Uber is laying off 10% of its global workforce as part of a move to streamline and simplify the ride-sharing company, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an open message to employees published Wednesday on the company’s website. The cuts amount to roughly 3,400 jobs based on Uber’s headcount at the end of last year. The company said…
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…
At least 22 people were killed and more than 380 listed as missing Wednesday in Nepal after flash flooding tore through valleys in the Himalayan country’s northern border areas, according to authorities. At least three U.S. nationals were among the 291 foreigners listed as missing, according to Nepal’s Tourism Board, citing information from tour companies. …
A federal judge in Maryland blocked the Trump administration’s plan to relocate the FBI’s proposed headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., after the Biden administration had announced a plan in 2023 to move the headquarters to Greenbelt, Maryland. In July 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the bureau would instead relocate a few…
SeaWorld San Antonio welcomed seven more beluga whales on Tuesday, the latest development in the international effort to relocate dozens of the mammals from a shuttered Canadian theme park. The group of females – Xena, Gemini, Skyla, Meeka, Eve, Neva and Calypso – was the second to leave Marineland, and marked the largest beluga transfer…
The Justice Department is seeking to convince a federal judge to deport a Texas-based Afghan woman who prosecutors allege is an “alien terrorist,” it revealed Wednesday, in the first-ever test case before a secretive court that has never convened since it was created three decades ago. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, will…
Imported generic drugs could face tariffs of up to 100% beginning in 2028 under a plan announced Tuesday by President Trump, who said the measure is intended to push manufacturers to move production to the U.S. Health policy experts said they are skeptical the tariffs alone would persuade generic drug manufacturers to relocate production to…
