A shooter who opened fire at a St. Louis school Monday, killing two and injuring several others, had left behind handwritten notes about being a loner with no social life, which he called the perfect storm for a mass shooting, authorities said Tuesday. The shooter, identified as 19-year-old Orlando Harris, had no previous criminal history […]

Japan’s factory activity growth slowed further to a 21-month low in October as relentless cost pressures torment manufacturers; but service-sector firms received a boost as the country reopened to foreign tourists visa-free. The au Jibun Bank Flash Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) eased to a seasonally adjusted 50.7 in October, down from the prior […]

The U.S. housing sector continues to bear the impact of rising mortgage interest rates which have hit their highest level since 2006, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on Wednesday. Not only have mortgage rates doubled since the start of the year, but it’s getting harder to get a loan. The Federal Reserve is taking […]

A restaurant fire killed at least 17 people in Changchun, the capital city of Jilin Province on Wednesday, state-run CCTV reported. Another three people were injured in the blaze that broke out in a small diner at 12:40 p.m., and all the injured had been taken to hospital, according to the report. The fire and […]

Music streaming giant Spotify Technology S.A. launched on Tuesday its audiobook service for U.S. consumers after its acquisition of global audiobook distributor Findaway back in June. The Swedish company has made over 300,000 audiobooks available on a pay-per-download basis, from independent authors to major publishers, challenging the U.S.’s largest audiobook service Audible of Amazon Inc. Users […]

Apple usually unveils its latest iPhones in the first half of September, and this year was no exception. On Wednesday, the company introduced the new iPhone 14, with a Satellite Emergency Service feature that allows users to communicate when cellular service is down or from a remote location. Apple said it has set up relay centers […]

Starting Friday, Sept. 2, Americans will no longer be able to order free at-home COVID-19 tests due to a lack of congressional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile of tests, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. A website set up by the government during the Omicron outbreak that helped households secure COVID-19 tests […]

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday finalized regulations to make available hearing aids to millions of Americans without them requiring to see a doctor. The FDA’s move comes years after President Donald Trump signed the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017, which would create a new category of hearing aids and replace state-level regulations […]

“That ’70s Show” star and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher revealed that he fully recovered from a rare vasculitis episode (autoimmune flair-up) that started 3 years ago. He posted on Twitter that he “fully recovered. All good, moving on. See you at the 2022 NY Marathon w/Thorn.” Kutcher said in a YouTube video released on Aug. 8 that “I had this […]

The ruling military of Burma, also known as Myanmar, defended its executions of four activists as lawful and carried out in the name of justice for the people. State media reported that “the punishment has been conducted,” but did not say when, or by what means. Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said the military authorities had […]

Former American professional football player, Charles Johnson was found dead in his hotel room on Wednesday in North Carolina. The Super Bowl champion wide receiver was 50 years old. The cause of his death was unknown as of Wednesday afternoon. Johnson played nine NFL seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots in […]

Finland and Sweden formally applied to join NATO on Wednesday in Brussels, driven by the Russia–Ukraine conflict to step out of their neutrality maintained during and since the Cold War. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said it was a “historic moment” and that he warmly welcomed the two nations into the world’s biggest military alliance, a […]

Award-winning filmmaker Singh Gujral talks about illegal immigration, its source, and reverberations.

The U.N. watch group issued a report last week, opposing the election of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, calling for their human rights records to make them “unqualified” countries.

BOSTON—A California executive who pleaded guilty to charges that he paid $400,000 in bribes to get his son into Georgetown University has been fired. Stephen Semprevivo pleaded guilty Tuesday, May 7, in Boston federal court. He is the third parent to plead guilty in the vast college admissions bribery scheme. Authorities say Semprevivo gave $400,000 […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Agriculture terminated a $240,000 purchase contract with Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods that had been awarded under the Trump administration’s agricultural trade bailout program, a move taken at the company’s request, a department spokesman told Reuters on Nov. 16. The move comes weeks after Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, one of the […]

A former Army medic who received the nation’s highest military honor on Oct. 1 for braving heavy gunfire to save lives in Afghanistan was rejected by the military the first time he tried to enlist. “I can’t believe they rejected you. Boy that was a bad mistake. But they made up for it, right,” President […]

ISTANBUL—Turkey’s battered lira weakened 4 percent on Aug. 17 after a Turkish court rejected an American pastor’s appeal for release, drawing a stiff rebuke from President Donald Trump who said the United States would not take his detention “sitting down.” The case of Andrew Brunson, an evangelical Christian missionary from North Carolina who has lived […]

LONDON—Britain could ban the use of combustible materials on high-rise buildings in response to the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 71 people last June, the housing minister said on Thursday. Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey London social housing block, was engulfed in flames after fire broke out in the middle of the night. An aluminium cladding […]