AT the heart of corruption lies perpetrators who committed similar crimes before and have never been held accountable for their actions. Repeat offending is a vicious cycle that knows no end for those benefitting from ill-gotten gains....
WASHINGTON — President Trump declared he would be “personally involved” in selecting Iran’s next leader as U.S. and Israeli forces continued their bombardment of its government Thursday, even as officials in Tehran insisted they could...
The US will “bitterly regret the precedent it has set” after an American submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in an attack that left more than 80 sailors dead, the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister warned — while an ayatollah called...
The Justice Department on Thursday publicly posted additional records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some that include allegations against President Donald Trump, following sharp criticism of the agency’s...
About an hour into Sarah Gaither’s flight out of Doha, Qatar, the crew told passengers they would be turning back. The 27-year-old, who was returning home to Dallas after vacation on the morning of Feb. 28, saw the news about U.S.-Israel...
BEIRUT — The Israeli military issued evacuation orders for entire neighborhoods of Beirut’s southern suburbs, sparking pandemonium as hundreds of thousands of people joined a panicked exodus out toward Lebanon’s north. On Thursday...
The messaging discord on the war in the Middle East could be summed up in just a few minutes Tuesday afternoon. Just past 2:15 p.m., the White House communications office blasted out an urgent news release touting the “unrelenting force of...
The Pentagon has reportedly told Anthropic it will be officially labeled a supply-chain risk — just days after the AI firm’s CEO Dario Amodei circulated a letter to staffers bashing the Trump administration’s efforts against the company. The...
Senior Trump administration officials on Thursday called on allied nations across the hemisphere to intensify their fight against drug cartels and narcotraffickers, with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller comparing the groups...
Iran’s next supreme leader must be vetted and approved directly by the White House, President Trump warned — as reports swirled that slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son would succeed him in power. “I have to be involved in the appointment, like...
Elon Musk took the stand in a shareholder trial in San Francisco, where he’s accused of making false and misleading statements that drove down Twitter’s stock price before he bought the social media platform for $44 billion in 2022. The...
Axel Springer, the owner of Politico and Business Insider, is to acquire the Telegraph after tabling a £575m deal that has scuppered a rival bid from the owner of the Daily Mail. The German company, which also owns Europe’s biggest newspaper,...
In 2022, Ben Affleck became so fixated on AI in film production that he quietly launched his own film tech company, InterPositive. Netflix brought the startup into the spotlight Thursday morning as it announced the full acquisition of the...
Three Amazon data centers in the Middle East were hit by Iranian drone strikes this week, said Kelvin Chan in the Associated Press. Two Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates and another in Bahrain were damaged,...
Shanghai will take greater efforts to make its business environment and government services better, which is conducive to building more wholesome industrial chains, said officials and company executives. The comments came during a...
SHANGHAI: Throughout her first pregnancy, Wang Yifan had lots of questions, which she usually put to renowned obstetrician Duan Tao — or rather, an AI clone of the top Shanghai-based doctor. Duan has created a digital double for healthcare...
Leica has announced the Leitzphone, developed with long-standing partner, Xiaomi. The original Leitzphone was codeveloped with Sharp for the Japanese market in 2021 – but this is a much bigger, international release. Called the ‘Leica...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. spent his first year as health and human services secretary suppressing medical innovation, and now he has turned his sights to another obsession: policing what people eat. “We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and...
Weight-loss drugs cannot rescue the UK from its deepening obesity crisis and produce unpleasant side-effects for many users, the government’s chief medical adviser has warned. Prof Chris Whitty delivered a wideranging critique of the drugs...
TOKYO: Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson’s and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers and media reports said Friday, with the therapies expected to reach patients within months. Pharmaceutical...
The world now holds more than eight billion people. Eight billion heartbeats. Eight billion families. Eight billion futures. That number can feel overwhelming — abstract even — until you sit across from one patient and realize that global...
America’s children aren’t the only ones to suffer from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “multifront war on vaccines,” said Donald G. McNeil Jr. His delusional anti-science crusade also poses a major threat to Americans over 65. The older you get,...
MIDDLE-AGED adults should be tested for a gene that is possibly responsible for 90 per cent of Alzheimer’s cases, a study suggests. The APOE gene is linked to earlier cognitive decline, particularly in over-70s. Screening before people reach...
LEGENDARY NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL COACH, COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMER AND POPULAR ESPN BROADCASTER LOU HOLTZ HAS DIED,
Nearly 10 months after tearing his Achilles in heartbreaking fashion, Celtics star Jayson Tatum is returning to the hardwood. Multiple reports indicated that Tatum could suit up for Boston as early as this week, with the six-time All-Star...
Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman will miss the NASCAR race Sunday at Phoenix Raceway after he was diagnosed with vertigo. Bowman was too ill to continue racing last Sunday at Circuit of the Americas in Texas and was replaced mid-race...
Nick Nurse recently described the teams in the middle of the Eastern Conference standings, including his 76ers, as “tightly squeezed.” And even though veteran guard Cameron Payne vows to go 1- 0 every day rather than looking too far ahead, he...
The Ladies Football Club Crucible theatre, Sheffield ★★★☆☆ The surge of interest in women’s football continues off the pitch in this play by Stefano Massini, adapted for Sheffield Theatres by Tim Firth. Like Amanda Whittington’s The...
