President Donald Trump is having his first formal meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House on Monday, where the U.S. ally’s reserves of critical minerals could serve as a bargaining chip as the United States fights a trade war with China. The two leaders are also expected to discuss trade and investment, defense cooperation, Indo-Pacific stability and the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, Albanese’s office said Sunday...

Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday. Amazon Web Services provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services. Coinbase and Signal both said on X that they were experiencing issues related to the AWS outage.

FBI Director Kash Patel on Sunday said the agency has launched an investigation into an apparent “elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone” in Palm Beach International Airport discovered by the U.S. Secret Service during security screenings ahead of President Donald Trump’s arrival last week. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Patel said the FBI is probing the discovery but has not tied anyone to the scene...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would be ready to join Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a proposed summit in Hungary if he were invited. The US and Russian presidents announced on Thursday they planned to hold talks on the war in Ukraine in Budapest, possibly in the coming weeks. In comments released on Monday, Zelensky told reporters: "If it is an invitation in a format where we meet as three or, as it's called, shuttle diplomacy… then in one format or another, we will agree." Meanwhile, media reports have suggested his White House meeting with Trump on Friday descended into a "shouting match" - with the US side urging Ukraine to accept Russia's terms to end the war.

Ten days into a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, relief is giving way to grim acknowledgments of the truce’s tenuousness, and of the need for continued outside intervention to keep it alive, let alone to make further progress. A new round of violence on Sunday showed just how arduous the road to a broader agreement in Gaza will be between the two sides, which have repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce.

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Soda fountains of decades past featured ingredients that most of us aren't familiar with. But mixologists and craft soda makers are bringing one back.

The thieves entered the museum on Sunday using a freight elevator.