The devastating 2015 Nepal earthquake that killed thousands changed the lives of many in the Himalayan nation. But it began a friendship for two girls who each lost a leg in the tremor. Nirmala Pariyar and Khendo Tamang where 7...
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Thursday urged the 32 member nations to devote more funds, equipment and political energy to the world’s biggest military alliance, as the United States steps back from its leading security role in Europe. “In 2025, we need to significantly increase our efforts to ensure NATO remains a [...]
By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, April 24, 2025 (Health Day News) — Fewer babies are being born in the U.S., and experts are worried what...
Pearson airport was placed on lockdown after a shooting with witnesses reporting one person has been presumed dead and six shots were reportedly fired as police stormed the terminal.
Russia struck Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones in the deadliest assault on the city since last July.
Russia struck Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones in the deadliest assault on the city since last July.
Germany's economy is expected to post zero growth this year, outgoing Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Thursday, blaming US President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The man who admitted to a 2022 mass shooting at a suburban Chicago Independence Day parade refused to attend his sentencing hearing Thursday, a day after survivors and witnesses gave emotional testimony about how their lives...
A fight to limit the number of pets allowed in Saskatoon households has resulted in a loss for a woman hoping for change.
Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will move to what is known as the “expert level” as analysts say the talks are progressing. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports from Tehran that Iranians are receiving positive news from the talks.
China launches 3 astronauts to replace crew on Chinese space station
A Donald Trump-appointed judge ordered the administration to seek the return of a second man improperly deported to El Salvador.Maryland-based U.S. District judge Stephanie Gallagher ruled the administration had violated a legally binding court settlement from last year by deporting the 20-year-old to the Central American nation, reported Politico.The U.S. had agreed in that court-approved settlement not to deport migrants who arrived as unaccompanied minors until their asylum claims have been fully adjudicated.ALSO READ: 'Dictatorship, not a town hall': Families 'distraught' as MTG disruptors tased and jailedCourt papers identified the man as "Christian" and showed he had arrived in the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor and sought asylum in December 2022.That asylum claim was still pending when he was deported last month, according to reports.
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Matthew Macatuno Naval, a California man accused of kidnapping a 10-year-old he met on Roblox, is speaking out for the first time from jail saying he was "misled." NBC News' Ryan Chandler has more on the interview.
New surveillance video shows a man allegedly crawling into a Miami hotel valet key room and stealing several car keys. NBC News' George Solis has more on the hotel theft.
The Tennessee Board of Parole voted to endorse a pardon for country music star Jelly Roll. The singer, who is known to speak openly about his past addictions, could be pardoned for crimes he committed in his younger days. NBC News' Kathy Park has more on the endorsement.
Pope Francis’ beloved soccer club in his native Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo, has celebrated a Mass dedicated to its most famous fan two days after his death, with Argentina still awash in emotional tributes to the first Latin American pontiff....
A former Welsh police officer who led four people to their deaths in the worst paddleboarding tragedy in the U.K. has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Sales of new U.S. single-family homes increased more than expected in March as buyers rushed to take advantage of a decline in mortgage rates, but a gloomy economic outlook poses a challenge to the housing market recovery.
A fast-moving wildfire was burning in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, but officials on Wednesday lifted earlier evacuation orders and a stretch of a major highway that was closed due to the blaze has reopened.More than 1,300 structures were threatened and about 3,000 residents had been evacuated, the...
VIERA, Fla. (AP) — School district officials on Florida's Space Coast aren't renewing the contract of a teacher who used a student's chosen name without getting permission from the student's parents in violation of Florida law.
Get ready for PWHL Vancouver, with the six-team women’s pro hockey league set to announce its first expansion franchise. Without specifically mentioning where, the PWHL issued a news release Wednesday saying it will make an expansion announcement. On Friday, a...
Thousands of people are filing through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis. Wednesday is the start of three days of public viewing ahead of the pontiff’s funeral. Throngs of ordinary faithful...
Around 200 French media groups, including leading television channels and newspapers, are taking legal action against Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, over its online advertising practices, their lawyers announced on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The European Union's first preference is to reach a negotiated solution with the United States over trade, but if discussions do not lead to a solution, the EU will respond with countermeasures, European Union Commissioner for the Economy...
Vice President JD Vance said the United States could “walk away” if Russia and Ukraine don’t agree to a proposal to end the Russian invasion. “We’ve issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it’s...
Jordan has announced a sweeping ban on the Muslim Brotherhood that could include shutting down the country’s largest opposition party, after accusing the group of planning attacks. The Islamic Action Front, a political party linked to the regionwide Brotherhood, won...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’d like to meet Donald Trump at the Vatican on Saturday where global leaders will attend the funeral of Pope Francis.
On a mountain near Sudan's border, journalists climb rugged slopes, phones held high, hoping to catch a faint signal from neighbouring Chad to send stories amid the war's two-year communications blackout.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Pascal Siakam had 24 points and 11 rebounds and Tyrese Haliburton added 21 points and 12 assists to lead the Indiana Pacers past the Milwaukee Bucks 123-115 on Tuesday night for a 2-0 lead in the first-round...
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that the Trump administration’s moves to downsize the Internal Revenue Service, along with other changes, are likely to incentivize reduced tax-payment compliance — potentially costing the federal government $1 trillion in lost revenues over...
At least two Venezuelan immigrants who were detained by ICE and deported from the U.S. have completely disappeared, their families said Tuesday.
Evacuation orders were issued in New Jersey and traffic on the major Garden State Parkway was being diverted because of a wildfire that began Tuesday and grew to 8,500 acres, officials said.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twenty-six people were killed and 17 were injured when suspected militants opened fire at tourists in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory, police said on Wednesday, in the worst such attack in the country in nearly two...
Indian police say gunmen have killed at least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Tuesday's attack appears to be a major shift in a regional conflict in which tourists have largely been spared from violence. Two senior police...
Britain hosts a new round of talks on Wednesday involving the United States, Ukraine, and European nations amid a new US effort to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff is to visit Moscow this week, the White House has confirmed, in what would be his fourth trip to Russia since Trump [...]The post UK hosts new round of Ukraine talks appeared first on Digital Journal.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched a missile toward northern Israel, a rare target for the group as a monthlong intense U.S. airstrike campaign continues to target them. Sirens sounded in Haifa, Krayot and other areas west of the Sea of...
By Wladimir PantaleoneROME (Reuters) - The superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and six others, will...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will be laid to rest Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter’s Basilica, where the faithful are expected to flock to pay their respects to history’s first Latin American pontiff.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the election of another. They were flying back to Rome from the 2019 World Youth Day in Panama, and Francis popped the question in business class.
The reported drone attack on Odesa comes less than 24 hours after a purported ceasefire declared by Moscow ended.
BAGHDAD (AP) — The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq’s Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after one of the darkest chapters in the country’s recent history.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world when he announced his resignation in 2013, the first in 600 years. That led some to wonder if, as he grew increasingly frail and sick, Pope Francis would follow that precedent.
BERLIN (AP) — Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive but 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years — meaning time is running out to hear the voices of the last generation who suffered through one of the worst atrocities in history.
Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have paused a bill meant to challenge the constitutional right for children to attend public schools regardless of their immigration status.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Many people are feared to have died after gunmen indiscriminately fired at tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said.
The last Friday in April is national Arbor Day. It's a great time to plant trees. And it's an especially great time to plant an oak. Entomologist and native-plant expert Doug Tallamy says oaks are a key plant for supporting...
Iowa is pinning its hopes for improving its offense on Mark Gronowski. The South Dakota State transfer has been one of the top passers in the Football Championship Subdivision for three years. Now he moves up to the Big Ten...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the gunmen behind a terrorist attack on tourists in the Kashmir region "will not be spared!"
An unusual public back-and-forth suggested that both sides in the war were eager to at least appear interested in negotiations.
The infighting and backstabbing that plagued President Donald Trump’s first term have returned as a threat to his second, with deepening fissures over trade, national security and questions of personal loyalty. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is denying that sensitive information...
Mark Scheifele had a goal and assist, Kyle Connor scored his second consecutive game-winner in the third period, and the Winnipeg Jets beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 for a 2-0 lead in their opening-round playoff series. Connor Hellebuyck stopped...
President Donald Trump has added another endorsement in next year’s Republican primary for Arizona governor
NEW YORK (AP) — Herbert Gans, a groundbreaking sociologist and media analyst who advocated for greater diversity and public participation in everything from the suburbs and the arts to the voices that shape the news, died Monday at age 97. His death was confirmed by his son, David Gans, who said he died at his [...]
Out of work with USAID as a result of a mass overhaul of federal agencies, a former contractor in the Philadelphia area recently applied to a job with the state of Pennsylvania, eager to use their government work experience as...
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's acting President Han Duck-soo said during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that he expects trade talks this week with...
Four candidates respond to questions from audience members and chamber of commerce moderator
By Liz Lee and Larissa LiaoBEIJING (Reuters) -When 25-year-old biology student Yao's PhD program enrollment was deferred due to funding cuts at her...
LOS ANGELES — Thousands of documents that could contain key details about rampant sexual abuse inside a defunct Santa Clarita detention camp — including so-called "grooming drawings" — were left scattered inside the facility and never turned over to attorneys...
Gleyber Torres and Zach McKinstry each had three hits and the Detroit Tigers beat the San Diego Padres 6-4 for their fourth win in five games. Detroit has won seven straight series openers since losing opening day at Los Angeles...
The wife of detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil announced the birth of the couple's son Monday, noting her husband was not able to witness the event.
Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88
The coach who helped guide gymnast Simone Biles to Olympic glory says it's important for athletes and coaches to keep things in perspective. Aimee Boorman says one of the keys to helping Biles develop was making sure Biles never forgot...
The death of Pope Francis initiates a centuries-old process of rituals and traditions culminating with a conclave to choose his successor.
By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) - Ryan Cohen, the billionaire chief executive of GameStop, must face a lawsuit by the company once known as...
The 266th pontiff had just delivered his annual Easter prayer before the Vatican announced his death.
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Susannah Scaroni of the United States wins the women's wheelchair race at the Boston Marathon.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88.
LYON, France (AP) — Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world on Monday after the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death at age 88.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of the Argentine pontiff, history’s first from Latin America, who presided over the Catholic Church for more than 12 years.
Marcel Hug of Switzerland blitzed to the front of the field to win his eighth Boston Marathon wheelchair title, claiming the victory in the 129th edition of the race in 1 hour, 21 minutes, 34 seconds
Chipotle Mexican Grill is coming to Mexico. The California-based chain said Monday it’s planning to open restaurants in Mexico for the first time starting early next year. Chipotle is partnering with Alsea, a Mexico City-based company that operates locations for...
Yemen's Houthi rebels say US airstrikes kill 12 people and wound 30 others in the capital, Sanaa
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Logan Stankoven scored two second-period goals in his first playoff game with Carolina as the Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils 4-1 on Sunday to open their first-round series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Memphis Grizzlies 131-80 in Game 1 of their Western Conference playoff series on Sunday, the fifth-biggest margin of victory in NBA postseason history.
Fernando Tatís Jr. hit a tiebreaking solo home run and scored all of San Diego’s runs as the Padres avoided being swept with a 3-2 win over the Houston Astros. Tatís sent the first pitch he saw from Tayler Scott...
US airstrikes killed 12 people in Yemen’s capital, the Houthi rebels say
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's acting President Han Duck-soo said on Monday he expected trade talks with the United States this week in Washington...
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's acting President Han Duck-soo said on Monday he expected trade talks with the United States this week in Washington to be the start of meaningful cooperation, but added that negotiations may not be easy.
U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's capital killed 12 people and wounded 30 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday.The deaths mark the latest in America's intensified campaign of strikes targeting the rebels. The U.S. military's Central Command declined to answer questions about the strike or...
U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed 12 people and wounded 30 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday. The deaths mark the latest in America’s intensified campaign of strikes targeting the rebels. The U.S. military’s Central Command declined to answer...
A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook.
QURAYE, Lebanon (AP) — It’s become a Good Friday tradition in Quraye: residents and visitors converging on the southern Lebanese village to witness a portrayal by some Christians there of Jesus’ suffering and crucifixion.
The Israeli Defense Forces said Sunday the investigation into the March 23 incident during which 15 Palestinian medics were killed by IDF fire in Gaza has revealed "professional errors" and a deputy commander will be fired.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A ship carrying wheat has arrived in Syria's Latakia port, the first delivery of its kind since former President Bashar al-Assad...
The world's largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.
Liel Abada scored early on Pep Biel’s league-leading sixth assist and Charlotte FC rolled to a 3-0 victory over expansion side San Diego FC. Kristijan Kahlina finished with two saves on the way to his fourth clean sheet this season...
Isaac Paredes hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the seventh inning after Christian Walker’s two-run homer in the sixth tied it up, leading the Houston Astros to a 3-2 win over the San Diego Padres. Paredes hit a bloop single...
The Detroit Pistons were a little more than nine minutes from ending the longest postseason losing streak in NBA history, playing with poise for three quarters. A mistake-filled final quarter meant the wait will go on for the Pistons. The...
Alex Verdugo, making his second start as Atlanta’s left fielder and leadoff hitter, had four hits that included a go-ahead single in the sixth inning, and the Braves beat the Minnesota Twins 4-3 for their first back-to-back wins of the...
Ignatius Ganago had a goal and an assist — both the first of his career — to lead the New England Revolution to a 2-0 victory over New York City FC. Aljaž Ivačič finished with two saves on the way...
João Peglow scored twice in the first half, his first two goals in MLS, to help D.C. United beat the New York Red Bulls 2-1 to snap a four-game losing streak. Peglow flicked a header forward to himself and beat...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reminding taxpayers who missed the April 15 filing deadline to submit their tax returns promptly to limit penalties and interest on ...
(Reuters) -A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to...
Danny Musovski scored a goal for the second consecutive game and Stefan Frei had eight saves to help the Seattle Sounders beat Nashville SC 3-0. Pedro de la Vega and Paul Rothrock each added a goal and an assist for...
Supreme Court blocks Trump from deporting alleged gang members, migrants from Texas facility; Commemorating 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War reignites old debate
Homegrown product Quinn Sullivan scored in the first half and Danley Jean Jacques and Tai Baribo added second-half goals as the Philadelphia Union breezed to a 3-0 victory over Atlanta United. Andre Blake saved three shots in goal for the...
Pedro Gallese had six saves for Orlando City in a 0-0 tie with CF Montreal. Orlando (3-2-4) is unbeaten in six consecutive games, dating to a 2-1 loss to New York City FC on March 8, and has not allowed...
Ukraine wary of Putin’s Easter truce and says it will reciprocate only a genuine ceasefire