A "dangerous" and long-duration heat wave is building across the West this weekend through much of next week. Tomorrow daytime highs will swelter in the southwest with highs up to 120 degrees for Phoenix and 117 for Las Vegas. This is the start of a massive heat wave that is bringing...
The 19-year-old woman killed in New Zealand's first fatal shark attack in eight years has been identified as an Australian. Kaelah Marlow is believed to have been mauled by a great white shark after being pulled out by a rip at Waihī Beach on New Zealand's North Island. She had been...
The whole idea of running up the final score on an opposing team has divided sports fans for years. Some say it's all part of the game, while others feel it is rubbing it in the other teams' face and encourages unsportsmanlike conduct. One coach from New York state...
A carved figure in the facade of a Spanish building is going viral on social media after an apparent botched restoration left the figure's face unrecognizable. The carving, which adorns an early 20th century building in Palencia, formerly featured a woman smiling next to some livestock, but a recent restoration...
The recent purchase of a Florida mansion by Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner has raised speculation that outgoing US President Donald Trump’s daughter plans to run for the Senate or try to become the state governor in the future. Ivanka Trump and Kushner have recently bought a $31...
Intel Corp. named Robert Swan as its seventh chief executive officer, filling the most prominent role in the semiconductor industry at a time when rivals are challenging the company’s 30 years of market dominance. Swan, 58, has been interim CEO for seven months and chief financial officer since 2016. Todd...
Killer whales have been “attacking” sailing boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal, in encounters one mariner said felt “totally orchestrated” and another described as “like a sledgehammer”. Scientists have been left perplexed by a growing number of incidents since late July in which a pod of orcas have...
Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing talk show host who gleefully stoked division in America, helped polarize our national politics and made a career trafficking in bigotry and cruelty, died Wednesday at the age of 70. The cause of death was lung cancer. His wife, Kathryn, confirmed the host’s death on...
The Danish inventor Peter Madsen, who was handed a life prison sentence in 2018 for the killing of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall, has confessed to the crime for the first time, in a television documentary. The 49-year-old, found guilty of premeditated murder, aggravated sexual assault and desecrating a corpse,...
Restoration work on Notre-Dame’s 250-year-old organ started Monday. For the next four years, the 8000 tubes of the instrument will be disassembled and cleaned. The organ is expected to be ready for the cathedral’s planned re-opening in April 2024. The Notre-Dame’s organ, located at the monument’s west wing, has been...