The death toll from Wednesday’s devastating flash floods in Nepal and along the border with China has risen above 600, with around 3,000 people still missing, as rescue operations entered their fourth day. Poor weather is currently hampering aerial rescue operations for the workers and military personnel who have been working around the clock since…
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected Kalshi’s efforts to stop Nevada from regulating speculation on sporting events on its platform, handing states an important win in the battle over which level of government has authority to oversee the rapidly growing prediction-markets business. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Kalshi failed to show that…
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh reaffirmed the central bank’s commitment to lowering consumer prices, acknowledging that inflation remains too high in a highly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. During remarks at the Fed’s annual conference, Warsh said that recent government data shows inflation has cooled, but “they do not tell me that underlying trends…
Scientists believe a partial glacier collapse caused a deadly wall of water that flooded villages and towns on the Nepal and Tibet border. Now, rescue workers are urgently searching for the hundreds of people who have been reported missing. Source link
The head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, has echoed President Trump’s insistence that the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes are clear of sea mines, saying they are “open, and momentum is building.” He acknowledged, however, that vessels still seek direct U.S. military protection to use the vital waterway, which Iran has…
Stavanger, Norway — King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89. The palace said he died at the National Hospital in Oslo at…
A judge late Thursday permanently barred the Trump administration from enforcing a set of rules aimed at cutting off Anthropic from the federal government, ruling the administration had unconstitutionally punished the artificial intelligence company for protected speech. The ruling marks a victory for Anthropic in its monthslong legal battle against the administration over its push…
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, says now is the time for Democrats to work together ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The former Wayne County health director, who is in the middle of a contentious battle for the U.S. Senate seat against Republican Mike Rogers, caught up with CBS News…
We’ve all been singing along with Dolly Parton for decades. But if you want to know the truth about her, know this: She works way more than just 9 to 5. Even with a half-century of music behind her, the glitzy, big-haired queen of country glamour is still at it 24/7, still writing her a…
Lindsay Clancy’s murder case is now in the hands of a Massachusetts jury after 22 days of testimony in Plymouth Superior Court. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Clancy admits to killing the children in their Duxbury…
