Topline Two firefighters were killed and another was injured after they were ambushed by a sniper while responding to a wildfire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Sunday, prompting a several-hour-long shelter-in-place order, which was lifted after police found the dead body of the suspected gunman next to a firearm. Key Facts At a press conference…
By AFP Published June 27, 2025 Dior’s upcoming show is the most anticipated of Paris Men’s Fashion Week, and for days, the brand’s new creative director, Jonathan Anderson, has been dropping cryptic clues on social media, hinting at what his first collection might reveal. Jonathan Anderson – AFP Like a digital Hansel and Gretel trail,…
Women who tracked their menstrual cycle using smartphone apps have been warned about the privacy and safety risks of doing so. A report from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre said the apps were a “gold mine” for consumer profiling and collecting information. Academics cautioned that in the wrong hands, the data could result in…
As instability increases worldwide, diplomatic travel leads the way in high-security hi-tech travel … More to meet the multiplying threats (CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP PHOTO via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images As instability proliferates across regions and continents in our time, there’s surprisingly little public focus on the security of travel at the highest levels. We…
AI is enhancing productivity at Microsoft – and could be threatening jobs after all The company says it saved $500 million by using AI in call centers Microsoft has laid off thousands of workers in 2025 alone Microsoft has declared that artificial intelligence is now saving the company money across sales, customer services and software…
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One and … More departing the White House on July 01, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Getty Images The newly announced $16 million settlement between CBS News and President Trump — over an edited 60 Minutes segment with Kamala Harris that…
LeBron James becoming available has, typically, been a seismic NBA event. Teams famously spent the several years leading up to his 2010 free agency clearing cap space. Pretty much all league business halted for the first 11 days of July in 2014 as teams schlepped across the country first to Cleveland and then, later, to…
Surprising picks and stunning trades are through lines each year at the NBA Draft and part of what makes the event such a fascinating spectacle. But the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday during the first round of the draft made a selection so unexpected and so astonishing — drafting Chinese center Yang Hansen at No….
The ICC annual conference is being held this year in Singapore (Photo by Patrick Bolger-ICC/ICC via … More Getty Images) ICC via Getty Images Gurumurthy Palani (France), Anuraag Bhatnagar (Hong Kong) and Gurdeep Klair (Canada) won coveted spots on the Chief Executives’ Committee after Thursday’s election kick-started the International Cricket Council’s annual conference in Singapore….
Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) is thought to have originated in Eurasia: previous studies on Mycobacterium leprae, the dominant form of leprosy, suggest the disease originated in Eurasia. Ancient pathogen genomes from old bones: a team of scientists from Germany and Argentina have reconstructed two genomes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis in 4000-year-old human skeletons from Chile. This pathogen…
