Fierce overnight winds expected to fuel Pacific Palisades fire
We looked across and the fire had jumped from one side of the road to the other side of the road,” Resident Kelsey Trainor ...
McDonald’s rolls back diversity goals
Fast food giant McDonald’s has become the latest company to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitments ...
Ukraine claims it struck a key military fuel depot deep inside Russia
The Ukrainian military said Wednesday that it struck a fuel storage depot deep inside Russia, causing a huge blaze at the ...
Carter and Biden’s long friendship had wrinkles. It will be on display a final time with a eulogy
Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but. Yet the 46th and 39th U.S. presidents had a decades-long friendship starting when Biden, as a young ...
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran and returning home
An Italian journalist detained in Iran since Dec. 19 has been freed and is heading back to Italy, Premier Giorgia Meloni’s office announced Wednesday. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala ...
Impeached South Korean president’s lawyers slam detention efforts as acting leader warns of clash
Lawyers for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denounced efforts to detain him over his short-lived imposition of martial law, while the country’s acting ...
Japan links Chinese hacker MirrorFace to dozens of cyberattacks targeting security and tech data
Japan on Wednesday linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country’s national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, ...
‘Obamacare’ hits record enrollment but an uncertain future awaits under Trump
A record 24 million people have signed up for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s landmark health legislation, as the ...
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg to serve as the country’s interim leader
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country’s interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party ...
South Korean court clears government, adoption agency of liability in adoptee’s deportation from US
A South Korean court on Wednesday cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a 49-year-old Korean man whose traumatic adoption ...
Middle East latest: Israeli airstrikes kill at least 5 in Gaza, including 2 babies, Palestinians say
Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least five people in the Gaza Strip, including two infants and a ...
An Israeli TV reporter lost his ability to speak clearly. AI is helping him get back on air
When a renowned Israeli TV journalist lost his ability to speak clearly because of ALS, he thought his career might be over. But now, using artificial-intelligence software that ...