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Justin Timberlake’s DWI case adjourned until Aug. 2
Sag Harbor Village Police DepartmentJustin Timberlake’s DWI case in Sag Harbor, New York, has been adjourned until Aug. 2.At that time Justin will be arraigned on misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and failing to keep right, WABC-TV reports. The new arraignment is due to a problem with the way Justin was initially charged. He did not appear in court on Friday, according to WABC-TV.Justin will now appear virtually Aug. 2 in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court. He's been accused of running a stop sign and swerving out of his lane while leaving The American Hotel in his BMW.According to WABC-TV, in his first public comments since the arrest, Timberlake's attorney Ed Burke contended Justin "was not intoxicated," adding, "I'll say it again. Justin ... Read More
Doctors and patients recall horror of Russian strike on Kyiv children’s hospital
ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Solomiya Fomeniuk, 16, recalled the Russian missile strike on the Okhmatdyt pediatric hospital in Ukraine earlier this month with horror, but also as a case of miraculous survival.The girl was one of five children in the dialysis department at the moment of the attack on July 8. Two people -- a doctor and a teacher -- died as a result of the strike. A 7-year-old boy died later after he was transported away from the site, officials said.Solomiya is disabled due to spinal hernia. The girl was admitted to the Kyiv hospital in late May 2022 after kidney failure."It's the best clinic in Ukraine with a dialysis department and the only one where we can actually ... Read More
2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony set to get underway in historic fashion
Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images(PARIS) -- The 2024 Paris Summer games are set to formally kickoff Friday in what will be an opening ceremony like no other before its time.There will be all of the pageantry and spectacle you'd come to expect from an Olympics opening ceremony, only there will be one big difference. Instead of parading around a stadium, some 10,000 plus athletes will get on boats and sail down the heart of Paris on the Seine River.Olympic organizers say this will be the first time in the history of the Summer Games that it will be held outside of a stadium.Roaring back from the pandemic eraThe Paris Games somewhat represent a return to normalcy. The last Summer Olympics ... Read More
France train lines hit by arson attacks just hours before 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony
SNCF employees and French gendarmes inspect the scene of a suspected attack on the high speed railway network at Croiselles, northern France on July 26, 2024. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Arson attacks on France’s rail network have taken place in what authorities are calling a "massive attack to destabilize the railway system," just hours before the 2024 Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony is set to take place.Trains at all major Paris stations have been delayed after fires and at least 800,000 people have been affected in the "arson attacks were set to damage our installations," according to a statement from rail company, SCNF.Authorities have not called this a terror attack, but fires began to be reported ... Read More
Russian and Chinese bombers intercepted off of Alaska
Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- United States and Canadian fighter jets intercepted four Russian and Chinese bombers flying in international airspace near Alaska on Wednesday, officials said.This marked the first time that Chinese military aircraft had been intercepted in that area, according to U.S. official, and the first time that Russian and Chinese bombers had flown together near Alaska. .North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement that it had "detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian TU-95 and two PRC [Peoples Republic of China] H-6 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on July 24, 2024."NORAD said that American and Canadian fighter jets conducted the intercept and noted that the Russian and Chinese ... Read More
King Charles gets nearly $60M pay raise as Prince William brings in $30M income, royal report reveals
King Charles III and Prince William, Prince of Wales attend the official handover during which The King passes the role of Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps to The Prince of Wales and presents him with the blue beret and belt of the Army Air Corps at the Army Aviation Centre, Middle Wallop on May 13, 2024. (Max Mumby/indigo/Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Nearly two years after ascending to the British throne, King Charles III is bringing in a major pay raise.Charles, 75, and fellow members of Britain's royal family are expected to see a nearly $60 million increase in the sovereign grant, the money the royal family receives annually from the U.K. government.The increase is a result of increased profits from ... Read More
Earth sets daily global temperature record for 2nd day in a row: Copernicus
VCG/VCG via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The planet reached the hottest day on record for the second day in a row, according to preliminary data from Copernicus, Europe's climate change service.Earth’s daily global average temperature hit 17.15 degrees Celsius (62.87 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, setting a new record for the warmest day in the organization’s dataset, which started in 1940.This beats the previous record of 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit) set the day before, Copernicus announced Wednesday in an updated report.The top 10 highest annual maximum daily average temperatures on record all occurred in the last 10 years, according to Copernicus. Multiple years between 2015 to 2024 not only set new records but broke them by large margins, the ... Read More
US invites Sudan’s warring parties to cease-fire talks in Switzerland, as fighting rages on
People walk along the road out of the Tiamushro camp for internally displaced persons in Kadugli, South Kordofan state, on June 18, 2024. (Guy Peterson/AFP via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- The United States has announced it has invited Sudan's warring parties to talks in Geneva, Switzerland, as international and regional efforts intensify for a cease-fire in the northeast African nation's civil war.The U.S.-mediated talks are set to be co-hosted by Switzerland and Saudi Arabia, a senior U.S. official told ABC News, building off the unsuccessful Jeddah negotiations process with additional observation from the African Union, Egypt, the United Nations and the United Arab Emirates."A few things have changed: One is the acuteness of the horrors, and two is the greater alignment ... Read More
Passenger plane crashes during takeoff in Nepal, killing 18, aviation officials say
People stand at the site after a Saurya Airlines plane crashed during takeoff at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on July 24, 2024. (Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- At least 18 people were killed when a plane crashed during takeoff in Nepal on Wednesday, aviation officials said.Nineteen people were on board when the Saurya Airlines flight went down at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, according to a notice from the Search and Rescue Coordination Center of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, which was posted online by the airport.The domestic flight to Pokhara took off at 11:11 a.m., then "turned right and crashed on the east side of the runway," aviation officials said."It is reported that the fire ... Read More
Jasper wildfire: ‘Heartbreaking’ damage as Canadian Armed Forces ordered to respond to Alberta blazes
Stock-zilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau authorized the Canadian Armed Forces to respond on Thursday to wildfires raging in Alberta.Trudeau said he was sending "resources, evacuations support, and more emergency wildfire resources to the province immediately -- and we're coordinating firefighting and airlift assistance."More than 400 firefighters from Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Africa are also on their way to help fight the wildfires in Alberta, he said."Alberta, we're with you," Trudeau said in a social media post.The town of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta have closed and were evacuated due to active wildfires in the park.Since the two wildfires were initially reported on Monday near Jasper, the wildfire situation "remains out of control," Jasper ... Read More
Red Sea tensions reach new high as US considers new sanctions on Houthis
KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Israel and Houthis in Yemen have traded fire for the first time, escalating tensions nine months after commercial ships in the Red Sea started to come under threat from the rebel group -- in a waterway the U.S. Navy has been patrolling since the war in Gaza began.Israel's strike on Yemen's port of Hodeidah on Saturday killed three and injured 87, the Yemeni Ministry of Health said, in a fighter jet assault over 1,000 miles away from Tel Aviv.Israel says it was a response to a Houthi drone attack Friday that killed one person in Tel Aviv. The exchange of fire was a first for the conflict in the Red Sea, where Houthi attacks had forced an ... Read More
Civilians in Sudan endure 15 months of ‘indiscriminate and widespread’ violence: Humanitarian report
People wait to receive food cards after registering as new arrivals at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Agari, North Kordofan, on June 17, 2024. -- Guy Peterson/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Civilians across Sudan are enduring "indiscriminate and widespread" violence as fighting between the Sudanese Army (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group and allied militias approaches its 16th month, a new report by Doctors Without Borders said Monday.The report -- created by curating months of operational data, medical data and first-hand accounts from civilians and MSF teams on the ground -- has found civilians across the Northeast African nation have faced "horrendous levels of violence" over the past year, "succumbing to widespread fighting and ... Read More
Global IT outage: 24 hours later and impacts are still being seen across the world
Mailee Osten-Tan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over 1,100 flights have been canceled and 2,867 delayed in the U.S. as private and public sector industries continue to be impacted by the the CrowdStrike outage around the world more than a day after it began. While many businesses appear to have recovered, the issue has not yet been fully resolved.The outage impacted 8.5 million Windows devices, according to Microsoft, sparking global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptions. Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm, is not owned by Microsoft but still operates largely on their systems."While the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services," Microsoft said in a post.The outage came ... Read More
Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years in Russian penal colony on charges of espionage
A view of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court building prior to a hearing in the trial of US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, in Yekaterinburg on July 18, 2024. -- Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been sentenced to 16 years in a Russian penal colony on charges of espionage after a guilty verdict was announced in the American journalist's trial on Friday.The State Prosecutors Office in Russia sought a sentence of 18 years. Gershkovich had faced up to 20 years in prison, based on the charges.In a joint statement, Dow Jones CEO and Wall Street Journal Publisher Almar Latour and Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker called the verdict a ... Read More
Israel-Gaza live updates: Khan Younis bombardment death toll rises to 129
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the Israel-Hamas war continues, efforts to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization are ongoing, and Israeli forces have launched an assault in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.Here's how the news is developing:Body of hostage killed on Oct. 7 recoveredThe body of Ravid Katz, a hostage killed on Oct. 7 and taken to Gaza, has been recovered, Kibbutz Nir Oz announced in a press release.Katz, 51, was a father of three, including a baby girl, an educator and a "loving man who believed in peace," the release from his kibbutz said.Bodies of three Israeli hostages killed on Oct. 7 recovered from Gaza: OfficialsThe bodies of three hostages have been recovered from Gaza ... Read More
What we know about the shooter
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man identified as the shooter in the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was a 20-year-old from a Pittsburgh suburb not far from the campaign rally where one attendee was killed. Investigators were working Sunday to gather more information about Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who they say opened fire at the rally before being killed by Secret Service days before Trump was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time. An FBI official said late Saturday that investigators had not yet determined a motive. Two spectators were critically injured, authorities said. Relatives of Crooks didn’t immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press. His father, Matthew Crooks, told CNN late ... Read MorePrayers for Trump also pour in from political rivals
Prayers for the former president are also coming from his political opponents. “I am horrified by what happened at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania and relieved that former President Trump is safe. Political violence has no place in our country,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer in a statement. “We should all condemn what happened today and I am hoping for the health of the former president and everyone else at the rally,” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy posted on the social platform X. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a post on X that his “thoughts and prayers are with former President Trump” and expressed thanks “for the decisive law enforcement response.” ... Read MoreWikiLeaks founder facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court
LONDON -- The host of a news conference about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition fight wryly welcomed journalists last week to the “millionth” press briefing on his court case. Deborah Bonetti, director of the Foreign Press Association, was only half joking. Assange’s legal saga has dragged on for well over a decade but it could come to an end in the U.K. as soon as Monday. Assange faces a hearing in London's High Court that could end with him being sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges, or provide him another chance to appeal his extradition. The outcome will depend on how much weight judges give to reassurances U.S. officials have provided that Assange's rights won't be trampled if ... Read More
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