Category: World News

Four people have died following a shooting in a nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama, according to police and a news report. There were multiple people shot on 20th Street near Magnolia Avenue in the Five Points South area, the Birmingham Police Department said in a social media post. Police investigators said officers arrived at the…

Echoing well-trodden disinformation that has infected the U.S. presidential election, pop icon Janet Jackson said she has heard Vice President Kamala Harris is not Black. The remarks were published Saturday by The Guardian, granted access and interview time as Jackson promotes her latest tour’s European stops. Jackson is also promoting a residency that starts in…

(DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip) — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command center in what used to be a school. Another 30 were wounded in the strike on the school…

CLEVELAND — Even with the Giants selecting Theo Johnson in the fourth round of the 2024 draft, and even with the signing of veteran Chris Manhertz, it figured that Daniel Bellinger would maintain a role as a tight end within the offense. Why not? Bellinger in his 29 games the past two seasons compiled 55…

Russian President Vladimir Putin was joking when he said Moscow was supporting Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Sky News Arabia. Putin said earlier this month that Russia wanted Harris to win the contest in a teasing comment that cited her “infectious” laugh as a reason to prefer…

Kamala Harris still has time to change direction on U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that could secure her the presidency, reduce further damage to Washington’s standing internationally, stop what many—including many Jews, Israelis, and Holocaust scholars—have called a genocide in Gaza, and prevent a regional war. At the risk of oversimplification,…

Kamala Harris, as San Francisco DA, as a senator and in her run for the 2020 Democratic prez nomination, backed the decriminalization of prostitution — and won’t say if she’s changed her mind on this insane idea.  Well, that’s one flip-flop she hasn’t officially made yet.  Which is too bad, because like all soft-on-crime positions,…

Hezbollah was reeling Saturday from an Israeli airstrike that killed two of its senior figures and dozens of other people, intensifying fears of all-out war in the Middle East in the wake of the deadly attacks on the group’s communication devices. Hezbollah said Ibrahim Akil, who helped establish the militant and political group’s elite Radwan…

Beloved baby hippo Moo Deng may have won the hearts of the public, but a large, young penguin in Australia is stirring up some cuteness competition. Commenters on Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium’s Instagram page are doting on the animal, calling him a “fluffy king.” “Pesto is the besto,” wrote another. A third called for the…

Let’s talk about love and looks, folks, and the planet Venus. Etymologically, Venus derives from the Latin word for desire — and in relation to fashion and aesthetics, the planet informs both what we’re drawn to and who and what we attract, fabrics and f–k boys alike. Venus is named for the Roman goddess of love and fertility….