Category: World News

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of popping open a fresh can of Pringles.  You just know that the cylindrical stack will be full of uniformly shaped chips, each perfectly designed to coat your entire tongue with salty, savory goodness. But this past weekend, when I impulse-purchased a packet from the petrol station, that excitement faded quickly. I…

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a stunning disclosure made to Congress on Tuesday while testifying about his potential misuse of taxpayer money. Favre, appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, has been accused of improperly using political connections to redirect public money to his alma mater…

As we move from ambition to action on climate, realities are starting to hit.  Many companies that have set climate targets are struggling to meet them—particularly when it comes to their scope 3 supply chain emissions. We need to rapidly limit deforestation—but we need new forms of finance to do so. And we must significantly…

A New York state resident who was diagnosed with the state’s first confirmed case of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in nearly 10 years has died, according to authorities who declared an imminent threat to public health. The Ulster County patient – who was not identified – was diagnosed on Sept. 20 by the Health Department’s…

Share Half of voters plan to cast ballots early, with a huge partisan split Half of registered voters plan to vote early this fall, new figures from the September NBC News poll show, with Democrats continuing to run up the score among early voters and Republicans getting stronger backing from those who plan to vote in…

September 24, 2024 4:05 AM EDT A Hanoi court sentenced the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology’s former chief accountant to death after Nguyen Hoang was convicted of embezzling more than 152 billion dong ($6.2 million), according to a posting on the Vietnam government’s website. Hoang was found guilty of committing theft between March 2009…

Palestinian officials say Israel’s strikes early Tuesday killed at least seven people in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. At least 15 others, including women and children, were injured in the strikes, they said. Israel’s military says it will do “whatever is necessary” to push Hezbollah away from Lebanon’s border with Israel. The two countries…

A woman was rescued after a crash left a Porsche SUV dangling from the third floor of a parking garage in Coral Gables, Florida, on Monday, officials said. The incident happened on the third floor of a garage at 1567 San Remo Ave. after, officials said, it appeared the woman driving the SUV accidentally hit…

Authorities are offering a reward of up to $100,000 in exchange for more information about multiple shooters who opened fire in Birmingham, Alabama, over the weekend in a mass shooting that left four people dead and 17 others injured. The shooting took place on Saturday night in Birmingham’s Five Point South neighborhood when officers responded…

New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi dated former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann a decade ago, when he was 55 and she was about 21 years old, Olbermann confirmed to The Post. “That’s online. It’s public knowledge,” Olbermann said. He said he had not spoken to her in the last decade and declined to provide details….