Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in a Friday night broadcast, accused the Trump administration of “fabricating a new eternal war” as the world’s largest warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford, moves closer to the country. He denounced U.S. pressure and dismissed Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that he leads the Tren de...
California's Proposition 50, also called the Election Rigging Response Act, would pause the state's independent redistricting commission until 2031 so Democrats can create five safe House seats - a counter to GOP maneuvers in Texas, urged by Donald Trump, and elsewhere. Governor Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and former president Barack...
Protests across Germany are set to continue after Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s remarks about the country’s “cityscape” and migration, which drew sharp criticism and rallies in several cities. Around 2,000 people marched in rainy Hamburg, while more demonstrations are planned, including in Nuremberg. Despite the backlash — and rebukes from coalition...
LSI, Inc. of Alpena is recalling more than 2.2 million pounds of Golden Island fire-grilled pork jerky (Korean barbecue recipe) after customers reported wiry metal fragments, federal officials said. The voluntary recall covers 410-gram and 450-gram plastic pouches sold at Costco and Sam’s Club, marked with establishment number M279A and...
One day after the NBA was roiled by a major gambling scandal, the Ravens triggered fresh questions about transparency. After listing Lamar Jackson as a full participant in Friday’s practice—days after limited designations—the team ruled him out today for Sunday’s game and retroactively changed Friday’s status to “limited.” The shift...
At halftime, Ole Miss leads Oklahoma 22-10 after a sharp defensive turnaround: a safety, a fourth-down stop, and a three-and-out to close the half. Kewan Lacy has 63 rushing yards and two touchdowns, fueling a complementary effort that’s shredding the Sooners’ ballyhooed defense. In slick, rainy conditions, quarterback Trinidad Chambliss...
During the ceasefire, Gaza City’s Shorbasi family rushed out after a blast to find 6-year-old twins Yahya and Nabila bleeding, injured by an unexploded device they’d mistaken for a toy. The children underwent emergency surgery; a British physician said their life-threatening wounds include a lost hand and possible leg loss,...
Images of long queues outside gold stores flooded social media over the past month, and professional metals traders grew increasingly uneasy. On Oct. 6, Nicky Shiels, head of research at MKS Pamp SA, told clients gold is “an overcrowded trade that’s overextended by every technical metric.” On Monday, as prices...
Germany postponed Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul's trip to China after Beijing confirmed only one meeting—with Wang Yi—despite plans for talks over two days, a Foreign Office spokesperson said. The unfulfilled schedule would have been the first ministerial visit under Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative-led government, in office since May. Berlin expressed...
New DNA analysis of teeth from 13 soldiers who died during Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow has pinpointed two culprits behind the army’s devastation: Salmonella enterica Paratyphi C, which causes paratyphoid fever, and Borrelia recurrentis, the agent of louse-borne relapsing fever. Led by Nicolás Rascovan at the Institut Pasteur and published...
