Vietnam’s tourist sites submerged as record rainfall causes major flooding
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, with rivers swelling and submerging homes, farmland and tourist destinations including the historic cities of Hue and Hoi An. Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters...
Netanyahu orders Israeli army to carry out ‘powerful’ strikes in Gaza
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he has ordered the army to immediately carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, a new test for the tenuous U.S.-brokered ceasefire. The order from Netanyahu follows heightened...
US launches 3 strikes on alleged drug-running boats off Colombia, killing 14
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the U.S. military has carried out three strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean against boats accused of carrying drugs, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor. This was the first time...
Jamaica braces for catastrophic winds and flooding as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hurricane Melissa intensified Tuesday as it crawled toward Jamaica, where officials and residents braced for catastrophic winds, flash flooding and landslides from the Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history....
States sue Trump administration for withholding food aid during shutdown
(CN) — A coalition of 25 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Tuesday for withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits during the ongoing federal government shutdown. In a 51-page lawsuit filed in federal court in...
Japan’s Takaichi, Trump swap praise for ‘new golden age’ of ties
TOKYO (AFP) — Japan’s new premier Sanae Takaichi lavished U.S. leader Donald Trump with praise and vows of a “golden age” of ties on his visit to Tokyo Tuesday, before inking a deal with Washington aimed at securing critical minerals. Takaichi,...
AI firm Clearview hit with Austrian criminal complaint
VIENNA (AFP) — An Austrian data privacy group said on Tuesday it had filed a criminal complaint aiming to hold the executives of U.S. firm Clearview AI liable for illegally amassing a database of billions of photos of faces. Clearview AI scrapes images of faces from...
Texas sues Tylenol makers over asserted autism link
(CN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the makers of Tylenol, he announced Tuesday, claiming they knowingly hid a purported link between pregnant women taking the medication and children developing autism. The suit comes a month after President Donald Trump...
Relativity
There are revolutions and then there are counter-revolutions. I am talking about the digital revolution and how it brought sunlight into many American courts, and how it also brought a reaction. The open nature of our court system is something that we, including me,...