An Oregon man who drugged his daughter’s friends with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison
Author Ted Chiang has won a lifetime achievement prize for short stories, the PEN/Malamud Award, just the second time a science fiction writer has been honored since the award was established in 1988
Inspired by her beloved dog, Jennifer Aniston will soon become a children’s author
Jay-Z is putting his weight behind an effort to fund private school vouchers in Philadelphia
Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife’s native country of Brazil after suffering a massive stroke a year ago
The Mexican peso has continued to weaken as Mexico's outgoing president _ and his successor _vowed to forge ahead with some 20 constitutional changes that have rattled investors
State troopers in Ohio say a truck hauling more than 150 pigs overturned on an Ohio interstate highway ramp
Rory McIlroy showed up at the last major amid news he had filed for divorce
A federal appeals court has upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the laws do not violate the rights of firearm sellers or buyers
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has cracked walls and caused other minor damage in a fishing community in southwestern South Korea
National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in the embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, says it has ended talks on a possible merger of Paramount with movie production company Skydance Media
Survivors and relatives of the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre in Florida had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial place at the site
U.N.-backed human rights experts say in a report published Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and gender-based violence in much of the first three months of the conflict that began on Oct. 7 last year
At least 40 Indians died after a fire swept through a building that housed foreign workers in Kuwait
The European Union has moved to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing’s subsidies for the exports that Brussels worries is hurting domestic automakers
German energy company Uniper says a tribunal has awarded it more than 13 billion euros (nearly $14 billion) in damages for gas that Russia's Gazprom hasn’t supplied since 2022
Ariarne Titmus has set a world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials
A Russian woman has been detained and questioned in Denmark for allegedly helping a foreign intelligence agency to operate in the country
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First lady Jill Biden is kicking off her husband’s outreach to older voters, an effort blending rallies and phone banks with social events bingo nights and pickleball games
Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI just ahead of a scheduled Wednesday hearing on the case
No upset this time for the United States as the home team was easily beaten by cricket heavyweight India at the Twenty20 World Cup
Food authorities in Denmark have recalled three types of spicy instant noodle products imported from South Korea over possible risks for “acute poisoning.”
The wreck of the last ship belonging to a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended plans for the controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia following a spate of unrest in the French Pacific territory
Global offshore wind industry poised to miss big targets as obstacles mount
ECB's Nagel says Trump's tariffs may have minor impact on inflation
Airbnb urges Barcelona to reconsider crackdown on tourism rentals
Price hikes offer chance for Guinness rivals as Diageo pushes zero alcohol brew
China's Oct youth jobless rate drops to 17.1%, official data show
How 1,000 days of conflict fuelled robot wars between Russia and Ukraine
Late Quincy Jones, Bond film producers bestowed with honorary Oscars
Beyoncé will perform at halftime of Ravens-Texans Christmas Day game on Netflix