Driving into Derna in the early hours was like arriving in a ghost town. The city, decimated by flash floods that tore through homes and streets earlier this week, was eerily quiet.
Three men were acquitted Friday on all charges against them in connection to allegations that they were involved in a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
A major European tech regulator has ordered TikTok to pay a €345 million ($368 million) fine after ruling that the app failed to do enough to protect children.
The presidential campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will clash out in the open and behind closed doors on Friday as their fight for the future of the GOP intensifies.
How do you feel when you read the same word many times? Do people have an equal number of hairs in both their nostrils? Does electrifying your tongue change the taste of the food you are eating? These were among the vital questions answered by the winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.
The United Arab Emirates foiled an attempt to smuggle 13 tonnes of the addictive amphetamine captagon -- worth more than $1 billion -- hidden in a shipment of doors and decorative building panels, the country's Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Thursday.
A United Airlines flight bound for Rome returned to New Jersey just after midnight Thursday "to address a possible loss of cabin pressure," according to a statement from the airline.
Carla Vall, lawyer for Spanish soccer star Jennifer Hermoso, reiterated that the kiss by ex-Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales to her client after the Women's World Cup final was non-consensual.
A photograph of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, has won the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition for a team of amateur astronomers.
Two major threats to President Joe Biden's reelection -- his son Hunter's legal problems and the widely held perception the 80-year-old is too old for reelection -- are both causing him major pain this week.
Netflix spends a lot of money on prestigious Oscar bait, but its subscriber/viewership numbers probably owe as much to the light romances that the service spits out with regularity. Add "Love at First Sight" to that column, playing like a slightly darker fairy tale -- rom without much com -- about the odds against finding your soulmate, filtered through one of the young lovers' preoccupation with math.
In the 60 years since the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the church has been rebuilt, and stained glass has been repaired, but there are still wounds time has yet to heal. Family and friends say decades later they are still holding on to their memories and grieving the loss of the four girls who were killed that day.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra said she's "frustrated" with the autoworker strike that began overnight, and said that her company has a "very compelling offer" for the union.
Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed.
A Southern California man has been convicted on three counts related to the "Bling Ring," a group that burglarized the homes of celebrities in 2018, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement.
Vladimir Putin has said Russia will build "good neighborly relations" with North Korea on the fourth day of Kim Jong Un's lengthy visit to the country, amid warnings from the West that Moscow must not break international sanctions targeting Pyongyang.
Chick-fil-A is making another foray into the United Kingdom after gay rights campaigners forced the fast-food chain to close a pop-up site in the country in 2019.
