Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns. Researchers who studied milk from cockroaches and analyzed soil health using underwear received Ig Nobel prizes celebrating unusual and imaginative contributions to science. The awards, organized by a digital…
Former NFL quarterback and ex-Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez has filed a motion to plead guilty in connection with an October 2025 incident with a truck driver in which he was stabbed outside an Indianapolis hotel, court documents show. It wasn’t immediately clear what charges Sanchez was pleading guilty to, but he is facing a felony…
Washington — A Coast Guard jet carrying Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and other top DHS officials made an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon outside Washington, D.C., after one of its engines failed. The pilot of the plane, a C-37A, reported the loss of an engine to air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport….
Laem Chabang, Thailand — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East that kept the ship at sea for more than 250 days. Associated Press journalists watched the Lincoln, which is carrying about 5,000 service members, as it made its…
Washington — The House on Tuesday passed a measure to extend government funding into December, averting a shutdown in the final stretch of the campaign ahead of the November midterm elections. The Senate approved the short-term bipartisan funding bill in early August before its five-week recess, but the House was already on its lengthy summer…
Two men bought tickets to enter Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) before smashing a display case, grabbing a 200-carat platinum and diamond necklace and walking away, police said Friday. Austrian media said the Van Cleef and Arpels necklace, with 673 precious stones, was worth several million dollars. It is the latest in a series…
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…
Dolly Parton‘s sister, Stella Parton, said the country music icon offered to try experimental drugs if there was “no hope” in her cancer battle, in an effort to help others. “What the world saw is exactly who she was, so much so, she told me recently that if there was no hope for her, she…
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…
Thieves on Thursday raided the Treasure of Villena — one of the greatest Bronze Age gold collections — in the latest high-profile heist at a European museum, officials said. The raid on the 50-plus mainly gold objects in the Spanish town of Villena lasted just minutes. “The alarm at the Villena Museum went off around…
