An 18-year-old Iraqi national was detained in Vienna in connection with investigations into an alleged plot to strike a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, the interior ministry said on Friday. The Iraqi national is said to have come from the same circle as the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian with North Macedonian roots, according to the ministry. The main suspect, who had ...
“Call to Earth Day – Connected Generations” celebrates the links between people and cultures and how these can help to play a vital role in preserving our planet. Naimina Enkiyio, or the “Forest of the Lost Child,” stretches along the top of an escarpment on the western wall of the Rift Valley, Kenya. Legend has it that the forest is haunted by ...
Two NASA astronauts stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for more than two months could be forced to stay until February 2025 because of concerns over the safety of the spacecraft that brought them into orbit. Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Sunita “Suni” Williams arrived at the ISS in June as the first crew to test Boeing’s new ...
People in Russia are unable to access YouTube amid an alleged crackdown on the video hosting site. Russian internet monitoring service Sboi.rf said there had been reports of thousands of glitches with the Google-owned video service. Users said the site was only accessible via virtual private networks (VPNs), which give users access to remote servers -often in a different country ...
The UK’s competition regulator has launched an inquiry into Amazon’s investment of over £3bn into an artificial intelligence (AI) startup as regulators ramp up their scrutiny of mergers involving the fast-growing technology. The deal, which was announced by Amazon in March, included a $4bn (£3.16bn) investment into Anthropic and a commitment from the AI startup to use Amazon Web Services ...
Jesse Watters is onto it. Onto the whole thing. He’s figured it out. The Fox News host knows that the media — that is, the media outside of his own right-wing channel — is hopelessly in the tank for Vice President Kamala Harris. And he has the evidence to prove it, as he revealed Wednesday afternoon on the show “The ...
Democrats have, until recently, spent much of the 2024 election fretting. And high on the list of reasons was the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who they feared would pull more votes from their side. Today, Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t just risen in the polls; she has shifted that third-party dynamic. She now does better ...
The very first fight Donald Trump picked with the media after being inaugurated as president was about crowd size. On Jan. 21, 2017, the day after his inauguration, Trump visited CIA headquarters as a sort of olive branch after having disparaged the intelligence community’s determination that Russia had worked to aid his election. While there, Trump claimed that “a million, ...
Donald Trump suggested in a news conference Thursday that he is open to curbing access to abortion pills through federal regulations, declining to rule out a sweeping move that some antiabortion allies have advocated. Trump has previously praised a Supreme Court ruling that maintained access to the key abortion drug mifepristone, saying, “I agree with their decision to have done ...
Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday asked for a three-week delay in former president Donald Trump’s 2020 election obstruction case, saying the Justice Department needed more time to analyze the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution after leaving office. U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan had set a Friday deadline for both ...