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Iceland has become the fifth country to boycott next year's Eurovision song contest after Israel was given the go-ahead to compete, deepening the crisis facing the competition. The board of the national broadcaster, RÚV, voted on Wednesday not to participate, meaning Iceland will join Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands and...

Sealed grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case will be made public, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday, citing a new law that compels the Department of Justice to make material related to federal investigations of Epstein public. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed an earlier decision to keep the 2019 grand jury transcripts sealed, joining two other federal judges who moved in recent weeks to grant requests from the Justice Department to unseal case records as mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act...

The family of a Royal Caribbean International guest who died on board one of its ships last year is suing the cruise line. Michael Virgil, 35, was killed aboard Navigator of the Seas during a cruise from Los Angeles to Mexico in December 2024. He and his fiancée, Connie Aguilar, were sailing with their son and other family members at the time...

A bill being introduced Wednesday in Congress would establish new government teams to improve technical talent in federal agencies, with a focus on artificial intelligence. The AI Talent Act, led by Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., aims to help the federal government recruit and retain top-tier AI and technical workers, boosting government capacity to apply the fast-moving technologies to real-world issues...

A new poll found that 45 percent of small business owners cite inflation as one of the biggest challenges they currently face. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's quarterly Small Business Index also found that while nearly 7 in 10 small businesses report being in "somewhat" or "very" good health, 58 percent expect to raise prices this holiday season...