Lee Goldberg describes finding his brother, a runner, after the explosions at the Boston Marathon.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the tech company's high profile deal with the United Arab Emirates-backed AI firm G42 could eventually involve the transfer of sophisticated chips and tools - a move that a senior Republican congressman warned could have national security implications. In an interview with Reuters this week, Smith said the sales accord, many details of which are being reported here for the first time, could progress to a second phase that entails the export of crucial components of AI technology such as model weights, a crown jewel of AI systems that determine how powerful they are. Smith said there is no firm timeline for the second phase.
China on Thursday launched two days of military drills to surround self-ruled Taiwan in what it said was "strong punishment" for the island's "separatist acts".They serve as a "strong punishment for the separatist acts of 'Taiwan independence' forces and a stern warning against the interference and provocation by external forces", Li said.
The bodies of two Kansas women who disappeared in the Oklahoma Panhandle in March were found in a chest freezer buried in a cow pasture, according to court records tied to five suspects who are charged with murder and kidnapping.
Chinese military drills in the straits of Taiwan in 2023 practiced manoeuvres key to an invasion of the island, although an actual attack was not imminent or inevitable, a senior US general in the region said on Thursday. In the exercises, the People's Liberation Army simulated a maritime and air blockade of Taiwan, amphibious assaults and counter-intervention operations, Deputy Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Lieutenant General Stephen Sklenka, said in a speech in Canberra. Sklenka's comments come as Taiwan's military mobilised its forces on Thursday after China started two days of "punishment" drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".
Asian markets diverged Thursday after minutes from the Federal Reserve's most recent policy meeting indicated officials would keep interest rates elevated for some time as they struggle to bring inflation down to target.And confidence took another blow Wednesday when minutes from the Fed's April-May meeting showed policymakers were frustrated with the slow progress in bringing inflation down to their two percent goal.
California truck driver Elijah Bowles believes whoever mailed him the venomous snake put cotton balls in the box to muffle the sound of the rattle.
Former President Donald Trump asserted that people who immigrate across the U.S.-Mexico border from South and Central America are bringing contagious diseases.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand's deficit is expected to worsen in the coming year as the economic outlook has deteriorated, finance minister Nicola Willis warned in a speech on Thursday. Willis, who was speaking to the Employers and Manufacturing Association in Auckland ahead of the release of the government's budget and fiscal forecasts on May 30, said efforts to reduce debt had been made much harder as economic forecasts deteriorated. In the government's half yearly economic update in December, the 2024-25 operating deficit not including gains and losses was forecast to be NZ$6.14 billion ($3.75 billion), an improvement on the forecast deficit of NZ$9.32 billion for the year ended June 30.
The destructive tornado that ravaged the town of Greenfield, Iowa, on Tuesday has left four dead and at least 35 injured, the Iowa State Patrol said in a Wednesday evening news release.
How does dairy stack up to plant-based milks? A dietitian shares her top picks for healthiest milk varieties.
There’s a rare pineapple that is being sold for almost $400 in California. It's so popular that it already sold out. Here's why its so expensive.
Two people in US and Australian child infected with bird flu. What are the symptoms in humans? What to know about highly pathogenic avian influenza, aka, H5N1.
Class valedictorian Alem Hadzic delivered his graduation speech just hours after his father's funeral on May 16.
Congressional candidate Maggie Goodlander, a former Justice Department official who is married to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, recently criticized the Biden administration's actions toward China when asked if there was a U.S. policy that she disagreed with.
After American Airlines in a legal response blamed a 9-year-old girl for using an airplane bathroom that had a recording device allegedly placed there by a former employee, the airline now says it has requested that its law firm change its response.
In a lush greenhouse high in the Alps, butterflies of various species and colors flutter freely while butterfly pupae are suspended in a structure as they grow into adult insects. This is the Butterfly Forest in the tropical mountain greenhouse in Trento, Italy, a project by the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), an Italian science museum. It's modeled on Udzungwa Mountains, a mountain range and rainforest area in south-central Tanzania that’s one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
Real estate developer Discovery Land Company has launched a multi-million-dollar, ultra-luxury residential community south of Dubai. Here’s what membership will get you.
Nathan Vasquez, a career prosecutor, vowed to be tough on crime in Portland.
Delicate pink buds sway in the desert breeze, pregnant with yellow pompoms whose explosion will carpet the dusty corner of Nevada that is the only place on Earth where they exist.There are only around 20,000 known specimens, growing in a few very specific places on a total surface area equivalent to around five soccer fields.
Facing a room of Arab American activists from across the country angry at President Joe Biden's response to the Israel-Hamas war, a well-known adviser to Donald Trump was asked this week what the former president would have done differently had he been in office. Richard Grenell, Trump's former ambassador to Germany, repeatedly pointed to Trump's governing record and said that other countries' fear of him decreased global conflict. The nearly two-hour meeting marked the beginning of increased outreach by Trump allies in swing state Michigan, where key parts of Biden's coalition are angry with him over Israel's offensive following Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.
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