Dwyane Wade is recalling how a routine checkup turned into a life-changing cancer diagnosis that forced him to confront his own mortality and ultimately led to the removal of 40% of his kidney. The 43-year-old basketball player opened up about his health ordeal on the Jan. 30 episode of his podcast, “The Why With Dwyane Wade,” sharing...
American Israeli Keith Siegel is among the hostages set to be released Saturday, Hamas said in a statement Friday, as part of the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange with Israel. Yarden Bibas and Ofer Kalderon will also be released, according to Hamas’ statement. Keith Siegel.Courtesy Siegel family Siegel, 65, was last seen in a video released by...
Syria’s newly appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said on Thursday he will form an inclusive transitional government representing diverse communities that will build institutions and run the country until it can hold free and fair elections. Sharaa addressed the nation in his first speech since being appointed president for the transitional period on Wednesday by armed factions that ousted...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs. Marion Bowman Jr.’s execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. Bowman, 44, was convicted of...
What is UNRWA? Often described as the main humanitarian and social security provider for the Palestinians, UNRWA was established in 1949 and went into operation in 1950 to serve some 750,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes during the foundation of the state of Israel. UNRWA, which is funded by a combination...
“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón issued an apology Thursday after online users resurfaced her past posts on social media in which she appears to comment on Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars. “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” Gascón, who became the first...
The military helicopter that collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in a crash that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft, was a UH-60 Black Hawk, considered the “workhorse” of U.S. Army aviation. The helicopter is a “utility tactical transport” aircraft — used for everything from air assault to relief...
A Missouri woman convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and recently pardoned by President Donald Trump was sentenced to 10 years this week for killing a mother of two in a drunken-driving crash. Emily Hernandez was seen holding the broken nameplate of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after the mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol...
U.S. figure skating icon Dick Button, who won two Olympic gold medals on the ice before becoming the voice of the sport on television, died Thursday, U.S. Figure Skating said. Button was 95. The Associated Press first reported Button’s death, citing his son Edward who did not reveal a cause of the passing. Then U.S....
WASHINGTON — Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a 10-year term as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, distanced himself on Thursday from Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee he did not think violent rioters who assaulted law enforcement deserved a break. “I have always rejected any...