The normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates grew from persistent backroom diplomacy by President Trump, according to National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, who said Sunday that Mr. Trump personally and repeatedly engaged the two sides to clinch the agreement. Officials in Washington and Jerusalem over the weekend again suggested that other Gulf…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is delaying the country's parliamentary election by four weeks to October 17 after the re-emergence of Covid-19 in the country past week.
It's not expected to happen anytime soon, but one scientist has calculated when the universe will end.The research, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, notes that sometime over the "next few trillion years," when the universe is dead as we know it, stars will continue to explode, not with a…
The FBI has rung up a striking record of falsehoods and misleading testimony during the bureau’s Russia investigation of Donald Trump, according to a public records examination. The stakes on FBI misconduct hit a new high last week when Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, denounced the agency. He said…
At least five people were wounded during a shooting at a San Antonio, Texas, flea market on Sunday, according to police. One of the five is critically injured, The Associated Press reported. Police Chief William McManus said gunfire erupted about 11:30 a.m. at Mission Market during a dispute on the ground, according to the newswire. “This is the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…