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A tornado ripped through central Texas on Wednesday evening, causing huge damage and destroying homes, as forecasters warn of a potentially record-breaking heat wave in the state.
Cassie has spoken out publicly for the first time since video emerged that appeared to show her former partner Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting her in a hotel back in 2016.
Donald Trump headed into hostile territory Thursday for a rare rally in deeply Democratic New York -- hoping to woo Black and Latino voters whose support for Joe Biden has shown signs of faltering.The Biden campaign released an ad ahead of the rally focusing on the 1970s and 80s New York racial controversies surrounding Trump, who was sued for refusing to rent apartments to Black families and called for the execution of five innocent Black and Latino teenagers wrongly blamed in a notorious rape.
The Air Force released the first in-flight photos of the B-21 Raider, after officials said the military aircraft is now conducting test flights.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday urged G7 ministers meeting in Italy to consider "more ambitious options" to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.- Legal issues - Yellen said she was looking for "general agreement on the concept" of a deal on assets, to form the basis of "concrete options" to be presented to G7 leaders meeting from June 13-15.
(Reuters) -Mike Lynch, the tech founder once hailed as Britain's answer to Steve Jobs, took the stand in his own defense on Thursday in San Francisco federal court as his trial on charges of bilking Hewlett-Packard in an $11 billion deal to acquire his company nears its end. The testimony is a pivotal moment in the 13-year legal saga that started with HP's disastrous purchase of Autonomy, the software company Lynch cofounded, in 2011. HP wrote down Autonomy's value by $8.8 billion in 2012, saying it had uncovered serious accounting improprieties.
UK political leaders kicked off six weeks of campaigning on Thursday, firing the first angry shots in their electoral battle before the country votes for a new government on July 4."As of now, it looks as if there will be a change of government on July 4," Tony Travers, from the department of government at the London School of Economics, told AFP. A snap Survation poll of voting intentions after Sunak's announcement put centre-left Labour on 48 points -- its highest since November 2022 and 21 p
The AI tools that crunch numbers, generate text and videos and find patterns in data rely on mass surveillance and exercise concerning control over our lives, the boss of encrypted messaging app Signal told AFP on Thursday."The AI technologies we're talking about today are reliant on mass surveillance," she said.
Buying a home in 2024 is a challenge – from mortgage rates to bidding wars, obstacles exist. NBC News quantifies the challenges with its Home Buyer Index. This is what we've learned.
Boeing shares were hammered Thursday after a top company official predicted another quarter of meager plane deliveries, likely resulting in negative cash for all of 2024.But on Thursday, West withdrew that forecast, indicating the company would likely have negative cash generation for the year.
In the highest hurricane season forecast they have ever issued in May, forecasters with NOAA predict an above-normal number of storms.
Many Americans mistakenly think the economy is shrinking and the stock market is tanking. What gives?
Consumers are increasingly struggling to pay their credit card bills, raising concerns about severe delinquencies spiraling and sapping consumer spending. A year ago severe delinquencies totaled only 8.2% of credit card debt. Meanwhile total credit card debt rose to $1.12 trillion from just under $1 trillion a year ago.
Mary Lou Retton is still on a path to recovery.
The United Nations has resumed transporting humanitarian aid arriving at a U.S.-built pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip after deliveries were halted for two days because some truckloads of aid were intercepted by needy Palestinians. Aid deliveries began arriving at a U.S.-built pier on Friday as Israel comes under growing global pressure to allow more supplies into the besieged coastal enclave, where it is at war with Palestinian militants Hamas and a famine looms. The U.N. is coordinating aid distribution at the floating dock, but has remained adamant that aid deliveries by land are the "most viable, effective and efficient" way to combat the humanitarian crisis in the enclave of 2.3 million people.
Governor Ron DeSantis and state attorney general announce complaint against Starbucks coffee chain on conservative talk radio show.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice have reached a $310 million settlement with Norfolk Southern after last year’s train derailment that spilled more than a million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, water and air in Ohio.
From his days as a clerical student, to overseeing executions as part of the judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi’s life has been intimately tied with Iran’s tumultuous modern history. Yet after all that, his presidency was notably unremarkable.
Mondelēz has been fined $336 million by the European Commission.
Castañeda also served in the Marines and Army National Guard, from which he knew men who died in combat. WHY IS MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATED? It’s a day of reflection and remembrance of those who died while serving in the U.S. military, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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