Australian authorities have smashed a ring of illegal insect dealers led by one secretive commercial breeder specializing in the Madagascar hissing cockroach as part of the country’s largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.
Some familiar sights, sounds and voices have been lined up by President Donald Trump to replace the “no talent” artists who nixed the planned “Freedom 250” Great American State Fair concert series in Washington, DC, designed as a celebration of the nation.
Actions have consequences. A selfie-obsessed juvenile has learnt this simple lesson after he was banned for life by the NBA after being arrested for rushing onto the court during Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Thermal imaging drones, sniffer dogs, police, and a growing army of volunteers are being deployed in the Australian state of Queensland after a nefarious Tasmanian Devil escaped its zoo enclosure to begin life on the run.
Another day, another smearing of President Donald Trump by the increasingly infatuated leftist actor Robert de Niro.
A selfie-hunting fan stormed the court during the fourth quarter of Wednesday night’s NBA Finals Game 1 to get a shot alongside San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama and New York’s Mitchell Robinson.
“Self defense” strikes were launched by U.S. military assets across the Persian Gulf overnight into Wednesday morning, with a host of ballistic missiles and drones fired at ships and Gulf countries by Iran obliterated in the process.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) advanced to a November runoff Tuesday as she seeks to stay in City Hall while a host of political challengers circle led by Republican Spencer Pratt.
The U.S. has committed to selling Australia three in-service Virginia-class nuclear submarines while pivoting from the planned acquisition of one new and two in-service Virginias as part the multi-billion-dollar AUKUS submarine deal.
Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in the early hours of Tuesday morning, leaving at least 13 fatalities and sparking fresh calls from Kyiv for renewed U.S. military aid.
The United States bombed radar and drone sites across Iran over the weekend after Tehran brought down an American MQ-1 drone. Iran further claimed a strike of its own as Kuwait reported drawing incoming fire.
A teenage girl was arrested Saturday after Las Vegas police received a report three horses were “intentionally injured with a sharp object” at the site of a barrel racing competition.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shunning Sunday’s annual parade honoring Israel, breaking with a decades-long political tradition because of his fealty to the Jewish state’s sworn opponents.
Emily Blunt rejected using artificial intelligence (AI) when filming a pivotal scene in Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming sci-fi film Disclosure Day, saying she is terrified of the creative medium.
Tom Morello, an activist and guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, announced Wednesday he organized a protest festival to take place at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Oct. 3. in Columbia, Maryland.
The promised Trump Accounts app is now available nationwide, delivering on a key policy initiative that aims to deliver millions of investment accounts for children.
A number of countries have confirmed they are imposing travel restrictions that ban arrivals who might possibly have been exposed to the Ebola virus.
FIFA is under investigation after allegations of “artificially inflating prices” and “misleading fans” over the sale of tickets for the upcoming 2026 World Cup.
A criminal investigation has been launched by the Department of Justice (DOJ) into E. Jean Carroll, the sometime magazine columnist who accused U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s, a report Wednesday set out citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter.
The United States is readying to slash the number of fighters jets, strategic bombers and warships available to NATO in any future security crisis, a report claims.
A chemical tank ruptured before imploding at a Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in the U.S. state of Washington on Tuesday. One death was confirmed while nine others remain unaccounted for with no hope for rescue, authorities said.
Five criminal charges, including strangulation and suffocation, were laid against Green Bay Packers star running back Josh Jacobs on Tuesday after police responded to a disturbance complaint against him over the weekend.
Russell Crowe has his limits and his rules. The New Zealand-born actor aired them Sunday with crazed fans in Paris as they strove to get his attention – and autograph.
The worst fears of World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have been realized. The career Ethiopian bureaucrat confirmed late Monday the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts in Africa and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease.
Fresh strikes on southern Iran were launched by U.S. military forces early Tuesday morning targeting Iranian missile sites and vessels attempting to lay anti-shipping mines in the contested Strait of Hormuz.
Robust regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and its human developers is essential for the common good to be served rather than naked, undisguised profit. Pope Leo XIV made this clarion call Monday, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as AI technology spreads into almost every facet of existence.
Democrats were roasted Friday after the party’s official account lauded comedian Stephen Colbert one day after his late-night era was consigned to the dustbin of history.
Missing Canadian actor Stewart McLean’s remains were identified Friday just 24-hours after it was announced he was possibly a victim of homicide.
Actor Grizz Chapman, best known and widely applauded for his role in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, has died. He was 52.
An Ebola vaccine based on the same technology that delivered the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab is being urgently developed by British scientists to help contain the deadly sub-strain enveloping the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its neighbors.
U.S. President Donald Trump wasted little time contemplating the end of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert after its final episode went to air Thursday night, characterising the departing host as being “like a dead person.”
Lupita Nyong’o has responded to criticism of her casting to play Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s version of The Odyssey by haughtily declaring “our cast is representative of the world.”
A vaccine to tackle the runaway Ebola virus now surging through central Africa can be developed within 100 days, an international disease response group vowed Friday.
Two-time NASCAR champion Kyle Busch reportedly sought medical help for sinus issues just weeks before his tragic death Thursday. He was 41 when he died.
American director and producer Michael Bay, the filmmaker behind Pearl Harbor, Pain & Gain and the Transformers movies, is ready to direct a film about the U.S. pilots retrieved from behind enemy lines in Iran during Operation Epic Fury.
The world loves coal. That is the simple message from results showing new coal-fired power plants hit a global 10-year high in 2025, defying climate doomers who decry its use and long for wind farms, solar panels and hydro power everywhere.
Stephen Colbert reunited with buddy Jon Stewart on Tuesday night’s episode of The Late Show and the two quickly reignited their dewy-eyed mutual admiration society while spraying venom at the Trump administration as “putrid.”
Black athletes and fans are being urged to get political and reject the athletic programs of flagship public universities within states working to “limit, weaken, or erase black voting representation” in the wake of last month’s Supreme Court ruling that further defined the Voting Rights Act.
Actor Sebastian Stan, who previously played a young Donald Trump during his ascendance in the late 70s and 80s in The Apprentice movie, holds the man now in the White House beneath contempt and aired his doom-laden views Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival.
As the world watches an Ebola outbreak which has claimed 131 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a World Health Organization (W.H.O). representative warned Tuesday the deadly malady may be disseminating faster than first thought.
