[ad_1] SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days after the end of U.S.-South Korean military drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told a parliamentary session that North Korea fired “a number of” ballistic…
[ad_1] A teenager is being charged as an adult after he allegedly waved a gun on a Florida beach filled with spring breakers and then stood off with deputies who chased him into the Atlantic. The incident in New Smyrna Beach, a city on Central Florida’s Atlantic coast, happened Thursday afternoon when deputies patrolling the…
[ad_1] MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that he agreed with the idea of a prisoner swap involving opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison, and “some people in prison in Western countries.” “A few days before Mr. Navalny passed away, some colleagues told me … that there was an idea to…
[ad_1] It’s March Madness and more people than ever can legally bet on basketball games People in North Carolina may have a little more riding on this year’s NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, as they will be able to legally bet on the games through their smartphone apps and computers for the first time. For the…
[ad_1] JERUSALEM — A shipment of aid that arrived on Gaza’s shore on Friday is expected to bring some respite to starving Palestinians in the enclave’s north — but how and when it will be distributed has yet to be seen. Tons of flour, rice and canned foods were offloaded from the ship Saturday, according to World…
[ad_1] U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022. That’s a 4% increase from the year before. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the data Friday but has not released marriage data for last year. In 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were 1.7 million U.S. weddings…
[ad_1] “Dune: Part Two” is barreling toward another box office milestone. Director Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction sequel has grossed $494.7 million globally, including $208 million in North America and $289.4 million internationally. It should surpass the $500 million mark by Monday, a figure that few films have reached in post-pandemic times. Although it’s early in the…
[ad_1] Russians crowded outside polling stations at midday Sunday on the last day of a presidential election, apparently heeding an opposition call to protest against President Vladimir Putin in a vote that offered them no real alternatives. Putin is poised to extend his nearly quarter century of rule for six more years after a relentless crackdown on…
[ad_1] A Texas woman told deputies she fatally shot her alleged kidnapper, according to police. The Gillespie County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a 911 call from the woman Friday afternoon, who said she had been drugged and kidnapped, and “shot someone.” She was identified as a 45-year-old woman from Montgomery, Texas. “Her whereabouts were…
[ad_1] A suspect is in custody following a two-day manhunt in the case of a New Mexico State Police officer who was shot and killed on a highway near the small city of Tucumcari last week. Jaremy Smith.New Mexico State Police Jaremy Smith was captured following an officer-involved shooting on Sunday with the Bernalillo County…