Author: Grace Thompson

LondonPrince Harryand his legal team thrashed out a last-minute deal withRupert Murdoch sBritish newspaper group on Wednesday to settle claims of widespread wrongdoing at the publisher. A "full apology" was given to the prince, but he failed to fulfill his lifelong goal of holding British tabloids accountable in public. The Duke of Sussex s decision to settle his claims against News Group Newspapers (NGN) ends the prince's effort expose the publisher of The Sun and long-shuttered News of the World, and expose their misdeeds in open trial. With former lawmaker Tom Watson, Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles III, had sued the company over alleged unlawful activities carried out by journalists and private investigators working for the newspapers. NGN, which had long denied the accusati...

The New Zealand city of Wellington Mittens, a coon cat from Maine, made three trips in a single day between New Zealand and Australia when her cage was left in the cargo hold of a plane this month. Mittens, 8, was booked for one-way travel with her family from Christchurch, New Zealand, to their new home in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 13. On Wednesday, however, owner Margo Neas reported that she had been waiting for Mittens to be unloaded from the plane's freight compartment for three hours without seeing the cat. At that point, Neas was informed by ground crew that Mittens was still on board and the plane had returned to New Zealand. Approximately 7.5 hours are spent in the air on the way back. "How can this happen?" I asked. How is this possible? Neas exclaimed, "Oh my God." The Air ...

QUINCY, Mass. Patriots safetyJabrill Peppersis is set to stand trial on Wednesday for allegedly choking his girlfriend repeatedly and pushing her head against a wall after she got a phone call while they were in bed. According to court filings, Peppers, 29, is charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon and possession of a Class B narcotic that is thought to be cocaine. He is scheduled to appear in Quincy, Massachusetts, court. According to Braintree, Massachusetts, police were summoned to a residence in October after two individuals got into a fight.According to court filings, Peppers allegedly choked the lady six times after pushing her to the ground and shoving her head against a wall. Police said she refused to go to a hospital and was treated at the home for her injuries. ...

The Summary California leaders have promised that the post-fire rebuilding process will be speedy. But experts say reconstructing damaged neighborhoods in their former image would put the residents at risk of another devastating fire. Instead, they recommend changes like spacing homes farther apart and using more fire-safe building materials. Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have pledged to rebuild the thousands of houses that have been destroyed as quickly as possible, despite the fact that wildfires are still burning in Southern California. Now is not the time to practice urban planning. That will cause a fifteen-year delay. At a news conference on Friday, Steve Soboroff, a businessman and former police commissioner who is in charge of managing the...

A series of fierce wildfires that raged across the Los Angeles area on January 7 were fueled by strong winds and dry conditions. They destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed at least 27 people, some of whom perished attempting to stop the fires from devouring their houses. Two of the fires were linked to an undetermined number of serious injuries, according to a Los Angeles County fire official, while a city official in Los Angeles called the night of January 7 one of the most terrible and catastrophic she had ever witnessed in her area of the city. What we know about the flames is as follows. Where are the fires? On the morning of January 7, a brush fire broke out in Pacific Palisades, a suburb in Los Angeles east of Malibu. By Wednesday evening, the California Department of For...

You probably wouldn't have thought much about the idea of seed oils a year or two ago. However, they are getting more difficult to ignore in 2025. Wellness influencers caution about the risks of eating the "Hateful Eight"—canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, rice bran, safflower, soybean, and sunflower oil—on social media and in well-known podcasts. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of health and human services, reiterated those assertions on X late last year, claiming that seed oils are unintentionally poisoning Americans. (A request for comment from Kennedy was not answered.) Even online parodies now make fun of it: In arecent post on TikTok, a young person pretends to saut a pan that appears to be filled with mini bottles of Fireball Cinnamon W...

On Wednesday, Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson of Michigan declared her intention to run for governor. In order to genuinely make government work for everyone, I'm running for governor. We require leaders who are open and responsible. Benson says in a video that goes with the launch of her campaign, "We need our schools and neighborhoods to be safe for all of us." As she talks about her experiences as secretary of state, dean of Wayne State University Law School, and co-founder of Military Spouses of Michigan, the video focuses on Benson's background. Benson is the first majorcandidate to jump into the 2026 Democratic primary for governor. In order to avoid the Democratic primary, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan formed an independent campaign last month. Even though Duggan chose a di...

The New Zealand city of Wellington President Donald Trump's assertion that Americans split the atom, among other untrue and deceptive statements in his inaugural address, infuriated New Zealanders on social media, who claimed the accomplishment belonged to a trailblazing scientist who was admired in his native country. Many people believe that Ernest Rutherford, the pioneer of nuclear physics and recipient of the Nobel Prize, was the first person to intentionally split the atom in 1917 while working at a Manchester, England, university by creating a nuclear reaction. The accomplishment is also attributed to Ernest Walton of Ireland and John Douglas Cockroft of England, who worked at a British laboratory established by Rutherford in 1932. Americans aren't blamed for it. According to Trump...

BANGKOK: Human rights experts from the United Nations have warned Thailand against returning 48 Uyghurs under its custody to China, stating that doing so could subject them to torture, mistreatment, and irreversible harm. Human rights groups and some Thai lawmakers have raised concerns in the past week that the transfer to China of the Uyghurs, who have been held in immigration detention for more than a decade, was imminent. According to the government, it has no such intentions. Rights organizations charge Beijing with pervasive mistreatment of the roughly 10 million Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority living in western Xinjiang, including forced labor in camps and ubiquitous surveillance. Beijing disputes any wrongdoing. The U.N. says that these people shouldn't be sent back ...

WASHINGTON — New tariffs on Canada and Mexico were a notable omission from the flurry of orders Donald Trump released in the early hours of his presidency. Trump had pledged to impose 25% tariffs on both countries on Day One of his presidencyto pressure themto keep migrants and drugs out of the United States. According to his advisers, the delay does not imply that Trump is abandoning the tariffs, but rather that he is allowing himself more time to engage in negotiations with both nations, conduct additional research on the matter, and appoint leading economic advisors who are currently undergoing the Senate confirmation process. In response to questions about when the tariffs will be implemented, Trump told reporters Monday night, "I think we'll do it Feb. 1. He reiterated that timeline ...