"The Walking Dead" is taking aim at homophobia, as well as zombies. After a small but vocal segment of viewers responded negatively to the inclusion of a gay couple in the spin-off series "The Walking Dead: World Beyond," the franchise responded from its official Twitter account.
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The Department of Justice is calling for Google to divest its Chrome browser, following a ruling in August that the company holds a monopoly in the search market.
A spike in electricity demand from the world's big data providers is raising a worrying possibility for the world's climate: a near-term surge in fossil-fuel use. Utilities, power regulators and researchers in a half-dozen countries told Reuters the surprising growth in power demand driven by the rise of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is being met in the near-term by fossil fuels like natural gas, and even coal, because the pace of clean-energy deployments is moving too slowly to keep up. In the United States, home to a third of world data centers, utilities are adding new gas plants and delaying the retirements of fossil-fuel power plants as a slew of sprawling new data centers plug in to the grid.
At a rave in a former silk factory in Kyiv, Bogdana Lukyanchuk was out partying for the first time since her father was killed fighting Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.Fourteen-year-old Yury was just a toddler when Russian-backed forces launched a first armed aggression in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The Danish military confirmed Thursday it was monitoring a Chinese bulk carrier that was reportedly in the area where two undersea data cables ruptured in recent days in the Baltic Sea. Finnish, Swedish and German authorities have launched investigations into the rupture earlier this week of two undersea cables — one between Finland and Germany, the other between Lithuania and Sweden. All are member countries of the NATO alliance.
Four of Donald Trump's administration picks — Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk — have been accused of sexual misconduct.
There are many reasons for Mexico to worry about a President Trump. But it has considerable leverage and both countries need good ties.
Past a pawn shop and thrift store in the working-class section of Socorro, New Mexico, Jose Benavidez stood on the porch of his trailer and said he voted for Donald Trump because he had "nothing to lose." The 49-year-old car mechanic hopes that Trump can ease poverty and a fentanyl crisis in Socorro and its surrounding county of the same name, which this month backed a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in 36 years. "He said I'll have more money in my pocket this time," said Benavidez, who is currently unable to work and gets disability payments.
Greece saw a change in its main opposition party on Thursday after a wave of defections from the leftist Syriza party opened the door for the centre-left PASOK to challenge the dominance of rightist Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The opposition shift will revive a more traditional battle for the political centre that dominated Greek politics before a 2009-18 debt crisis triggered years of social and political instability. Months of infighting and a leadership struggle have left Syriza with 29 lawmakers, two fewer than PASOK, in the 300-seat parliament.
An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.
A fresh draft of a climate pact unveiled Thursday at COP29 failed to break an impasse between nations, with negotiators racing against the clock to broker a trillion-dollar finance agreement.COP29 hosts Azerbaijan said a "shorter" draft would be unveiled Thursday evening and would "contain numbers".
John Prescott, Britain's longest-serving deputy prime minister who died on Wednesday, was indispensable to Tony Blair's New Labour government, a working-class trailblazer who connected with the public in ways most politicians cannot. Even after punching an egg-throwing protester during an otherwise carefully-scripted 2001 election campaign, Prescott, who died of Alzheimer's aged 86, weathered criticism saying he had just defended himself - an episode that earned him the nickname "two jabs". Born in Wales, Prescott was the bridge who kept Labour's traditional trade union supporters on side while its modernisers, former prime ministers Blair and Gordon Brown, shifted the party to the centre ground to help it win three election victories after nearly two decades in opposition.
Governments including the European Union, Canada and Mexico said they will set "ambitious" new targets for cutting their greenhouse gas pollution by 2035.
India's Adani Group on Thursday called US charges that their billionaire tycoon founder Gautam Adani had paid more than $250 million in bribes "baseless", as the opposition leader demanded his arrest."We demand that Adani be immediately arrested.
Dozens of people were killed or unaccounted for after Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, a hospital director and the civil defence agency said Thursday.One strike near the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the territory left "dozens of people" dead or missing, the facility's director Hossam Abu Safiya told AFP. The process of retrieving the bodies and wounded continues, he said, adding: "Bodies arrive at the hospital in pieces."
A historically strong bomb cyclone, which triggered winds that killed at least two people, is working with a powerful atmospheric river to bring heavy rain, potential flooding, gusty winds and mountain snow across Northern California and the Pacific Northwest – and another system may be on the way.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Alibaba Group will integrate its domestic Chinese and international e-commerce platforms into a single business unit run by one leader for the first time, the company said in a stock exchange filing on Thursday. The Alibaba E-commerce Business Group, as the unit will be called, brings together the Taobao and Tmall Group and the Alibaba International Digital Commerce (AIDC) Group. Its chief, Jiang Fan, a former head of Tmall demoted in 2020 after an online scandal, has been tapped to lead the new unit, reporting to Alibaba Group Chief Executive Eddie Wu.
Four of Donald Trump's nominees to high-profile jobs have faced allegations of sexual misconduct, complicating their pathway to government service.
In 2020, the woman who has become Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top spymaster met with one of the most infamous leakers of all time.
He helped design Trump's Muslim ban. Now, he will help the president-elect carry out his signature campaign promise: mass deportation.
Planning is essential for families with teens considering a break between high school and college.
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