The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, is seen at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego last August. President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. and Iran are maintaining diplomatic talks, even after an earlier skirmish in the Arabian Sea spooked oil markets amid heightened tensions between the two countries. We are negotiating with them right now" and they'd like to do something," Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. They had a chance to do something a while ago and it didn't work out, and we did Midnight Hammer," he said, referring to the June U.S. military strike in Iran. Earlier Tuesday, a U.S. F-35C warplane shot down a drone in self-defense as the unmanned aircraft aggressively approached" the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier with unclear intent," U.S. Central Command said in a statement. The command said no American service members were harmed and no U.S. equipment was damaged.

An'Intimacy Crisis' Is Driving the Dating Divide In his book, sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue at root of the loneliness epidemic. In the US, nearly half of adults are single. A quarter of men suffer from loneliness. Rates of depression are on the rise . And one in four Gen Z adults--the so-called kinkiest generation, according to one study --have never had partnered sex. In an age of endless connection, where hooking up happens with the ease of a swipe and nontraditional relationship structures like polyamory are celebrated, why are people seemingly so disconnected and alone?

Several celebrities turned the Grammy Awards into a politically charged event used to criticize the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Who is in the Epstein files? The list of some of the world's most rich and powerful people with ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has lengthened with the latest US government release of millions of new files from its investigation into the disgraced financier. The 30 January drop of new material - dubbed the Epstein files - included three million pages, 180,000 images, 2,000 videos, and a number of household names like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Elon Musk. There is no suggestion that appearing in the documents implies any wrongdoing, and many people who have featured in previous releases have denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. The release came weeks after the deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act which was signed into law by US President Donald Trump in November and required a full release of all Epstein-related documents.

Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones. An officer with a Department of Homeland Security Special Response Team stands against a protester in Portland, Oregon. As Minneapolis continues to reel from the fatal shooting of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents on the morning of January 24, the international spotlight is firmly fixed on the heavily armed and masked operatives who have spearheaded the Trump administration's violent immigration sweeps. At the heart of the deployment in Minnesota, as well as the chaotic clashes with communities in Southern California and Illinois, are hundreds of agents that operate within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection: ICE's two Special Response Teams (SRT), CBP's one SRT, and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC). These paramilitary tactical units behave not like local police, but instead like special forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other far-flung battlefields from the Forever Wars of the past quarter century.

While SpaceX is routinely described as being owned by Elon Musk, he is not the only person in the capsule. While SpaceX is routinely described as being owned by Elon Musk, he is not the only person in the capsule. Elon Musk is taking SpaceX's minority shareholders for a ride T o Elon Musk's fanclub, there is nothing to see apart from more evidence of the great man's visionary genius. SpaceX, the rocket firm, is buying xAI, the artificial intelligence developer, and the combination of these two Musk-controlled entities is being valued at $1.25tn (£910bn). Or, as Musk described it, he is creating "the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world's foremost real-time information and free-speech platform".

Roland Martin defends Rep. Jasmine Crockett against white progressive critics of her Texas Senate bid, telling them to "sit their a-- down" on Tuesday's episode of "At Our Table."

Journalist Jorge Ventura says he was assaulted while reporting on anti-ICE blockade in Minneapolis with agitators attempting to seize his phone during the confrontation.

Russia attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure with a record number of ballistic missiles, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.