Polling is currently underway at 23 stations in two constituencies of Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Bagh district. Polling began at 8am and will continue till 5pm. The AJK Election Commission said polling was ongoing without any reports of violence, but the turnout in both constituencies was negligible. In the third phase of polling on Monday,…
Construction workers in Belgium stumbled upon a stash of gold believed to be worth more than $10 million during renovation work on a building. Police said they were “immediately” contacted by the workers after they discovered “a large quantity of gold” while working on a building in the east Flemish town of Dendermonde. The local…
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, collapsing buildings and homes, killing at least five people and causing panic in a region prone to deadly quakes. Authorities issued a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents to move to higher ground, but later lifted the warning when Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology…
Pegasus We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In 1936, America suffered a devasting heat wave that resulted in five thousand deaths. But not all civic responses to the health emergency were reasonable. In “The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day…
Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea on Friday in the federal case tied to the shooting death of a healthcare executive nearly two years ago is now generating questions about what will happen with his state murder trial, scheduled to get underway in just three weeks. Mangione admitted Friday to killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December…
The Justice Department on Friday issued a legal opinion giving the U.S. military broader powers to detain migrants accused of trespassing in areas that the Department of Defense controls as part of President Trump’s crackdown at the southern border. The opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concerns large swaths of land near…
The father of a sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln said he’s worried for his son and the rest of the ship’s crew as the aircraft carrier’s deployment to the Middle East stretches on. The ship has been at sea for nine months, much longer than the typical deployment of six months. Combat aircraft have…
France’s top constitutional authority on Friday struck down a ban on social media access for children under 15, dealing a blow to the legislation championed by President Emmanuel Macron. The Constitutional Council found that Article 1 of the legislation “constitutes an infringement that is neither appropriate, necessary, nor proportionate” to the freedom of expression and…
Luigi Mangione entered a guilty plea in his federal case at a court appearance in Manhattan Friday morning, admitting to the judge that he shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown hotel in 2024. Mangione, 28, faced both federal and state trials in New York for the deadly shooting. He had previously pleaded not…
The USS George Washington aircraft carrier is headed to the Middle East to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, a U.S. official tells CBS News. The Lincoln has been deployed for almost nine months and in recent weeks, some families have voiced concerns about conditions on the ship. During a town hall with the acting Navy…
