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A news anchor was unexpectedly named the next monarch of Uganda’s Tooro Kingdom on Wednesday following last month’s death at age 34 of a monarch once known as the “boy king” because of his ascension to the throne as an infant. A selection committee for…
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said it is trying to determine if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has an older son while reaffirming its assessment that his daughter is the likely heir to the nation’s leadership. The spy agency’s statement on Thursday was likely…
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee lost his Democratic primary to former CVS executive Helena Foulkes, the first time a governor has been defeated in a primary in eight years. President Donald Trump walks on stage to speak on the first day of the 2026 Republican…
Trump tries to energize his base with a $5,000 promise. Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer said she rejects the conspiracy theories about her ex-husband. And a hands-on look at the new foldable iPhone. President Donald Trump sought to energize Republican voters in a keynote speech during the…
A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s was scheduled Thursday to become the state’s 15th person executed this year. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was sentenced to die for…
As an NFL analyst and podcast host, Mina Kimes consumes a lot of news online, but ask her to spend more than 15 minutes on “any social media platform” and you might have a problem. “It’s like simultaneously pouring molasses into your brain and lighting…
An Australian teenage girl’s death, suspected to be preceded by consensual “choking” during sex, has renewed calls to ban showing the act in porn. This latest tragedy, reportedly believed to involve sexual strangulation, comes just months after the UK banned porn showing the practice. But…
In 2020, face-recognition firm Clearview AI became infamous for scraping more than 3 billion photos from the internet to turn faces into names for police and security professionals. Now the company is experimenting with trawling the web again, this time using AI to potentially help…
Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August’s sizzle also helped push the…
Iceland’s government will submit a bill in February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling. Whaling in Iceland has sparked years of protests from animal welfare campaigners and Hollywood…