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Morgan Wallen Put That Phone On Airplane Mode, Literally Published June 7, 2026 3:16 PM PDT Morgan Wallen's got an arm on him -- the country superstar was caught on video ripping a phone out
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Broadway's biggest night got off to a glamorous start ... with celebrities strutting into the Tony Awards looking ready for their close-up! The 79th Tony Awards brought out some of the biggest names from the
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UFC Freedom 250 at The White House New Lawsuit Wants To Tap Out Trump's Fight Night Published June 7, 2026 2:30 PM PDT President Trump's plan to host a UFC fight card at the White
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The site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine June 8, 2026. REUTERS Russian strikes along the Ukraine war front line Monday killed four civilians, including a 71-year-old man riding a bicycle, and wounded over 30, authorities said.Two women were killed and four children aged between five and 12 were among 18 wounded in an attack on a residential building in Zaporizhzhia, the regional governor Ivan Fedorov said.Fedorov showed on his social media account pictures of bodies under covers and a smashed up building in the centre of the city, which is about 25 kilometres (15 miles) from Russian lines.In the northeast region of Sumy, governor Oleg Grigorov reported a Russian attack with mortars and drones on the Seredyna-Buda district."As a result of the enemy attack, a 71-year-old local resident who was riding a bicycle was killed," he said.Another Russian attack targeted an apartment block, a bank and a store in Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the head of the local military administration Oleksandr Ganzha said."One person has been killed and four wounded," he announced.At least seven people were wounded in strikes at Sloviansk in the Donetsk region and three more in the Odesa region, local authorities said.Daily Russian attacks that claim civilian lives have intensified in recent months, and Ukraine has hit back with its own drone strikes further into Russian territory, saying these are mainly against military and energy facilities.According to a UN estimate published in April, at least 15,850 civilians have been killed in Ukrainian zones since Russia's invasion was launched in February 2022.Over 2,800 civilians have died in Russian-controlled zones, according to the UN toll, which added that more than 44,800 have been wounded in Ukrainian and Russia-occupied zones. Related Story
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's party won parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results Monday that signalled a victory endorsing the nation's pro-Western shift after threats from Moscow and claims of Russian interference.Pashinyan's push to move Armenia out of the orbit of its former imperial ruler has angered the Kremlin — which claimed the West swayed the result and authorities had pressured the opposition.Pashinyan claimed a 'historic victory' in the election that came after years of turmoil since he was swept to power in a 2018 street revolution.The small Caucasus country is still haunted by Azerbaijan's 2023 military takeover of the Karabakh region, which ended decades of territorial conflict and prompted the exodus of the enclave's 100,000-strong ethnic Armenian population.Pashinyan framed the vote as a choice between lasting peace with Azerbaijan and a return to war.His ruling Civil Contract party secured 49.8 % of the vote, comfortably ahead of the 23.3 % of Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan's Strong Armenia alliance, the Central Election Commission said. The turnout was 59 %.In Yerevan, voters greeted Pashinyan's victory with a mix of relief, hope and unease — some seeing it as a mandate for peace, others warning that Armenia's future remained uncertain.'I am very glad that our people trusted Pashinyan again. What did some people think, that the people would go and elect those corrupt Russian puppets?' 58-year-old welder Aram Mnatsakanyan told AFP.Sargis Harutyunyan, 81, said he feared post-election unrest, warning that opposition street protests 'would not be the right thing in this geopolitical situation'.European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Pashinyan on his win, telling him: 'Armenia can count on us.''The spirit of the Velvet Revolution you led in 2018 is alive and well,' she said on social media.French President Emmanuel Macron said the result would boost 'momentum toward closer ties with Europe'.Pashinyan has drifted from Moscow since 2023, with Armenia criticising Russia not coming to its aid when Azerbaijan recaptured Karabakh.He froze participation in a Russia-led security bloc, signed a strategic partnership agreement with Washington, and set Armenia on a path toward possible EU membership.Moscow has in recent weeks escalated its rhetoric.In a pointed warning, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in May: 'We all see what is happening with Ukraine now... How did it all begin? With Ukraine's attempt to join the EU.'In the weeks before the vote, Russia banned the import of several Armenian products.The Kremlin was widely accused of online misinformation, hacking and pumping out Kremlin-friendly narratives portraying Western cooperation as dangerous.The Russian foreign ministry blasted the vote, alleging it was marked by 'Western interference' and 'unprecedented pressure' on the opposition.It said the results showed Armenian society was divided and that Pashinyan's support was declining.International monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said 'elections offered voters a genuine choice among political alternatives in a well-run process'.'Direct pressure from abroad, in the form of escalating (Russian) trade restrictions and security threats were observed during the campaign, aimed at unduly influencing voters in favour of the opposition,' they said in a statement.'The concentration of arrests and criminal prosecutions against opposition figures contributed to perceptions of selective justice,' they added.Armenia's Investigative Committee said it had opened 59 criminal cases over alleged electoral violations — including people casting multiple ballots — and detained nine people.Pashinyan's opponent Karapetyan — under house arrest on charges he alleges are politically motivated — called the elections 'shameful', denouncing alleged violations and saying dozens of his campaign staff had been arrested.Critics accuse Pashinyan of using the courts, police and administrative resources to pressure opponents.Analyst Armen Badalyan said the result means Pashinyan's party 'won enough seats in the new parliament to form the country's next cabinet'.'But it fell short of the supermajority needed to pass constitutional amendments' demanded by Azerbaijan as a condition for a final peace treaty.Pashinyan hailed a 'historic victory' and pledged to follow a balanced foreign policy, saying Armenia would 'continue the course of rapprochement with the West' while also deepening Russia ties.'I hope this will draw a positive response from Turkey and Azerbaijan,' he said.'We need to institutionalise peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.'
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A federal judge in Washington has been asked to block President Donald Trump’s plan to host an Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts bout at the White House next week and to halt construction of the metal arena structure called 'the Claw' on the South Lawn of the iconic executive residence.Two Washington-area residents in a court filing on Sunday asked US District Judge Amit Mehta to issue a temporary restraining order halting the event, scheduled to coincide with Trump’s 80th birthday on June 14.Mehta Monday asked the lawyers in the case to propose a schedule to hear the emergency request.Dubbed 'UFC Freedom 250', the event is set to feature fighting inside the 92-foot-tall (28 meters), octagon-shaped cage with weigh-ins at the nearby Lincoln Memorial.The lawsuit, filed on Saturday, alleges that authorization of the program by the National Park Service and Interior Department was unlawful and should be set aside.'This nation’s public monuments should not be loaned out for private exploitation,” the plaintiffs said.In a statement, the White House called the case an 'obstructionist, baseless, and dilatory lawsuit” and said the event 'is no different than the various other White House-hosted events on the South Lawn and properly permitted events on the Ellipse and National Mall throughout the year.”The lawsuit contends the event violates rules barring sporting events on the South Lawn and at the Lincoln Memorial, and that construction of the large arena structure requires congressional authorization.Trump is facing other lawsuits over construction projects on the White House and elsewhere in the capital, including his plan to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the site of the demolished East Wing, and his proposal to renovate and close The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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England's Gus Atkinson (left) celebrates the wicket of Australia's Scott Boland with Ben Stokes during the second day of the fourth Ashes Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne, Australia on December 27,
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Nvidia’s entry into the AI PC market with its RTX Spark superchip last week is less a breakthrough for regular users than a high-stakes bet that a largely unproven concept can find wider appeal, analysts said. At the Computex trade show in Taiwan, the chipmaker pitched a future where laptops run large AI models locally and act as personal digital agents, no cloud needed. It’s a claim that PC makers HP and Dell have made for nearly three years now, only to be met with skepticism from Wall Street and consumers, with high prices outweighing tangible benefits. Nvidia, though, appears to be selling a different version of the AI PC than what exists today, one aimed more at developers and content creators who have long favoured Apple’s high-end MacBook Pros. Six companies -- Microsoft, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Dell, and MSI -- will make PCs using the chip. These stocks surged after Nvidia’s announcement on June 1. “RTX Spark doesn’t make traditional PCs obsolete. It creates a new category between the workstation and the AI server,” said Kevin Hein, analyst at Tirias Research. The chip combines a central processor, graphics engine and up to 128 gigabytes of unified memory, making it capable of running large AI models locally, something current AI PCs cannot do at scale. Nvidia says it could reshape how people interact with computers, with AI agents handling tasks such as generating videos or debugging code. Existing AI PCs, marketed heavily over the past two years, have centered on modest features like transcription or image editing and have failed to drive meaningful sales for the device manufacturers and their partners such as Arm and Qualcomm. A premium price and a memory chip crunch, which has already driven up device cost, are likely to limit RTX Spark devices to niche adoption, analysts said. The cost “won’t deter all the big computer makers from working with Nvidia on this, but the bulk of PC sales for the next several years will still be more traditional Windows-based PCs with chips from Intel, AMD and Qualcomm,” said Bob O’Donnell, president at TECHnalysis Research. HP and Dell stock had been climbing even before the launch of Nvidia’s superchip, up 18% and 223%, respectively, so far this year. But that rally has been driven less by AI PCs and more by a wave of corporate upgrades to Windows 11, as well as booming demand for AI infrastructure, particularly for Dell. In its latest quarter, HP warned of a sharp decline in the PC market in the latter half of the year. The company did note strong demand for AI PCs, especially from enterprise customers, although the overall PC business recorded shrinking sales. The outlook for PC sales looks dour this year, with IDC estimating global PC shipments to decline 11.3% in 2026. It is unclear if devices powered by the Nvidia chip will outperform Macs. Nvidia said details on battery life and other metrics would be shared closer to the launch of the products this fall. Still, the Nvidia-powered laptops could make Windows machines competitive with Macs for the first time on memory bandwidth, a key bottleneck for AI software that constantly shuttles data back and forth between a machine’s processor and memory, adding latency. That brings it closer to Apple’s in-house chips, which have bundled unified memory since 2020. “I expect some companies will take the leap to test out the long-term viability of on-device inferencing,” said Tom Mainelli, a group vice president at IDC.
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The US is demanding Iran provide 'precise' information on its enriched uranium stockpile and give the UN nuclear agency access 'without delay', according to a draft resolution seen by AFP Monday.The draft resolution is expected to be submitted for a vote this week to the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that started meeting Monday.Last week, the IAEA in a confidential report reiterated that the lack of access to nuclear sites in Iran constituted a 'proliferation concern'.The draft resolution affirms that it is 'essential and urgent' that Iran 'without delay' provides the agency with 'precise information on nuclear material accountancy and safeguarded nuclear facilities in Iran'.Tehran must also 'grant the agency all access it requires to verify this information', it adds.To be passed, the draft resolution needs to be submitted and approved by the 35-member IAEA board of governors.In a press conference after opening the board of governors' meeting, IAEA head Rafael Grossi said he had 'sporadic contacts with the foreign minister (of Iran) and others, but basically the channel of communication is broken'.'Of course, when you have active shelling or bombing, inspections are not possible, but there are many things that can be done. And the important thing is this dialogue,' he said.The IAEA has not had access to some key nuclear facilities in Iran since Israel, joined by the US, launched a 12-day conflict in June 2025 that included strikes on nuclear sites.Nuclear facilities have also been hit in the latest war, which erupted on February 28. The IAEA has repeatedly urged access.Prior to US strikes in June 2025, the IAEA calculated that Iran possessed approximately 440 kilogrammes (970 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60 %.This is close to the 90 % needed to make a bomb and well above the 3.67-percent limit set by a now-defunct 2015 agreement with Iran.The fate of this stockpile is uncertain.Israel and the US have long accused Iran of wanting to build a nuclear weapon.Tehran has repeatedly denied having any military ambitions, insisting on its right to the technology for civilian purposes.On Saturday, Iran denounced as a 'tool of political pressure' the report by the IAEA expressing concern over its lack of access to Iranian nuclear sites.
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OPEC+ ministers met this weekend to weigh higher production quotas in a bid to cap oil prices that have surged since the Iran war effectively choked off Gulf crude shipments.However, even if the group members vow to ramp up output by thousands of barrels per day, analysts say that geopolitical realities mean they probably won’t move the needle on prices. With the crucial Strait of Hormuz shut since US and Israeli attacks on Iran in late February, oil prices have nearly doubled, igniting inflation pressures worldwide.Ministers from the 21 member states of OPEC+, the main oil producing nations and their allies, are holding their quarterly meeting online. The group is likely to beef up its production quotas by “188,000 barrels a day”, said Jorge Leon, analyst at Rystad Energy, similar to recent increases.However, in reality, only seven members – Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman – have the capacity to do so. Tehran’s threats of retaliatory attacks to US and Israeli strikes have virtually blocked the vital Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of global oil and gas supplies normally pass.That is equivalent to about 20mn barrels a day. With key Gulf producers shut out of the global market, pledges to raise output in a bid to ease spiralling prices are unlikely to sway traders.“Any announced production increases or changes to output targets will have limited practical value,” said Ole Hansen, a commodities analyst at Saxo Bank. “There is very little OPEC can do.”OPEC+ itself says daily production has plummeted to just 33mn barrels a day as tankers remain stuck, compared to nearly 43mn before the conflict. A US blockade on Iranian ports means “it will be even less than that” in reality, said Homayoun Falakshahi, head of crude oil analysis at data firm Kpler.The United Arab Emirates’s recent decision to quit OPEC further saps away at the cartel’s influence, given its huge excess production capacity.And Abu Dhabi has made clear it wants to boost output. “They don’t want to be dictated to, they want to maximise their revenues,” said Lawrence Haar, a lecturer in finance at the University of Brighton in England.And the group risks seeing other countries follow the UAE’s example.“If Iraq were to leave, it could mark the end of OPEC+,” Falakshahi said. Saudi Arabia, by far the cartel’s most influential member, “is going to do what it takes to stop anyone else from leaving”, Falakshahi predicted.That could translate into more flexible output quotas or decreased penalties for any excess production. However, “for now, the compensation framework has effectively become irrelevant due to widespread production shut-ins”, Hansen said.As a result, the Iran war has largely neutralised the group’s stated mission “to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers, and a steady income to producers”.For Falakshahi, the only factor limiting further oil price spikes at the moment is China, “which is buying less oil than normal” by tapping into its vast strategic reserves.
