatories published research just nine weeks earlier warning those same capabilities were alarming.

China's government debt has crossed 100 trillion yuan for the first time, but the headline obscures a more uncomfortable truth: Beijing is now spending nearly a fifth of its central budget servicing that debt, the fastest-growing line item in its budget over the past decade.

On one day in June 2026, the Epstein files forced a reckoning on two continents at once: a disgraced British royal watched Garter Day from exile, a Texas Democrat ran anti-Epstein ads bankrolled by a man who visited Epstein's island, and the U.S. Vice President's office stood accused of turning the Situation Room into a cover-up chamber.

On the same day a Madrid court is expected to rule on whether Begoa Gmez stands trial, her lawyer is found to be collaborating on the defence of former Prime Minister Zapatero a convergence that turns Spain's judicial calendar into a single political crisis for Pedro Snchez.

An Oslo court sentenced Marius Borg Hiby to four years in prison Monday for two rape convictions and 32 other offences, the verdict falling on the same family already reeling from Crown Princess Mette-Marits public admission of ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Scooter Braun called Sydney Sweeney his 'good luck charm' on Instagram after the New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Championship, three months into a publicly tested romance that also sat the couple a few rows behind Taylor Swift in Game 4.

Kim Kardashian threw a celebration on Instagram as boyfriend Lewis Hamilton claimed his first Ferrari Formula One win at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with sister Khloe, Chicago West, and True joining in.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is preparing to release findings of a supervisory review of nine major banks accused of closing accounts on political grounds, as U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro opens a parallel criminal probe under the FIRREA statute.

The Contexto answer for Monday, June 15, 2026, is BLACKBOARD. Puzzle #1366 resets at midnight and delivers a ten-letter classroom staple that sits at the exact center of one of the game’s most coherent semantic fields in recent weeks. Players who started with school-related vocabulary found themselves converging quickly. Those who opened with food or ...

Monday’s Quordle today arrives in the form of Game #1603, and it is, by the standards of a June morning, deceptively tidy. No repeated letters. No Q, Z, X, or J. Four vowels in play across the grid. On paper, that sounds manageable. In practice, the opening-letter spread across all four boards forces players into an uncomfortable juggling act from the ...

Monday morning has a way of asking something of you before the coffee even kicks in. For millions of daily solvers, that ask comes in the form of a New York Times Mini Crossword, the deceptively compact five-by-five grid that has quietly become one of the most-played daily puzzles in the world. Monday’s edition almost always skews accessible, and June 15, ...

KPMG International refused to protect its own whistleblower and redirected him to the Australian arm he was exposing. Now Canberra has frozen more than $270 million in contracts and ASIC has opened a formal investigation.

Qiddiya Investment Company has unveiled plans for a 33,000-seat National Tennis Centre in Riyadh designed by Populous and built to ATP, WTA, and ITF standards as Saudi Arabia moves from renting marquee events to owning the infrastructure that makes them possible. The announcement comes months before Riyadh's expiring WTA Finals hosting deal runs out, ...

Emma Raducanu's runner-up finish at Queen's Club under coach Andrew Richardson has answered the coaching continuity question that defined her career since 2021. Wimbledon now poses a more demanding test.

Scottie Scheffler enters Shinnecock Hills chasing the career Grand Slam and his 30th birthday on the same Sunday a convergence that challenges everything the world No. 1 has built his dominance on.

Bud Cauley ended eight years of struggle and near-tragedy at TPC Toronto on Sunday, chipping in on the 12th to seize a maiden PGA Tour victory in his 239th start and earning a spot at the US Open that begins Thursday at Shinnecock Hills.

Washington is quietly rebuilding its tariff architecture through Section 301 after the Supreme Court struck down IEEPA duties and Beijing is watching without responding. The November 10 deadline for the US-China trade truce is approaching with no extension in sight.

FIFA opened an investigation into Australian VAR official Shaun Evans after he appeared to flash a white supremacist hand gesture during a live World Cup broadcast before Germany's 7-1 victory over Curaao then quietly stopped showing VAR panels on air without explaining why.

Rafael Jodar arrives at Queen's Club as the fifth seed having never played a professional match on grass. The 19-year-old Spaniard's draw Buse, then Nakashima or Fucsovics, then a potential De Miaur quarter-final is either the crucible that forges his year or the surface that exposes its limits.

Lewis Hamilton's 106th Formula 1 victory his first for Ferrari didn't just end a 686-day winless drought in Barcelona. It cracked open a title race that Mercedes thought it owned, and handed Fred Vasseur the harder problem: keeping a volatile team calm at precisely the moment it has every reason not to be.

Donna Vekic won the HSBC Championships women's title with a 6-0, 7-6(8-6) victory over Emma Raducanu on Sunday, but the Briton's runner-up run at Queen's her first grass-court final likely secured her a Wimbledon seeding after months of illness-enforced absence.

Monday’s New York Times Spelling Bee arrives with an unusually loaded center letter, a compact but demanding letter set, and a crown pangram that most players will recognize the moment they see it and still struggle to unlock. The puzzle for June 15, 2026, built around the letter H and six supporting letters, A, C, E, I, P, and T, produces a grid that ...