Details remains murky regarding the "Board of Peace" on Gaza that US President Donald Trump has invited world leaders to join. "The understanding is that Trump is attempting single-handedly to put int...
Schools across parts of northern Nigeria started reopening on January 12, after months of closure triggered by the abduction of hundreds of students in November 2025. The move follows a circular fro...
The mayor of Ukraine’s capital says Kyiv was targeted by overnight drone attacks that sparked a fire in an apartment building, coming just a day after Moscow launched nearly 300 drones along with 18 b...
The Chilean government has awarded a contract to Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech to supply its influenza vaccine ahead of the southern hemisphere winter. The vaccine will be part of Chi...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...
The cities building the most homes rely more heavily on immigrant labor. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times The cities that build and remodel the most homes rely the most heavily on immigrant worker...
Honduras electoral authorities rejected on Monday an order by the outgoing president to recount November’s election won by Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura. Asfura, a conservative businessman, was ...
Elle Fanning isn't afraid of daring fashion. Gotham/Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images Elle Fanning often takes fashion risks on the red carpet. The "Sentimental Value" actor has worn see-through ...
There was moderate relief after US President Donald Trump walked back his threat to take Greenland by force on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, but also concern among critics and ...
Alberta is a very cold place in winter, even by Canadian standards. And yet, in the past week, hundreds of Albertans formed long queues in freezing weather, in big cities and small towns, to sign a pe...
China’s central bank strengthened the yuan’s daily fixing for a third consecutive session to a nearly 16-month high, as the currency also held firm in offshore markets despite recent US dollar strengt...
White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett (left) and former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh are leading prediction market odds for the likehood of becoming President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Rese...
I built a simple tool to compare hard drive and SSD prices by price-per-terabyte. I kept having to calculate $/TB manually when shopping for NAS drives, so I made this to save myself the trouble. It p...
Wildfires last January destroyed communities around Los Angeles. Homeowners say recovery has been slowed by fights with insurers to get their claims paid. (Image credit: Josh Edelson)...
TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don't seem to know what's going on . The ...
Developers have been comparing the strengths and weaknesses of Anthropic's Claude Code, Anysphere's Cursor, and Microsoft's GitHub Copilot for months now, looking for a winner. While no individual AI ...
The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...
The Academy Awards have been the pinnacle of achievement in the film industry for nearly 100 years — 98, to be exact — and now, we know exactly who is being recognized for the most prestigious set of ...
TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd , ByteDance - TikTok's Chinese parent company - and a group of investors...
Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC . With approval from both the US and China closing on the sch...