The Trump administration says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has ties to the MS-13 gang, a claim Abrego Garcia's lawyers vehemently deny, noting he has never been charged with a crime. ... Read full Story
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Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday to revel in a massive military parade marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. ... Read full Story
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Pakistan accused India on Wednesday of planning an imminent military strike using a terror attack that killed 26 Indian tourists in the disputed Kashmir region last week as a "false pretext" to hit out at its neighbor. ... Read full Story
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Spain's investigation into the power outage that blacked out the entire Iberian Peninsula this week continued Thursday as top security officials met Wednesday. ... Read full Story
The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholtz will join a coalition led by Merz’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union. ... Read full Story
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A masked gunman opened fire at a barbershop in the Swedish university town of Uppsala, 40 miles northwest of Stockholm, shooting dead three young people in an apparent gang killing. A suspect is under arrest. ... Read full Story
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A full blockade of Gaza is leaving civilians with little to no food since Israel on March 2 halted aid shipments following the breakdown of an earlier cease-fire agreement. ... Read full Story
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Fifty years after a North Vietnamese tank came crashing through the front gate of Saigon's presidential palace and brought an end to the nearly two-decade Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh City is gearing up for a celebration. ... Read full Story
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Electricity has returned to most of Spain and Portugal but with continued disruptions on the second day after an unknown failure caused a massive blackout across much of western Europe. ... Read full Story
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A Catholic cardinal convicted of embezzlement and fraud has announced he won't take part in the conclave to choose a successor to the late Pope Francis. ... Read full Story
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Four former Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were released from prison Tuesday after completing their sentences for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government of the special administrative region of China. ... Read full Story
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to hold a rally to mark 100 days in office in Michigan, a state that's been hit hard by his tariffs. ... Read full Story
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Israel's head of domestic intelligence, Ronan Bar, announced his resignation five weeks after being fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a maneuver that was immediately blocked by the Supreme Court. ... Read full Story
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Police had contact with the suspect a day before he got behind the wheel of an SUV and drove it into the crowd at a Filipino festival in Vancouver, killing 11 people, authorities said Monday. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 30, 2025 is:
insouciance \in-SOO-see-unss\ noun
Insouciance is a formal word that refers to a feeling of carefree unconcern. It can also be understood as a word for the relaxed and calm state of a person who is not worried about anything.
// The young actor charmed interviewers with his easy smile and devil-may-care insouciance.
“Gladiator II is OK when Denzel’s off-screen, but sensational when he’s on it. ... What makes the performance great is its insouciance; it’s both precise and feather-light. And it’s what a great actor can do when he’s set free to have fun, to laugh at himself a little bit. ... Denzel’s Macrinus is gravitas and comic relief in one package.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Nov. 2024
Did you know?
If you were alive and of whistling age in the late 1980s or early 1990s, chances are you whistled (and snapped your fingers, and tapped your toes) to a little ditty called “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin, an a cappella reggae-jazz-pop tune that took the charts by surprise and by storm. An ode to cheerful insouciance if ever there was one, its lyrics are entirely concerned with being entirely unconcerned, remaining trouble-free in the face of life’s various stressors and calamities. Such carefree nonchalance is at the heart of insouciance, which arrived in English (along with the adjective insouciant), from French, in the 1800s. The French word comes from a combining of the negative prefix in- with the verb soucier, meaning “to trouble or disturb.” The easiness and breeziness of insouciance isn’t always considered beautiful, however. Insouciance may also be used when someone’s lack of concern for serious matters is seen as more careless than carefree.