The Israeli military carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon Wednesday on what it said was Hezbollah infrastructure after a drone strike earlier in the day killed one person and wounded several others, including students on a bus.

At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli strike near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, the country's health ministry says.

An Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 13 people and wounded several others, state media and government officials said. It was the deadliest strike on Lebanon since a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war a year ago.

Donald Trump said Friday that he had “sort of” made up his mind about his plan for Venezuela, but he “can’t tell you what it would be.” With an aircraft carrier strike group and some 15,000 service personnel deployed to the region, it’s sort of hard to imagine that the president’s decision will be to stand down and go home. I’ve been outspoken in calling on the administration to act against Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship in Caracas — a column I wrote in January ran under the headline “Depose Maduro.” With war looming, possibly within days, it’s worth making the case again — and thinking through the ways it could go wrong. Let’s take it point by point...

The United States is amassing power off Venezuela’s coast. Warships, Marine detachments, and surveillance aircraft are flowing into the Caribbean under the banner of “counter-narcotics operations.” Military officials have presented Donald Trump with various game plans for potential operations. The U.S. president is openly tying Nicolás Maduro to narco-terror networks and cartel structures, while dangling both “talks” and threatening the use of military force in the same breath. It’s all pushing toward the culmination of crowning Maduro and his government America’s next top “terrorists” — the magic movie-script label that means the bombs can start heating up. Then comes the media warm-up act: a New York Times op-ed by Bret Stephens, published on Monday, assuring readers in “The Case for Overthrowing Maduro” that this is all modest, calibrated, even reasonable...

Computer-chip giant Nvidia reported earnings and revenue forecasts Wednesday that beat Wall Street estimates, a signal to investors that the artificial intelligence boom that has fueled 2025's record U.S. stock market gains and backstopped the economy writ-large likely has more room to run. Sales of its trademark Blackwell AI chips "are off the charts," while another set of key computer processing units "are sold out,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said in a statement.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang touted “off the charts” demand for its advanced computer chips as the tech titan reported strong third-quarter results on Wednesday – a major relief for investors who have fretted about a potential AI bubble. The AI chip giant also provided strong fourth-quarter guidance, indicating it expects sales of $65 billion – higher than the $61.66 billion predicted on Wall Street, according to LSEG data. The results were expected to steady markets, which were wobbly in recent days over concerns that tech stocks are overvalued and AI companies have overspent on the fledging technology, with little revenue to show for it.

Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google's parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an "extraordinary moment", there was some "irrationality" in the current AI boom. It comes amid fears in Silicon Valley and beyond of a bubble as the value of AI tech companies has soared in recent months and companies spend big on the burgeoning industry.

If you’ve been reading the Jeffrey Epstein emails or following the discussions about them, there are names you’re probably seeing: Michael Wolff, Peter Thiel, Larry Summers, Noam Chomsky, the commoner formerly known as Prince Andrew, Peggy Siegal, Kathryn Ruemmler, Deepak Chopra. Politicians and celebrities, business leaders and academics, friends and frenemies — a boldfaced roster of the famous and the infamous who corresponded with the convicted sex offender, attended his dinner parties or sought his counsel. There are other names you might not be seeing at all: Courtney Wild, Rachel Benavidez, Michelle Licata, Maria Farmer, Annie Farmer, Liz Stein, Jess Michaels, Marina Lacerda, Danielle Bensky, Anouska De Georgiou, Shawna Rivera. Those are some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, scores of whom have come forward and accused Mr. Epstein of sexually abusing them.

We’re glad to see the House and Senate vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files — clearing away a ridiculous distraction. Normal Americans will wonder why this was a top order of business after 42 days of government shutdown. What the heck is going on in DC? The answer: Democrats pushed this red herring to keep the GOP majority from getting real work done. All for a bill that does next to nothing.