Ukraine’s much-anticipated counteroffensive has come to a shuddering halt with just six miles of ground gained – increasing US gloom about the prospects of its success. Kyiv launched its counteroffensive against at the start of the summer with staunch backing from Western allies, who have been providing billions of dollars of aid, as well as…
A federal judge in Delaware formally dismissed misdemeanor tax charges against Hunter Biden on Thursday, but the president’s son is expected to face the same charges — or new ones — in the near future. The decision by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika had been expected following a failed plea agreement last month between federal…
More than 6,180 United Methodist congregations in the U.S. have been granted permission to leave the denomination in a schism that began in 2019 over the role of LGBTQ Methodists in the church and other theological issues, according to an unofficial tally kept by UM News. The bulk of the departures, 4,172, were approved in June, in…
Broadcaster Sage Steele has left ESPN, the company and Steele announced Tuesday. She said she made the decision so she could exercise her First Amendment Rights “more freely” after having settled a lawsuit she filed last year. “Life update. Having successfully settled my case with ESPN/Disney, I have decided to leave so I can exercise…
First Look Border battle: Court backs Biden administration’s asylum limit The U.S. 9th Circuit Court has temporarily upheld a rule restricting southern border asylum. Despite objections from migrant rights groups, the rule, aiming to control migration post-Title 42, remains in effect for now. | View caption Hide caption | An appeals court Thursday allowed a…
Nine bodies have been found and two more people are feared dead after a fire erupted at a vacation home hosting adults with disabilities in France on Wednesday, local officials said. The fire broke out around 6:30 a.m. local time (12:30 a.m. ET) at the private cottage in La Forge in Wintzenheim, near the German…
Rolls of razor wire Texas installed along the U.S. side of the Rio Grande have ensnared several migrants, including a pregnant woman “in obvious pain” while having a miscarriage and a father trying to free his child “stuck on a trap” of razor wire–covered barrels in the water, a Texas state trooper wrote in July…
Our prayers have been answered. Apple’s upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will include a new tweak that stops the phone’s autocorrect function from changing a certain curse word (you know the one) to “ducking,” the company announced this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The change is made possible by “a state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model…