What happened to Lisa Ross? Reporting from Athens as a murder case unfolds BBCAfghan boxer accused of killing aid worker whose body was found in suitcase CNNBoxer charged with killing British aid worker in Greece and dumping her body in suitcase Sky NewsScottish Missionary Killed in Athens: ‘She Truly Incarnated the Love and Passion of … Read more
A settlement to end lawsuits over “forever chemicals” between DuPont, 3M and New Jersey was approved by a federal court, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced Friday. The settlement with the two companies was originally agreed to in August 2025 and is collectively valued at $2.5 billion. The “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS … Read more
There’s two things you should know about me, your intrepid reviewer: I hate the feature creep associated with modern power banks, and I love shaving grams off the gear I carry when backpacking, bikepacking, and trail running. So imagine my delight when Nitecore released a new generation of its ultralight NB10000 battery. After a few … Read more
Saturday, August 8, 2026 5:53AMThe cause of death has been released for Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke. Clarke was found dead inside a home near Los Angeles on May 11.LOS ANGELES — Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke died in May from the effects of heroin and cocaine, authorities said Friday.The Los Angeles County Department of … Read more
Paleontologists have described a new genus of small, bird-like dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico approximately 73 million years ago. Life reconstruction of Dinevenator robustus. Image credit: Sergey Krasovskiy. The newly described genus, Dinevenator, belongs to a family of bird-like predatory dinosaurs called Troodontidae. The genus is monospecific, containing only one valid … Read more
Racing water. Phantom serpents. Rippling patterns of light and dark. Solar eclipse watchers have for centuries vividly described an eerie phenomenon known as shadow bands that appears just before and after totality — the period when the moon completely blocks the sun’s light and the sky goes dark. Long dark lines, separated by white spaces, … Read more
When thousands of unarmed students marched toward the Indian Parliament building last month in a rare challenge to the government, they were met by a wall of riot police officers determined to stop them.Officials had blocked internet in the area, initially slowing the emergence of details of the crackdown. But videos taken by protesters and … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a vote early Saturday morning, cementing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney’s command of a Justice Department the Republican president has sought to bend to his will. The Republican-led Senate voted 50-49 to make Blanche the second confirmed attorney general since Trump returned … Read more
The Trump administration plans to provide $1bn in security assistance to the government of Colombia’s new rightwing president, the US state department announced, soon after Abelardo De La Espriella was sworn in and used his inaugural speech to pledge a vigorous fight against drug trafficking, as well as austerity measures to restore confidence in the … Read more
Aug. 7, 2026Updated Aug. 8, 2026, 12:36 a.m. ETBuc-ee’s is suing a small Ohio store named Beaver’s Mini Mart over trademark concerns.Buc-ee’s CEO Arch Aplin told a TV station that and a local mayor that the mini-mart sought a federal trademark, but records show it actually was a state trade name filing.The owner of Beaver’s … Read more