money New Milwaukee County Courthouse mural unveiled
The Milwaukee County Courthouse has a new mural representing a Milwaukee that stands together. That mural was unveiled Tuesday.
The Milwaukee County Courthouse has a new mural representing a Milwaukee that stands together. That mural was unveiled Tuesday.
Asian markets were mostly lower on Wednesday after shares slumped on Wall Street despite better-than-expected reports on the U.S. jobs market and business activity. U.S. futures and oil prices were higher. Both companies were included in a list released by the U.S. Defense Department linking them to China’s military.
A Thai court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for an alleged hit man who shot dead a former Cambodian opposition lawmaker in a brazen attack in Bangkok's crowded old quarter, police said. Lim Kimya, 74, who had arrived in Thailand just hours earlier, was shot dead on Tuesday by a waiting gunman who fired three shots, said a police officer, who declined to be named because they were not authorised to speak to media. Lim Kimya, a Cambodian and French citizen, had crossed into Thailand from Cambodia at noon on Tuesday with his wife and brother and traveled to Bangkok by bus before he was shot dead, the official said.
A New York appeals court judge Tuesday denied Donald Trump's bid for an emergency order halting the president-elect's scheduled sentencing Friday on criminal charges in the hush money case.
A passenger on a JetBlue flight opened an emergency exit door and deployed the slide while the plane was taxiing at Logan Airport Tuesday night, the FAA said.
The Eaton Fire was first reported around 6:30 p.m. local time in the Altadena area and quickly spread, with the potential to grow much further.
In the frigid night of China's Qinling mountains, hunters with huge social media followings scour the landscape in pursuit of wild boars menacing local farmers' livelihoods.Some local governments now offer boar bounties of up to 3,000 yuan ($410) to hunters like Li Shangxue and his comrades, who share their exploits with 340,000 followers on Douyin -- China's version of TikTok.
Rescue workers in the cold, high-altitude Tibet region in western China searched for more survivors and victims Wednesday, one day after a strong earthquake leveled thousands of houses and killed at least 126 people. The earthquake struck about 75 kilometers (50 miles) from Mount Everest and the border with Nepal, where the shaking sent people running out of their homes in the capital Kathmandu. The dead included at least 22 of the 222 residents of Gurum, the village's Communist Party chief Tsering Phuntsog told the official Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday.
After world-beating economic growth last year, India's policymakers are scrambling to head off a sharp slowdown as worsening global conditions and domestic confidence wipe out a recent stock market rally. On Tuesday, Asia's third-largest economy forecast annual growth of 6.4% in the fiscal year ending in March, the slowest in four years and below the government's initial projections, weighed by weaker investment and manufacturing. The downgrade follows disappointing economic indicators and a slowdown in corporate earnings in the second half of 2024, which have forced investors to rethink the country's earlier outperformance and cast doubts over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious economic targets.
The soldier who authorities believe blew up a Cybertruck on New Year's Day in front of the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas used artificial intelligence to guide him about how to set off the explosion, officials said Tuesday.
The former Soviet republic is teeming with brutalist, orientalist, modernist, futurist and neoclassical buildings — and has ambitious plans for new architectural landmarks.
Five years since Covid-19 started upending the world, the virus is still infecting and killing people across the globe -- though at far lower levels than at the height of the pandemic."The world wants to forget this pathogen that is still with us, and I think people want to put Covid in the past as if it's over -- and in many respects pretend it didn't happen -- because it has been so traumatic," WHO pandemic preparedness director Maria Van Kerkhove said last month.
A fire in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles has forced some residents to evacuate amid "life-threatening and destructive" winds.
An awkward question remains five years after Covid-19 began its deadly rampage: is the world ready to handle the next pandemic?But while the UN health agency considers the world more prepared than it was when Covid hit, it warns we are not nearly ready enough.
Hoda Kotb surprised a couple with some good news after they've been trying to adopt a baby for years but had the adoption fall through each and every time.
The Getty Villa is an educational center and art museum located the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
In a provocative and headline-grabbing Tuesday speech on his territorial ambitions for the United States, incoming US leader Donald Trump was heavy on intimidation but light on details -- leaving many wondering how seriously the comments should be taken.At the United Nations, the incoming US leader's latest comments won little applause.
Thousands of rescuers were searching for survivors in freezing conditions Wednesday after a devastating earthquake in China's remote Tibet region killed at least 126 people. A quake in December 2023 in northwest China killed 148 people and displaced thousands in Gansu province. isk/je/cwl
President-elect Donald Trump suggested Tuesday he would consider using military force to gain control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, and "economic force" to acquire Canada.
After serving a customer a bowl of acai with fried fish in Belem's market, Sandra da Costa wipes her hands excitedly.- Turning point - "The COP30 will be a turning point for the city and the Amazon," says Igor Normando, the 37-year-old mayor, to AFP. "The world will learn the challenges of the Amazonian people, and see that there is nothing fairer than helping us," says Normando atop the historic Forte do Presepio, overlooking an acai market where tons of the Amazonian fruit arrive every dawn.
In the Brazilian Amazon, workers use metal tubes to sow seedlings in rapid succession, as part of an effort to reforest the jungle with millions of trees."The Amazon is the best place in the world to reforest," he added, citing the loss of 60 million hectares since 2015.