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One person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion at an Iraqi military base housing a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, officials said Saturday.The Iraqi security forces' media unit said "an explosion and a fire" hit the Kalsu base in the early hours of Saturday, leaving one person dead and eight wounded.
Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible. This year, for many Jews, the holiday’s mood will be somber due to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and the rise of antisemitic incidents elsewhere. WHEN IS PASSOVER THIS YEAR? Passover – known as Pesach in Hebrew -- begins on April 22.
Index concentration has been a running theme for well over a year, and it's not limited to the S&P 500's "Magnificent Seven" stocks. The small-cap Russell 2000 index has its own set of outperformers, the "Micros."
Maps show where weed and marijuana products are legal for recreational and medical use in the United States.
Opposition to the bill brought together an unlikely group: Civil-liberties minded Republicans and Democrats pitted against national security hawks.
A man who set himself on fire on Friday outside Trump's court trial has died, according to police.
Netflix will stop reporting subscriber numbers next year. Here's why that's spooking Wall Street investors.
China's foreign minister on Saturday accused Western powers in the AUKUS security pact of provoking division and risking nuclear proliferation in the South Pacific.AUKUS also "raises serious nuclear proliferation risks", the Chinese foreign minister told reporters after meeting with his Papua New Guinea counterpart Justin Tkatchenko.
Ukraine launched a wave of drones at Russia in the early hours of Saturday, setting a fuel depot ablaze, officials said, as both sides accused each other of deadly attacks on civilians.Ukraine has in recent months pleaded for more air defences from its Western allies as it struggles to fend off a surge in deadly attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Death Valley has ping ponged between severe drought and record rainfall, giving rise to extra-tall wildflowers, an ephemeral lake and dead bushes.
The historic first criminal trial of a former US president begins with opening statements on Monday.
Donald Trump, largely confined to a Manhattan courtroom for most of the past week, will reemerge on the campaign circuit Saturday in North Carolina, where the stakes of the Republican’s trial-to-trail presidential campaign are especially high.
The late Bob Graham’s book is everything politics should be.
Three officials with his campaign outlined the former president’s strategy.
Abortion is at the center of President Joe Biden's re-election campaign — an improbability for a politician who long expressed his personal discomfort with the practice.
Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates and sister airline flydubai have restored normal operations after heavy rains caused severe flooding across the United Arab Emirates earlier this week, the airlines said on Saturday. Emirates cancelled nearly 400 flights and delayed many more as a result of a record storm that hit the desert city of Dubai on Tuesday, said a statement released by the airline's president, Tim Clark. Due to the impact of the storm, the airline suspended check-in for passengers departing from Dubai and halted its transit operations through Dubai International Airport, a major global travel hub, leaving thousands of travellers stranded.
The Iraqi army said on Saturday that a command post at Kalsu military base, south of the capital Baghdad, had been hit by an explosion overnight, killing one member of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and injuring eight other people.
Margaret Bensfield Sullivan and her husband had seen the point of traveling their children. Then they went traveling for a year and found it had unexpected perks.
A mother is suing Indianapolis Public Schools, as well as some of its staff members, claiming that her 7-year-old son was recorded as he was attacked by another student.
A growing majority of US Catholics favor legal abortion, a Pew study found. Meanwhile, Hispanics are growing as a segment of the Catholic population.
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