Everyone's excited about the parade and seeing this beautiful Christmas tree lit up. But the Silver Bells party doesn't stop there. There's also another annual tradition that you will need a good pair of shoes to participate in.
The International Organization for Migration said a boat carrying 260 migrants capsized Monday off the coast of Yemen.
Pastor Tony Evans founded Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas in 1976. He announced this week he is stepping down due to an unnamed "sin".
General Motors approved another $6 billion share repurchase as the Detroit automaker continues to build momentum in 2024. The Tuesday announcement follows a $10 billion share buyback authorization in November of last year. GM shares are up 34% since the beginning of 2024.
Boeing received orders for only four new planes in May — and for the second straight month, none for its best-selling 737 Max, as fallout continues from the blowout of a side panel on a Max during a flight in January. Boeing also saw Aerolineas Argentinas cancel an order for a single Max jet, bringing its net sales for the month to three. The dismal results followed poor figures for April, when Boeing reported seven sales — none of them for the Max.
U.S. manufacturing and chemical industry groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to block a federal rule announced this year setting the first-ever drinking water standard to protect people against toxic "forever chemicals." The rule is intended to reduce exposure to the group of 15,000 chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for approximately 100 million people. It would avoid deaths that have been linked to PFAS, according to the EPA.
Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation's president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a mist-shrouded forest. Rescuers had been combing a fog-cloaked forest south of Mzuzu on Tuesday, after authorities located the last tower it transmitted to before the plane disappeared.
When pediatric cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux and a trio of crewmates spent three days in space in 2021 as part of SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission, they made history not only as the first all-civilian team to orbit Earth. New research based on this data details changes in the brain, heart, muscles, kidneys and skin, immune regulation and stress levels and a breakdown in the activity of subcellular structures called mitochondria amid the microgravity environment, increased radiation and other factors in space. "We did not see anything that was worrisome, thankfully," said Chris Mason, a professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York who helped lead the research, with studies published on Tuesday in Nature and other journals.
A Delaware jury announced its decision about President Joe Biden’s son, who faces up to 25 years in prison.
Apple stock rose to a new intraday record high on Tuesday as investors digested the company's announcement of Apple Intelligence.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to avoid shellfish from Oregon and Washington that may be potentially “contaminated with paralytic shellfish toxins.”
Research finds bodies in space were stressed and showed dramatic signs of aging during the journey.
At least 25 people were arrested after setting up multiple pro-Palestinian encampments on UCLA’s campus Monday that police said were unlawful, according to a statement from the UCLA Police Department.
People in 34 countries around the world have more confidence in President Joe Biden than his challenger in November's election, former President Donald Trump, even as there is increased skepticism that United States democracy provides a good model for the rest of the world to follow, according to a poll from the Pew Research Center released Tuesday. The poll found a median of 43% in the surveyed countries say they trust Biden to do the right thing in world affairs compared to 28% for Trump. People had a more positive assessment of Biden than Trump in 24 countries, while Trump led in Hungary and Tunisia and the two men were effectively tied in eight other countries.
The leader of France's main right-wing party on Tuesday backed an alliance with the far right of Marine Le Pen in snap legislative elections, triggering a crisis within his own party and fury from the government.France's fractious left-wing parties appeared to quickly set aside differences that had shattered their parliamentary alliance, notably their conflicting responses to the war in Gaza.
MEXICO CITY -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that his proposed judiciary reform could be approved in September, further spooking markets as the peso weakened 1.5%. When asked about a transition meeting with President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday, Lopez Obrador said he continues to urge his judicial reform, which was first proposed in February and aims to replace an appointed Supreme Court with popularly elected judges. The ruling coalition fared even better than expected in the June 2 election, giving them a super-majority in the lower house and close to one in the Senate and putting them in a strong position to pass constitutional reforms when the new legislature takes office.
More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention's two-day annual meeting, where they will vote on whether to ban churches with women pastors and deliberate yet again on how to respond to sexual abuse within churches. On Wednesday, they are expected to debate whether to amend their constitution to ban churches with any women pastors — from lead to associate roles. “I hope that people know women have equal value and can be pastors,” said the Rev. Meredith Stone, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry, an organization that originated within the SBC in the 1980s, but it now works with women in a variety of Baptist denominations.
A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to allow married couples to keep dual surnames, saying the lack of freedom to do so hinders women’s advancement and has even become a business risk. In Japan, each wedded pair has to legally adopt one family name. While either surname can be used, 95% of women still traditionally adopt their husbands’, according to a 2022 government survey.
Apple announced a slew of new features for iOS 18 at Monday's developers conference event, many of which are designed to enhance the Siri assistant and bring artificial intelligence tools to iPhone users. For instance, Apple will deploy AI to allow people to create emojis, dubbed “Genmojis” on the fly to fit the vibe they are trying to convey. The full suite of upcoming AI features will only work on the recent iPhone 15 line because the functions require advanced processors.
Apple is putting a more personalized spin on AI as it deploys its Apple Intelligence platform.
Former President Donald Trump has once again asked a judge to throw out the classified documents case, arguing this time that investigators destroyed exculpatory evidence by rifling through boxes for classified documents gathered in the FBI’s 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago.
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