2, 1903, Tanaka loved playing the board game Othello and had a penchant for chocolate and fizzy drinks. Tanaka died of old age on April 19 at a hospital in Fukuoka, her hometown in southern Japan where she spent all her life, city officials said Tuesday. Fukuoka Gov. With her death, the world’s oldest human […]
Supreme Court justices discussed all those hypothetical scenarios Monday while hearing arguments about a former public high school football coach from Washington state who wanted to kneel and pray on the field after games. Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked what if the coach had instead run an after-school religious youth group at his home, with […]
The S&P 500 climbed 24.34 points, or 0.6%, to 4,296.12 after erasing an early 1.7% loss. Stocks have been shaky recently, with the S&P 500 coming off a three-week losing streak, amid worries about the quick jump in interest rates coming from the Federal Reserve as it tries to rein in high inflation. And because […]
Instead it invests in futures for bitcoin, a regulated market where traders make bets on where the cryptocurrency is heading in the coming months. Michael Sapir, CEO of ProShares, spoke recently with The Associated Press about the fund’s debut, what kinds of investors it’s serving and about how bitcoin hasn’t lived up to one of […]
Angry residents attacked a main army checkpoint in Tripoli on Sunday, throwing stones at troops who responded by firing into the air. Since Lebanon’s economic meltdown began in October 2019, hundreds have left on boats hoping for a better life in Europe, paying smugglers thousands of dollars. …Read the full story
The ministry also says Russian defense officials have proposed that compensation payments to the families of service personnel should be overseen by military rather that civilian authorities. …Read the full story
“No one will be left by the side of the road,” Macron said in a victory speech against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower and a projection of the blue-white-and-red tricolor French flag. During her campaign, Le Pen pledged to dilute French ties with the 27-nation EU, NATO and Germany, moves that would have shaken […]
Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv was ringed by hundreds of worshippers with baskets to be blessed. Outside the cathedral, a soldier who gave only his first name, Mykhailo, used his helmet as an Easter basket. With the Orthodox church split by the tensions between Russia and Ukraine, some worshippers hoped the holy day could inspire gestures […]
Meanwhile the death toll of Saturday night’s disaster rose to seven, with state media reporting the recovery of a body of a man from Tripoli. “They rammed into us and made us sink then moved away,” said al-Jundi, whose two sisters are still missing. Angry residents attacked a main army checkpoint in Tripoli earlier in […]
Meanwhile the death toll of Saturday night’s disaster rose to seven, with state media reporting the recovery of a body of a man from Tripoli. “They rammed into us and made us sink then moved away,” said al-Jundi, whose two sisters are still missing. Angry residents attacked a main army checkpoint in Tripoli earlier in […]
“This is a very strange Easter for us,” said the Rev. Orysia Germak, a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Most Catholics and Protestants celebrated Easter last Sunday, but Eastern Orthodox are celebrating this Sunday. His elderly parents are in the city of Lviv, which has been thronged with refugees from elsewhere in […]
WASHINGTON — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy had a “positive” call with Donald Trump and appeared to be suffering little political blowback Friday from the release of audio in which he suggested the president should resign shortly after the Jan. McCarthy worked swiftly to shore up support among Republicans, calling and texting many lawmakers about […]
Meade was gone by the time they arrived, but he then started broadcasting what he was doing on Facebook Live, Aiken County Sheriff’s Capt. …Read the full story
Lagging behind Macron in the latest opinion polls, Le Pen campaigned in her stronghold of northern France in a last-ditch effort to try to close the gap. In a bid to seduce working-class voters and electors who cast some 7.7 million votes for leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round, Macron has watered down […]
Egypt’s state news agency said that former member of parliament Alaa Hassanein and four others would serve 10 years. Egypt has drastically stepped up efforts in recent years to stop the trafficking of its antiquities, which flourished in the turmoil following a 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak. The state news report […]
Looming changes announced late Tuesday are designed to help Netflix regain momentum lost over the past year. Netflix’s customer base fell by 200,000 subscribers during the January-March quarter, the first contraction the streaming service has seen since it became available throughout most of the world other than China six years ago. If the stock closes […]
The ambassador and his family were inside the residence in the Forest Hills neighborhood of northwest Washington when they heard several windows being smashed just before 8 a.m. Investigators are still trying to discern why the man was at the ambassador’s home and why he was smashing the windows, Contee said. …Read the full story
The dollar remained at a 20-year high against the Japanese yen, at 128.43 to the dollar. Netflix sank 26% in after-hours trading after the video streaming giant reported its first loss in worldwide subscribers in its history. The conflict in Ukraine has added to those price pressures. …Read the full story
The day after Miller was released on $500 bail for the karaoke bar arrest, a Big Island couple filed a petition for a temporary restraining order, claiming the actor burst into their bedroom and threatened them. …Read the full story
Only a sliver of screen fiction, 2.8%, refers to climate change-related words, according to a new study of 37,453 film and TV scripts from 2016-20. Waves of celebrities have been sounding the climate alarm, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda, Don Cheadle and Shailene Woodley. “We describe it as a spectrum, everything from showing the impact […]