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The world’s largest wealth fund has excluded Caterpillar, the construction equipment manufacturer, over Israel’s use of its bulldozers to destroy Palestinian property in Gaza and the West Bank.Norway’s $2tn (£1.5tn) fund said on Monday it had excluded Caterpillar and five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds.While the fund has already excluded more than 20 Israeli companies this year, Caterpillar is the first big US company to be removed through the wealth fund’s ongoing review to ensure its investments do not contribute to violations of international law.“There is no doubt that Caterpillar’s products are being used to commit extensive and systematic…

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off on its tenth test flight Tuesday evening, hitting two long sought milestones and putting an end to a string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle lifted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city, at 7:30 pm ET after two scrubs earlier in this week. The rocket ascended on 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines before separating around three minutes after liftoff. On descent, the Super Heavy booster tested out a new maneuver: intentionally shutting down the engines used for landing and transitioning to backup engines. The test will help engineers understand how the Booster…

Keep your scanners peeled: A new Knight Rider is in the works. Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg are in early talks to adapt Knight Rider for the big screen at Universal Pictures, Entertainment Weekly can confirm. Heald, Hurwitz, and Schlossberg are in early talks to write the screenplay and produce, with Hurwitz and Schlossberg in early talks to direct. The trio is also in talks to produce through Counterbalance Entertainment. While plot details are being kept under wraps, Kevin Burrows (The Pickup) and Matt Mider (The Package) wrote an initial draft for the project. Knight Rider…

Aug 26, 2025, 12:46 PM ETNEW YORK — Iga Swiatek is off to a strong start on her quest to win a second straight major as she beat Emiliana Arango of Colombia 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday. She marched into Round 2 in exactly one hour, looking every inch the favorite to double her US Open tally, having earned the title here in 2022. Next up, she will play Suzan Lamens of the Netherlands on Thursday.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedSwiatek has now won 16 of her last 17 matches, a run that includes her first Wimbledon title and a victory at the Cincinnati…

Third time was the charm on Tuesday for the launch of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days. The success of this 10th flight proved the spacecraft had overcome its past failures key to the Mars rocket’s reusable design.The stainless steel behemoth, 403ft (123 meters) tall, lifted off from the company’s Starbase in southern Texas at 6.30pm local time (2330 GMT), to loud cheers from engineering teams, a webcast showed. This mission was to be a test of the ship’s new heat shield tiles and satellite deployment abilities, among hundreds of other…

new video loaded: Journalist Mariam Dagga Killed in GazaBy Shawn Paik•August 26, 2025Colleagues mourned Mariam Dagga, the visual reporter who was among the five journalists killed on Monday by Israeli strikes on a southern Gaza hospital.Recent episodes in InternationalInternational video coverage from The New York Times.International video coverage from The New York Times.Show more videos from International

Running back Elijah Mitchell of the Kansas City Chiefs runs during the first half of a preseason game between the Chiefs and Arizona Cardinals on Aug. 9, 2025 in Glendale, Ariz. (Photo by Bruce Yeung/Getty Images)Getty Images Elijah Mitchell is in, and Carson Steele is out. Those are the final results, following Tuesday’s mandated cut down to 53 players. “Everybody can’t make the team,” Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said. “It’s a tough day. That’s not part of the job you like, but inevitably you got to almost cut half a team. So, that’s not an easy thing.”…

Microsoft president Brad Smith hosted an impromptu press conference on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after protesters gained access to a building at the company’s headquarters and held a sit-in demonstration inside his office.Seated on the edge of his desk, in the office that had been occupied by protesters earlier that day, Smith addressed a group of reporters and viewers on a live stream. “Obviously, this was an unusual day,” he said, the camera shaking as he spoke.The protesters were part of the No Azure for Apartheid group, which on several occasions this year interrupted Microsoft’s public presentations to demand that…

SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket racked up some much-needed successes on its 10th test flight, hitting key test objectives and breaking a streak of failures that bedeviled the spaceship this year. The silver and black two-stage rocket, which stands about 400 feet tall, blasted off from the SpaceX facility in south Texas near Boca Chica Beach right when the launch window opened at 7:30 pm ET on Tuesday evening. The largest and most powerful rocket ever built, Starship…

@taylorswiftPop superstar Taylor Swift has announced she is engaged to her partner Travis Kelce.In a post on Instagram on Tuesday, Swift wrote: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”She accompanied the post with photos showing Kansas City Chiefs star Kelce proposing to Swift.The photos showed the pair embracing and holding hands, showing her diamond engagement ring.The post had more than 18 million likes within four hours.Fellow celebrities were also swift to congratulate the pair, including singer Avril Lavigne and supermodel Cara Delevingne on Instagram.Kelce’s team declared “today is a fairy tale” in a post on X. “Congrats…