In the days after the Vatican announced on Feb. 6 that Pope Francis had bronchitis and would be restricting his activities to his residence, he proceeded to hold multiple private audiences a day with groups of nuns, pilgrims and leaders of foundations. On Feb. 9, he presided over an outdoor Mass in St. Peter’s Square, […]

CYBERCRIMINALS have carried out the “worst hack in history” after they stole $1.19billion in cryptocurrency. Hackers were able to gain control of an Ethereum wallet and rip all of its contents in a shock theft. 2 The hackers plundered the crypto exchangeCredit: Reuters The Dubai-based Bybit exchange confirmed the potentially record-breaking crypto theft. Fraudsters were […]

LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’ is illegal in Russia (Picture: Getty Images) Russia has spent more than a year creating an electronic database of its LGBTQ+ citizens, independent Russian media has reported. The country’s top court declared the international LGBTQ+ rights movement ‘extremist’ in November 2023. In the months since, law enforcement officials have been building a register […]

MUSCAT, Oman—The winter is lovely in Oman. For centuries, this sultanate at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula has been a meeting point for the Middle East and the rest of Asia (its cuisine reflects this rich history). It signed its first treaty with the United States early in Andrew Jackson’s second term. Jackson […]

GW also ordered to conduct review of former psych professor Lara Sheehi’s infamous social media posts Lara Sheehi (Twitter) A federal civil rights investigation uncovered evidence that the George Washington University faculty retaliated against Jewish students based on “shared ancestry-related advocacy” by placing them in a remediation program after the students lodged an anti-Semitism complaint […]

For a film about sex work to win an Oscar is rare. For it to win the respect of sex workers is even rarer. If Sean Baker’s “Anora” triumphs at the Academy Awards next Sunday, as predicted by most pundits, it will have achieved both. “Sean gets sex work. He just does,” porn actress and […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Like something you’d see in the utopian future of TV’s “The Jetsons,” Orlando International Airport is trying to realize a long-desired dream of bringing flying cars to the region. The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority on Wednesday took steps toward that future by seeking partners to develop and operate a flying car landing […]

NBC’s top anchors made ‘verifiably false’ statements about a doctor they accused of performing ‘mass hysterectomies’ on female inmates at ICE facility, a federal judge ruled last year Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow (MSNBC/Youtube) NBCUniversal quietly settled a $30 million defamation lawsuit filed by a Georgia doctor after MSNBC’s biggest stars—including Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, […]

Beyond headlines about the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, and the Biden administration’s failure to prevent them, the Indian Ocean and its inlets garner little U.S. media attention. Off the coast of East Africa, however, another battle is brewing—one that pits the United States against the Chinese Communist Party. The Indian Ocean sits between […]

New York filed a lawsuit Friday asking a judge to restore $80 million in migrant aid money that the Trump administration plucked out of the city’s accounts earlier this month. City officials said the feds quietly reached into a New York bank account and “grabbed $80,481,861.42,” just a week after the Federal Emergency Management Agency […]