Hungary has asked the European Union’s executive to open a legal procedure against Bulgaria over a tax it recently imposed on Russian natural gas passing through its territory, a government minister said on Friday. Bulgaria believes the tax, which it levied in October, will reduce the privileged position of Russia’s […]

Conservative criticism is mounting against The Washington Post for pulling an anti-Hamas political cartoon after some staffers expressed “deep concerns” about the panel. The cartoon by the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Michael Ramirez, who is also published in the Post twice a week, was titled “Human shields” and depicted a Hamas […]

Columbia University is suspending the far-left groups Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term, it announced on Friday, saying they had violated university policies. The university said it made the decision after the groups “repeatedly violated University policies related […]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ electronic devices were seized by the FBI this week as part of the investigation into whether his 2021 campaign received illegal donations from the Turkish government, according to a report.  FBI agents with a court-authorized warrant approached Adams on the street, asked his security […]

TOKYO (AP) — What’s koi got to do with it? Souring relations between Asian rivals Japan and China now seem to be snagged on calm-inducing beauty in spas, museums and gardens. The slippery dispute between Asia’s two biggest economies adds to their spat over Japan’s release into the sea of […]

A noted Belarusian dissident author said Friday that his father has been sentenced to two weeks in jail for reposting an article from an opposition website. BELARUS ARRESTS DISSIDENT AUTHOR’S FATHER ON ‘UNCLEAR GROUNDS’ Alexander Filipenko was seized by police Thursday in a raid on his apartment and later “given […]

USC quarterback Caleb Williams made headlines over the weekend following a loss to Washington, the third in the last four games for the Trojans.  The third loss of the season officially ended USC’s College Football Playoff hopes as Williams’ time playing college football could be coming to an end at […]

An 80-year-old Alabama man was arrested this week for the cold case killing of his parents nearly 50 years ago in Tennessee, authorities said.  Michael Keith Fine was taken into police custody Tuesday in Birmingham, Alabama, on two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the 1977 deaths of his […]

When it comes to measuring sleep, most people focus on hitting a certain number of hours each night — and while that’s part of the equation, experts say it might not be the most important metric. Instead, a recent review suggests that the regularity of sleep — drifting off and […]

A judge ruled Wednesday that Katy Perry’s business manager, Bernie Gudvi, is entitled to the uphoding of contract for the Montecito home purchased on her behalf in 2020. Carl Westcott, the founder of 1-800-Flowers, filed a lawsuit against Gudvi (who represented Perry in the July 2020 sale of the mansion) […]