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A soldier for Yemen’s exiled government opened fire on Saudi troops as they exercised in eastern Yemen, killing two of them and wounding another in a rare insider attack during the kingdom’s nearly decadelong war there, officials said Saturday. The assault in eastern Hadramawt province comes as a yearslong cease-fire between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels largely has held despite the militants’ ongoing attacks against shipping in the Red Sea corridor . While the Houthis did not claim the attack, at least one Houthi official praised it as being “the beginning and an indication of a harsh future awaiting the invaders.” Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes carried out new strikes targeting Houthi positions that lasted into early Sunday morning, the American mili...

AUBURN, Ala. — A flight carrying the No. 11 Auburn basketball team was grounded shortly after takeoff on Friday after two players got into a fight onboard, according to multiple reports. “We had two players that got into a physical altercation, clothes were ripped,” the pilot was heard saying to air traffic controllers in audio obtained by WBRC-TV . The Tigers were heading to Houston, where they were scheduled to play the fourth-ranked Cougars on Saturday. The plane took off shortly before 3 p.m. but turned around and landed about 40 minutes later. The pilot told air traffic controllers that police were called, according to the audio. ESPN also confirmed the in-flight scuffle, citing anonymous sources. The fight was broken up before it became anything serious and a repla...

Israeli strikes killed dozens of people on Sunday in Lebanon and the northern Gaza Strip , where the military has been waging a major offensive for more than a month that aid groups say has further worsened the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave. An Israeli airstrike killed at least 23 people in the village of Aalmat, north of Beirut and far from the areas in southern and eastern Lebanon where the militant Hezbollah group has a major presence. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said a further six people were wounded. There was no immediate Israeli comment. In northern Gaza, an Israeli strike on a home sheltering displaced people in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya killed at least 17 people, according to the director of a nearby hospital that received the bodies...

Do women have a testosterone problem? Social media influencers believe they do. And with the rise of telemedicine and testosterone replacement clinics opening up across the country, access to the drug has never been easier. In the U.S., prescriptions for testosterone increased nearly 50% between 2013 and 2023, according to recent data from the health technology company IQVIA. Doctors say interest in the hormone isn’t being driven only by men, but also by women in their 40s and 50s. “It feels almost like an epidemic,” Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su, chief medical officer for Gennev, a national telemedicine company for menopause patients, said about middle-age women seeking testosterone. “They’re being told this is the miracle-drug pill that they’ve been looking for.” Because patients a...

America’s housing crisis isn’t just reshaping where Americans live — experts say it’s reshaping how some vote. Many of the counties that swung most dramatically toward Donald Trump on Election Day were also among America’s toughest housing markets, according to an analysis of election returns and the NBC News Home Buyer Index . And while voters picked Trump for a variety of reasons, these counties shifted further right than much of the rest of the country. Across the country Tuesday, counties moved toward Trump by a median of 3.1 percentage points compared to the 2020 election. But in the top 10% of counties ranked most difficult for buying a home, the median shift was 4.5 percentage points. And nearly a third of these counties settled their races by just over a poin...

More than 200,000 students at one of the largest school districts in the nation have started the school year with a major change: no cellphone use allowed. “I’ve noticed such a big difference in the classroom. Students talk more. They actually do their work,” Dominique Mayorga, a teacher who installed a sleeve in her classroom that can hold around 30 phones, said. Over the summer, Florida’s Broward County Public Schools made the decision to ban students from using cellphones and other communication devices for the entire school day. Students are to keep phones off or in airplane mode the entire day and relinquish them to designated areas, like Mayorga's sleeve, during class, or face disciplinary action. The new policy, which went into effect in August, quickly sparked debate among pa...

Do women have a testosterone problem? Social media influencers believe they do. And with the rise of telemedicine and testosterone replacement clinics opening up across the country, access to the drug has never been easier. In the U.S., prescriptions for testosterone increased nearly 50% between 2013 and 2023, according to recent data from the health technology company IQVIA. Doctors say interest in the hormone isn’t being driven only by men, but also by women in their 40s and 50s. “It feels almost like an epidemic,” Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su, chief medical officer for Gennev, a national telemedicine company for menopause patients, said about middle-age women seeking testosterone. “They’re being told this is the miracle-drug pill that they’ve been looking for.” Because patients a...

LONDON — King Charles III led Remembrance Day commemorations in London on Sunday as the United Kingdom remembered British and Commonwealth servicemen and women who have lost their lives to conflict. After a two-minute silence observed across the nation at 11 a.m. local time, the King laid the first wreath at the foot of the capital’s Cenotaph war memorial. U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and opposition leader Kemi Badenoch also lay wreathes. Charles was joined by Prince William and Princess Kate, who has slowly returned to public duties this year following treatment for cancer. She watched on from the balcony of the U.K.’s foreign office. Queen Camilla missed the occasion after falling ill with a chest infection that forced her to withdraw from public duties this week. The...

As we honor all veterans on Veterans Day, this Monday, November 11, 2024, it is essential to understand the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day—two national holidays that both recognize military service but in distinct ways. Memorial Day vs. Veterans Day: What’s the Difference? While both Memorial Day and Veterans Day honor military members, they serve different purposes. Memorial Day, observed on the last Monday in May, is a solemn occasion dedicated to remembering those who died while serving in the military. It’s a day for Americans to reflect on the ultimate sacrifice these service members made in defending the nation. Veterans Day, celebrated annually on November 11, honors all who have served, whether in peacetime or war. How to Acknowledge Each Holiday Each holiday has ...

Ukraine launched its largest drone attack on the Russian capital city of Moscow since the war began in 2022, injuring one person and forcing three major airports to divert flights, as Russia fired at Ukraine's southern region of Odesa. Moscow's regional governor Andrei Vorobyov called it a "massive attack," and said two houses in the village of Stanovoye, 15 miles southeast of the city, had caught fire after the drones fell. He said a 52-year-old woman was in intensive care after she was injured by shrapnel and hospitalized with burns to her face, neck and hands. Russia’s ministry of defense said it “intercepted and destroyed” 34 drones over Moscow following the latest strikes on the capital. All three airports have since resumed operations, including Moscow’s Sheremet...