Aija Mayrock wrote the book, The Survival Guide to Bullying after being bullied as a teen. Now she's a bestselling writer, poet and spoken word artist who performs at the United Nations and Madison Square Garden, addressing everything from mental health to women's issues in her work
Newly released video shows a woman who snuck onto a flight from New York to Paris last week being removed from a returning flight to the United States after she started screaming.
California authorities launched a manhunt for an escaped inmate on Monday morning, after he fled from a prisoner van in southern California.
The U.S. says 48 Americans died in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, including Omer Neutra. Questions remain of how many have died in Gaza.
Agribusiness giant Cargill is laying off thousands of its employees. Cargill confirmed this week that it would be reducing its global workforce by about 5%. In a statement sent to The Associated Press on Tuesday, the food production company said that the cuts were part of a long-term strategy “to strengthen Cargill's impact,” which includes realigning resources.
While giving a tour, a child spotted an alligator known as Godzilla dragging a massive python through the water.
A cleaning company has been fined $171,000 after federal investigators found 11 children working a "dangerous" overnight shift at a meat processing plant in Iowa.
Hannah Kobayashi, the 30-year-old Maui, Hawaii, woman at the center of a missing person search in Los Angeles, willfully crossed into Mexico, seemingly as part of her desire to "disconnect," police said Monday.
The focus is on JOLTS jobs data and Fedspeak will cement or dent growing hopes for interest rate cuts.
The North Wildwood City Council voted to accept a settlement with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection under which the state will cancel $12 million worth of fines it has levied against the city for conducting unauthorized and potentially harmful beach repair work. “It's good to put this behind us and move forward,” said Mayor Patrick Rosenello, the Republican mayor whose city tenaciously fought the state, insisting that it receive the same sort of beach replenishment project that virtually the entire rest of the Jersey Shore has gotten. Although it has been prone to severe erosion that recently whittled the protective sand dunes down to the height of Rosenello's knees, North Wildwood has not yet gotten a full beach replenishment project from the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, due in part to funding delays and difficulty in obtaining easements from private property owners.
An encrypted messaging service that was used for international drug and arms trafficking has been taken down by European authorities, Europol said on Tuesday. The messaging service called MATRIX was discovered on the phone of a criminal convicted for the murder of Dutch celebrity crime reporter Peter R. de Vries in 2021, Europol said. A large-scale investigation by the Dutch and French authorities managed to intercept the messaging service and monitor activity for three months, leading to the deciphering of more than 2.3 million messages in 33 languages.
A week after the premiere of a Netflix docuseries on the unsolved death of JonBenét Ramsey, police maintained their dedication to finding the little girl’s killer but refused to say whether they have any promising leads at this time.
The United Nations warned Tuesday that already unprecedented levels of forced displacement are set to worsen in 2025 as conflicts and disasters push ever more people to flee their homes.- Funding squeeze - UNHCR said forced displacement was at "unprecedented levels", with about 123 million people forcibly displaced worldwide.
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law, accusing the opposition of being "anti-state forces" and saying he was acting to protect the country from "threats" posed by the North."To safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea's communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements plundering people's freedom and happiness, I hereby declare emergency martial law," Yoon said in a live televised address to the nation.
By reshaping your mindset, you can learn to love winter, sub-zero wind chills and all.
Islamist-led rebels advanced Tuesday on Syria's fourth-largest city Hama, buoyed by their lightning capture of swathes of the north in an offensive that ended four years of relative calm."We want to advance on Hama after combing" towns that have been captured, a rebel fighter who identified himself as Abu al-Huda al-Sourani told AFP. The United Nations says nearly 50,000 people have been displaced by the fighting since it began last Wednesday.
Jill Biden was departing Tuesday on her final solo foreign trip as first lady, a six-day, four-country jaunt through Italy, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar that wraps with her and President-elect Donald Trump joining other dignitaries in Paris to celebrate the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral. Biden will focus throughout the trip on the issues she has championed as first lady, including support for military families, education, and research into cancer and women's health, and will also highlight U.S. partnerships in these areas with the countries hosting her, according to her office.
Tesla’s Cybertruck may be hitting a demand rut.
A new Arctic blast is set to dump more snow onto the Great Lakes and the Northeast, as winter weather caused transport chaos and left thousands stranded.
The Israeli military on Monday confirmed the death of American Israeli soldier Omer Maxim Neutra.
A grand jury has handed up a murder indictment against a man whose wife disappeared this July, sparking a flurry of concern in the Nepalese community of Northern Virginia and beyond for the nurse and young mother.
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