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If you wanted a midsize truck 10 years ago, your choices included an aging Toyota Tacoma or an even older Nissan Frontier design. Today, renewed versions of the Chevrolet Colorado, Ford Ranger and Honda Ridgeline have revitalized the segment enough to have spawned a new compact pickup class, led by the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz.They approach light-duty truck utility from different angles. Although it offers a wildly fuel-efficient hybrid engine, the Maverick, with robust towing and hauling limits, plus its bouncy ride and barren interior, is a more conventional pickup. The Santa Cruz is classier and more comfortable,…

President Lee Jae-myung has pledged to tackle the economy and improve relations with North Korea after his swearing-in.South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung has pledged to “heal wounds” after months of political and economic turmoil across the country and to reopen dialogue with North Korea in his first speech after taking office following a landslide win at the polls. Lee, who hails from the liberal Democratic Party of Korea, replaces ousted President Yoon Suk-yeol, who last year triggered a national emergency when he briefly imposed martial law, citing antistate forces and North Korean infiltration. After taking the oath of office…

IKITSUKI, Japan (AP) — On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God.In a special room about the size of a tatami mat is a scroll painting of a kimono-clad Asian woman. She looks like a Buddhist Bodhisattva holding a baby, but for the faithful, this is a concealed version of Mary and the baby Jesus. Another scroll shows a man wearing a kimono covered with camellias, an allusion to John the Baptist’s beheading and martyrdom.There are other objects of worship from the days when Japan’s Christians had to hide…

Washington, DC – There were shackles at her wrists. Her waist. Her ankles. The memory of being bound still haunts 19-year-old Ximena Arias Cristobal even after her release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Nearly a month after her arrest, the Georgia college student said she is still grappling with how her life has been transformed. One day in early May, she was pulled over for a minor traffic stop: turning right on a red light. The next thing she knew, she was in a detention centre, facing a court date for her deportation. “That experience is something I’ll…

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says authorities investigating whether family knew of planned ‘heinous attack’.Federal officials in the United States have taken into custody the family of a man suspected of attacking a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado, over the weekend. In a video on Tuesday, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the family of Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Noem said in the video. “We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this…

Billionaire Elon Musk has renewed his criticisms of United States President Donald Trump’s signature budget bill, calling it a “disgusting abomination” in a series of social media posts. On Tuesday, just days after leaving his post in the Trump administration, Musk offered yet another broadside against the legislation, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk wrote. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.” His subsequent posts laid out the reasoning for his…

A New Jersey mayor has filed a lawsuit against a federal prosecutor and close ally of United States President Donald Trump after he was arrested at a protest outside an immigration detention centre. In a civil complaint filed on Tuesday, Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, accused acting US Attorney Alina Habba of “subjecting him to false arrest and malicious prosecution”. The complaint also names Ricky Patel, a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security’s investigations unit, as a co-defendant. “As a result of this false arrest”, the lawsuit argues that Mayor Baraka “suffered severe reputational harm, emotional…

Before she became co-CEO of promising biotech firm Summit Therapeutics, Maky Zanganeh was a dentist, worked in robotic surgery, launched a blockbuster cancer drug and survived breast cancer. Maky Zanganeh was born in Tehran in 1970, nine years before the Islamic Revolution convulsed Iran. She remembers one night in particular, when the military police tear-gassed a house at the end of the cul-de-sac next to where her family lived and sprayed it with machine gun fire. She and her two older sisters were home alone. “In the morning, we woke up at 7 o’clock and had to go to school…

These 8 entrepreneurs and entertainers, including Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, are setting records and forging new paths—early in their careers. Whether with sold-out stadium tours, unicorn tech startups or viral makeup lines, the youngest members of Forbes’ 2025 list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women have achieved outsized success early in their careers–building fortunes worth hundreds of millions–or even a billion– before their 40th birthday. To make this ranking as a young person isn’t easy. Of the 100 list members, only eight are under 40 this year. That’s down from 11 last year, as a result of two members turning…

An inside look at the launching point for these women entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers. Not all fortunes are created from the same starting point. This year, a small number of the 100 members of Forbes’ 2025 list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women were born into wealthy families. An even smaller number grew up in poverty and battled adversity. Just over half come from middle-class backgrounds. As part of our reporting on how these inspiring entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers built their careers, we delved into list members’ histories, taking into account their family’s socioeconomic status and any setbacks or advantages that…