6 high school students dead after crash with semi-truck in Oklahoma
Tishomingo Public Schools and community members are grieving the deaths of six high school students who died in a crash with a semi-truck on Tuesday.
Tishomingo Public Schools and community members are grieving the deaths of six high school students who died in a crash with a semi-truck on Tuesday.
Senegal has announced the closure of all foreign military bases, without setting a timeline for the exit of foreign troops. Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko made the announcement Friday during a general policy statement to the National Assembly. “The President of the Republic has decided to close all foreign military bases in the very near future,” Sonko said.
A man was flogged inside a Malaysia mosque on Friday after being convicted of an Islamic offence for spending time alone with a woman who was neither his wife or relative, state news said.The 42-year-old construction worker was given six lashes in Malaysia's conservative state of Terengganu after being convicted by a Sharia court, the official Bernama news agency said.
Montenegro announced on Friday that it would extradite South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur Do Kwon to the United States, following a year and a half of dizzying court rulings and subsequent reversals over his removal.The Montenegrin Constitutional Court, on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Kwon's lawyers against the decision of the Supreme Court, which in September determined that the conditions for extraditing Do Kwon to South Korea and the United States for criminal proceedings had been met.
The unidentified pair of brothers and their father were snowmobiling on Christmas Eve when the avalanche swept through.
One of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia, is “suffering from a stifling siege,” Gaza's Health Ministry said Friday after Israeli forces stormed inside and “forcibly” removed health workers, patients and family members, as military vehicles surrounded the hospital.
The National Retail Federation expects about 17% of sales to be returned this year.
Strategists expect the artificial intelligence trade will mature in 2025 to benefit companies beyond those buying and creating new AI chips.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. NASA received an all-clear message from Parker on Thursday night confirming it survived the journey. Launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun, Parker has since flown straight through its crownlike outer atmosphere, or corona. With its close brush complete, the craft is expected to circle the sun at this distance through at least September.
Experts say evidence in the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan points to a possible midair explosion, not an encounter with a flock of birds.
Authorities in Brazil said Friday they are probing Chinese auto giant BYD and one of its contractors for suspected "trafficking" of Chinese workers building a factory in the South American country.The workers, employed by BYD contractor Jinjiang Open Engineering, were viewed as "victims of international trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation," said the statement.
Dems warn that GOP control of the White House and Capitol Hill will test the committee’s bipartisan harmony and risk descent into “messaging and rhetoric.”
Azerbaijan Airlines said Friday the passenger jet that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day experienced “physical and technical external interference,” according to an early investigation.
A weaker yen lifted Japanese equities on Friday, while Wall Street's major indices slid in quiet holiday trading. US indices slid lower at the start of trading, with the Dow shedding 0.6 percent.
Storms across both the Western and Southern United States threaten to disrupt flights as millions of holiday travelers prepare to close out the year.
Wall Street looked to be slogging to the finish of a largely triumphant year.
The impeachment of South Korea's acting President Han Duck-soo Friday has plunged the country into further political turmoil, coming less than two weeks after lawmakers impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. The successive impeachments that suspended the country’s top two officials are unprecedented, and the deputy prime minister and finance minister, Choi Sang-mok, is now South Korea's new interim leader.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it.
Holidaymakers are returning to Paris for winter holiday magic as the tourism industry rebounds, inspired by the successful Olympic Games and the re-opening of Notre Dame cathedral.With five billion viewers, the Paris Games were the most followed Games in television and social media history, according to the International Olympic Committee.
The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan this week suffered physical "external interference", the airline and Azerbaijan's transport minister said Friday, citing preliminary results of an investigation, adding to speculation it was hit by a Russian air defence system.Azerbaijan Airlines said it had suspended flights to 10 Russian airports, saying preliminary results suggested the crash of Baku-Grozny flight J2-8243 was "due to physical and technical external interference".
On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe became the nearest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the solar surface.