After large earthquakes, there is an expectation that aftershocks could occur in the hours and days that follow, but aftershocks from some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded United States history may still be happening — nearly 200 years later, new research has found. Frequent aftershock activities stemming from a trio of quakes that occurred near the Missouri-Kentucky border between ...
Torrential rains and flash floods have ripped through parts of East Africa for several weeks, killing more than 350 people and displacing over 1 million across Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. In Kenya, at least 136 have died and nearly half a million have been displaced, according to the Interior Ministry. Persistent rains since October have affected 38 out of 47 counties ...
The corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restarted Monday after a two month pause that followed the state of emergency declared after the October 7 Hamas attacks. Israeli Minister of Justice Yaris Levin lifted the state of emergency effective December 1. Netanyahu’s corruption trial first began in January 2020, making him the first sitting Israeli prime minister to ...
A woman has been killed in an apparent shark attack at a beach resort on Mexico’s Pacific coast. The woman, who has not been officially named, was found dead by emergency services at the scene in Melaque Bay, Cihuatlán municipality, on Saturday, according to a statement from the local civil protection and fire service, posted on Facebook. One of the ...
Sultan Al Jaber, the oil executive who is leading the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, sent shockwaves through the gathering by claiming in the days before the UN-backed talks that there is “no science” that says phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to keep global warming under a critical threshold — comments Al Jaber said were misinterpreted. Al Jaber held a surprise news conference ...
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that ripped through a Catholic mass service at a university gym in the southern Philippines on Sunday. At least four people were killed and dozens of others were injured in the blast at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City, according to authorities. In a communique, ISIS said its fighters “detonated an ...
After his expulsion from Congress last week, George Santos is finding a new way to make some cash: Cameo. Cameo is a website where people can pay celebrities to make personalized videos such as for the holidays or a birthday. A link to Santos’ Cameo profile is available on his X profile. On his Cameo profile, Santos describes himself as ...
House Republicans’ campaign arm has rolled out a new political ad filled with images created using artificial intelligence (AI). The video runs just under a minute long and features AI-generated pictures depicting migrant encampments across some of the United States’ most famous open-air landmarks. The political ad targets swing district Democrats near national parks. It comes after House Republicans passed ...
A former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia is accused of calling Cuban dictator Fidel Castro ‘Comandante’ and describing the United States as the ‘enemy,’ according to an unsealed criminal complaint Monday. At the top of a meeting of the DOJ’s Reproductive Rights Task Force, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland first announced a ‘significant national security related enforcement action’ the Justice Department ...
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reportedly told TF1 television on Sunday that the country was ‘durably under threat from Islamist terrorism’ after a prosecutor identified the French 26-year-old born to Iranian parents accused of fatally stabbing a German tourist and injuring two others steps away from the Eiffel Tower in Paris over the weekend. At a news conference on Sunday, ...