At least 18 people were killed in Port-au-Prince overnight when a parade float in Haiti's Carnival celebration ran into electrical wires. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Jose Raul Mulino, the protege of a graft-convicted former head of state, took the lead in Panama's presidential election Sunday evening with half the votes counted, according to election tribunal data.Mulino, 64, led with more than a third of the tallied votes, the data showed.
A fabricated audio clip of a US high school principal prompted a torrent of outrage, leaving him battling allegations of racism and anti-Semitism in a case that has sparked new alarm about AI manipulation.AI-generated content -- and particularly audio, which experts say is particularly difficult to spot -- sparked national alarm in January when a fake robocall posing as Biden urged New Hampshire residents not to vote in the state's primary.
From top to bottom, rescuers scour buildings in Porto Alegre for inhabitants stuck in apartments or on rooftops as unprecedented flooding turned the streets of the Brazilian metropolis into rivers. According to the mayor's office, the level of the Guaiba River that runs past Porto Alegre reached 5.3 meters (about 17.4 feet) on Sunday -- higher than the previous record of 4.76 meters recorded during historic floods in 1941.
Russian dissident historian Tamara Eidelman was on vacation in Greece when Moscow's tanks rolled into Ukraine in February 2022 and she realized that she would not be going back to her home country.During her lecture in an auditorium of several hundred Russian speakers titled "The Judgment of History," Eidelman examined the painful questions of countries' and societies' culpability and responsibility for crimes from ancient Greece to Nazi Germany -- with the clear undertone of Russia's war in Ukr
The body of a young boy was recovered from floodwaters near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, as search and rescue teams statewide continue to patrol streets and neighborhoods inundated by rainfall.
One of the jurors who awarded a New Hampshire man $38 million in a landmark lawsuit over abuse at the state’s youth detention center says the state is misinterpreting the verdict by capping the payment at $475,000. Jurors on Friday awarded $18 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in enhanced damages to David Meehan, who alleged that the state’s negligence allowed him to be repeatedly raped, beaten and held in solitary confinement as a teenager at the Youth Development Center in Manchester. “We wrote on our verdict form that there was 1 incident/injury, being complex PTSD, from the result of 100+ injuries (Sexual, Physical, emotional abuse),” the juror wrote, according to court documents filed Sunday by Meehan's attorneys.
Israeli leader says any arrests would restrict Israel’s ability to defend itself and be a “distortion of justice and history”.
After spending time with their potential future boss at his Florida home over the weekend, many of former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential hopefuls hit the Sunday show circuit, casting doubt over election integrity, bashing President Biden for his handling of campus protests, and one even leaving open the possibility of moving from his home to accommodate their candidacy. Noem, for her part, remained on defense after blowback from an anecdote about killing a 14-month-old dog and goat o
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with at least 78 dead and 115,000 forced from their homes.- 'It's terrifying' - Authorities scrambled to evacuate swamped neighborhoods as rescue workers used four-wheel-drive vehicles -- and even jet skis -- to maneuver through waist-deep water in search of the stranded.
At least seven people were injured in a Long Beach, California, shooting late Saturday, according to police.
John Miller recounts investigation following the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.
Former President Donald Trump continues to make false claims about his New York trial.
This year's Berkshire Hathaway meeting gave shareholders their best chance yet to hear from the man who will one day take over as CEO when Warren Buffett is gone, but Buffett said for the first time Saturday that Greg Abel should also take responsibility for the company's investments after he takes over, raising new questions about the succession plan. Abel put his encyclopedic knowledge of the utility business that he led directly for years on display and delved into railroad operations and potential acquisitions that Berkshire pursued while sharing the stage with Buffett all day. Abel pointed out that it required a major culture shift to get workers at PacifiCorp and the other utilities, who have long focused all their energy on keeping the lights on, to think about shutting the power down at times when the risk that their power lines could spark wildfires is too great.
The Biden administration paused a shipment of US-made ammunition to Israel, according to a source familiar, who did not disclose why the decision was made. The hold is not connected to a potential Israeli operation in Rafah and doesn’t affect other shipments moving forward, the source said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a video statement accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands in negotiations for the freedom of hostages from Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on X that the operations of Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera in Israel will be closed.
New York City's Department of Corrections is temporarily suspending the use of body-worn cameras after an employee suffered burns and smoke inhalation last week when hers suddenly caught fire.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a social media post Sunday that the University of Texas would not meet the demands of student protesters.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denounced a "volcano of anti-Semitism" and international criticism of Israel's war in Gaza, insisting that no pressure would stop it from defending itself.And he denounced "this terrible volcano of anti-Semitism" that he said was surging around the world.
A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada. The storm brought light rain and gusty winds to Southern California.
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