France says it has foiled an attack targeting one of the football stadiums being used for this summer’s Olympic Games. The country’s security forces arrested an 18-year-old from Chechnya earlier this month in the southeastern city of Saint-Etienne, interior minister Gerald Darmanin said. According to investigators, the man was preparing an attack on the Geoffroy-Guichard
Sir Keir Starmer’s team knew they would hit a wobble at some point in this campaign and Diane Abbott turned out to be it. After 72 hours of trying to stonewall questions about her future in the Labour Party, the leadership finally crumbled and Sir Keir performed the U-turn: Diane Abbott can stand for the
Associated Press May 30, 2024, 06:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carl Edwards says he never expected to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame so when the announcement came down a week ago, he was unreachable for hours until his wife encouraged him to check his phone. He was shocked
Police are appealing for information about the stolen motorbike used to shoot four people, including a nine-year-old girl, in Hackney, east London. At a news conference near the scene on Friday, police revealed the bike the offender used in the attack on Dalston Kingsland Road is a Ducati Monster with a white body, red chassis,
Google has confirmed that a massive leak of some 2,500 internal documents related to its search engine is authentic and one expert said the trove shows that “Google tells us one thing and they do another” when it comes to its mysterious algorithms. The tech giant has been secretive about how its search engine works
Commercial truck drivers have joined the long list of opponents who’ve filed lawsuits to block the controversial first-in-nation congestion toll to enter parts of Manhattan. The Trucking Association of New York (TANY) slammed the congestion pricing program as unconstitutional and a “scheme for which there is no prior precedent in this country” in a suit
The US economy grew at a sluggish 1.3% annual pace from January through March, the weakest quarterly rate since the spring of 2022, the government said Thursday in a downgrade from its previous estimate. Consumer spending rose but at a slower pace than previously thought, a sign that high interest rates and lingering inflation are
TikTok is reportedly building a copy of its core recommendation algorithm in the US an effort that is playing out even as the company tries to block a law requiring its China-based parent ByteDance to divest or face a total US ban of the app. Efforts to rebuild the algorithm would allow the popular video-sharing
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped Thursday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who
The Minneapolis police officer gunned down in an ambush-style attack was killed while trying to help the suspect, who initially pretended to be a victim in need of help during Thursday’s mass shooting, according to officials. Officer Jamal Mitchell, 28, responded to a reported shooting inside an apartment in the citys trendy Whittier neighborhood and
Donald Trump has become the first-ever former American president to be convicted of a crime. A New York jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money he paid to bury a sex scandal ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On this Sky News Daily, Tom Cheshire
Tesla shareholders have been urged to vote against plans to pay its chief executive Elon Musk up to $56bn (£44bn). The compensation package, if approved, would be the biggest ever for a chief executive in the US. However, proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has warned the amount is “excessive” and said it would
The moment is finally here. Jeep officially revealed its first global EV, the Wagoneer S. Jeep’s premium electric SUV features over 300 miles range, a tech-loaded interior, and “lightning-quick” acceleration. The rugged SUV brand also unveiled a Trailhawk concept built to conquer any terrain. Check out the full details below. Meet the first Jeep EV,
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting with members of the AI sector at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France, on May 21, 2024. Yoan Valat | Afp | Getty Images PARIS — France is touting itself as the next artificial intelligence superpower. [style note: Paris stands alone in datelines] The Viva Technology
The housing market is showing signs of “resilience” with prices rising slightly, according to new figures from the UK’s largest building society. Nationwide said house prices were up 0.4% in May, compared to April. It said the average cost of a home was now £264,249 – with year-on-year prices also increasing by 1.3%. The figures
Donald Trump has become the first former US president to be criminally convicted – but what could the historic verdict mean for his ongoing election campaign? A jury in New York deliberated for nine-and-a-half hours before unanimously agreeing Trump is guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to commit election fraud. The former president
Eric Woodyard, ESPNMay 30, 2024, 01:35 PM ET Close Eric Woodyard covers the Detroit Lions for ESPN. He joined ESPN in September 2019 as an NBA reporter dedicated to the Midwest region before switching to his current role in April 2021. The Flint, Mich. native is a graduate of Western Michigan University and has authored/co-authored
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, the Twitch logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Twitch on Friday will terminate all members of its Safety Advisory Council, according to sources familiar with the situation and documents viewed
In this article DELL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, speaking at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 27, 2024. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Dell reported first-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat analysts’ estimates for earnings and sales, as the
Given the personnel, these might be the most significant verdicts ever delivered by an American jury. The guilty findings give Donald Trump a criminal rebrand that has implications far beyond the man himself. Now that the jury’s had its say, it’s over to the public to consider the bigger question – how one man’s conviction