Новости за 27.10.2023

Author Salman Rushdie could take the stand against the man charged with repeatedly stabbing him before a lecture when the defendant goes on trial early next year, a prosecutor said Friday.

Lunchtime diners at a Noodles & Company restaurant in Wisconsin got a shock when a buck burst through a glass window and charged through the store.

A media publication is striking back at NewsGuard, an American company that gives clients "reliability ratings and scores" for hundreds of news and information websites and often tags conservative sites with low grades.

Israel said Friday it is ratcheting up its military operations in the Gaza Strip, launching artillery and missile strikes into the Hamas-controlled enclave and sending tanks and other armored vehicles across the border.

The IRS allows its agents to use fake names when they contact taxpayers, according to a congressional report Friday that found the pseudonyms can create a tense and potentially harassing system.

Congressional Democrats are trying to distance themselves from the party's far-left House members who've taken an aggressive pro-Palestinian stance, highlighting the growing divide in the party over the Middle East conflict.

The overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Women's Tournament will get preferential treatment moving forward, a response to South Carolina coach Dawn Staley's concerns and criticism.

The COVID-19 treatments millions of Americans have taken for free from the federal government will enter the private market next week with a hefty price tag.

Two recent encounters between a Navy guided missile destroyer and two People's Liberation Army warships in the South China Sea were safe, legal, and not provocative, according to a statement from the Navy's Pacific Fleet that seeks to rebut accusations from Chinese defense officials.

An unidentified Pacific Northwest fisherman netted $107,800 for catching 10,755 northern pikeminnows as part of a government sponsored program to cull the fish, which prey on young salmon and steelhead trout.

The decision to cancel Riley Gaines isn't working out well for Eventbrite.

Screen Actors Guild negotiators delivered a substantial counteroffer to major Hollywood studios as the two parties tried to end the more than three-month-old Hollywood walkout.

Early voting in Virginia's off-year legislative elections, underway on a limited scale since Sept. 22, ramped up big time on Thursday.

Football fans in Germany who couldn't get tickets for the two NFL games in Frankfurt have a new viewing option: their local movie theater.

On Sept. 30, I had the honor of celebrating my son's bar mitzvah. I relished every second of sharing this Jewish milestone with my family and friends.

A police officer in Missouri was exposed to arsenic and cyanide while emptying the Excelsior Springs Police Department's prescription drug take-back box last week.

Many might remember the Al Rashid Hotel. It was the place from which CNN's Peter Arnett broadcast the start of the first Gulf War with the famous line, "The skies are lighting up over Baghdad," back in 1991,

The NFL placed Kansas City Chiefs receiver Justyn Ross on the Commissioner Exempt List on Friday, three days after he pleaded not guilty to charges of misdemeanor domestic battery and criminal damage to property.

Minnesota Rep. Dean Philips on Friday launched his upstart challenge against President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying it's "time for the torch to be passed to a new generation of American leaders."

The Israel Defense Forces accused Hamas terror leaders of launching attacks from hospitals in Gaza and said such actions could make them legitimate targets for future attacks.

Whether it's an entire spit-roasted pig or the more accessible skillet-braised shoulder, pork frequently is the focus of feasts during religious festivals in Bali, a pocket of Hindu tradition in majority-Muslim Indonesia.

The U.N. General Assembly scheduled a vote Friday on a nonbinding resolution calling for a "humanitarian truce" in Gaza leading to a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers.

India's government says it's appalled that Qatar sentenced eight Indian nationals to death following their reported detention in the Persian Gulf country last year on espionage charges.

United Auto Workers' negotiators have been trying to hammer out a deal this week with the Detroit Big Three automakers to wrap up the nearly 6-week-old strike.

Rep. George Santos has pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges that he stole the identities of donors and made fraudulent charges on their credit cards, among other allegations.