Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reviews the honor guard upon his arrival at the Lebanese parliament in Beirut to be sworn in on Thursday. (Hussein Malla / Associated Press) Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem on Dec. 9, 2024. (Maya Alleruzzo / Associated Press) Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is asking the country’s government to ensure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can attend observances marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz later this month without the … Read more
Los Angeles is on fire — and both Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass are scrambling to protect . . . themselves. The conflagrations have left at least five dead and thousands of structures destroyed. Tens of thousands of acres consumed. 5CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked him why the city’s fire hydrants went … Read more
Members of the Bedouin community, part of Israel’s Palestinian minority who have Israeli citizenship, attend the funeral of Yosef Al Zaydani in Rahat, southern Israel, Thursday, after the Israeli military said his body was recovered in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza Strip. (Mahmoud Illean / Associated Press) More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed … Read more
Chadian President Mahamat Deby Itno participates in his inauguration ceremony in N’djamena, Chad, on May 23, 2024. (Mouta Ali / Associated Press) An attack on Chad’s presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, state media reported Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night occurred while Chadian … Read more
The casket of former President Jimmy Carter is pictured during a state funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington on Thursday. (Haiyun Jiang / Associated Press) Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, was honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral … Read more
Apple denied its digital voice assistant Siri poses any privacy concerns — one week after it agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit tied to the software tool. “Apple has never used Siri data to build marketing profiles, never made it available for advertising, and never sold it to anyone for any purpose,” … Read more
DANIA BEACH, Fla. — It’s been a long time since either Notre Dame or Penn State reached college football’s mountaintop as national champions. It was 1988 for the Fighting Irish, 1986 for the Nittany Lions. There’s been good seasons and bad seasons in the three-plus decades that have followed, coaching changes and a complete overhaul … Read more
A 43-year-old mom was stabbed to death outside her Staten Island building while defending her daughter during a large brawl this week, according to law enforcement sources. Jennira Roundtree was knifed multiple times in the chest around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday outside of her building on Henderson Avenue near Alaska Street, part of NYCHA’s West Brighton … Read more
The LA fires had former gold medal U.S. Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. feeling as if he were in a horror movie as he lost almost everything everything he owns, including his home and 10 Olympics medals. “It was worse than any apocalypse movie you’ve ever seen and 1,000 times worse,” he told the Sydney … Read more
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