MADRID — Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in Barcelona. She was 25. EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, international helplines can...

CEO and co-founder of Anthropic Dario Amodei speak onstage during the 2025 New York Times Dealbook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 03, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images A federal judge in San Francisco granted Anthropic’s request for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the Trump...

President Donald Trump is adding his name to U.S. dollar bills, the first time a sitting president’s signature will go on paper currency, the Treasury Department announced Thursday. Trump’s signature will go on the bills in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary, the Treasury said. Historically, paper currency carries the signatures of the treasury secretary...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in Noelia Castillo’s favour earlier this week. Source link

KERICHO, Kenya — Authorities in western Kenya said Thursday they have exhumed at least 33 bodies from a mass grave, and the remains were believed to have been transferred there from a hospital morgue. Homicide detectives exhumed the remains of eight adults and 25 children as well as dismembered body parts packed in gunny sacks...

Iran allowed 10 oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz this week as a “present” to the United States, President Donald Trump said Thursday. Iran made the gesture to show the U.S. “the fact that we’re real and solid and we’re there,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting. The comments provide an answer...

Workers uprooted a statue of fictional fighter Rocky Balboa from its base outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Wednesday and moved it inside where it’ll be the main event of an exhibit celebrating the beloved half-century-old movie. That massive bronze artwork is one of three identical statues, inspired by Sylvester Stallone’s famed “Rocky” franchise,...