The Syrian army and their Hezbollah allies launched an offensive on the strategic city Zabadani, which is close to the Lebanese border on the Beirut-Damascus highway. Deborah Gembara reports.
Tesla said it would "accelerate" the launch of new models next year, including lower-cost cars, countering reports earlier this month it had scraped those plans.
The big U.S. aid package for Ukraine and other allies that President Joe Biden signed Wednesday also allows the administration to seize Russian state assets located in the U.S. and use them for the benefit of Kyiv. The seizures would be carried out under provisions of the REPO Act, short for the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act, that were incorporated into the aid bill.
Slippery slopes, tension on the bench and other takeaways from Wednesday's arguments.
Tesla's surge is putting Big Tech earnings center stage as investors look to megacaps to lift stocks.
A routine tuneup found biological growth in my home's HVAC unit. Here what I did to get rid of it, plus expert tips for improving indoor air quality.
Student protests over Israel’s war with Hamas have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week's arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University. The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from any companies that are advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza — and in some cases from Israel itself. The groups largely act independently, though students say they’re inspired by peers at other universities.
Tennessee is poised to become the second state in the nation to make it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent, a proposal that is likely to face immediate legal challenges should Gov. Bill Lee sign it into law. Tennessee's GOP-dominant Statehouse approved the bill Wednesday, clearing the way for the measure to head to the Republican governor's desk. While Lee hasn't public commented on the proposal, he has repeatedly defended enacting the state's sweeping abortion ban and stressed his opposition to the procedure.
Buckeye State lawmakers eliminate a legal technicality that protects spouses in certain cases from prosecution against rape.
The bear cub, pulled from a tree outside an Asheville apartment complex, is estimated to be 3-4 months old and is eating and drinking, officials said.
New Transportation Department rules could save consumers $500 million annually, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.
US President Joe Biden took aim Wednesday at Donald Trump, joking that when his rival famously remarked about injecting bleach to tackle Covid it instead went in his much-discussed hair.Trump, 77, regularly mocks his opponent's lifelong stutter and calls him "sleepy Joe."
A Republican attempt to expedite an ethics investigation of a Democratic Minnesota state senator who's facing a felony burglary charge failed on a tie vote Wednesday. Sen. Nicole Mitchell, of Woodbury, was absent as the Senate reconvened for the first time since her arrest early Monday at her estranged stepmother's home in the northwestern Minnesota city of Detroit Lakes.
It's been 434 days since the family of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova heard from her, her relatives said Wednesday, on the activist's 42nd birthday. Kolesnikova, who is serving 11 years in prison for helping organize anti-government protests in Belarus in 2020, and other imprisoned opposition figures have been held incommunicado for months on end, raising fears for their well-being. “It's the fourth birthday that Maria spends behind bars, and recently we received information that her health is deteriorating and we don't know if she's being treated at all,” her sister Tatsiana Khomich told Belarusian media.
Palestinian militant group Hamas released Wednesday a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza who is seen alive and saying that the captives are living "in hell".It triggered the deadliest war between Hamas and Israel, with Netanyahu vowing to eliminate the militant group that rules Gaza.
Fishing rights in Alaskan waters is a centuries-old tradition for local communities now impacted by commerical trawlers
The US Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday on whether Idaho's near-total ban on abortion conflicts with a federal law requiring hospitals to stabilize patients needing emergency care, in a case that carries potentially sweeping national consequences.But in January the Supreme Court put the Idaho ban back in place while it took up the matter.
When President Joe Biden showed off his putting during a campaign stop at a public golf course in Michigan last month, the moment was captured on TikTok. The Coleman family posted video of the proceedings on the app — complete with Biden holing out a putt and the teen knocking his own shot home in response, over the caption, “I had to sink the rebuttal.” Biden signed legislation Wednesday that could ban TikTok in the U.S. while his campaign has embraced the platform and tried to work with influencers.
The Supreme Court considers whether Idaho's near-total abortion ban conflicts with a federal law aimed at ensuring certain standards for emergency medical care for patients, including pregnant women.
Barbados will halt the acquisition of a former slavery plantation belonging to a British Conservative MP after locals said he should transfer land ownership to the state as a "reparations gesture" for historical wrongs. Multiple generations of people were enslaved at the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Saint George, Barbados, a Caribbean nation that received at least 600,000 Africans between 1627 and 1833. They were forcibly put to work in sugar plantations, earning fortunes for English owners such as the Drax family.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed legislation authorizing $61 billion in military aid for Ukraine, with the Pentagon announcing just moments later that desperately-needed air defense and artillery munitions were being sent to Kyiv. Minutes after Biden spoke, the Pentagon announced a $1 billion package for Kyiv using the new funding, including air defense munitions, artillery rounds, ammunition for HIMARS precision rocket launchers, anti-tank weapons and armored vehicles.
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