X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, has scrapped a feature that lets users self-report political misinformation on the platform, a research group says, marking the latest safety-focused guardrail that X has rolled back since billionaire Elon Musk took the helm.
Nationwide, more than 70,000 child care programs are projected to close, and about 3.2 million children could lose their spots due to the end of the child care stabilization grant program on September 30, according to an analysis by The Century Foundation.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of gun control measures into law Tuesday, impacting where Californians can legally carry weapons and levying the nation's first state tax on firearms and ammunition, prompting at least one lawsuit and likely future legal challenges from gun rights advocates.
Two of the largest retail chains in France have announced they will forego all profit on fuel sales, yielding to government pressure to sell gasoline and diesel at cost. The savings for motorists at the pump? $1 to $2 per tank.
China's ousted foreign minister Qin Gang had an extramarital affair with a high-profile Chinese television presenter who had a child through surrogacy in the United States, the Financial Times reported Tuesday citing multiple unnamed sources, deepening intrigue around the unexplained disappearance and removal of the senior diplomat.
Namibian rugby star Johan Retief has been ruled out of his country's final World Cup game against Uruguay later Wednesday, after being "bitten by a spider" at the team's hotel in Aix-les-Bains, eastern France.
A federal judge in Texas declared on Tuesday that a state law that bans "sexually oriented performances" on public property and in the presence of anyone younger than 18 is unconstitutional.
Gen Xers, now in their 40s and 50s, are the first generation to have entered the labor market after employers ditched pension plans in favor of 401(k)s. Theirs may be a cautionary tale for those coming up behind them.
Former Spain women's soccer coach Jorge Vilda, Spanish national team director Albert Luque, and Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) marketing director Rubén Rivera have been summoned to testify as suspects as part of the case against RFEF's former president Luis Rubiales, Spain's National Court announced on Wednesday.
UBS shares plunged Wednesday following a report that the Swiss bank faces a widening probe by the US Department of Justice over suspected compliance failures that allowed Russian clients to evade sanctions. compliance failures that allowed Russian clients to evade sanctions.
Israel will be joining the US Visa Waiver Program, allowing Israeli citizens to soon enter the United States without a visa and vice versa, the Biden administration has announced.
Wes Anderson's brand of straight-faced weirdness can be an acquired taste, but the writer-director finds a hospitable outlet for his sense of whimsy in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," a 39-minute adaptation of the Roald Dahl story. He also finds the right outfit to bankroll that in awards-hungry Netflix, which surely has visions of Oscar nominations dancing in its head as it kicks off a week of Anderson-directed Dahl shorts.
London's office market has plunged into a "rental recession," with the share of empty space hitting its highest level in three decades, investment bank Jefferies said in a note Wednesday.
The United States is holding back assistance that might aid the government of Gabon following last month's coup, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement released by the US State Department on Tuesday.