Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month
ZEBALLOS, British Columbia — A young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island swam past a bottleneck at high tide early Friday, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea, officials said. The Ehattesaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations said in a statement that a team monitoring the 2-year-old calf More...
About 100 people detained from Northeastern University pro-Palestinian protest
About 100 people were detained from a pro-Palestinian protest at Northeastern University’s Boston campus Saturday morning, according to university officials. The university said its police department, with More...
Saved from her dead mother’s womb, baby Sabreen was laid to rest in a mournful funeral
Even for a baby, the swaddled body of Sabreen Alrouh Joudeh looked impossibly small. Wrapped in the white burial shroud synonymous with Gaza’s colossal civilian death toll, Sabreen was placed into the dusty More...
Paris organizers take delivery of Olympic flame at Greek venue of first modern Games
ATHENS, Greece — The Paris Oympics flame was formally handed to French organizers on Friday in the all-marble stadium where the first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896. Greek water polo player Ioannis More...
9-year-old boy wins seagull screeching competition
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Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on designated ‘safe zones’: An NBC News investigation
NBC News found that Rafah’s Tal Al Sultan neighborhood, which was designated safe in leaflets dropped by the IDF on Dec. 18, was targeted less than a month later, on Jan. 9. Relatives said that 15 people died More...
‘Jew-hatred’ on U.S. college campuses is another parallel to Germany in 1930s and ’40s
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said Thursday that the campus protests launched nationwide in response to Israel’s campaign in Gaza are another parallel of the lead-up to the Holocaust. In an interview More...
Papua New Guinea leader defends nation after Biden’s ‘cannibals’ comment
The prime minister of Papua New Guinea defended the Pacific Island nation after President Joe Biden appeared to imply that his uncle’s body was eaten by “cannibals” there during World War II, urging the More...
Europe is the fastest-warming continent, report says
Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, More...
Police arrest pro-Palestinian supporters at encampment on Yale University plaza
Police officers on Monday arrested protesters who had set up an encampment on Yale University’s campus in support of the Palestinian cause, one of a growing number of American universities to see demonstrations More...