Catia La Mar, Venezuela — Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced Thursday after pulling a man alive from the ruins of a collapsed building eight days after deadly twin earthquakes, AFP journalists witnessed. With the official death toll nearing 2,300 and huge numbers of people still missing, the rescue of security guard Hernan Gil…
Behind the counter of a bodega in Brooklyn, a cashier casually rang up a tiny vial of a peptide the store advertised as retatrutide — an experimental weight-loss drug whose sale is generally prohibited by federal law. “PEPTIDES SOLD HERE” reads a large sign displayed on the storefront of Mr. Green, a small shop on…
Rome — The Vatican announced Thursday that six bishops associated with the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) have been excommunicated following the unauthorized consecration of four new bishops the previous day in Écône, Switzerland. The consecrations were carried out without the approval of Pope Leo XIV. Under Catholic canon law, only the pope…
Major Garrett discusses the backlash over President Trump’s profits from crypto projects while in office. Mr. Trump made $1.4 billion from crypto ventures last year as his administration loosened rules on those markets. On Wednesday, he debuted a new Air Force One jet gifted by the government of Qatar, which is also raising questions. Source…
An 11-year-old boy crashed a pickup truck into a group of monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing eight, officials said. A total of 35 monks from Mukdahan province, about 600 kilometers northeast of the capital Bangkok, were on the pilgrimage. Five monks were killed at the site, while three others…
Lulu Gribbin was 15 when she survived a shark attack off the coast of Florida. She lost her left hand, part of her right leg and almost her life. What she didn’t know when she entered the water on that day in 2024 was that another woman had been bitten by a shark 90 minutes…
Vice President JD Vance said talks are going well in Doha, but would not take a return to full-scale military action off the table, saying it lies in the hands of Iran. “I can’t commit to anything, because obviously it depends on what the Iranians are ultimately going to do,” Vance told reporters after speaking…
In the last installment of our USA-Z series, Vladimir Duthiers speaks with seven Gen Zers about their generation being next to lead the nation, growing up during the pandemic, stereotypes they see about themselves, the role of AI in their world as they join the workforce and more. Source link
You can tell where Emily Sweeney is from the minute she says “coffee.” If you want to imagine her speaking, picture her saying the following words like Ben Affleck: “Park the car in Harvard Yard.” The Boston Globe social video journalist went viral earlier this year for her accent while reporting on crime in Massachusetts,…
The United States on Wednesday designated Ecuadorian gang the “Chone Killers” as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. The gang “has committed numerous attacks targeting civilians, law enforcement officers, and government officials, including high-profile assassinations of public officials,” Rubio said in a statement, adding that the group was also branded “specially…
