The Golden State Valkyries brought to a conclusion a WNBA season that shattered viewership and attendance records with their first WNBA championship Saturday in a thrilling 68-63 victory over the Atlanta Dream in Game 7. Golden State star Gabby Williams paced the Valkyries with 30 points, 4 blocks and 3 steals in 38 minutes. The…
Tel Aviv — Israeli police announced on Monday the arrest of 10 people suspected to have taken part in recent violent attacks on Palestinians, an American photojournalist and European diplomats in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The arrests come amid an avalanche of criticism, including from some senior U.S. officials, directed at Israel over repeated violent attacks…
It’s some 37 feet of rusted steel, peeling paint, and shattered glass. But even at rest, this 1939 International Harvester school bus, called “Furthur,” conjures a sense of motion. “Furthur really is a call to action,” said Kelly Harris, director of the Haight Street Art Center in San Francisco. “It reminds us to never stop…
Kyiv — Wooden boards line the entry corridor, replacing windows shattered by a recent Russian drone attack near the school’s campus, 20 miles south of Ukraine’s capital. The principal says they could become a permanent fixture, as repairs would cost $500,000. Inside, children sit next to old Soviet guns — gifts from their parents’ military units…
A member of an Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization, which took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 160 Afghans at the Kabul airport five years ago during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from the country….
Authorities suspect sabotage caused a train derailment in northwestern France that injured 44 people after a piece of rail was found on the track. The regional train was carrying 186 passengers from Rouen to Caen when it derailed Friday evening in Cleon. One carriage tipped onto its side while four others left the tracks. An…
7m ago Health fallout lingers: “September 11th doesn’t end on one single day” Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, the casualties are still mounting. Roughly 6,000 first responders, survivors and volunteers have died from illnesses related to the attacks. The New York City Fire Department recently added the names of 36 firefighters who died from related diseases to its…
Film legend Robert De Niro has lived or worked in Lower Manhattan for years. “You know, the East Side is another world to someone like me who’s Lower Manhattan,” he said. So, for De Niro, the attacks on 9/11 hit especially close to home: “I was just about to fly to California. I was at…
This year’s 9/11 memorial service will be Zohran Mamdani‘s first as mayor of New York City. He says he views it as an “enormous responsibility” at a very somber time, and he wants to make sure the day is about those who were killed, not politics. “It’s about those that were killed that day….
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…
