Argentine court blames Iran and Hezbollah for deadly 1994 Jewish center bombing

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s highest criminal court reported a new development Thursday in the elusive quest for justice in the deadliest attack in the country's history — the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center headquarters — concluding Iran had planned the attack and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group …...Read More

8 family members dead after makeshift boat sinks in Mozambique

At least eight people from one family have died after their homemade boat sank in central Mozambique, state media reported Tuesday. Monday's sinking on a tributary of the Zambezi River in Sofala province came days after nearly 100 people, many of them children, died in one of the country’s worst …...Read More

Just 35% of US adults say Trump broke the law in New York hush money case, poll finds

Many U.S. adults are not convinced that former President Trump committed a crime in the hush money case that began jury selection in New York City on Monday, according to a new poll. Only 35% of U.S. adults say Trump did something illegal in the case that alleges he falsified …...Read More

Newsom refuses to back fellow Dems taking on Google, Big Tech through news link legislation

Gov. Gavin Newsom's office is staying silent on a Democrat-led bill moving through the legislature that would create a "link tax" requiring big tech companies, like Google, to pay media companies for linking to their pages. Last week, Google began removing news links to news pages while the legislation, dubbed …...Read More

Wisconsin Republican leaders ignore the governor's request to spend $125M to combat 'forever chemicals'

Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday planned to ignore the latest call from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to spend $125 million to combat so-called forever chemicals. Evers invoked a rarely used power and called a meeting of the Republican-led Legislature's budget committee, urging it to release the funding that was previously approved …...Read More

Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, soon Superman: When characters enter the public domain, anything goes

The giant stuffed bear, its face a twisted smile, lumbers across the screen. Menacing music swells. Shadows mask unknown threats. Christopher Robin begs for his life. And is that a sledgehammer about to pulverize a minor character's head? Thus unfolds the trailer for the 2023 movie "Winnie the Pooh: Blood …...Read More

Olympic torch-lighting ceremony explained: What to know ahead of the Paris Games

A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple. If the sky is clear, a flame spurts that will burn in Paris throughout the world’s top sporting event. Speeches ensue. On Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics was lit at the birthplace …...Read More

Bill Maher predicts Biden will debate Trump but it's 'gonna be bad' for him

"Real Time" host Bill Maher predicted that President Biden will debate former President Trump, but it's "gonna be bad" for him. On Friday's "Overtime" segment on YouTube, Maher posed a viewer question to his guests whether Biden will agree to face off against his 2020 rival and "should he." "Well, …...Read More

Antisemitic incidents in US skyrocketed in 2023, ADL report says, averaging 24 per day

Antisemitic incidents across the U.S. last year broke all previous records, fueled by the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel, numbers released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday show. The total number of antisemitic incidents in the form of assaults, harassment and vandalism tallied in 2023 is 8,873, …...Read More

In Denmark, Fire destroys 17th-century Old Stock Exchange

A fire raged through one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings on Tuesday, causing the collapse of the iconic spire from the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange as passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables. Danish Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said it was "touching" to see how many …...Read More