Latest Updates Around The World
Republican Matt Van Epps is the projected winner of the closely watched special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District U.S. House of Representatives seat, according to the Associated Press, averting a Democratic upset in a closer-than-expected race. With 99% of the votes counted, Van Epps led Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn by about 9 percentage points […]
The high school football coach from Virginia who went missing on November 20 and it was later revealed he was wanted on charges of child sex abuse material, he was last seen walking into the woods with a gun, the coach’s family says. An explanation from a law firm representing the family of Travis Turner, […]
Homeland Security said investigators have arrested an Afghan who allegedly made a social media post about “building a bomb” and threatened to blow up a building in Fort Worth, Texas. Mohammad Dawood Alokozay’s arrest occurred Tuesday, Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary at DHS, said in a social media post Saturday. Alokozay was arrested on state […]
LONDON — The death toll from the massive fire at a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong rose to 128 on Friday as search and rescue efforts continued. Hong Kong Security Minister Chris Tang Ping-keung announced the new death toll on Friday, but warned that more bodies may be found. Three men linked to the […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria and LONDON — An unknown number of students and staff were kidnapped by unknown gunmen early Friday in an attack on a Catholic boarding school in western Nigeria, authorities said. The incident occurred before dawn, around 2 a.m. local time, at St. Mary’s School in Papiri community of Agwara Local Government Area of […]
Last month, nearly $10,000 worth of Pokémon and baseball cards were stolen from Tom Brady’s card shop in New York City, the NYPD said Friday. The crime occurred at CardVault on Oct. 20 around 11:40 a.m. when the male suspect bypassed the store’s payment terminal and left the SoHo store with a collectible card worth […]
President Barack Obama gave a group of war heroes a surprise they will never forget. The former The president surprised a flight of Korean and Vietnam War veterans a flight of honour from Madison, Wisconsin, to Washington, D.C., ahead of Veterans Day, according to a video he posted to X. “Ahead of Veterans Day, I […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday night raised questions about a decades-old U.S. ban on testing its nuclear weapons by detonating them, a prospect experts say is dangerous to the population and would open a door for adversaries to test and hone their most powerful weapons. Minutes before a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump […]
PARIS — PARIS (AP) — Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy arrived at a Paris prison on Tuesday to begin serving a five-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with money from Libya. He is the first ex-leader of modern France to be imprisoned. Sarkozy left the house hand in hand […]
According to the police, a stock on Sunday was found dead in the landing gear of an American Airlines flight that arrived from Europe in Charlotte, North Carolina, from Europe. Crews that carried out maintenance on the plane discovered the individual around 9 a.m. on Sunday morning, and officers of the airport division declared the […]
