German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Sunday for an end to the cycle of violence in the Middle East ahead of her fourth visit to the region since the October 7 attacks mounted from the Gaza Strip. “Terrorism must end, people’s humanitarian need must end, the region must emerge from the eternal cycle of […]
Jan. 7—Today marks 52 years since Honolulu police found the body of 19-year-old Nancy Elaine Anderson at the Coral Terrace Apartments on Aloha Drive. A former Nevada deputy attorney general arrested in 2022 more than 50 years after police allege he over 60 times in a Waikiki apartment died in a Hawaii prison on Christmas […]
Ukraine is developing a digital recruitment project for the armed forces that will specifically target suitable candidates for drone operation, Deputy Prime Minister and Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on national television on Jan. 7. The project is currently in its final stages, with beta tests already underway to find pilot-operators for an attack […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea again fired artillery shells near its tense sea boundary with the South on Sunday, as the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un mocked the South’s ability to detect its weapons launches. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff dismissed Kim Yo Jong’s statement as “a comedy-like, […]
A potentially deadly mistake caused a Los Angeles area company to recall Publix Deli Carolina-Style Mustard BBQ Sauce cups sold in store delis. Ventura Foods out of Brea, California, said the recalled lot of 2-ounce sauce cups might have “Traditional Sweet & Spicy BBQ Sauce” instead of Carolina-Style Mustard BBQ. Traditional Sweet & Spicy has […]
Tokyo will “contribute $37 million to the NATO trust fund” to purchase drone detection systems for Ukraine, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said during her press conference in Kyiv on Jan. 7, adding that Japan is actively promoting support for Ukraine. In addition to the drone detection systems, Japan has also delivered five mobile gas […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities in the violence-plagued southwestern state of Guerrero said they were investigating a gruesome massacre that took place in a part of a remote desert where two rival criminal groups have been fighting for control. Police investigators had found five burned bodies stacked onto a burned vehicle when they arrived […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ State of the State address on Tuesday is supposed to be about Florida’s future. Iowa, though, is more likely at the front of his mind. The speech kicking off Florida’s annual legislative session comes exactly a week before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, and DeSantis has been spending […]
The food supply for hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The food situation for men, women and children is “very difficult” and “deteriorating,” Blinken said on Sunday in Amman after visiting a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP). Much of the […]
(Bloomberg) — A bull run in Treasuries will resume after its current “rest,” according to strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Most Read from Bloomberg The 10-year yield is likely to rise from its current level of about 4% amid trend-following and discretionary selling pressure, before retreating amid a “budding longer-term bull market,” Marko Kolanovic, […]
In 2023, soaring Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) prices made investing in Bitcoin mining stocks a no-brainer. Bitcoin mining stock Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT), for example, is now up more than 300% during the past 12 months, making it one of the best-performing growth stocks of the past year. But it could be a different story in 2024, […]
A solo crash left a 71-year-old woman and her dog trapped in a vehicle dangling over a 200-foot drop along a Maui highway, Hawaii rescuers reported. Rescuers responded just before noon Friday, Jan. 5, to the crash on Kahekili Highway, a Maui County Fire Department news release said. They found her vehicle hanging off a […]