Two helicopters collided Tuesday while trying to land just below Mount Everest’s base camp, killing at least one person and injuring two others, officials said. The aircraft were ferrying trekkers who had been hiking up to Everest base camp during Nepal’s popular trekking season. Heavy snow had covered the route before the weather improved Sunday…
Two years ago, President Trump made historic gains with Hispanic voters nationwide and won a majority of Texas Hispanics, upending conventional wisdom and setting back the Democratic Party’s hopes of making the state competitive. But now, Hispanics may be coming back. They’re frustrated with the state of the economy and concerned about the Trump administration’s…
A search is underway for three armed men who broke into a mansion in Toronto, Canada, belonging to a real estate CEO in the early morning hours Thursday and attacked and injured the family inside, authorities said. The suspects, who were masked, forced their way through a back entrance of the five-bedroom home in the…
Pope Leo XIV has become the first pontiff to vote in a U.S. election. The Vatican confirmed Friday that the American-born pope submitted a mail-in ballot in his native Chicago ahead of November’s midterm elections, citing his longstanding belief in civic participation. The pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, “has exercised his right to vote as…
An Australian appeals court on Friday ordered triple-murderer Erin Patterson to never be released from prison because of the “shocking criminality” involved in poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. The three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal dismissed Patterson’s appeal of her convictions and upheld prosecutors’ challenge to…
Control of Congress and the future of President Trump’s agenda are on the line in the 2026 midterm elections, as voters cast their ballots for all 435 House seats and 35 Senate races around the country. Candidates for governor are on the ballot in 39 states, along with some high-profile measures like California’s proposed billionaire tax….
A keeper at a Dutch zoo has died days after being mauled in a leopard enclosure, the safari park announced on Tuesday. The woman was attacked while caring for two Persian leopards in an indoor facility at the Beekse Bergen park in the south of the Netherlands. It is not clear exactly what happened in…
Amman, Jordan — Jordanian security forces arrested three men Monday for an attack on a Greek Orthodox church that killed nine people and wounded more than two dozen. The Public Security Directorate said the three suspects were arrested following a dawn shootout and that all three were wounded. No members of the security forces were…
2m ago Brent crude oil hovers around $115 a barrel after small drop The price of Brent crude oil hovered around $115 a barrel early Monday after surging at the end of last week over global supply concerns linked to the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, as the northern hemisphere heads…
Washington — Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola sustained “minor injuries” in a car accident, her campaign said Sunday. “Mary and her family sustained minor injuries but are in good spirits,” Peltola’s campaign manager, Cheryl Bruce, said in a statement. Peltola and her family were on their way to the Alaska Federation of Natives Annual…
