Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel’s war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration’s quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views. Judge Noël Wise, in a ruling Friday, delivered…
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…
Kathmandu, Nepal — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety Friday as Nepal and China raced to respond after catastrophic flash floods killed more than 540 people and left more than 1,500 missing. Nepal authorities said the death toll there rose to 538, injured people were taken…
Kathmandu, Nepal — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety Friday as Nepal and China raced to respond after catastrophic flash floods killed more than 470 people and left more than 1,500 missing. Nepal authorities said the death toll there rose to 469, injured people were taken…
Leading developers of the most powerful artificial intelligence tools are warning that their technology may soon be used to carry out sophisticated cyberattacks against companies and institutions, ranging from hospitals to technology firms. In an open letter published Thursday, the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and dozens of other signatories said there is a…
Missouri’s deputy attorney general was found alive in the remote Wyoming wilderness this week, six days after he vanished during a backcountry hike, authorities said. Shaun Mackelprang, 55, went missing Aug. 20 in western Wyoming’s isolated Wind River mountain range, where he had set out to summit Gannett Peak, which is the state’s highest point, according…
Five years after the attack at Abbey Gate in Kabul that killed 13 U.S. service members, the Pentagon upgraded the awards of three Marines for their actions in the wake of the blast. Service members were in the final days of the U.S. military’s 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, and were helping to process evacuees at…
Long lines formed at gas stations in Tehran Tuesday after the United States announced fresh sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran into submission. Washington has turned to pulling economic levers six months into a war on Iran that has ground to a stalemate militarily, with peace talks stalled and most traffic through the crucial Strait of…
Josh Smith, a pardoned drug offender who served as the No. 2 official at the federal Bureau of Prisons, abruptly announced Monday he was leaving the agency without giving a reason for his departure. But he had a tense relationship with some of the BOP’s employees, some of whom have also raised questions about contracts…
Washington — President Trump threatened Tuesday to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid an escalating trade fight with Canada. “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America,” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social Tuesday morning, claiming the U.S. doesn’t…
