
World will face "more intense and cascading global challenges" in coming decades, U.S. intelligence report warns
CBSN
More frequent and intensifying global challenges — in the form of disease outbreaks, financial crises, or the negative effects of climate change or new technologies — are likely to stress already brittle systems of government and international organization over the next two decades, according to a comprehensive forecast compiled by U.S. intelligence officials and released on Thursday.
Those challenges may be exacerbated by a "mismatch" between what societies want and what their governments are able or willing to provide, the report says. It also says the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may have already accelerated some negative trends, including nationalist sentiment and skepticism of international institutions, while stalling incipient progress in poverty reduction and gender inequality.
Diogo Jota, Liverpool F.C. soccer player killed in car crash in Spain along with brother, police say
Spanish police say Liverpool F.C. soccer player Diogo Jota and his brother have been killed in a car crash in Spain. The Spanish civil guard confirmed to The Associated Press that Jota and his brother were found dead after their car went off a road near the western city of Zamora.

It appeared on Wednesday that President Trump likely still has some deal-making to do before he can claim to have brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to end the devastating war in Gaza. Mr. Trump said in a Tuesday evening social media post that Israel had "agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize" a 60-day ceasefire, and he called on Hamas to accept the deal, warning the U.S.- and Israeli-designated terrorist group that "it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE."