Tom Skerritt, who won an Emmy for playing a hard-working sheriff in “Picket Fences” and appeared in hit films including “Top Gun” and “Alien,” has died, his family confirmed Thursday. He was 93.

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Tom Skerritt, who appeared in films including “Top Gun” and “Steel Magnolias,” has died at 93.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin told Vesti journalist Pavel Zarubin that Russians and Ukrainians are not merely close, but are genetically one people, citing recent studies. He said he respected the historical political division of the broader Russian nation and added that everything was negotiable.

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Russia agreed during contacts with the United States to continue trilateral talks on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said. Referring to his recent meeting with US special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, Putin said Russia was ready to resume consultations involving Russia, the United States and Ukraine.

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A US envoy met Putin in Saint Petersburg on Wednesday, after the Kremlin agreed to restart peace talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the United States.

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Dmitry Peskov said Abu Dhabi is currently being considered the main venue for trilateral talks among Russia, the United States and Ukraine. He also accused Volodymyr Zelensky of trying to redeem himself by recalling his grandfather’s wartime service, amid what Peskov called Ukraine’s current neo-Nazi policies.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Abu Dhabi is being considered as the venue for trilateral talks involving Russia, the United States and Ukraine. He declined to say whether Russia’s negotiating team was preparing written documents or proposals.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump asked Musk to end Starlink’s slowdown. The paper previously reported that Musk, a critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had ordered SpaceX’s Starlink service to be slowed.

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The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials, that President Donald Trump called Elon Musk and asked him to remove restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Starlink.

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The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, reports that Donald Trump asked Elon Musk to lift restrictions on Starlink’s military service in Ukraine. Trump was frustrated by a speed cap of about 160 kilometers per hour. U.S. and Ukrainian officials said the system began working “more normally” after their call, and Ukrainian drone commanders said the limits had been lifted, though testing continued.

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DeWine condemned Ramaswamy’s ad, saying it was wrong to run it and calling on him to remove it.

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Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton called a campaign attack ad by Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy “despicable.” The ad features Acton’s estranged mother and has sparked political backlash. Ohio’s secretary of state is reviewing complaints that it may initially have aired without a legally required disclaimer identifying who paid for it.

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Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine condemned a controversial ad featuring the estranged mother of Democrat Dr. Amy Acton.

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Calley Means, a key adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a central advocate of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, is leaving the Trump administration.

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Calley Means, a close aide to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., resigned on Thursday from his post as a senior adviser in the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Under new Airbnb guidelines, hosts may set only “reasonable” cleaning duties. Tasks such as washing dishes and stripping beds are now the homeowners’ responsibility.

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Airbnb has revised its rules to limit the tasks hosts can expect guests to complete at the end of a stay. Washing dishes has been removed from the to-do list.

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The EU has given its top human rights award to the International Criminal Court, two weeks after US President Donald Trump vowed to dismantle the court with fresh sanctions.

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The European Parliament says this year’s Sakharov Prize honors the International Criminal Court for its “important work in upholding international law and justice.” The Hague-based tribunal has faced intensifying attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.

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The International Criminal Court and officials working there have received the EU’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, an official said Thursday. The award followed by days the Trump administration’s sweeping sanctions on the court, imposed as part of a campaign to dismantle it over investigations involving the United States and its allies, including Israel. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said the prize recognizes the court’s work upholding international law and justice.

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The International Criminal Court has received the European Union’s 2026 Sakharov Prize, the EU’s top award for human rights work.

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The International Criminal Court has won the European Union's Sakharov human rights prize.

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The European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize to the International Criminal Court as a show of support after the United States imposed sanctions on the institution.

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Microsoft says its multi-agent Diagnostic Orchestrator achieved up to four times doctors’ diagnostic accuracy in tests based on published medical cases and emergency department data. The study, published in Science, found the system outperformed physicians, but Microsoft says clinical validation is still needed before wider deployment.

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Braden Peters, known by his stage name Clavicular, has been arraigned in Massachusetts on a charge of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family’s home on Cape Cod.

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Social media influencer Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, denied charges including felony rape, drugging someone for sex and providing alcohol to a person under 21. He is accused of assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his family’s Massachusetts home in 2025. Peters says the encounter was consensual. A judge granted $10,000 bail and ordered him not to contact or post about his accuser and to surrender his passport.

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A global assessment says nearly all of the world’s coral reef ecosystems face a high risk of collapse over the next 50 years, mainly because of warming oceans and heat waves.

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A UN nature-adviser assessment coordinated by the IUCN finds that global heating puts 96% of coral reefs across more than 80 countries at risk, up from 24% already classed as critically endangered. Scientists say rapid cuts to fossil fuel use and strong local conservation could still help reefs survive.

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