Mock coffins filled one of Milan’s most famous squares Friday in a protest organized by Italy's second-largest union to raise awareness over workplace deaths. Protesters lined up 172 cardboard coffins in Piazza La Scala to symbolize the exact number of workers who died on the job last year in the northern Lombardy region alone. The UIL labor union said that it was demanding that both the government and businesses do more to protect Italian workers.
A tractor-trailer hauling about 15 million honey bees to be used to pollinate blueberry fields crashed and overturned on Interstate 95, officials said. The bees were mostly contained and the “goal was to save them," said Shannon Moss, state police spokesperson. Bees are routinely trucked into the region to pollinate the blueberry barrens each spring.
The New Jersey senator said Rob Menendez is a "champion" who deserves another term in the House.
Russia launched a surprise ground offensive into Ukraine's northeast Kharkiv region on Friday, making small advances into a border zone it was pushed back from nearly two years ago."Russia launched a new wave of counter-offensive actions in this area.
German police said Friday they had prevented hundreds of demonstrators from storming Tesla’s factory near Berlin during protests against the pioneering electric carmaker over its environmental footprint. In March, a suspected arson attack on an electricity pylon claimed by a far-left group knocked out power supplies to the factory for nearly a week, interrupting production. During Friday's protest march at a nearby train station, “hundreds of participants ran into the forest and tried to get onto the Tesla site,” police spokesman Mario Heinemann said on ntv television.
Investors are listening out for a parade of Fed speakers to test a growing confidence that a rate cut is on the way.
A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld the contempt of Congress conviction of Steve Bannon, raising the prospect that Donald Trump's former White House strategist could go to jail soon.Bannon served in the White House as chief strategist for the first seven months of Trump's term, leaving reportedly due to conflicts with other top staffers.
Critics say the study could sow communal discord between Hindus and Muslims during India's ongoing elections.
Powerful storms with damaging high winds threatened several states in the Southeast early Friday, as residents elsewhere in the U.S. cleared debris from deadly severe weather that produced twisters in Michigan, Tennessee and other states. Storms rolled into Tallahassee, Florida, where numerous trees were toppled around the state’s capital city, authorities said Friday. Wind gusts of 71 mph (114 kph) were recorded by a weather station near the State Capitol Complex, the National Weather Service reported.
A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld the criminal conviction of Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected Bannon's challenges to his contempt of Congress conviction. Bannon had been sentenced to four months in prison, but the judge overseeing the case had allowed him to stay free pending appeal.
The AI PC chip wars are going nuclear as Apple officially joins the fight with its M4 processor.
Consumer sentiment soured in May as fears over sticky inflation and high interest rates dampened Americans outlook for the US economy.
Experts have long warned about the threat posed by artificial intelligence going rogue -- but a new research paper suggests it's already happening.Cicero excelled, with scores that would have placed it in the top 10 percent of experienced human players, according to a 2022 paper in Science.
Polish farmers on Friday rallied against EU environmental regulations they said were hurting the economy and called for a referendum on the issue."We don't agree to all the Green Deal provisions, which are harmful to Poland's economy," said Adrian Wawrzyniak, a spokesman for the Solidarity farmers' union.
A 75-year-old man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced Friday for the murder of a British police officer who was shot dead during an armed robbery in northern England nearly two decades ago. Piran Ditta Khan was convicted in April, as he had fled the country to Pakistan soon after the murder of Sharon Beshenivsky. Judge Nicholas Hilliard sentenced him in Leeds Crown Court to life imprisonment and that he must serve a minimum term of 40 years in prison.
Rep. Henry Cuellar’s former campaign manager and another political operative have agreed to plead guilty to federal crimes and are cooperating with the Justice Department’s prosecution of the Texas Democrat, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
San Antonio authorities said gunmen in a mass shooting. "Wanted to empty enough lead into that home to make sure that they inflicted maximum damage."
A new version of a bill that would restrict U.S. business with China's WuXi AppTec, BGI and other biotechnology companies of concern would allow companies until 2032 to end work with the Chinese firms, extending the amount of time to find new partners. The latest Biosecure Act also adds WuXi Biologics to a list of biotech companies of concern. The other companies on the list are BGI, MGI, Complete Genomics and WuXi AppTec.
A severe solar storm may supercharge the northern lights from Friday through the weekend, with a chance to see auroras as far south in the U.S. as Alabama.
The U.S. is expected to announce a new $400 million package of military aid for Ukraine on Friday, U.S. officials said, as Kyiv struggles to hold off advances by Russian troops in the northeast Kharkiv region. This is the third tranche of aid for Ukraine since Congress passed supplemental funding in late April after months of gridlock. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned Thursday that his country was facing “a really difficult situation” in the east, but said a new supply of U.S. weapons was coming and “we will be able to stop them.”