Winter weather alerts were in place for some 100 million people across 22 states from Nebraska to Massachusetts Thursday as a series of winter storms descend on northern and eastern states, bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain. The cold snap could cause power outages and difficult travel conditions during Thursday’s commute and beyond, forecasters warned....
With Palestinians barred from leaving the territory without Israeli-issued exit permits, Palestinians have effectively been trapped in a warzone. More than 47,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to local health officials, since Israel launched its offensive following the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks that killed 1,200 people and saw around 250 others...
The first Super Bowl, played Jan. 15, 1967, in Los Angeles, pitted the NFL champion Packers against the Chiefs, then champs of the upstart AFL. Up until then, the NFL — which came into being in 1920 and was originally named the American Professional Football Association — had its champion before the AFL was born in 1960....
This advance could indicate M23 had renewed push towards Bukavu that the group launched after they seized Goma last week. A Congo military court issued an international arrest warrant for Nangaa on Tuesday accusing him of war crimes and treason. The capture of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s largest city displaced hundreds of thousands of...
ATHENS — Hundreds more people were expected to leave Greece’s Santorini island on Wednesday as tremors shook the popular summer tourist destination for a sixth day. About 10,000 people have left on ferries and planes in recent days as hundreds of small quakes were registered in the surrounding sea, shaking buildings, kicking up dust on the island’s rocky...
NEW ORLEANS — The NFL said Wednesday that it would play its first game in Australia in 2026 as the league grows its international footprint. The regular-season game will be held at the 100,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and feature the Los Angeles Rams as the designated home team in a matchup that will most likely be the season opener for both teams. Australia is a major global market...
BRUSSELS — Last month was the world’s warmest January on record, continuing a streak of extreme global temperatures despite a shift toward the cooling La Niña weather pattern, European Union scientists said Thursday. January extended a run of extraordinary heat, in which 18 of the last 19 months saw an average global temperature of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius...
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Thousands of protesters set fire to the home of Bangladesh’s founding leader, as his daughter, ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, delivered a fiery social media speech calling on her supporters to stand against the interim government. Witnesses said several thousand protesters, some armed with sticks, hammers and other tools, gathered around the historic house and...
WASHINGTON — Billionaire Bill Gates, a philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, said he met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to advocate for continuing foreign aid disbursements from the U.S. Agency for International Development. “I went by the White House because there’s a lot in this transition, what we keep, in...
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s president has ordered the country’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization due to “profound differences” with the U.N. agency, a presidential spokesperson said Wednesday. President Javier Milei ‘s decision echoes that of his ally, U.S. President Donald Trump, who began the process of pulling the United States out of WHO with an executive...