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Colombia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Saturday accusing Ecuador of "deliberate interference" in its presidential election, alleging that Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa meddled in the...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday at the Mackinac Policy Conference that she would not seek the presidency in 2028, then walked back the statement hours later, saying "never say never" a...

NATO condemned what it called Russia's "recklessness" after a drone crashed into an apartment building in Galati, Romania, a NATO member state, injuring two people and sparking a fire on the building's 10th floor. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/etn-T-CW

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first direct mass measurement of a supermassive black hole in the early universe, finding it weighs 50 million solar masses and appears to predate its host galaxy, which existed just 700 million years after the Big Bang. Read more about this story here: https://lnkd.in/eqKDzsev

Hungarian police announced Friday that they would not ban the Budapest Pride parade scheduled for June 27, reversing the position taken under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose government had created a legal basis for blocking such events. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/ezx9ymQP

A federal judge in Virginia on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, barring any transfers of money to the fund, consideration of claims or disbursements while litigation proceeds. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eq7CRePs

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a hotfire test at Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, around 9 p.m. ET on Thursday. Blue Origin confirmed an "anomaly" had occurred and said all personnel were safe. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ewwc6PYf

Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Friday for a closed-door transcribed interview about the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which included nearly 3 million pages of material. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/e38jqBG8

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had directed the military to take control of 70% of the Gaza Strip, up from the 53% Israel held under the terms of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that took effect in October. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/ezYM6wuJ

Incidents of guerrilla violence have erupted across Colombia in the lead-up to the first-round presidential election on Sunday, prompting the national government to deploy troops to reinforce security in certain rural communities. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eJrbPEWu