📌 Gaga Gig Bomb Plot, 13 Killed In Gold Mine

Brazilian police thwarted a bomb attack at Lady Gaga's concert that drew over 2 million to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.

The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro state, working with the Justice Ministry, said the plot for Saturday’s concert was orchestrated by a group promoting hate speech and the radicalization of teenagers, including self-harm and violent content as a form of social belonging.

“The suspects were recruiting participants, including minors, to carry out coordinated attacks using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails," the police said. The Justice Ministry said the recruiters identified themselves as members of Gaga's global fan base, known as the "Little Monsters.”

The operation was based on a report by the ministry's Cyber Operations Lab following a tip-off from Rio state police intelligence, which uncovered digital cells encouraging violent behavior among teenagers using coded language and extremist symbolism.

A man described as the group's leader was arrested in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul for illegal possession of a firearm, while a teenager in Rio de Janeiro was detained for storing child pornography.

Authorities carried out over a dozen search and seizure warrants across the states of Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo.

Thirteen miners have been found dead inside a mine in Peru after being kidnapped several days earlier.

The miners were working at a gold mine owned by the Peruvian mining company Poderosa, based in Pataz province, north of the capital Lima. They were sent to confront a group involved in illegal mining, but were kidnapped by a criminal gang that was trying to gain control of the mine.

The gang kept them hostage inside a mine shaft. For a week, they sent threatening messages to the miners' relatives.

Peruvian news site Diario Correo reported that a video spread on social media — allegedly recorded by the captors themselves. It showed the miners had been executed at point-blank range. It is not clear what prompted them to kill the group.

Poderosa said illegal mining and organised crime were able to operate with “absolute impunity.”

President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his trade war to the cinema.

On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said he has instructed the Commerce Department and US Trade Representative to place a 100% tariff on films that are produced outside the United States and imported into America.

“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States,” Trump wrote in his post. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

It’s not at all clear how such a tariff would be imposed. Films are intellectual property, not goods, so they represent a kind of service not subject to tariffs. But some services can be subject to certain non-tariff trade barriers, such as regulations and tax incentives. Those could disadvantage American filmmaking.

Many foreign cities have offered large tax breaks to film and television studios to shoot movies and shows outside Hollywood. California Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed a massive tax credit to bring back production to Hollywood.

But placing tariffs or other trade barriers on foreign-made products may not make business any easier for Hollywood. Many American movies and shows are shot on location outside the US, where workers demand less pay, making some movies more viable.

Taking multiple medications on a complex schedule may soon become as simple as swallowing a single capsule in the morning.

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a capsule that contains multiple medications and releases them at precise, pre-programmed times throughout the day.

The innovation could transform life for millions who struggle with medication adherence, particularly those with conditions requiring strict timing between doses or patients managing multiple health conditions simultaneously.

The capsule houses medications in compartments separated by barriers that shield the drugs from stomach acid but dissolve in more alkaline environments. Medications can be released at different intervals, depending on the barrier’s density.

The team packed a capsule with three doses of Levodopa, a Parkinson’s disease medication, each color-coded with food dye — yellow, green, and red — to track its release visually. The experiment demonstrated that the capsule could deliver all three doses in distinct phases.

The capsule could revolutionize treatment for conditions like cardiovascular disease, which often requires complex regimens of multiple medications with different timing requirements. A patient could receive morning aspirin, afternoon beta blockers, and evening cholesterol medication from one daily capsule.

Leading businessmen applauded Warren Buffett after the 94-year-old announced his plan to retire as Berkshire Hathaway CEO.

Buffett surprised shareholders when he announced he would step down as the CEO and chair of the trillion-dollar conglomerate at the end of this year and hand over the reins to his vice-chair, Greg Abel.

Thousands of investors at the annual general meeting in an arena in Omaha, Nebraska, gave Buffett a lengthy standing ovation in recognition of his 60 years of leading the company. Abel, 62, born in Alberta, Canada, has been Buffett’s designated successor as CEO since 2001.

Buffett is credited by many with transforming Berkshire from a flailing textiles manufacturer into a $1.03 trillion conglomerate with dozens of businesses in insurance, railroad, energy and other sectors. He built the conglomerate alongside his adviser and vice-chairman, Charlie Munger, who died aged 99 in 2023.

Buffett has previously said he plans to donate 99.5% of his remaining wealth to a charitable trust overseen by his daughter and two sons when he dies. According to Forbes, Buffett has a net worth of $168.2 billion.

He is regarded as the best investor in the world. The market value of Berkshire Hathaway’s shares has grown by an annualised 19.9% a year from 1965 to 2024, said the company. That is almost twice the blue chip S&P 500 index over the same period, which has delivered a 10.4% return, including dividends.

Japan and China are contesting the airspace around the Japan-controlled East China Sea islands that Beijing also claims.

Japan’s foreign ministry said it protested to Beijing after a Chinese helicopter that took off from one of China’s four coast guard boats had entered Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku island, violating the Japanese airspace around them for about 15 minutes on Saturday.

China routinely sends coast guard vessels and aircraft into waters and airspace surrounding the islands, which China calls the Diaoyu, to harass Japanese vessels in the area and force Japan to scramble jets in response.

China said it took a similar step and protested to Japan over a Japanese civilian aircraft violating its airspace around the islands, saying it was “strongly dissatisfied” with Japan's violation of China’s sovereignty.

Saturday’s intrusion was the first by China since a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft violated the Japanese airspace off the southern prefecture of Nagasaki. Chinese aircraft have also violated the Japanese airspace around the Senkaku twice in the past.

Angel and Zeke are the two heads of a single California kingsnake at the East Bay Vivarium, a reptile store in Berkeley, Calif.

Angel/Zeke (named after two store employees) is around seven months old, a remarkable age for a snake with its rare mutation. Bicephalic (two-headed) snakes typically don't live long. But Angel/Zeke hopes to buck that trend, even if it doesn't move as quickly or as gracefully as a one-headed kingsnake.

The Vivarium's Alex Blanchard discussed his observations of Angel/Zeke’s behavior. “They're not shy. They're not bitey. They’re pretty calm for a kingsnake.” He said the right head appears dominant, as it’s the only one accepting food, but that could change as the snake matures.

For now, Angel/Zeke is eating every week. "It'd eat more if we let it, but it's doing pretty well," Blanchard said.

California kingsnakes aren't venomous. They can be found in urban areas, in grasslands and deserts, or in forest landscapes. Kingsnake coloration can vary, but they typically have dark and light bands.

Angel/Zeke is not for sale, though Blanchard said there have been some casual inquiries. Visitors to the East Bay Vivarium can see the snake in person, but it has access to a hideaway area for when it's not feeling social.