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Results 1 to 30A $40 hotel room in central London? Of course there’s a catch
2026-04-25, 12:11In our roundup of travel news this week: the viral “snow” spot that’s actually hazardous waste, the design concept that reinvents the worst seat on the airplane, plus CNN spends a night at the world’s biggest capsule hotel. Cozy or claustrophobic? London is one of the world’s most expensive cities,...
Hung Cao said the military should be filled with ‘alpha males and alpha females.’ Now ...
2026-04-25, 12:11As undersecretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain and former Republican Senate candidate in Virginia, was supposed to have a broad portfolio as the service’s No. 2 civilian, which included personnel issues and safeguarding the Navy’s “warfighter ethos.” But in reality, Cao was often...
Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes straight from China
2026-04-25, 12:11Gennadiy Tsygan knows how expensive it is to build a home in the United States. That’s why he imported almost everything for his dream house from China. Most of his home fixtures were imported directly from over two dozen factories, and Tsygan — an engineer in Baltimore — flew halfway around the...
The secret lives of cartel wives: The women behind Latin America’s narco-empires
2026-04-25, 11:15In the hyper-masculine world of Latin-American drug cartels, it is sometimes the women you need to watch. That’s how the Mexican military hunted down one of the world’s most-wanted traffickers – Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes – in a daring operation earlier this year that included special...
Gunmen stage simultaneous attacks in and outside Mali capital, army says
2026-04-25, 10:56Militants staged attacks in Mali’s capital Bamako and in several locations in the interior of the country on Saturday morning, the Mali army said, in an apparently coordinated assault involving multiple groups. Two loud explosions and sustained gunfire were heard shortly before 6 a.m. GMT near...
The law sets a 60-day limit on unauthorized wars. Will Trump respect it?
2026-04-25, 10:20A post-Vietnam law puts a 60-day clock on the use of military force without congressional authorization. The war in Iran – for which the Trump administration sought no approval – hits that 60-day mark May 1, according to the text of the law, the War Powers Resolution, but it’s not at all clear what...
Inside the high-risk decision to testify in your own defense
2026-04-25, 10:20To speak, or not to speak? That is the question criminal defendants face at trial. In three recent high-profile criminal trials, the defendant answered that question with a firm yes and took the stand to give their side of the story. It’s a rare, risky move – and the strategy did not result in an...
How moving to the US helped marathon champion Hellen Obiri achieve two dreams at once
2026-04-25, 08:50Even as one of the best athletes in the world, Hellen Obiri says she’ll still be nervous lining up at the start of this weekend’s London Marathon. It’s incredible, though, that the Kenyan would have any doubts at all. After all, the 36-year-old is a double world champion in the 5000m, a three-time...
Homes destroyed, pets lost and precious memories burned to ashes in Georgia wildfires
2026-04-25, 08:14It took just 30 minutes for Brytney Quinn to lose everything. On Tuesday, the mother was going through the motions of a normal day in southeast Georgia’s Brantley County: getting her children ready for school as her husband prepared for work. But around noon, multiple firetrucks and police cars...
What are your chances of being audited now that the IRS is using AI? Jury ...
2026-04-25, 08:14Just looking at the raw numbers, less than 1% of filers have been audited by the IRS in recent tax years. Based on the latest data available, for example, in tax year 2021 the IRS pursued a mere 0.3% of filers overall. The audit rate has been higher for select groups of taxpayers based on certain...
US envoys will head to Pakistan for fresh Iran talks, White House says
2026-04-25, 05:13Meet the cat and dog rescued by a drone from the Ukrainian front line
2026-04-25, 05:13It is common knowledge among Ukrainian soldiers that anyone joining the military will, sooner or later, become a cat person. Felines are found in the most unlikely places on the front lines. In trenches, at checkpoints, in destroyed homes and at medical stabilization points, they are always looking...
In this World Cup host city in Mexico, residents are feeling increasingly unsafe
2026-04-25, 05:13With just under two months to go before the 2026 World Cup, one of the tournament’s host cities in Mexico is experiencing a worrying trend. In Guadalajara, a city in Jalisco state plagued by drug violence and thousands of cases of disappeared people, residents are feeling increasingly unsafe. Nine...
Judge appears skeptical of Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against IRS and Treasury
2026-04-25, 04:55A federal judge on Friday questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Department over the leak of his tax returns, ordering a hearing to determine whether the president can sue federal agencies that he oversees. Florida District Judge...
Court overturns subway bomber’s conviction for giving ISIS ‘material support,’ raising questions about terrorism prosecutions
2026-04-25, 03:07A federal appeals court reversed a terrorism-related conviction for the 2017 New York City subway bomber in a decision that could have wide-reaching effects for the prosecutions of accused terrorists. Akayed Ullah detonated a pipe bomb inside a busy Manhattan transit station in 2017, causing panic...
The music of ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ is powered by a tale of survival
2026-04-25, 02:49Brian Tyler remembers being in a hospital bed when the music for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” came to him. While in his music studio in August 2025, the composer suffered a major medical incident: a double subarachnoid brain hemorrhage — bleeding in the space between the brain and the membrane...
Soldier’s arrest comes after pattern of suspicious trades on prediction markets
2026-04-25, 01:19After US troops captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, the image of him handcuffed and blindfolded while wearing a Nike tracksuit wasn’t the only thing that went viral. The Internet was soon buzzing over an anonymous trader on Polymarket, the prediction market, who netted hundreds...
1 arrested after Louisiana mall shooting that killed teen girl, injured 5 others following argument
2026-04-24, 23:30Baton Rouge, Louisiana (AP) — Louisiana authorities have charged a 17-year-old with murder, and they are searching for another suspect after bystanders were caught in the crossfire of a shooting at a mall in Baton Rouge on Thursday that killed one teenage girl. During a news conference Friday,...
OpenAI’s Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian community after failing to flag mass shooter’s conversations with ...
2026-04-24, 23:12Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has formally apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge, BC, after a mass shooting in February. He admitted his company did not alert authorities to the shooter’s disturbing online conversations with its AI chatbot even after staff flagged the account internally. “I...
Move over, K-pop? The hottest new Asian group could be from Indonesia
2026-04-24, 22:19A new girl group from Asia has social media turning its head. But this time, they’re not from South Korea – they’re from Indonesia. The four-member group No Na turned into an overnight sensation earlier this year after the music video for their new song “Work” went viral, racking up more than 9.5...
One of two missing University of South Florida doctoral students found dead and a roommate ...
2026-04-24, 19:54Authorities found the body of one of two missing University of South Florida doctoral students Friday on a...
Swalwell accuser cooperating with Manhattan DA investigation
2026-04-24, 19:54A former staffer who accused former California Rep. Eric Swalwell of raping her is now cooperating with an investigation by the Manhattan District...
Curiosity rover detects building blocks of life in first-ever experiment on Mars
2026-04-24, 19:18The Curiosity rover has uncovered the most diverse array of organic molecules ever found on Mars, including seven that had never been detected before on the red planet. These carbon-containing compounds are the same building blocks that enabled life to emerge on Earth. The results, published Tuesday...
Microsoft to offer voluntary retirement to thousands of US employees for the first time
2026-04-24, 18:24Microsoft is offering about 7% of its US workforce the option to retire early, the latest attempt by a major tech firm to downsize while ramping up artificial intelligence investments. The one-time retirement program, a company first, will be available to employees whose age and years of service...
The Gaza playbook: Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli destruction in Lebanon
2026-04-24, 18:24When Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2, two days after Israel and the United States launched a war on Iran, the resulting Israeli operation to destroy the group quickly became a mission to flatten swathes of southern Lebanon. As Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes across the country,...
Carlos Alcaraz says he won’t defend his French Open title due to wrist injury
2026-04-24, 17:48Two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz won’t attempt to defend his French Open title due to a right wrist injury. Alcaraz posted...
Trump’s Justice Department is bringing back firing squads for federal executions
2026-04-24, 17:48The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad. Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department...
Trump’s inauspicious defense of a soldier accused of insider trading on Polymarket
2026-04-24, 17:30For the first time, we’re seeing some legal accountability for the spate of suspiciously well-timed prediction-market trades ahead of major moves by the Trump administration. The Justice Department has indicted a US special forces soldier who allegedly used classified information to make $400,000 on...
US freezes $344 million in cryptocurrency said to be linked to Iran
2026-04-24, 17:12The Trump administration has frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency it says was linked to Iran as the United States ratchets up pressure on Tehran. The move, first reported by CNN, comes as shaky diplomatic efforts to reach a deal to end the war continue to stall and the global economy reels from its...
Trump’s prescription drug math makes no sense. RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz have defended it anyway
2026-04-24, 16:54President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them. Since last year, Trump has asserted that he has cut or will cut prescription drug prices by numbers...
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