USA Update

Australian opener Nathan McSweeney has reportedly been dropped for the Boxing Day Test, with selectors now set to inject teenage rising star Sam Konstas into the line-up.

Rashmika Mandanna and Trisha Krishnan recently graced their look in saree. Let's check out whether designer or traditional is better.

As Republicans scramble on Capitol Hill to get a new government funding agreement passed, many federal workers are now in limbo waiting to see how a government shutdown would impact them with the holidays right around the corner. Based on past government estimates, some 3.5 million federal workers could go without paychecks this holiday season […]

Welcome to another volume of Indie Invasion! Right now, the Indie Game Awards are happening while I type this bad boy up! It’s truly a wonderful time to be a fan of indie titles! Gaining more and more of a foothold in the games industry with each passing year, there’s a wealth of Grade-A games […]

A Chino Hills, California man has been arrested for allegedly working as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) while also serving as the campaign manager for a local politician who was elected to office in 2022. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said 64-year-old Yaoning “Mike” Sun was arrested on Thursday […]

The House blocked Speaker Mike Johnson’s new and improved continuing resolution on Thursday night despite earning the support from President-elect Donald Trump. The CR failed in a 235-174 vote, with 172 Republicans and two Democrats voting in favor of the 116-page bill — and 38 Republicans joining 197 Democrats to block it. Since the vote […]

PONTIAC, Mich. — A judge on Thursday refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder. Ethan Crumbley’s appellate lawyers cited his mental health and other factors when he waived his right to trial at age 16 and at Oxford High School in […]

U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Rome next month to meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Sergio Mattarella and Pope Francis. Biden will “meet with Italy’s leaders to highlight the strength of the U.S.-Italy relationship, thank Prime Minister Meloni for her strong leadership of the G7 over the past year, and discuss […]

Creating “mirror life” could be one of science’s greatest breakthroughs, but some researchers who began the effort are now calling for it to stop. No mirror-life microorganisms exist yet. However, 38 scientists warned in a paper published in the journal Science on December 12 that if someone created one and it escaped the lab, it […]

U.S. officials on Thursday arrested a Chinese man prosecutors say was at the center of an effort to influence local politics in California, charging him with acting as an illegal foreign agent over his role in getting a politician elected to a City Council position in the Los Angeles area. Prosecutors say Mike Sun, also […]