SAO PAULO—Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had to be hospitalized again in the northern city of Manaus due to a skin infection caused by a bacteria, adding there is no forecast for when he could be discharged. Mr. Bolsonaro said on social media he was hospitalized again with erysipelas, a skin […]
Andrey Rublev battled through a suspected virus and an anaesthetised foot to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 4–6 7–5 7–5 to claim the Madrid Open title on Sunday, but revealed that he will now have to return to the hospital to make a full recovery. The 26-year-old Russian, who has struggled with health issues throughout the tournament, […]
PORTO ALEGRE/CANOAS/SAO PAULO—The death toll from heavy rains that have caused flooding in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 78, local authorities said on Sunday, with more than 115,000 people displaced. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in Rio Grande do Sul on Sunday morning with most […]
KRIVELJ, Serbia—Before dawn, 78-year-old Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her husband then walked into her village in eastern Serbia to guard a barricade stopping trucks entering an open-pit copper mine that residents say is contaminating local land and water. Ms. Radivojevic is one of two dozen women who since January took shifts day and night […]
HONG KONG—When Jacky Yu, 48, opened his Japanese gift shop in Hong Kong more than a decade ago, the tourist and shopping district of Mong Kok was a bustling hub packed with stalls, street food and tourists. Fast-forward 12 years and parts of the area are struggling to stay afloat, a combination of customers emigrating, […]
Walmart said on Tuesday it will close all 51 of its health clinics and shut its virtual health care operations, saying it could not see it as a sustainable business model to continue. “Healthcare is expensive to run. We were finding that the increased labor and operating costs environment, like with reimbursement, both public and […]
JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA—Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery—land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge […]
MAI MAHIU, Kenya—Flash floods and a landslide in central Kenya killed at least 45 people and injured over 110 others on Monday as floodwaters swept away houses and cars in the town of Mai Mahiu, the government said. Police initially blamed the flooding on a burst dam, however the ministry of water later said it […]
LIMA—A bus crash in the Andean mountains of northern Peru killed 25 people and injured 13 more, local authorities said on Monday. The bus was heading to the town of Sorochuco on Sunday evening when it overturned and crashed down a slope into a river, Olga Bobadilla, provincial prosecutor for the Cajamarca region, told local […]
BEIJING—Elon Musk made progress towards rolling out Tesla’s advanced driver-assistance package in China on a whirlwind weekend trip to Beijing, sending the company’s shares soaring more than 16 percent on Monday. The leap in Tesla’s stock added $90 billion to the company’s market value, a major vote of confidence from Wall Street for the electric-vehicle […]
WASHINGTON—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening an investigation into Ford Motor’s hands-free driving technology BlueCruise after two fatal crashes involving Mustang Mach-E SUVs striking parked vehicles, the agency said on Monday. The agency’s preliminary evaluation into 130,000 2021–2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles is the first step to determine whether the vehicles pose an […]
KYIV—Ukraine’s top commander said on Sunday Kyiv’s outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where Russia has concentrated significant forces in several locations. The statement by Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi reflected Ukraine’s deteriorating position in the east that Kyiv hopes it can stabilize once it takes […]
Daimler Truck agreed to a new labor contract on Friday with over 7,300 hourly workers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) at six facilities in the U.S. South, averting a strike at the 11th hour. “For months, we said that record profits should mean a record contract with no concessions,” UAW President Shawn Fain […]
WASHINGTON -Erich Andersen, general counsel for TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance, will step down from that role in June to focus on fighting efforts to force a sale of the video app in the U.S., the company said on Friday. Andersen will remain at the company and become its special counsel to lead TikTok’s […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. auto safety regulators said on Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is adequate following a series of crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it opened the probe after receiving reports of 20 crashes […]
SAO PAULO—At least 10 people died and 11 were injured in the early hours of Friday morning in a major fire at a guesthouse in Brazil’s southern city of Porto Alegre, said the Rio Grande do Sul state fire department, which is still searching for the missing. The firefighters said they were called at around […]
SYDNEY—Elon Musk’s social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as “part of public discussion,” rejecting a regulator’s order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X’s “global government affairs” account said the video taken by an […]
CHICAGO—Colombia has restricted the import of beef and beef products coming from U.S. states where dairy cows have tested positive for avian influenza as of April 15, according the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is the first country to officially limit trade in beef due to bird flu in cows, in a sign of a […]
WASHINGTON—Vice President Kamala Harris hosted reality-television star Kim Kardashian at the White House on Thursday to discuss criminal justice reform, after the Biden administration granted clemency to people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden granted clemency to 16 people, pardoning 11 of them and commuting the sentences of the other five. […]
JERUSALEM—Hamas terrorists published a video on Wednesday apparently showing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American seized during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and taken into Gaza, alive. The short, undated video showed the 23-year-old missing a lower arm, but otherwise apparently healthy. He was shown saying he had sustained serious injuries during the Oct. 7 attack […]
PARIS—The sails of the landmark red windmill atop the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated cabaret club in Paris, fell to the ground overnight in the early hours of Thursday, much to the sorrow of tourists. “The Moulin Rouge, in 135 years of history, has experienced many adventures but it is true that for the wings, […]
SYDNEY—Marine wildlife experts were frantically trying to rescue some 140 pilot whales stranded on Thursday in the shallow waters of an estuary in the southwest of the state of Western Australia. The whales are stranded at Toby Inlet in Geographe Bay, the Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions said. The area is near […]
WASHINGTON—Magnetars are among the universe’s most extreme objects—a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce enormous eruptions of gamma rays in the strongest nondestructive release of energy known in the cosmos. Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one […]
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are among the golfers expected to be given equity in PGA Tour Enterprises as a thank you for sticking with the Tour instead of jumping to rival LIV Golf, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday. Mr. Woods will receive a $100 million and Mr. McIlroy a $50 million stake in the […]
UnitedHealth Group said on Monday that hackers stole health and personal data of potentially a “substantial proportion” of Americans from its systems in February, as the largest U.S. health insurer scrambles to contain the damage. The intrusion at its Change Healthcare unit, which processes about 50 percent of U.S. medical claims, was one of the […]
MOSCOW—A Russian court on Tuesday rejected the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage. Mr. Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War when he was detained by the Federal Security Service […]
MOSCOW—An ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Europe on Tuesday that Russia has already drafted legislation to retaliate if nearly $300 billion of Russian assets were seized by the West and used to help Ukraine. After President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia’s […]
TAIPEI—Taiwan’s quake-hit eastern county of Hualien was rattled by dozens of aftershocks late on Monday and early on Tuesday, but only minor damage was reported and no casualties and major chipmaker TSMC said it saw no impact on operations. Largely rural and sparsely populated Hualien was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on April 3 […]
CAIRO—Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country’s antiquities ministry said on Sunday. The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display. The artefact will be restored, the […]
Russia said on Sunday its forces had advanced towards the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine and seized control of the settlement of Bohdanivka, as Kyiv said it urgently needed promised U.S. support to fend off a full-scale offensive. “Units of the Southern grouping group of forces have fully liberated the settlement of Bohdanivka…and […]
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain—Thousands of people protested in Tenerife on Saturday, calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals to stem a boom in short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction that is driving up housing costs for locals. Holding placards reading “People live here” and “We don’t want to see our island […]
Howie Schwab, best known for his time on ESPN trivia show “Stump the Schwab,” died Saturday, the network announced. He was 63. Mr. Schwab worked at ESPN from 1987 through 2013 in a variety of roles from researcher to producer, most prominently on the game show. On “Stump the Schwab, which aired from 2004-06 and […]
Stellantis is recalling 38,164 vehicles due to an issue which can prevent the driver’s airbag from deploying in a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday. The automaker is recalling certain 2023–2024 Ram 1500, Jeep Wrangler, and Jeep Wagoneer vehicles, among others, as the steering column control module on them may […]
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 […]