Well, it’s summertime again, a chance for adults to kick back, kids to run through the sprinkler, and me to suffer my greatest yearly humiliation ritual: pretending I have any ability at all to operate the barbecue. Look, I’m a pretty lousy cook as it is, but most of the year you wouldn’t know it,…
Two people in black masks scaled the Empire State Building, scrambling the New York City Police Department. They call themselves “roof-toppers,” or stunt climbers, and they unfurled a banner about world peace before one of them got out a ring and proposed. By the time they got down, they were engaged and under arrest. Tom…
Three wildfires near Spokane, Washington, are still burning out of control after destroying hundreds of buildings. Now there are new fears the fires could worsen due to weather conditions. Kris Van Cleave reports. Source link
President Trump said late Thursday it’s “ridiculous” for the United States to continue its “one sided” relationship with NATO. His remarks came less than a week before a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “They were not there for us!!!” and Washington’s relationship with NATO “is not reciprocal.”…
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has filed a federal lawsuit against the Defense Department for designating it a military-linked firm. The company told AFP on Wednesday that the labelling is “arbitrary and capricious.” The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in San Jose, Calif., contests the Pentagon’s decision include Alibaba on a list released this month…
The remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur battered parts of the southeastern United States with drenching rains and strong wind on Thursday, tearing through buildings, flooding homes and launching water rescues along the Gulf Coast. Arthur was the first tropical storm of the season in the Atlantic basin, and although it quickly downgraded within a day…
A Thai teenager killed at least five people and himself at a school outside Bangkok on Friday after fatally shooting his grandparents, police said, in the Southeast Asian nation’s worst mass killing since 2022. Police said the shooter, who was 14 years old, fired at least 26 bullets, and was found with 34 additional ammunition…
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker (“My Left Foot”), and Sam Neill, star of the blockbuster “Jurassic Park.” Source link
U.S. Army veteran Andrew Arrabaca, 43, is in custody Monday after allegedly setting off fireworks and igniting a fire outside a federal building in New York City on Monday. Tom Hanson reports. Source link
Relatives of the five crew members aboard a Boeing 737 cargo plane that crashed into the Arabian Sea off Karachi last week are urging an international search effort to find the flight recorders to determine the cause. Debris from the K2 Airways freighter was recovered shortly after the July 7 crash, but the water in…
