CP 
Authorities and residents searched tornado-ravaged areas and assessed damage Friday after a strong line of storms barreled through communities south of Chicago, leaving around 380,000 customers without power in Illinois and Indiana and disrupting air travel in the region. There were no immediate reports of deaths or life-threatening injuries from Thursday’s storms. Officials in Merrillville, …
An Iran-linked hacker group claims to have breached FBI drones and has threatened to target the World Cup that kicked off on Thursdaya monitoring group said Friday. The SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that monitors jihadist groups, published a statement from Handala saying they’ve had access “for months” to “every image and every suspect” captured …
LOS ANGELES, June 12 (Reuters) – As mixed martial arts fighters gather on Sunday on the South Lawn of the White House in a cage match to celebrate President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday — a spectacle kicking off a series of events commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary — actor and activist Jane Fonda will sponsor …
NEW DELHI, June 12 (Reuters) – India summoned the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Delhi on Friday to protest against U.S. military strikes on commercial vessels off the coast of Oman, an Indian source said, the second time in three days New Delhi has expressed its displeasure. U.S. deputy chief of mission to the …
By Edwin Okoth and Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI, June 12 (Reuters) – A person who was killed this week during a protest in central Kenya against a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to Ebola was a teenager who had left home to pick up a new school uniform, his grandmother said. The grandmother, who lived with …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, June 12, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Trying weed, alcohol or smoking. Getting into fights. Attempting dangerous “Jackass”-style stunts. Dating that skeevy guy. Ever wonder why some teens are driven to do dumb things? It could be because their developing brains are lacking in an important neurochemical, a new study says. …
British artist David Hockney, considered one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art, whose paintings captured the world in brilliant color, has died aged 88, his publicist announced Friday. Describing Hockney as “one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries,” the Bolton & Quinn …
New York — Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night. She’s 36. “It was instinctual. No one taught me how to do it,” she said of songwriting through a raspy voice she attributed to screaming along to the night’s performances and Wednesday night’s historic NBA game …
A Mexican crime reporter was shot dead on Thursday, according to the newspaper that employed him, marking the latest killing in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for the press. Meanwhile, a search continues for another journalist who was abducted from her home in the same region last week. The eastern coastal state of …
TIRANA, June 12 (Reuters) – Former Albanian leader Sali Berisha, now the head of the main opposition party, said on Friday that the United States has lifted a travel ban placed on him in 2021. The U.S. State Department had barred Berisha – a former president and prime minister who steered the Balkan country after …