A new report by a congressional subcommittee accused former top Coast Guard officials of hiding a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the service’s academy in Connecticut from both Congress and the public ...
The Biden administration on Friday withdrew a pending regulation governing transgender athletes, abandoning an effort to provide some protections for transgender students that the incoming Trump administration has said it opposes. The administration also withdrew a proposal to cancel student debt for roughly 38 million Americans, which the Education Department said was due to
Guatemalan authorities have searched the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect and taken at least 160 minors and 40 women into protective custody after reports of abuse ...
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a temporary ban on drones for more than two dozen areas across New York City, Long Island and Westchester County as officials investigate the thousands of recently reported drone sightings in the region. The restrictions, issued on Friday by the FAA for “special security reasons,” are set to stay in effect until
MANILA, Philippines — Tropical Depression "Querubin" may be the last storm for the Philippines in 2024, the state-run weather agency said on Saturday. Nathaniel Servando, Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa)
Saudi Arabia has expressed "solidarity" with Germany after a Saudi national was arrested following a deadly car-ramming attack in a Christmas market. In the city of Magdeburg, located about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southwest of Berlin, the black BMW barreled through the crowd at high speed just after 7:00 pm local time on Friday when the market was filled with
NSO Group, the organization behind the Pegasus spyware, has been found liable in a lawsuit brought by Meta’s WhatsApp over attacks on about 1,400 devices, as reported by The Record. WhatsApp originally
Kurdish fighters who came to Syria from around the Middle East to support Syrian Kurdish forces will leave if a total ceasefire is reached in the conflict with Turkey in northern Syria, the commander of Syrian Kurdish-led forces told Reuters on Thursday. The withdrawal of non-Syrian Kurdish fighters is one of the major demands of neighbouring Turkey, which deems Syria's
A Google Street View image played in role in solving a missing person investigation in Spain, according to reports from the BBC and The New York Times. The image, which can still be seen on Street View, shows what appears to be a person
A Utah mother who police believe was shot and killed by her husband along with three of their children was a refugee who fled violence in Myanmar and dreamed of thriving with her family in the U.S., relatives said Thursday. Police believe the husband killed his family before shooting himself, and a teenage son was badly wounded. The bodies of Bu Meh, 38, along with her
Gen Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat, and many other armed forces personnel had died after the military helicopter they were travelling in crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu. Country's first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat died in a Mi-17 V5...
WASHINGTON—Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President-elect Donald Trump’s intended nominee to be secretary of Health and Human
Prosecutors look into sex-for-votes scandal after killing of Congress lawyer leads to investigation of her former boss
US immigration authorities removed over 270,000 people last financial year, figures showed, weeks before Donald Trump takes office threatening to deport millions of migrants. The tally of removals is the final annual report under President Joe Biden, and is higher than at any time in the last decade - including during Mr Trump's first term as president. The bulk of those
Luigi Mangione, accused of masterminding the chilling murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been reportedly remanded to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, the same facility currently housing disgraced music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs. The two men now share not only a temporary residence but also legal representation, as high-profile attorney Marc Agnifilo and
Five years ago this month, on Monday, December 30, 2019, Carlos Ghosn shocked the world by making a sensational escape from Japan to his home country of Lebanon. Reports that he was in Lebanon made it to the French press around 9:30 pm GMT and then, shortly after, around the world. The once celebrated chief executive of the Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors alliance is
Jerusalem [Israel], December 20 (ANI): Israel debunked media reports stating that the country is using water in "acts of genocide" by denying clean water to Palestinians in Gaza. Israel's Unit for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories: Judea and Samaria and towards the Gaza Strip (COGAT) gave a comprehensive overview of the government actions in place and
The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. With the dust still settling from the stunning events in Damascus, the outcome for now seems to be favoring Ankara, which backed the victorious rebels, while Moscow suffered a bruising blow to its
Mayotte residents demand more help from the French president after deadly Cyclone Chido left a trail of destruction. ...
<p>Colombo: Sri Lanka Navy has rescued over 100