Lawyers for a New Jersey man charged with the brutal murders of four of his relatives are challenging the use of an increasingly common tool that has transformed DNA analysis in dozens of labs across the United States, saying the technique hasn’t been properly vetted for use in criminal courts. A weekslong pretrial hearing about...
One of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia, came is “suffering from a stifling siege,” Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday after Israeli forces stormed inside and evacuated health workers, patients, and family members. “The operating and surgical departments, laboratory, maintenance, and emergency units have been completely burned, and the fire...
NEW DELHI — India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was 92. Singh was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to a “sudden...
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has revealed he was inside an airport in the capital of Yemen when Israeli forces launched a deadly strike on the facility. On Friday, the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency reported that the rebels’ forces had targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. The Israel Defense Forces said...
A whopping 38 gubernatorial races will be on the ballot from coast to coast over the next two years, contests that will shape a long list of hot-button policy issues and the directions of both political parties following the 2024 presidential election. These include two races in 2025 — in New Jersey and Virginia —...
There’s the manosphere and the Zynternet and the salt right. And then there are the Barstool conservatives and the dudebros. These are the terms that have emerged in recent years to describe a sensibility that has taken hold online, culminating with its ascension as arguably the mainstream social media aesthetic of 2024: traditionally masculine, increasingly...
SEOUL — South Korea’s parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday over a short-lived martial law, plunging the country deeper into political chaos, as the Constitutional Court said it would swiftly trial suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol. The impeachment of Han, who has been acting president since Yoon was impeached on Dec. 14 for declaring martial...
President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” said Thursday that the use of family detention centers for migrants is “on the table,” raising the possibility that the practice ended by the Biden administration could return as early as next year. “It’s something we’re considering,” Tom Homan, who was acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the...
About 65 million combined viewers watched a pair of NFL games on Netflix on Christmas Day to set streaming records. The matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers scored an average of 24.1 million viewers, and the Baltimore Ravens’ win over the Houston Texans averaged 24.3 million viewers, making the games the most...
Four people were found dead in a New Hampshire home on Christmas Day of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said. The four adults were found dead in the home in Wakefield around 4:20 p.m. after authorities were contacted to do a welfare check, the state fire marshal and police said. “While the investigation remains active...