SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA, Spain (AP) — Pope Leo XIV warned people smugglers on Friday that they will face God’s wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants, demanding they stop and repent during his final day in this epicenter of the African migration route to Europe. “Break those chains and free those you hold …
By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE, June 12 (Reuters) – This week’s suspension of International Criminal Court lead prosecutor Karim Khan for alleged sexual misconduct sets the court up for months of potentially damaging wrangling while U.S. antagonism and divisions between member states grow. The outspoken Briton attracted approval and hostility …
NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk may never colonize Mars as promised, but enough investors consider the SpaceX founder to be a sort of miracle man that they’ll help him reach another fantastic goal Friday when he takes the rocket company public. The world’s richest man is set to become its first trillionaire. Known for …
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 …