Federal workers impacted by Trump’s DEI orders share their thoughts. A look Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s role in the aftermath of a deadly vaccine accident in Samoa. And four NFL teams will battle for their conference championship and a spot in a Super Bowl. Here’s what to know today. Anger and fear among federal workers...
President Donald Trump is set to visit California on Friday and view the devastation from wildfires that have ripped through the Los Angeles area and continue to wreak havoc. It will be Trump’s first presidential trip since his return to office, and it will be to a state with Democratic leaders he has repeatedly blamed...
MELBOURNE, Australia — Spectators booed an injured Novak Djokovic as he left the court in Rod Laver Arena after quitting one set into his Australian Open semifinal against Alexander Zverev on Friday. Dealing with a what he said was a torn muscle, Djokovic lost the opener 7-6 (5) when he put a forehand volley into the net, then began shaking his head and...
A bear that attacked a man in Pennsylvania this week was confirmed to have rabies, officials said Thursday. The Pennsylvania Game Commission said on Facebook that the bear “aggressively approached” a man in the town of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, in the scenic Pocono Mountains on Sunday and began to bite and scratch him. The...
A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia’s national day, authorities said on Friday. It was the second time the statue has been defaced and vandalised in the last year....
A Maltese court on Friday granted bail to a prominent businessman who is charged with complicity in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. Yorgen Fenech, who has been under arrest since November 2019, hugged members of his family in court after the judge’s decision. He has been undergoing pre-trial proceedings for several years,...
From 2004 to 2019, the AFC was largely dominated — at least in the playoffs — by three quarterbacks. In that 16-year stretch, the conference was represented in the Super Bowl by Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Ben Roethlisberger a combined 15 times. (The lone party crasher was Joe Flacco in 2013.) Since 2020 however,...
But parents weren’t rushing to get in line. Edwin Tamasese, a sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, emerged as a voice for their skepticism and would come to be known internationally as the face of vaccine resistance in Samoa. Tamasese was generally critical of Western medicine; what the immune system couldn’t manage on its own could be...
DUBLIN — Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving 560,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of schools and public transport. Officials had warned the storm was set to be one of the most dangerous they have faced and told...
BRYAN, Ohio — For more than a year, a pastor who opened his church around the clock to shelter and give hope to homeless people has been at odds with an Ohio city over the building housing his ministry. On Tuesday, a city judge found Pastor Chris Avell guilty of violating zoning and fire codes in a...