On March 13, 2013, Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan, a judge at Idlib’s Civil Court of Appeal, publicly defected from the Syrian regime – an act that led him to be sentenced to death in absentia. In December 2024, more than a decade later, Bashar al-Assad’s regime – the very one he had defected from – was…
US stock investors should brace for a near-term pullback as positioning becomes increasingly stretched and key institutional buyers flip to sellers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s John Flood.
Multiple countries took part in the exchange of prisoners, including a well-known journalist released to Poland, as the Trump administration’s outreach to Belarus continued to pay dividends.
A prototype of a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster was tested in a special chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in February 2026. With further development, thrusters like this could be part of a nuclear electric propulsion system powering human missions to Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft…
Last year, WhatsApp and Apple notified several people in Italy, including journalists and activists, that they had been targeted with government spyware. In particular, WhatsApp pointed the finger at the Israeli-American surveillance tech maker Paragon Solutions as the company that provided the technology for a hacking campaign that targeted around 90 people around the world…
EXCLUSIVE: Last winter, we broke the news that Tim Fehlbaum, director of the Oscar-nominated September 5, would direct an English-remake of the French thriller Boîte Noire (Black Box) for Netflix. And now, we can tell you that Adam Gyngell and Fred Fernandez-Armesto are set to write the adaptation. A paranoid thriller in the tradition of…
The brother of the late Virginia Giuffre criticized King Charles III for not meeting with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse during his visit to the United States this week. “Survivors are here sitting with members of Congress, still fighting to be heard, still pushing for real accountability, while many of the powerful figures connected to…
Apr 28, 2026, 12:50 PM ET After starting the season with an MLB-worst 9-19 record (tied with the Mets) and negative-54 run differential, the Philadelphia Phillies decided it was time for a change and fired manager Rob Thomson on Tuesday morning. Don Mattingly will take over as interim manager with the task of turning around…
Manchester United’s 2-1 win over Brentford put them on the brink of Champions League qualification, but interim manager Michael Carrick said they must keep pushing to finish as high up the Premier League table as possible. United now need just two points from their last four games to seal their place in Europe’s elite club…
Two things. First, I totally called it when I pointed out that royalists were still going to be screaming, crying and throwing up over the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Australian “tour” weeks after the fact. I KNEW that King Charles and Camilla would be standing on American soil and royalists would still be bitching…
