Prosecutors and lawyers for Alex Murdaugh are expected to return to court to dispute evidence for his retrial on murder charges next year. The hearing is Friday in South Carolina. Murdaugh faces …
Rivers swollen by El Niño rains have flooded parts of Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, driving thousands of people from their homes. On Friday, the mayor of the Paraguayan border city of Ayolas said …
The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet growing demand, especially from data centers. No commercial nuclear reactor is known to have …
Nevada has pulled $52 million in pandemic relief funds meant for improving broadband access in rural areas. With a federal deadline looming, the state must spend its $2.7 billion in relief funds …
Eight states are suing the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company’s popular chatbot violated consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults. In its lawsuit …
Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian villages across the West Bank. They set fire to cars and trees and beating residents and a foreign journalist. Local officials and the Palestine Red …
Clear communication at the state-run boarding school Mt. Edgecumbe High School is among the top priority areas to improve students’ residential and academic life, a special committee told members of the Alaska State Board of Education this week. The state board established the committee last March to review concerns and create recommendations for improvements after […]
Serbia’s populist leader Aleksandar Vucic has returned to Novi Sad, the northern city where 16 people died in a train station tragedy almost two years ago that set off a wave of anti-government …
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Ethiopia's government has set up a six-month caretaker administration for Tigray following renewed fighting in the region. Hundreds of former combatants meanwhile have registered for a program to …
Pope Leo XIV’s recovery from lung surgery is progressing well, leading the Vatican to stop morning updates about his condition. On Friday, Vatican officials considered scenarios for Leo to recite …
Police in Split, Croatia, have arrested at least a dozen Hajduk Split soccer fans after an anti-Semitic rally and clashes with officers disrupted a match against Ajax Amsterdam. On Thursday, fans …
Kenya’s health ministry confirmed that a third person tested positive for Ebola on Friday while in quarantine as a known contact of the first patient, who died two days after arriving from Congo. …
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Asian shares have mostly rebounded after Wall Street gains, a day after a tech sell-off dragged stocks lower. Indonesia’s stock market plunged Friday after index provider MSCI warned it would …
A British man who pleaded guilty in the fatal fall of his 3-year-old son from a Cyprus hotel window is free to return home after a court fined him 3,000 euros. Joshua Patric Foster, 38, wept Friday …
Since Russia invaded more than four years ago, Ukraine has become a global leader in military drone innovation. That has enabled its forces to grind a much larger enemy to a stalemate. But this …
A court in China has sentenced the operator of a kindergarten and other employees to prison terms over tainted food. More than 200 students were found with high levels of lead in their blood. On …
In Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, schools in the flood zone remained closed. Homes swept away are still scattered across the tundra. Where crushing waves snapped essential boardwalks, the days now carry the drone of power tools worked by young Yup’iks determined to rebuild them. From a bird’s eye view, the land seems to signal it has […]
Tayari Jones' novel “Kin” has won the Kirkus Prize for fiction. The book traces the life of two Black friends from small-town Louisiana. Paula Colloff's “Catch the Devil” won for nonfiction, …