At least seven people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday, Turkish media reported. Some 237 people have been rescued, Northern Cyprus Prime Minister Unal Ustel told the Turkish state-run TRT news channel. He said a search was underway for another 24…
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…
Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who oversaw atrocities in Bosnia in the 1990s, has died in prison at age 84, the Serbian state RTS television and the official Bosnian Serb television reported. The reports said Mladic died in a U.N. prison hospital in The Hague, Netherlands. A family member of Mladic, who spoke on…
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, settled a landmark social media addiction lawsuit on Wednesday brought by dozens of states, according to a court filing. Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion to the states that sued and add child-safety measures to its platforms. The settlement resolves claims filed by 47 states and…
August 12, 2023, New Haven, Indiana. Shortly before morning broke in the home he rented with his wife Alison, at the base of a steep stairway, Kevin Davis‘ blood seeped onto the floor. OFFICER GARRETT SHANEBROOK | New Haven Police Department (bodycam video): Where’s that blood coming from? CORPORAL CADE HETRICK | New Haven Police…
Luis Manuel Aviles Roa, the father of a U.S. Navy sailor onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, was released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, after the service member called the arrest “heartbreaking,” his family told CBS News. Aviles Roa, a native of Nicaragua, was arrested by federal immigration officials on Saturday, according to the…
Popular left-wing streamer Hasan Piker drew stiff criticism from prominent Democrats on Monday after arguing that some Jewish Americans’ support for Israel is “making antisemitism worse” — leading one of his most prominent political allies, Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, to say that “nobody” speaks for him. It’s the latest controversy in the hotly…
An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate a Black opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent White men following last year’s killing of Charlie Kirk. The ruling Thursday said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of…
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said on Monday that the race for Texas’ other Senate seat will be a “$200 million” fight, outlining the road ahead for Republicans as state Attorney General Ken Paxton faces off against state Rep. James Talarico in the closely watched contest. “I think we’re going to win this race, but it…
U.S. Navy sailor Joshua Aviles said he learned his father was arrested by federal immigration officials while on his ninth month aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier that has been at the center of reports of mental health challenges and subpar conditions faced by service members. “I just got a call that my…
