The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that officials at Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had reported a new attempted drone attack on the facility’s training centre—less than two weeks after other similar incidents. Russia-installed officials at the plant, the largest nuclear facility in Europe, said Ukraine was behind the latest incident. Russian forces […]

SYDNEY—Thousands of Muslims gathered in mosques across Sydney for regular prayers on Friday despite concerns about retaliatory attacks after police charged a 16-year-old boy with a terrorism offence over the stabbing of a Sydney bishop earlier this week. Police charged a 16-year-old boy with a terrorism offence on Thursday for the alleged stabbing of Bishop […]

The NBA’s all-time leading scorer LeBron James and reigning most valuable player Joel Embiid headline an all-star lineup named to the United States men’s basketball team for the Paris Olympics, USA Basketball announced on Wednesday. James, who has won two Olympic golds and a bronze but sat out the last two Games, will be joined […]

DUBAI—Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Wednesday it launched missiles and drones at a military facility in northern Israel in retaliation for Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah members, an incident that the Israeli military said left 14 soldiers wounded. The military said six of the soldiers were in serious condition. It said it “struck the sources of […]

TOKYO—An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan late on Wednesday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency, without issuing a tsunami warning. The epicenter was the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, the agency said. Ehime and Kochi prefectures were hit by the quake with an intensity […]

CAIRO—Israeli tanks pushed back into parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday which they had left weeks ago, while warplanes conducted air strikes on Rafah, the Palestinians’ last refuge in the south of the territory, killing and wounding several people, medics and residents said. Residents reported an internet outage in the areas of Beit […]

Tesla on Wednesday asked its shareholders to once again approve CEO Elon Musk’s record-breaking $56 billion pay that was set in 2018, but was rejected by a Delaware judge in January. The compensation includes no salary or cash bonus, but sets rewards based on Tesla’s market value rising to as much as $650 billion over […]

WASHINGTON—Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy. The newly identified black hole is located about 2,000 light-years from Earth—relatively close in cosmic terms—in […]

COPENHAGEN—Denmark’s Old Stock Exchange will be rebuilt after a devastating fire destroyed half the building and damaged much of the rest, the owner of the Copenhagen landmark said on Wednesday. The blaze ripped through the 400-year-old structure on Tuesday, toppling its spire and also triggering the collapse of a large roof section, in scenes reminiscent […]

Ken Holtzman, who tossed two no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs and won four World Series, died Sunday at 78. The two-time All-Star left-hander’s passing was confirmed Monday by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He had been hospitalized for three weeks while battling heart issues. Holtzman was 174–150 with a 3.49 ERA and 1,601 strikeouts in 451 […]

LOS ANGELES—NASA is seeking a cheaper, simpler approach to one of its top science priorities in the midst of a budget crunch–retrieving precious soil samples collected on Mars and flying them back to Earth, U.S. space agency officials said on Monday. A formal request for proposals will go out Tuesday to various NASA centers and […]

The man who drove an 18-wheel truck with a loaded flatbed into a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) building last week, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others, faces multiple charges and a $2 million bond, jail records showed on Monday. Clenard Parker, 42, is charged with evading arrest, unauthorized use […]

WASHINGTON—U.S. retail sales increased more than expected in March amid a surge in receipts at online retailers, further evidence that the economy ended the first quarter on solid ground. The report from the Commerce Department on Monday, which followed news this month of robust employment gains in March and a pick-up in consumer inflation, bolstered […]

JAKARTA—Landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on the weekend killed at least 18 people with rescue efforts, including police sniffer dogs, still ongoing for two missing people, local authorities said on Monday. The local government in South Sulawesi also reported that two people were in a critical condition in hospital. Landslides, triggered by high-intensity rains, affected […]

WASHINGTON—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Friday it was opening an investigation into Ford Motor’s recall of more than 42,000 SUVs over concerns of a fuel leak that could lead to an engine fire. The auto safety regulator said it is reviewing the adequacy and safety consequences of Ford’s proposed recall remedy […]

LOS ANGELES—Japanese baseball great Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter was released on bond and apologized through a lawyer after appearing in court on a bank fraud charge accusing him of stealing $16 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers star to cover illegal gambling debts. Ippei Mizuhara, 39, who surrendered to authorities earlier in the day, did […]

CHICAGO—Dairy farmers in the United States are raising their defenses to try to contain the spread of bird flu: banning visitors, cutting down trees to discourage wild birds from landing, and disinfecting vehicles coming onto their land. South Dakota on Thursday became the eighth state to find highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a dairy […]

WASHINGTON—Two large stars residing inside a spectacular cloud of gas and dust nicknamed the “Dragon’s Egg” nebula have presented a puzzle to astronomers. One of them has a magnetic field, as does our sun. Its companion does not. And such massive stars are not usually associated with nebulae. Researchers now appear to have resolved this […]

JERUSALEM/CAIRO—Israel is keeping up its war in Gaza but is also preparing for scenarios in other areas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, amid concern that Iran was preparing to strike Israel in response to the killing of senior Iranian commanders. “Whoever harms us, we will harm them. We are prepared to meet all […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday it was opening an investigation into a March 3 fatal crash between a Ford Mustang Mach-E and two stationary cars on the I-95 interstate highway in Philadelphia. In March, the NTSB said it was investigating the use of an advanced driver assistance system in a […]

MOSCOW—Russia on Thursday test-launched its Angara-A5 space rocket for the first time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East, successfully putting a test load in low orbit as part of an effort to develop a new post-Soviet launch vehicle. The test launch of the Angara-A5, Russia’s first post-Soviet space rocket, was aimed at underscoring […]

KYIV—Ukraine’s parliament passed a bill on Thursday to overhaul the rules governing how the military mobilizes civilians into its ranks as the war rages on with no end in sight. The legislation, which must be signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before it becomes law, is seen as crucial for Ukraine to address what military analysts […]

WASHINGTON—The National Transportation Safety Board is conducting a new round of interviews with Boeing and Federal Aviation Administration personnel this week in its probe of the January Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 in-flight emergency. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy on Wednesday said investigators were back at the 737 plant in Renton, Washington, this week for more […]

CAIRO—Three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian terrorist group and Mr. Haniyeh’s family said. The Israeli military confirmed carrying out the attack, describing the three sons as operatives in the Hamas armed wing. The three sons—Hazem, Amir, and Mohammad—were killed when […]

LIMA—Peru’s Andean mountains may hold the secret to longevity and the world’s oldest-ever person, if a new claim by state officials of a 124-year-old man born in 1900 are proven to be true. The country’s government has claimed that local resident Marcelino Abad from the central Peruvian region of Huanuco is 124, which would make […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. military said on Monday it destroyed air defense and drone systems of Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi forces in the area of the Red Sea, with no injuries or damage reported to commercial, the United States, and coalition ships. The U.S. Central Command claimed on X its forces had destroyed an air defense system with […]

Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating on Autopilot, swerved off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. The settlement was made on the eve of the trial over the high-profile accident involving Tesla’s driver-assistant technology. Tesla faces a […]

MAPUTO—At least 94 people died, including children, and 26 are missing after a ferry boat capsized off the northern coast of Mozambique, an official from the country’s Maritime Transport Institute (INTRASMAR) said. The vessel was an overloaded fishing boat and was not licensed to transport people, Lourenco Machado, an administrator of INSTRASMAR, said on state […]

WASHINGTON—An engine cover on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 fell off on Sunday during takeoff in Denver and struck the wing flap, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to open an investigation. No one was injured and Southwest Flight 3695 returned safely to Denver International Airport around 8:15 a.m. local time on Sunday and was […]

Royal Bank of Canada on Friday said it appointed Katherine Gibson as interim Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately, following the departure of Nadine Ahn. The bank said it became aware of “allegations” against Ahn and launched an investigation that found she violated the bank’s code of conduct by having an “undisclosed close personal relationship with […]

LEUVEN, Belgium—The United States welcomes Israel’s latest efforts to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday, but said success would be measured in results in improving the situation on the ground. “Really the proof is in the results, and we will see those unfold in the coming days, […]

KYIV—The Ukrainian military claimed on Friday the battlefield situation was tense near the eastern town of Chasiv Yar, but denied Russian reports that Moscow’s troops had reached its suburbs. Russian forces are inching forward in the east after capturing Ukraine’s long-time eastern bastion of Avdiivka in February. A rapid capture of Chasiv Yar, a town […]

HUQOQ, Israel—Archaeologists in northern Israel have uncovered an immense underground hideout comprising narrow tunnels and bigger rooms that were dug by Jewish villagers nearly 2,000 years ago at a time of revolt against the Roman empire. The labyrinth is evidence, the experts said, that Jewish communities as far north as the hills of Galilee, where […]

KHARKIV, Ukraine—A Russian drone attack struck residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and an energy facility in the surrounding region on Thursday, killing four people and severing power for 350,000 residents, officials said. Ukraine’s second-largest city, which lies some 30 km (20 miles) from the Russian border, has been bombed heavily during the […]

NEW YORK—A book from Egypt that was written at the dawn of Christianity and is considered one of the oldest books in existence will go up for auction in June in London. The Crosby-Schoyen Codex—written in Coptic on papyrus around 250–350 AD, and produced in one of the first Christian monasteries—has an estimated sale value […]

SEOUL—North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile into the sea on Tuesday in a possible test of a new rocket using solid fuel, drawing swift condemnation from South Korea, Japan, and the United States. South Korea’s military said it detected what appeared to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile launched from an area of the […]

HELSINKI—One child was killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack taken into custody. In the aftermath of the shooting, police cordoned off a building at the Viertola school in the Vantaa suburb of Helsinki. […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a would-be intruder who tried to ram his car through the front gate of the agency’s Atlanta field office on Monday, according to FBI officials. The man, who had no association with the facility but whose identity was not immediately made public, was taken to an area hospital […]

WASHINGTON—U.S. traffic deaths fell by 3.6 percent in 2023, the second straight yearly decline, but are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels, auto safety regulators said on Monday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 40,990 people died in traffic crashes last year compared to 42,514 deaths in 2022. Fatalities are still much higher than […]

JERUSALEM/CAIRO—Israeli forces left Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday after a two-week operation. Hundreds of people, including some who had been sheltering in the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital prior to the Israeli incursion, rushed back to check the damage and hunt for belongings. The Israeli military said it had killed or detained hundreds […]

BOGOR, Indonesia—Indonesian firefighters were battling to put out a massive fire that broke out on Saturday at a military ammunition depot just outside the capital, causing a series of explosions and sending flames and smoke into the night sky. No one was reported to have died or been injured in the incident, military official Mohammad […]

WASHINGTON—The United States said on Friday it will impose new visa restrictions on a number of Hong Kong officials over the clampdown on rights and freedoms in the Chinese-ruled territory. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that in the past year, China continued to take actions against Hong Kong’s promised high degree of autonomy, democratic […]

VIENNA—Eleven people were injured when a Bulgarian cruise ship crashed into a concrete wall in a sluice on the River Danube in the northern Austrian town of Aschach an der Donau overnight, local police said on Saturday. Some 160 passengers were aboard the ship traveling from Bavaria in Germany to the Austrian city of Linz, […]

BEIJING—The Chinese communist regime devoted the week to a red carpet welcome for foreign executives to try to halt a retreat in corporate investment from China. But many executives leave China with a shared caution: while things may not be getting worse, the risks of an expansion in China still outweigh the rewards, they say. […]

MOSCOW—Russian artist Alyona Kazinskaya likes to fill her social media feed with cheerful messages and vivid floral paintings. For 30 minutes last Friday night, it turned into a timeline of terror. Ms. Kazinskaya and a friend had bought last-minute tickets to see Soviet-era rock group “Picnic” perform in front of 6,200 people at a concert […]

MOSCOW—The Kremlin said on Thursday complete silence was needed when it came to discussions about possible prisoner exchanges involving Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia a year ago on suspicion of espionage. Mr. Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War when […]

WASHINGTON—Astronomers on Wednesday announced that they have detected a strong and organized magnetic field twisted in a spiral pattern around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, revealing previously unknown qualities of the immensely powerful object lurking at the center of our galaxy. The structure of the magnetic field emanating from the edge of the black […]

MOSCOW—Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states, or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has triggered the […]

Mega Millions said a single ticket for a lottery jackpot worth a hefty $1.13 billion, the fifth-largest prize in the game’s history, was sold in New Jersey, breaking a streak of 30 consecutive unclaimed drawings. The winning numbers for the jackpot were 7, 11, 22, 29, and 38, plus the power ball 4, Mega Millions […]

ROME—Archaeologists in Pompeii have unearthed an ancient building site that sheds light on construction techniques used by the Romans to make iconic structures such as the Colosseum and the Pantheon, Italy’s culture ministry said on Monday. The site was probably active until the volcanic Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, destroying Pompeii in southern Italy, […]

MOSCOW—The deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow was conducted by “radical Islamic” terrorists, but the shooting fits in a wider campaign of intimidation by Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. Mr. Putin said the investigation underway into the mass shooting had to be conducted “professionally, objectively and without political bias” to […]

RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazilian police arrested three people on Sunday, including a federal lawmaker and former police chief, accused of planning and ordering the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city council member Marielle Franco and her driver. Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski told a news conference The arrests close a six-year-old case that offered a look […]

MOSCOW—Russia lowered flags to half-mast for a day of mourning and charged four men it accused of gunning down scores of people at a concert outside Moscow on Friday night in the deadliest attack inside Russia for two decades. President Vladimir Putin declared Sunday a national day of mourning after pledging to punish all those […]

KYIV—Russia struck critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv with missiles early on Sunday, Kyiv said, in a major airstrike that saw one Russian cruise missile briefly fly into Polish airspace according to Warsaw. Moscow launched 57 missiles and drones in the attack that also targeted the capital Kyiv, two days after the largest […]

Chrysler parent Stellantis said on Friday it will lay off about 400 U.S. salaried workers as it seeks to cut costs, boost efficiency and ramp up electric-vehicle production plans. The Italian-American automaker said it is reducing its engineering/technology and software organizations by about 400 U.S. jobs effective March 31, which represents 2 percent of those […]

TEL AVIV—”I’m from where Messi is from,” 90-year-old Esther Cunio told the two masked Palestinian invaders who moments earlier entered her home in southern Israel. It was the morning of Oct. 7 and Hamas was carrying out its killing spree in communities near the Gaza border, including in Kibbutz Nir Oz, where Ms. Cunio, who […]

Chrysler is recalling nearly 286,000 vehicles in the United States over a manufacturing defect that might cause the side curtain airbag inflators to rupture, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Friday. The right and left side curtain airbag inflators may rupture in sharp metal fragments striking occupants, resulting in injury or death, […]

KYIV—Russia pounded Ukrainian power facilities on Friday in an attack described by Kyiv as the largest airstrike on its energy infrastructure in two years of war, and portrayed by Moscow as revenge for Ukrainian attacks during its presidential election. The missile and drone attack hit a vast dam over the Dnipro river, killed at least […]

The U.S. health regulator on Thursday classified the recall of blood pumps made by Johnson & Johnson’s Abiomed unit as the most serious and said their use could cause serious injuries or death. The recalled devices, Impella Left Sided Blood Pumps, are used in providing short-term support to pumping chambers of the heart during some […]

Hyundai Motor America and Kia America are recalling a combined 147,100 U.S. vehicles over a damaged charging unit, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Thursday. Hyundai will recall 98,878 vehicles, affecting certain Ioniq and Genesis models, while Kia will recall 48,232 vehicles impacting certain EV6 models. The Integrated Charging Control Unit (ICCU) […]

Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess. Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device. The implant seeks to enable […]

Fertility rates in nearly all countries will be too low to sustain population levels by the end of the century, and most of the world’s live births will be occurring in poorer countries, according to a study published on Wednesday. The trend will lead to a “baby boom” and “baby bust” divide across the world, […]

KYIV—Russia staged its largest missile attack in weeks on Kyiv and the surrounding region on Thursday, injuring at least 17 people and damaging buildings and industrial facilities, officials said. The air force claimed its defences shot down all the inbound missiles that were fired after a 44-day pause in such attacks on the Ukrainian capital. […]

WASHINGTON—The planetary system that includes Earth and its sibling planets orbiting the sun has been remarkably stable during its roughly 4.5 billion years of existence. But not all planetary systems are so lucky, as shown in a new study involving “twin” stars. An examination of 91 pairs of stars with matching sizes and chemical compositions […]

Boeing’s MAX safety crisis is causing it to burn more cash than expected, its finance chief said on Wednesday, meaning the U.S. planemaker will need more time to hit a key financial target for coming years. The company is trying to get control of safety issues following a Jan. 5 mid-flight panel blowout on a […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. government is warning state governors that foreign hackers are carrying out disruptive cyberattacks against water and sewage systems throughout the country. In a letter released Tuesday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan warned that “disabling cyberattacks are striking water and wastewater systems throughout the United States.” The […]

WASHINGTON—When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object’s trajectory, if needed, to protect Earth. It turns out that this collision changed not only the asteroid’s path but its shape as well. The asteroid, which before […]

Russia and Ukraine said they repelled numerous air attacks late Tuesday and early Wednesday, with intensified pounding of border regions forcing evacuations of civilians on both sides. Russian officials said air defense systems destroyed Ukraine-launched missiles and drones over Belgorod, Kursk, and Voronezh regions bordering Ukraine. Drones were also downed deeper in Russia in the […]

A federal judge sentenced two former Mississippi law enforcement officers to prison on Tuesday for torturing and abusing two Black men last year, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Hunter Elward, a 31-year-old former Rankin County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) deputy, received a 20-year jail sentence, and Jeffrey Middleton, a 46-year-old ex-RCSO lieutenant, was sentenced […]

A New Mexico jury on Monday found an Afghan asylum seeker guilty of murdering a Pakistani immigrant in one of three ambush-style shootings of Muslim men in the state’s largest city during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed, 53, faces life imprisonment for the first-degree murder of 41-year-old Aftab Hussein who was found dead in […]

AMMAN—Israel launched missiles at several military targets outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday, Syria’s defence ministry said. Syrian air defences intercepted Israeli “missiles and shot down some of them,” the ministry said in a statement, adding they caused only material damage. Two Syrian military sources familiar with the strikes said Israel targeted a Hezbollah […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE—At least ten people were killed in a wealthy suburb of Haiti’s capital on Monday, there were reports of looting, and thefts of electricity equipment cut the power supply as lawlessness spread to affluent areas and gangs tightened their grip on the city. A Reuters witness saw at least ten dead bodies, at least some […]

JERUSALEM/CAIRO—Israeli troops raided the compound of Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital early on Monday in an operation that Palestinian health authorities said caused multiple casualties and set off a fierce fire in one of the buildings. The Israeli military said soldiers had conducted a “precise operation” based on intelligence that the hospital was being used by […]

COPENHAGEN—A volcano in Iceland that erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December was still spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air early on Monday although infrastructure and a nearby fishing town were safe for now, authorities said. The eruption was the seventh on the Reykjanes peninsula near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik since […]

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Monday that a direct conflict between Russia and the U.S.–led NATO military alliance would mean the planet was one step away from World War Three but said hardly anyone wanted such a scenario. The Ukraine war has triggered the deepest crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West […]

North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Monday for the first time in two months, at a time when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Seoul to attend a conference hosted by President Yoon Suk Yeol on advancing democracy. South Korea’s military said the missile was fired to the east […]

MOSCOW—Two people were killed and three wounded in a Ukrainian missile strike on the Russian border city of Belgorod, the regional governor said on Saturday, as Russian citizens vote through Sunday in a three-day presidential election. In a statement on the messenger app Telegram, Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that the city had been struck […]

NEW YORK—Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday. In November, a jury found Mr. Bankman-Fried, 32, guilty on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said “thousands of everyday […]

An American Airlines flight landed safely at the Los Angeles airport on Wednesday after the pilot reported a possible mechanical issue, the airline said in a statement on Thursday. The aircraft, a 23-year old Boeing 777 plane according to Airfleets Aviation, took off from Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, and landed at Los Angeles, California, without […]

CAIRO—The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the Houthi extremists fired one anti-ship ballistic missile from Yemen into the Gulf of Aden, but it caused no damage to any vessels. “The missile did not impact any vessels and there were no injuries or damage reported,” CENTCOM added in a statement early on Thursday. “United States Central […]

SEOUL—Hyundai Motor Co. and sister company Kia Corp. will recall about 170,000 electric vehicles (EVs) in South Korea over problems with software in the charging systems, South Korea’s transport ministry said on Thursday. Hyundai will recall 169,332 EVs in the country, affecting five EV models, including Ioniq-series and Genesis models, the ministry said. Kia will […]

WASHINGTON—The head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday investigators still do not know who worked on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 door plug involved in a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines midair emergency and that video footage was overwritten. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a letter to senators that investigators sought […]

MOSCOW—Ukraine struck Russian oil refineries in a second day of drone attacks on Wednesday, causing a fire at Rosneft’s biggest refinery in what President Vladimir Putin said was an attempt to disrupt his country’s presidential election this week. Russia and Ukraine have both used drones to strike critical infrastructure, military installations, and troop concentrations in […]

WASHINGTON—Castelion, a startup trying to build a hypersonic weapon for the Pentagon, tested its system for the first time, it told Reuters on Monday, as a growing group of small hypersonic arms makers challenge large defense contractors with less expensive, rapidly produced products. The United States and China are engaged in an arms race to […]

MOSCOW—Ukraine pounded targets in Russia on Tuesday with dozens of drones and rockets in an attack that inflicted damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world’s biggest nuclear power with armed proxies. Russia and Ukraine have both used drones to strike critical infrastructure, military installations, and troop […]

ISTANBUL—Stressed before a big flight? Therapy dogs are now on hand at Istanbul Airport to help calm the nerves of tense travelers. The airport has been running the program for the past month to help reduce stress and anxiety amongst passengers passing through its terminals. Kneeling to pet therapy pooch, Kuki, traveler Anastasia Podmazova praised […]

U.S. auto-safety regulators on Monday launched a preliminary probe into emergency braking issues in certain Honda vehicles following complaints of crashes and fires. The problem affects the 2019–2022 models of the Honda Insight, a hybrid electric car, and the Honda Passport SUV, and involves 250,712 vehicles, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration […]

Long-form videos will soon be available on smart televisions, billionaire Elon Musk said, after Fortune magazine reported that social network X planned to launch next week a TV app for Amazon and Samsung users. The platform rolled out an early version of video and audio calling for some users last October, after Musk had said […]

LOS ANGELES—A horror film based on the beloved children’s literary character “Winnie the Pooh” faced the vengeance of Razzie voters on Saturday in the annual Oscar spoof that spotlights Hollywood’s worst performances. “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” swept the five categories it was nominated for at the 44th Razzies, which included picture, director, screenplay, screen couple […]

LOS ANGELES—”Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed the prestigious best picture trophy at the Academy Awards on Sunday. Director Christopher Nolan’s film starred Irish actor Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the U.S. effort in the 1940s to create a weapon devastating enough […]

Nine people were killed on Friday in a collision between a tractor-trailer truck and a passenger van in central Wisconsin, authorities said. The wreck occurred shortly before 8 a.m. in Dewhurst, a town on state highway 95, when the van entered an intersection from a side road to cross the two-lane highway in the path […]

NEW YORK—Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez was found guilty on Friday of drug trafficking conspiracy by a U.S. jury, cementing the onetime U.S. ally’s fall from grace. Jurors in federal court in Manhattan reached the verdict after about two days, following a two-week trial. Mr. Hernandez, 55, faces possible life in prison. U.S. District […]

DUBAI—A vessel travelling 50 nautical miles southeast of Yemen’s city of Aden reported on Friday two explosions in the sea ahead of it, but the ship was not struck or damaged and the crew is safe, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group has launched drone and missile attacks on […]

WASHINGTON—Scientists are getting a better taste of the early history of the domestication and use of cacao—the source of chocolate—thanks to residues detected on a batch of ancient ceramics from South and Central America. Using evidence from these artifacts, the researchers traced the rapid spread of cacao through trade routes after its initial domestication more […]

NEUQUEN, Argentina—Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years. The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean archaeologists in the Huenul 1 cave, a 630 square meter rock shelter located in the Province of Neuquen, some 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) southwest of the capital […]

WASHINGTON—The James Webb Space Telescope since becoming operational in 2022 has uncovered numerous surprises about what things were like in the universe’s early stages. We now can add one more—observations of a galaxy that was already “dead” when the universe was only 5 percent of its current age. Scientists said on Wednesday that Webb has […]

High levels of cancer-causing chemical benzene were detected in some acne treatments from brands including Estee Lauder’s Clinique, Target’s Up & Up, and Reckitt Benckiser-owned Clearasil, said independent U.S. laboratory Valisure. Valisure has also filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, calling on the regulator to recall the products, conduct an investigation, […]

MOSCOW—Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died his own death, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief, Sergei Naryshkin, was quoted as saying on Thursday. “I don’t think this was some kind of special plan, but unfortunately, people have a peculiarity: sooner or later life ends, they die. Navalny died a natural death, yes,” Russian news agencies […]

WASHINGTON—A post on a hacker forum popular with cybercriminals has claimed UnitedHealth Group paid $22 million in a bid to recover access to data and systems encrypted by the “Blackcat” ransomware gang, according to two researchers. Neither UnitedHealth nor the hackers involved have commented on the alleged ransom payment, but a cryptocurrency tracing firm partially […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. government announced a “first-of-its-kind” sanctions package on Tuesday morning against Greece-based spyware vendor Intellexa and its leadership after the company was involved in targeting U.S. government officials. The Treasury Department targeted two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Consortium for their role in “developing, operating and distributing commercial spyware technology,” which […]