USA Update

Pokémon Go is kicking off the festive season with part one of its yearly holiday event from Dec. 17-22 — called, suitably, “Holiday Part 1.” The event also features two pretty good bonuses: doubled XP from catching Pokémon and halved hatch distance for eggs put into incubators during the event. Shiny Sandygast also makes its […]

Australian officials have issued warnings for travelers to be alert for potential methanol poisoning after seven tourists were hospitalized in Fiji last week after drinking alcohol-based cocktails at a luxury resort bar. The alert comes less than a month after six backpackers in Laos died, and others were hospitalized, from what some officials worldwide suspect […]

Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged disappointment around her election loss during her remarks on Tuesday, urging voters to “stay in the fight.” The speech marks the vice president’s most extensive comments since her concession speech following her loss to President-elect Donald Trump in November. “Over the past several weeks, since the election, I have received […]

An acrimonious national debate about Britain’s private water companies intensified this week as the country’s environmental watchdog accused regulators of failing to comply with laws concerning sewage flowing into public waterways, a complaint that coincided with England’s largest water company asking for a cash bailout. Three British public authorities failed to follow the law by […]

What’s New A Montana state judge has temporarily blocked a rule that barred transgender people from changing the sex designation on their birth certificates and driver’s licenses. District Judge Mike Menahan issued the order on Monday, pausing enforcement of the rule as the case proceeds through the courts. Why It Matters One rule in Montana […]

Ukraine’s Security Service, or SBU, has claimed responsibility for killing Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, in a . Kirillov, 54, was killed alongside his assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, when a bomb planted on a scooter exploded outside an apartment block. An official with the SBU said the […]

The bones were spread out across a nearly 50-foot ditch, thousands of them, bearing marks of a grisly end. Snapped femurs. Bashed skulls. Bones with slicing cuts, as if someone had butchered the skin around them. For more than 50 years, the remains found in a shaft at the Charterhouse Warren Farm in southwest England […]

MINNEAPOLIS — A judge has granted permission to lawyers for Derek Chauvin to have samples from George Floyd examined as part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to on a federal civil rights charge stemming from U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson agreed in an order Monday to let the defense examine Floyd’s heart tissue […]

The "Laguna Beach" alum was vacationing in the Bahamas with then-husband Jay Cutler and their three kids when a man broke into their rental home.

Tributes are pouring in for Brendan Courtney’s mum Nuala who died peacefully at Navan Road Community Unit on Tuesday. The presenter took to social media ‘with a heavy heart’ to announce the tragic news about his mum, who was diagnosed with dementia at the end of 2023. ‘It is with a heavy heart that we […]

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