News/World (Page 67)

World As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad’s prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry out. They plead to God and yearn for loved ones. Often mysterious, they preserve fragments of what anonymous men were thinking as they faced torture and death. ‘Trust no one, not evenContinue Reading

World The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against TikTok on Friday in its challenge to a federal law requiring the popular short-video app be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be banned in the United States on Sunday. While the government won the case, White House admits app’s fateContinue Reading

World A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk’s flagship rocket program. U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has ordered SpaceX to investigate what wentContinue Reading

World A Texas truck driver charged in the deaths of 53 migrants who rode in a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning pleaded guilty Thursday over the 2022 tragedy that became the nation’s deadliest smuggling attempt across the U.S.-Mexico border. Migrants had paid up to $15,000 US each for journeyContinue Reading

U.S. Supreme Court signals it will uphold law banning TikTok Supreme Court justices posed tough questions to the lawyer representing TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, on Friday over a law that would force a sale or ban the widely used short-video app in the United States by Jan.Continue Reading

World Thirty storeys tall with a reusable first stage filled with liquid oxygen and methane, New Glenn launched around 2 a.m. ET from Blue Origin’s launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Rocket booster was due to land on barge in Atlantic Ocean but failed to make that landingThomson ReutersContinue Reading

World U.S. President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation Wednesday to warn of an oligarchy of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and of a “tech-industrial complex” that is infringing on Americans’ rights and the future of democracy. ‘An oligarchy is taking shape in America,’ saysContinue Reading

Russia launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting gas infrastructure and other energy facilities in western regions in a new attack on the struggling power system in the depths of winter. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Russian forces launched more than 40 missiles duringContinue Reading

The most immediate risk after next week’s U.S. presidential transition isn’t to residents of those nations Donald Trump has mused about invading. It’s to the millions of people inside the United States who are about to enter four years of fear: the undocumented migrants Trump has vowed to deport en masse. TheyContinue Reading