North Korea has begun building a Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in Pyongyang to honor troops killed fighting in Russia’s war on Ukraine, state media said. At a groundbreaking attended by Kim Jong-un and Russia’s ambassador to North Korea, Aleksandr Matsegora, Kim called the site a “sacred sanctuary” and lauded...
President Donald Trump resisted declaring war against Venezuelan drug cartels targeted by U.S. strikes, telling reporters Thursday, “we’re gonna kill them,” as questions mount over the legality of operations not approved by Congress. He said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will go to Congress to discuss actions against alleged smugglers, asserting...
Black enrollment at many elite colleges has slipped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action, an Associated Press review of 20 selective campuses found. Only Smith College rose; Tulane held flat; at Caltech and Bates, Black freshmen make up about 2%. Harvard fell from 18% in...
Roanoke, Virginia — Ten-year-old Autumn Bushman of Salem brimmed with energy, but her mother says school bullying over braces and late-night phone use shadowed her final years. Autumn died by suicide on March 21, after looking at her smartphone in bed, according to records cited by her mother. A Virginia...
MSNBC reports that Maryland U.S. Attorney Kelly Hayes recently told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche she sees insufficient evidence to charge Sen. Adam Schiff with mortgage fraud, even as a senior Justice Department official, Ed Martin, pushes to keep the probe alive. One source said the investigation continues. The DOJ...
The Chargers took control against the Vikings at SoFi, piling up 158 rushing yards through three quarters and building a 24-3 cushion behind touchdowns by Oronde Gadsden II, Kimani Vidal and a 27-yard Justin Herbert strike to Ladd McConkey. Minnesota finally answered after a Herbert interception, as Carson Wentz hit...
For two months, the US has amassed warships, bombers, fighter jets and drones in the Caribbean—the region’s largest build-up in decades—while authorising CIA activity in Venezuela and carrying out lethal strikes on small boats it says carried narcotics, without offering evidence. Critics across the region question the legality and see...
Ahead of Sunday night’s Steelers-Packers game, Aaron Rodgers told Green Bay reporters he will retire as a Packer, the team that drafted him, and one day see his No. 12 join Lambeau Field’s retired numbers. The 41-year-old quarterback, now with Pittsburgh, rejected any “revenge” talk, calling his 18 years in...
Federal prosecutors unsealed two indictments alleging an illegal betting scheme using inside NBA information and a separate plot to rig Mafia-backed poker games. The cases name Miami’s Terry Rozier, ex-player Damon Jones and Portland coach Chauncey Billups; Rozier and Billups were placed on leave. Prosecutors say Jones shared nonpublic injury...
Three liberal justices issued a striking dissent over nitrogen hypoxia, saying the method inflicts “psychological terror” and “excruciating suffocation” that likely violates the Eighth Amendment. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, urged Americans to start a stopwatch and imagine minutes of suffocation. The dissent...
