Donald Trump has issued a stern warning to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ... warning him to stop blowing up Russian oil refineries -- while also saying Ukrainians need a new leader.
POTUS made the statement outside the White House on Saturday, saying President Zelensky could've reached a peace agreement with Russia on many occasions, but he's simply choosing not to.
DJT says he explicitly told Zelensky not to go after oil refiners in Russia ... but the Ukrainian prez has allegedly done it anyway -- and he'd "damn well better stop."
He then goes on, "I suggest [Ukraine] get a new leader who can make a deal."
Nicolás Maduro -- the former Venezuelan president who was deposed by the United States government earlier this year -- and his wife have been charged for allegedly torturing Americans.
The DOJ announced Thursday it has charged Nicolás and the former First Lady of Venezuela, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, with conspiring to commit torture, narcoterrorism, cocaine importation conspiracy, and weapons offenses.
FBI Director Kash Patel claims the Maduro regime tortured countless Americans while they were in Venezuelan custody. Patel alleges these Americans were tortured with a variety of methods, including "drugs, electric shock, sexual assault, and more.”
A worker at a Russian anti-plague lab is dead after coming down with a mystery case of pneumonia ... and the fallout has nearly 200 people under medical watch.
The 28-year-old woman worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East, and Russian officials say she died last week from pneumonia of an undetermined origin.
The situation got serious enough that the hospital facility where she was treated was quarantined ... while Russian media reported nearly 200 people who had contact with her were placed under precautionary observation.
An Australian man was captured on camera chasing his young daughter around a house in Indonesia before killing her, his son, and himself.
4-year-old Laura and 6-year-old Archie and their 56-year-old father, Damien John Shaw, were found dead in the southern Bali home after their mom asked a worker to check on them ... according to Australian outlets.
The mother was reportedly out of town and got worried when she could hear her daughter crying while on the phone with Shaw before the call got cut.
President Donald Trump's table at the state dinner he hosted for Chinese President Xi Jinping sat billionaires whose combined net worth is nearly $1.13 trillion ... or roughly the same amount as Poland's entire GDP.
Among those guests seated at Trump's table Thursday night were Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife Lori, AMD CEO Lisa Su, her husband Daniel Lin, and Apple executive chairman Tim Cook.
It's time to take out your calculators ... Musk's current net worth is $918 billion, Huang's is $195 billion, Cook's is $3.1 billion, and Su's is $3.5 billion.
Bernie Sanders says the A.I. arms race is getting way too dangerous for countries to keep playing chicken ... and he wants the U.S. and China to hit the brakes together.
Charlie got the Senator from Vermont in D.C. Monday and asked what happens if China beats America to superintelligence ... and Bernie's answer was basically, nobody wins.
As you know the A.I. warnings are piling up ... Tristan Harris told us A.I. could threaten nuclear security, while ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned it could wipe out humanity by the end of the decade.
Bernie says President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping need to use their upcoming meeting to negotiate a ban on superintelligence and a pause on advanced A.I. development.
Police launched a desperate search for an American family after their small plane apparently crashed off the coast of the Bahamas ... and officials say two grandparents and their two grandchildren were on board.
In a statement, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said a PA-34 Piper five-seater aircraft with four people aboard took off from Great Harbour Cay late Monday morning en route to Opa-locka, Florida, and apparently crashed about 45 minutes later off the coast of Red Bays, North Andros in the Bahamas.
It's unclear what caused the plane to plummet.
The RBPF also said air traffic control lost contact with the plane about 13 miles west of Andros Island, noting that bad weather had prevented them from searching for the family for a period of time.
Shangri-La may be a state of mind ... but that paradisal mindset was wrecked when people at a monument named after the famous city had to run for their lives from a massive rockslide!
You have to see the video taken at the Shangri-La Tiger Leaping Gorge scenic area in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China's Yunnan Province from earlier this week ... which shows huge rocks tumbling down the mountain -- while people just taking in the view sprinted from the potentially deadly debris.
The rocks slip into the rushing river below ... and, thankfully, reports indicate no one was injured during the sudden slide.
Chilling video from inside a passenger ferry shows travelers scrambling for life jackets ... just moments before the vessel capsized and sank off the coast of Cyprus.
The footage shows panic spreading as passengers hurriedly pull on life vests and prepare to abandon ship ... shortly after the ferry began taking on water Sunday.
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The vessel was carrying 267 people -- 259 passengers and eight crew members -- from Kyrenia in northern Cyprus to Taşucu, Turkey, when it ran into trouble just a few miles offshore.
A Mexican bull-running festival turned deadly over the weekend ... with two people killed and 11 others injured as raging bulls tore through the streets.
Video circulating online shows one man being relentlessly trampled by a bull ... and in another clip, a bull roughs up a woman, throwing her onto her back.
En México 🇲🇽 mujer queda desfigurada y un hombre de 29 años muere, 2 en condiciones críticas y varios heridos.
Meghan Markle's mom isn't shedding any tears about her daughter and grandkids' imminent departure yet ... looking stoic after news broke that the Sussexes are moving back to the United Kingdom.
A photographer snapped pics ofDoria Ragland walking through her Los Angeles neighborhood on Thursday with a furry friend -- a happy-looking dog -- nipping at her heels.
Doria wore mustard pants and a simple black shirt, which showed off the tattoos on her right arm.
It's the first time we've seen her since confirming Meghan and Prince Harry are gearing up to move from California to the UK.
12;06 PM PT -- The death toll has now risen to at least 111 people.
10:29 AM PST -- The death toll in the aftermath of 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Colombia has risen -- at least 74 are dead.
A massive 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked western Colombia on Monday ... killing at least 22 people, collapsing buildings and leaving others trapped beneath the rubble ... and video shows the heartbreaking aftermath.
The quake struck near San José del Palmar in the Chocó region, with powerful shaking felt across the country, CNN reports.
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Footage from several cities shows clouds of dust filling the streets as building facades crumble and residents race for cover.
Reuters reports 18 people were killed in Pereira, while 3 others died in Manizales, and 1 death was reported in the region of Antioquia. Rescue crews are searching damaged buildings for more victims.
A hospital is usually where people go to avoid the Grim Reaper ... not find him waiting on the roof.
A man named Leon Gillespie -- decked out in a black hooded costume and carrying what appeared to be a long scythe -- took his scare act to new heights June 6 ... climbing atop Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in North Wales.
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Cops and firefighters rushed to the scene ... and Gillespie remained on the roof for roughly 50 minutes -- even making noises at the people on the ground -- until police eventually brought him down. He was charged with causing a nuisance or disturbance on National Health Service property.
The Green Beret accused of using classified intel to cash in on the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is now betting a federal judge will toss the entire case.
Gannon Ken Van Dyke filed a motion Friday asking the judge to dismiss five charges accusing him of illegally using and stealing secret government information, defrauding the commodities market, committing wire fraud and moving money from the alleged scheme.
According to the filing, obtained by TMZ, Van Dyke's team of attorneys, including Mark Geragos, call the prosecution a first-of-its-kind "experiment" that twists federal commodities law to create a crime that didn't exist.
Nirmal Purja -- a world-renowned climber who gained fame on the hit Netflix documentary '14 Peaks'-- has died ... according to a statement from his company.
Elite Exped -- a travel agency founded by Purja and several others which takes climbers on treks up and down famous mountains -- announced the news on Instagram Saturday morning.
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The company states Purja died in an avalanche on Broad Peak -- a famed mountain on the Pakistan-China border.
Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake Tuesday, creating a path of destruction that trapped multiple people inside a mall.
The visuals from the aftermath of the magnitude 7.1 quake are terrifying ... buildings are on fire, bridges are collapsed, trains cars are derailed and laying on their sides, and a shopping center exploded.
The tremor hit Kumamoto on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu, shortly before 4:30 PM local time ... leveling the second floor at the Aeon Mall shopping center and trapping people inside.
