An apartment block partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, leaving at least 19 injured. Officials blamed Ukrainian shelling and said there were also likely deaths. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as part of the roof crashed to […]
Thirteen federal judges signed a letter sent to Columbia University’s president Minouche Shafik stating that they would no longer hire law clerks from Columbia College or Columbia Law School. The judges cited the “explosion of student disruptions” and the “virulent spread of antisemitism” at Columbia as reasons for their […]
Thirteen federal judges said Monday in a letter to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik that they won’t hire law clerks from the institution over its handling of the pro-Palestine protests that the judges said “threatened violence, committed assaults, and destroyed property.” The judges said they lost confidence in Columbia since it became “an incubator of […]
China continued it saber rattling with another aerial incursion across the Taiwan Strait late this week, according to the island nation’s defense ministry. The ministry, which provides daily updates on Chinese activity in the area, said during its Friday update that the latest incident included more than a dozen Chinese planes. Taiwan said 14 “military […]
With the increasing exodus of businesses from blue cities, the landscape of those cities is beginning to change in significant ways. Take, for example, a vacant 68,000-square-foot office building on Van Nuys Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. That property might become the site of 30 new electric vehicle charging stations, according to a report by […]
The Labor Department is accusing a Tennessee-based janitorial company of hiring children as young as 13 to clean dangerous equipment in slaughterhouses. According to a Wednesday filing in federal court, the department found that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC employed at least 24 child workers to scrub the gear in Virginia and Iowa. Of the children, […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A historic railway station on the edge of downtown Kansas City became the latest backdrop for a mass shooting as gunfire near the end of the Kansas City Chiefs‘ Super Bowl celebration sent terrified fans scrambling for cover and left 21 people wounded — including at least eight children — […]
BOISE, Idaho — A hanger under construction on the grounds of the airport in Boise, Idaho, collapsed Wednesday, injuring about a dozen people, officials said. Authorities responded at about 5 p.m. to a private business located at the Boise Airport for a steel framed hangar that collapsed, Boise Fire Department Operations Chief Aaron Hummel said […]
CORRECTION, Jan. 29, 2024: The drone strike that killed three U.S. service members occurred Sunday. An earlier version of this article had a different day. The first U.S. service members to die after more than three months of attacks on American forces in the Middle East were killed Sunday in a drone strike on a […]
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