Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire
PARIS (AP) — After more than five years of frenetic, but sometimes interrupted, reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed itself anew to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and...
View ArticleScientists develop foam that can filter up to 99.9% of microplastics from water
(CN) — Scientists in China have developed a biodegradable foam that they say can remove up to 99.9% of microplastics from water, a major breakthrough in an effort to combat a pervasive environmental...
View ArticleGerman far-right AfD says to replace radical youth wing
BERLIN (AFP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany party said Tuesday it would replace its radical youth wing, which has been classified an extremist group by intelligence services. The...
View ArticleCiting ‘depravity,’ feds aim for maximum in body-brokering funeral home...
DENVER (CN) — The federal judge who initially sentenced body-brokering funeral home owner Megan Hess to 20 years in prison for a single charge of mail fraud related to the yearslong scheme must now...
View ArticleFirst Circuit likely to save the whales despite lobstermen’s complaints
BOSTON (CN) — An epic sea battle unfolded at the First Circuit Tuesday as Massachusetts fishermen tried to harpoon federal regulations that protect the North Atlantic right whale. But it appeared the...
View ArticleJustices fret over international law violation in Holocaust heir suit against...
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court worried Tuesday that greenlighting a lawsuit brought by the families of Holocaust victims against Hungary would put the United States in conflict with the...
View ArticleIowa claims Biden administration illegally denied access to citizenship records
DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) — Iowa’s attorney general and secretary of state sued federal immigration officials Tuesday, claiming they are breaking the law by failing to turn over the names of noncitizens...
View ArticleFederal judge offers mixed bag for California homeless advocate claiming...
FRESNO, Calif. (CN) — A Fresno, California, woman who sued the city and two officers who arrested her for trying to help a homeless woman has scored a partial win against a motion to dismiss her...
View ArticleSouth Korea president declares emergency martial law
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law, accusing the opposition of being “anti-state forces” and saying he was acting to protect the country...
View ArticleJury deliberations begin in Daniel Penny manslaughter trial
MANHATTAN (CN) — Jurors started deliberating Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the Marine Corps veteran charged with the 2023 chokehold killing of homeless straphanger Jordan Neely on...
View ArticleThird pleads not guilty to Abercrombie & Fitch CEO sex trafficking scheme
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CN) — Matthew Smith, the romantic partner of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he helped induce young men to perform sex acts...
View ArticleChinese man living illegally in Southern California charged with exporting...
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Chinese national living illegally in Southern California was arrested on Tuesday and charged with exporting firearms, ammunition and other military equipment to North Korea, at...
View ArticleChina recognized as EU’s largest automotive trading partner
(CN) — China eclipsed the United States as the European Union’s largest consumer of vehicle products in 2022, according to macroeconomic data analyzed as part of a report released by Eurostat on...
View ArticleDC sues Amazon for excluding predominantly Black neighborhoods from Prime...
WASHINGTON (CN) — The District of Columbia sued Amazon on Wednesday accusing the tech giant of excluding certain D.C. residents east of the Anacostia River from its Prime delivery service while still...
View ArticleDoctor gaslit depressive patient
DANVILLE, Va. — A federal court in Virginia will allow a Black medical patient’s claims of willful and wanton misconduct to proceed against his physician, who he had joined for a telehealth visit to...
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