Eight elephants were killed early Saturday when a Delhi-bound passenger train hit a herd in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, railway authorities said. The crash happened at around 2.17 am local time in Assam’s Hojai district at a site not designated as an elephant corridor, local officials added. The impact caused the locomotive and … Read more
00:00 Speaker A So this year really felt like an important one for the electric vehicle industry, and not necessarily in a good way. In your view, have we seen a really fundamental change in, not only policy support, but also consumer demand for electric vehicles? 00:30 Speaker B Absolutely. Thanks for having me. In … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione’s lawyers say Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her previous work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company. Bondi was a partner at Ballard Partners before leading the Justice … Read more
MAGA women are fleeing DC in droves. New York congresswoman and MAGA darling Elise Stefanik shocked the political world on Friday when she announced she was retiring from politics. Less than 30 minutes earlier, Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis had done the same thing. Stefanik’s announcement is easily the more surprising of the two. The 41-year-old … Read more
The Supreme Court of Canada is deliberating a case that could shape the way sentences are handed down in cases where both the offender and the victim are Indigenous, which some lawyers for Nunavut say could have ramifications for the Inuit-majority territory. The Court is hearing a 2021 case from Halifax, in which both the … Read more
YOU NEED TO KNOW More than a month after Capt. Dana Diamond died in a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Ky., his widow is remembering their last moments together Diamond worked at UPS for 37 years as a pilot and previously served as commissioner and fire chief of his local fire department in Texas. … Read more
Editor’s Note: While we can’t endorse what X has become, we can bring you the precious moments that still exist there, curated and free from the surrounding chaos. American politics – well, frankly, global politics – is chaos right now, but I find it comforting to know that I’m not alone in thinking that the … Read more
Rob Reiner and his son Nick did not have a blow-out argument at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party despite reports to the contrary, a Hollywood executive who attended the Dec. 13 event told TheWrap Friday. Anonymous reports of a shouting match between the movie legend and his addicted son the night before Rob and Michele Reiner … Read more
As investigators work to find a motive behind the mass shooting at Brown University and the slaying of an acclaimed MIT professor, former classmates of the accused killer described him as a brilliant but exceptionally difficult student. Claudio Neves Valente, the 48-year-old suspect who police say was found dead Thursday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, … Read more
Maiden launch turned into an unfortunate event when a newly built yacht capsized and sank within minutes. It was a tough moment for the owner, but for many, the show was a reminder of the excesses of the ultra-rich. According to The Economic Times, the 24 meter luxury yacht Dolce Vento had just completed construction … Read more