Ann Harmeier was set to begin her junior year at Indiana University when her car broke down; police located it abandoned. Five weeks later, her body was found strangled with a shoelace.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces competing pressures at home and abroad when he weighs how far to push the operation to defeat Hamas in Rafah that complicates hopes of bringing Israeli hostages home. Street demonstrations against the government by families and supporters of some of the more than 130 hostages still held in Gaza have become a constant fixture, with protestors demanding a ceasefire deal with Hamas to get them back. Others are demanding the government and the Israeli Defence Forces press ahead with the Rafah operation against the remaining Hamas formations holding out around the city which began this week with air strikes an battles on the outskirts.
Ever since Giacomo Puccini died without finishing his last opera, “Turandot,” audiences have thrilled to its soaring melodies like “Nessun Dorma,” but also perhaps lamented the lack of a proper ending. Now the Washington National Opera is offering an alternative, commissioning both new words and new music for the final 18 or so minutes of the piece. “Turandot,” tells of a Chinese princess who condemns all her suitors to have their heads chopped off unless they can answer three riddles.
US chip manufacturing capacity is projected to triple by 2032, according to a new report published by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), signaling progress nearly two years after President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law.
There is only enough fuel to run health services in the south of Gaza for three more days, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge in the south of Gaza from combat further north in the enclave. Israel has threatened a major assault on the southern city of Rafah to defeat thousands of Hamas fighters it says are holed up there, and its troops are now battling Hamas on Rafah's outskirts.
A bipartisan group of senior U.S. senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to require officials involved in the AUKUS defense project with Britain and Australia to engage with them and Japan on how Japan could be included in the project. A bill, introduced by Republicans Mitt Romney, Bill Hagerty and Jim Risch, and Democrat Tim Kaine, would require the U.S. to coordinate a path forward for Japan's cooperation on advanced technology projects under the so-called Pillar 2 of AUKUS. AUKUS was formed in 2021 to counteract China's growing power.
Up next: Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia, which are holding primaries on May 14, followed by Kentucky and Oregon on May 21.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been fined in her native Sweden for disobeying police orders after blocking an entrance to parliament on two occasions in March, the Stockholm District Court said on Wednesday. Thunberg and four other campaigners stood trial after police forcibly removed them on March 12 and 13 during sit-down protests against the effects of climate change and what they said was political inaction. Thunberg was fined 6,000 Swedish crowns ($550), news agency TT reported.
The topic has grown more fraught in the Ozempic era.
The ban of "Glory to Hong Kong" is just the latest sign of an eroding democracy in the city.
President Joe Biden is grappling with a pledge to support Israel militarily and concerns U.S. bombs could be used in an invasion of Rafah.
European stocks advanced Wednesday, with London striking another record, driven by hopes of interest rate cuts as inflation eases.Sweden's central bank cut its key interest rate for the first time in eight years on Wednesday, citing easing inflation and hinting at two more reductions before year-end.
The mayor of Houston has accepted the retirement of the city's police chief as the department investigates why thousands of cases including sexual assault crimes were dropped, a city spokesperson said Wednesday. Mayor John Whitmire accepted the retirement of Police Chief Troy Finner, who is stepping away following reports Tuesday that he was aware of a code used to drop the cases, years before acknowledging its existence. Whitmire appointed assistant Chief Larry Satterwhite as acting chief and will discuss the chief's retirement during a City Council meeting Wednesday, according to spokesperson Mary Benton.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump notched another win on Wednesday in his campaign to slow the criminal cases against him when a Georgia appeals court agreed to hear his bid to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting him for trying to overturn his election loss in the state. The ruling prolongs the legal battle over a former romance between Fani Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, and a one-time top deputy, a relationship defense lawyers have used to try to derail the case. It came a day after a federal judge in Florida appointed to the bench by Trump indefinitely postponed the start of his trial on charges of mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House.
A Moscow court rejected Wednesday an appeal filed by a Russian deputy defense minister's lawyers who sought to have him moved from prison to house arrest as he faces bribery charges. Timur Ivanov, who was in charge of military construction projects, was arrested on April 23 and charged with accepting bribes on a large scale. After the hearing in Moscow City Court, Russian news agencies quoted his attorney Murad Musayev as saying the case involved allegations of about 1 billion rubles ($11 million) and that Ivanov has been suspended from duty.
The EU on Wednesday told digital platform X to explain a cut to content moderation resources, amid concerns over disinformation ahead of European elections in June.The European Commission said it wanted more information about X's "content moderation activities and resources" after a transparency report in April showed it has cut its team of content moderators by "almost 20 percent" since an October 2023 report.
Green-rumped parrotlets can be caretakers–or killers
The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, arrested dozens of people Wednesday after a skirmish between officers and a group that law enforcement had cleared from a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus Wednesday, a police source told CNN.
A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. Trump and some other defendants in the case had tried to get Willis and her office removed from the case, saying her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created a conflict of interest. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee in March found that no conflict of interest existed that should force Willis off the case, but he granted a request from Trump and the other defendants to seek an appeal of his ruling from the Georgia Court of Appeals.
You deserve a treat. And this spring, Mother Nature is providing a seemingly endless supply – trillions of cicadas.
Numerous women have shared stories of “Ozempic babies” on social media. But the joy some experience in discovering pregnancies may come with anxiety about the unknowns, as these medicines haven’t been studied in people who are pregnant.
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