October 10, 2024, 1:53pm Latest News
Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida, where it knocked out power to more than 3 million customers and whipped up a barrage of tornadoes. The storm caused at least four deaths and compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct… Read story
October 10, 2024, 1:28pm Nation & World
The social media ads promised the young African women a free plane ticket, money and a faraway adventure in Europe. Just complete a computer game and a 100-word Russian vocabulary test. Read story
October 10, 2024, 9:24am Business
Communities in Florida still reeling from the impact of Hurricane Helene are now also grappling with the still-unfolding damage from Hurricane Milton. The storm crashed into a community south of Tampa, drenching counties with torrents of rain, downing power lines and bridges and kicking up dangerous storm surges. Read story
October 10, 2024, 8:52am Nation & World
Israel’s ground invasion in Lebanon stretched into its second week, as the Hezbollah militant group fired hundreds of rockets deep into Israel — with no end in sight to the escalating conflict. Read story
October 10, 2024, 8:47am Nation & World
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday accused the government of waging a campaign to leak evidence — including the 2016 video that shows him assaulting singer Cassie, his former girlfriend — and damaging the hip-hop mogul’s right to a fair trial. Read story
October 10, 2024, 8:44am Nation & World
Form Energy, a company that is beginning to produce a longer-lasting alternative to lithium batteries, hit a milestone Wednesday with an announcement of $405 million in funding. Read story
October 10, 2024, 8:42am Nation & World
The United States assesses that Ukraine will be able to hold on to the territory its forces have claimed in Russia’s Kursk region for at least several months if not longer, according to senior American officials. Read story
October 10, 2024, 8:41am Nation & World
A U.N. commission on Thursday accused Israel of destroying Gaza’s health care system through “relentless and deliberate attacks” in its yearlong war with Hamas and said that Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages have been tortured and sexually abused. Read story
October 10, 2024, 8:41am Nation & World
Immigrants who grew up in the United States after being brought here illegally as children were among close to 200 demonstrators outside a federal courthouse in New Orleans on Thursday as three appellate judges heard arguments over the Biden administration’s policy shielding them from deportation. Read story
October 10, 2024, 8:39am Nation & World
South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Read story
