As temperatures rise across the Northeast, snow from Buffalo's "Knife Storm" is beginning to melt, prompting fears of major flooding. Nathan Frandino reports.
Lobbyists can easily bypass EU transparency rules to influence policy, the 27-nation bloc's auditors said on Wednesday. The European Court of Auditors' (ECA) report comes as European Union institutions discuss a new Ethics Body to guide the conduct of officials and ahead of a planned review of the bloc's transparency register of lobbyists. That review follows a 2022 cash-for-influence scandal at the heart of the European Parliament in which Qatar and Morocco have been accused of bribing decision-makers.
The European Space Agency announced that it has found the most massive stellar-mass black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way.
Forced to hide her true self, Joe Horras’ transgender daughter struggled with depression and anxiety until three years ago, when she began to take medication to block the onset of puberty. Horras is now scrambling to figure out next steps and is considering leaving Idaho, where he's lived his whole life, to move to another state. "It would be devastating for her," Horras, who lives in Boise, told The Associated Press.
The United Nations is still struggling to prevent famine in the Gaza Strip and while there had been some improvement in coordination with Israel, aid deliveries in the enclave still faced difficulties, a senior U.N. aid official said on Tuesday. Andrea De Domenico, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said aid deliveries within Gaza were facing significant checkpoint delays and that last week 41% of U.N. requests to deliver aid to northern Gaza were denied.
On Tuesday, the second day of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, Judge Juan Merchan rebuked defense lawyers after Trump was heard muttering his disapproval of an answer given by a potential juror in the case.
Opponents of the ban say it violates the Ohio Constitution, which gives residents the right to choose their health care.
Heavy rains battered parts of the Middle East on Tuesday, appearing to flood the tarmac at the Dubai International Airport.
The U.N. envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, lashed out at the country’s feuding parties and their foreign backers at a U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday and then confirmed he had submitted his resignation. The former Senegalese minister and U.N. diplomat, who has held the job for 18 months, said he had done his best to get the five key political actors in Libya to resolve contested issues over electoral laws and form a unified government to lead the country to long-delayed elections.
Social media and easy access to credit are causing Gen Z to massively overspend.
A black car can be seen crashing into the upper portion of a residential car garage in California before landing on top of two white pickup trucks.
Flexibility exercises like cat cow, low lunge and downward dog improve flexibility, reduce back pain and increase mobility. Try these 15 stretches to get more flexible.
The fate of US aid to Ukraine hung in the balance Tuesday as House Speaker Mike Johnson faced potential revolt from within his Republican party over his complex plan to renew the long-delayed funding along with fresh assistance for Israel."He should pre-announce his resignation... so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker," Massie said on X. When asked about the fresh revolt, Johnson told reporters on Tuesday: "I am not resigning."
A trade association is calling on melatonin makers to follow new guidelines on labeling and packaging for their products amid a rise in emergency room visits and calls to poison centers for accidental ingestion of melatonin by children. The new guidelines, announced Monday by the Council for Responsible Nutrition, which represents the dietary supplement and functional food industry, call for melatonin-containing products to be sold in child-deterrent packaging and to caution consumers on the label that the products are for intermittent use only, may cause drowsiness and should not be taken with alcohol.
The vehicle were police said they found the teacher and student is registered to Erin and William Doug Ward, a USSTRATCOM civilian employee.
Lawmakers join a renewed push for the Justice Department to condemn racist Supreme Court "Insular Cases" rulings that deprived U.S. territories of equal rights.
Wisconsin voters with disabilities should be able to cast their ballots electronically and failure to provide that option for the upcoming Aug. 13 primary and November presidential election is discriminatory and unconstitutional, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the battleground state alleges. The lawsuit seeks to require that electronic absentee voting be an option for people with disabilities, just as it is for military and overseas voters. Under current Wisconsin law, people with disabilities are “treated unequally and face real and considerable hurdles to participating in absentee voting," the lawsuit argues.
Ecuador on Tuesday began to ration electricity in the country's main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants that produce about 75% of the nation’s power. The power cuts were announced on Monday night by the ministry of energy, which said in a statement that it would review its decision on Wednesday night. “We urge Ecuadorians to cut their electricity consumption in this critical week,” the statement read.
European equities tumbled Tuesday after Israel's army chief vowed a response to Iran's attack on his country, while Wall Street stocks meandered before finishing virtually flat.While air defense systems destroyed the vast majority of the barrage and Iran said "the matter can be deemed concluded," Israel's army chief General Herzi Halevi warned that there would be a response, fueling worries of an escalation.
Trump the candidate and Trump the media company are each slogging through low points.
J&J is doubling down on medtech, a typically sleepy sector that has been risky, as it looks to grow after spinning of consumer health segment Kenvue.
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