SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk said Thursday that his social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will give users the ability to make voice and video calls on the platform. Musk, who has a history of making proclamations about coming...
ATLANTA (AP) — Former United States President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday and said he'll skip a hearing next week in the case accusing him and others of illegally trying to overturn the results of the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg early Thursday, leaving at least 74 dead, officials said. Some people threw babies out of third...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Department of Health and Human Services has delivered a recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration on marijuana policy and Senate leaders hailed it Wednesday as a first step toward easing...
DUBAI, (AP): A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death over his posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, and his activity on YouTube, the latest in a widening crackdown on dissent in the kingdom that has drawn international criticism. The judgment...
BUÑOL, (AP): Some 15,000 people, including many tourists, pasted each other with tomatoes Wednesday as Spain’s annual ‘Tomatina’ street battle took place in the eastern town of Buñol. Workers on trucks tipped 120 tons of overripe tomatoes into the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A judge in Haiti is for the first time interrogating some of the 18 Colombian suspects arrested more than two years ago and accused of being part of a mercenary squad that assassinated President Jovenel Moïse, a judicial...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump defended his real estate empire and his presidency in a face-to-face clash with the New York attorney general suing him for fraud, testifying at a closed-door grilling in April that his company is flush with...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's Congress, which is controlled in its majority by the governing party, on Wednesday refused to recognise the seven lawmakers from the Seed Movement party of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo,...
DEDHAM, Massachusetts (AP) — The once-powerful Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick will not stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy decades ago, as a Massachusetts judge dismissed the case against the 93-year-old on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday held Rudy Giuliani liable in a defamation lawsuit brought by two Georgia election workers who say they were falsely accused of fraud, entering a default judgment against the former New York City...
LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Mutinous soldiers claimed to have seized power in Gabon on Wednesday and put the president under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election extending his family's 55-year rule in the oil-...
CEDAR KEY, Florida (AP) — Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida's west coast as a catastrophic Category three storm on Wednesday and unleashed life-threatening storm surges and rainfall across an area that has never before...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves Tuesday said he had received a document from the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) outlining a proposal for the financing and operation of a regional...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The Grenada government says it has approved more than 2,000 foreign investors to become nationals of the island under the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme for the first six months of this year. According to the latest...
BOGOTA, (AP): Thousands of protesters on cars and motorbikes took to the streets of Colombia’s main cities on Monday to reject recent hikes in gasoline prices that have drastically increased the price of fuel in the South American country....
ROSEAU, (CMC): The former Speaker of the Dominica parliament, Alix Boyd Knights, was found dead at her home in Trafalgar, northeast of here on Tuesday. Boyd Knights, an attorney, served as Speaker from 2000 to 2020. Upon her election to a third...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (CMC): More than a month after it was forced to shut down its operations when gunmen entered its hospital in Tabarre, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Tuesday announced that it had resumed its activities. Tabarre is an urban...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of protesters on cars and motorbikes took to the streets of Colombia's main cities on Monday to reject recent hikes in gasolene prices that have drastically increased the price of fuel in the South...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities have charged a man with aggravated homosexuality, which carries a possible death penalty, in the first use of the charge since the enactment in May of an anti-gay law that has been...
NEW YORK (AP) — A 127-year-old water main under New York's Times Square gave way early Tuesday, flooding midtown streets and the city's busiest subway station. The 20-inch (half-meter) water main gave way under 40th Street and...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A neurosurgeon investigating a woman's mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient's brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole...
TOKYO (AP) — All 28 vehicle assembly lines at Toyota's 14 auto plants in Japan shut down Tuesday over a problem in its computer system that deals with incoming auto parts. The automaker doesn't believe the problem was caused by a...
TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Idalia became a hurricane on Tuesday, threatening to bring deadly storm surge and dangerous winds to Florida's Gulf Coast after lashing Cuba with heavy rain. Florida residents loaded up on sandbags and...
LONDON (AP): Thousands of airline passengers faced delays on Monday after Britain’s air traffic control system was hit by a breakdown that slowed take-offs and landings across the U.K. on one of the busiest travel days of the year. More than three...
