A company tied to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed Monday to disputethe saleof the Infowars website to the parody site The Onion, calling it improper and unfair. In the morning, First United American Cos., a limited liability company that runs Jones online supplements store, filed an emergency motion to disqualify the winning bid of The Onion s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, to purchase the Infowars media empire and other assets. The filing alleged that the bankruptcy trustee improperly colluded with Connecticut families who wonnearly $1.5 billionin legal judgments against Jones after he called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax. The company running Jones online store had placed a competing bid against The Onion to purchase the estate. In its filing, FUAC said its final...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand Tens of thousands ofNew Zealandersrallied in front of Parliament on Tuesday in one of the country s largest ever protests to oppose a bill, whichopponents say seeks to dilute the rights of Maoriand threatens to set race relations back decades. Massive crowds estimated by the police at 42,000 gathered at Parliament, where the Treaty Principles Bill was introduced earlier this month by legislators who want to reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty signed between the British andIndigenous Maori. While the bill lacks enough support to pass, critics see in it a desire to reverse decades of policies that aimed to empower Maori, who make up around 20% of the 5.3 million population but have higher levels of deprivation and incarceration and worse health outcomes than the broad...

LONDON Britain sKing Richard IIIwas immortalized with the Shakespeare line A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have sounded like if he did indeed utter those words just before his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth. Unlike the upper-class tones of hismodern successors, the re-created king's voice has a more common and earthy twang as he recites a medieval manuscript in a display that opened Sunday at the Theatre Royal in the U.K s ancient city of York. The project, which is 10 years in the making, was the brainchild of British vocal coach Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, who approached a team based at Face Lab at the U.K.'s Liverpool John Moores University and has since enlisted the help of leading specialists across a number of...

Russian PresidentVladimir Putin formally lowered the threshold for his country's use of nuclear weaponsTuesday, days afterthe United States allowed Ukraine to strike inside Russia using American missiles. The Kremlin announced that Putin had approved anupdated nuclear doctrinea document that governs how Russia uses its nuclear arsenal including the declaration that Moscow could unleash a nuclear strike if subject to an attack by a non-nuclear country that has the support of a nuclear state. The nuclear doctrine update was required to bring the document in line with the current political situation, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the TASS state news agency in comments published early Tuesday. Peskov outlined Moscow's new threat in light of Washington's shift in policy: That the u...

Legendary Chicago Bulls forward Bob Love, one of the first stars the team had, has died at the age of 81 after a battle with cancer. Love spent the bulk of his NBA career with the Bulls, then spent decades as a team ambassador in a variety of roles after his playing career ended. Bob was a true legend and a beloved member of our family,the Bulls said in a statement. Originally selected by Cincinnati in the 1965 NBA Draft, Love was one of the first star players for the Bulls after they entered the league. Love ultimately played nine seasons with the Bulls, averaging 21.3 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in 592 career games with Chicago. He finished in the top-10 in MVP voting on two occasions, and was a three-time All-Star and two-time All-NBA selection. He was the second Bulls player to ev...

HONG KONG AHong Kongcourt sentenced dozens ofleading pro-democracy figuresto up to 10 years in prison Tuesday in thesingle largest trialunder anational security lawthat critics say has been used to all but eliminate political dissent in the Chinese territory. Benny Tai, 60, a former law professor at the University of Hong Kong who co-organized an unofficial primary election at the center of the case, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, the longest of the 45 sentencesand the longest since the national security law was introduced in 2020. The others ranged from four years and two months to seven years and nine months. The defendants had faced up to life imprisonment under the national security law, which Beijing imposed in response to pro-democracy demonstrations that roiled Hong Kong for...

Paul Teal, a TV and stage actor who appeared on shows including One Tree Hill, died Friday in Raleigh, N.C. He was 35. Teal s death was confirmed by a representative for the actor, with the cause of death revealed as cancer. Emilia Torello, Teal s partner,shared with TMZthat he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in April. The news was first broken by Torello after she shared more about the actor s death online. You were my soulmate, my soon-to-be-husband, my rock, and my future,Torello wrote in a post on Instagram. You were taken too soon, in a battle that you fought bravely without fail. While a part of me died with you, I promise to fight to find joy in life as hard as you fought to live every single day. Teal first appeared on television with his guest role as Josh on ...

The Houston Texans dominated their interstate rival the Dallas Cowboys to cap Week 11 in the NFL, winning 34-10. Joe Mixon ran for 109 yards and scored three touchdowns for the Texans. C.J. Stroud completed 23 of 34 passes for 257 yards. The Cowboys offense struggled. Cooper Rush, starting in place of the injured Dak Prescott at quarterback, completed 32 of 55 passes for 354 yards. But Rush was sacked five times and also intercepted once. Dallas converted only five of 19 third and fourth downs. The game started with a six-play, 77-yard drive by Houston, which took a 7-0 lead after its first possession. The Cowboys couldn t get a first down after faking a punt on their first drive, before the quarterbacks exchanged picks on the next two possessions. But the Texans settled down with a 10-pl...

Police inAustraliacharged former radio show host Alan Jones with 24 assault and sexual touching offenses on Monday, indictments that followed accusations in a newspaper that Jones had assaulted young men for decades. Police confirmed the arrest and charges against an 83-year-old man in Sydney but did not name him. He was widely identified by Australian media as Alan Jones and TV footage on Monday showed him in a police car arriving at a police station and, later, leaving surrounded by media. He did not make any comments. Police allege the offenses took place between 2001 and 2019 against 8 victims, some of whom Jones knew professionally or personally. The youngest was 17 at the time of the offense, they said. More alleged victims are likely to come forward now charges have been laid, New S...

WASHINGTON Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk's new effort to increase government efficiency could initially target the nearly two-thirds of federal workers who are still approved to work from home 18 months after the pandemic ended. Vacant federal office space in downtown Washington is costly to maintain and a deep source of frustration to Mayor Muriel Bowser. She told reporters last week that she had requested a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and that top on her agenda is pushing federal workers to return to downtown Washington. How we can make sure that our federal workforce is back to work is one big thing, Bowser said, adding that she wants a partnership with the federal government to bring vibrancy back to our town. According to the Office of Management and Budget, telework...