Hezbollah-linked news outlets are reporting that deputy Hamas leader Saleh Arouri was killed by an Israeli air strike.  Al-Mayadeen, a publication linked to Hezbollah, reported that the high-ranking Hamas official was killed in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. Israeli officials have denied involvement in the strike, but noted the “surgical” […]

A suspect has been arrested at the Colorado Supreme Court building after allegedly shooting out windows, holding an armed security guard at gunpoint and maneuvering about the building for nearly two hours until voluntarily surrendering early Tuesday, according to authorities.  The timing comes soon after the state’s high court drew […]

Dropping poll numbers among young and Hispanic voters are signaling more bad news for President Biden, while former President Trump appears to be gaining ground, setting the stage for a potential rematch. “[The conservative] message is really resonating with us,” Monet Flores-Bacs, strategic director at the New Mexico-based nonprofit LIBRE […]

Harvard president Claudine Gay announced her resignation Tuesday afternoon.  In a letter to members of the Harvard community, Gay said she was stepping down as president but will return to the Harvard faculty despite widespread plagiarism allegations against her.  “This is not a decision I came to easily. Indeed, it […]

Newly released images from NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover show a 12-hour time-lapse on the red planet from sunrise to sunset.  NASA’s Curiosity rover was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in November 2011 and landed on Mars in August 2012. Since then, the rover has traveled […]

A 30-year-old man died at Salt Lake City International Airport after he accessed the airport’s deicing pad and crawled into an aircraft engine, authorities said Tuesday. The initial investigation began at 9:52 a.m. Monday when a store manager inside the airport reported a disturbance involving a passenger on the secured […]

A former college student who was trying to become a gym teacher sued a Michigan university and alleged he was discriminated against because of his weight and other issues when he was barred from continuing his student-teaching remotely. David Lopez, 44, was in Wayne State University’s physical education kinesiology program […]

Sidney Wolfe, a doctor who for decades campaigned for reform across the U.S. health system, including for more affordable care and stricter oversight of drug safety and medical devices, died Monday in Washington. The cause was brain cancer, his wife, Suzanne Goldberg, told Reuters. He was 86. For more than […]

The parents of Madeleine McCann, a British girl abducted during a family vacation in Portugal more than 16 years ago, issued a new statement on New Year’s Day expressing their belief that the investigation into her disappearance “will eventually yield results.” Kate and Gerry McCann, along with their three children […]

Longtime leader of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, is set to face trial in the corruption case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James after a state court recently rejected the gun advocacy group’s argument that her office’s four-year investigation was politically motivated. LaPierre, who has been at […]