More than 75,000 people in the U.S. died last year from overdoses of synthetic opioids, an annual figure more than 20 times higher than a decade ago
The high death toll, multiple captives and slow response to the onslaught pointed to a major intelligence failure and undermined the long-held perception that Israel has eyes and ears everywhere
The American superstar claimed a third gold medal at the 2023 gymnastics world championships on Sunday by winning the women’s beam with a superb routine on the final day of the competition
Davies’ manager John Taylor said the director died ‘peacefully at home in his sleep’ on Saturday after a short illness
A total of 52 climbers from various countries including the U.S., Britain, Japan, and Italy were attempting to summit the mountain when the avalanches hit
It’s one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades
The potential for prolonged and expanding violence could test Biden’s leadership on both the world stage and at home as he tries to navigate between demonstrating unflinching support for Israel and fostering a broader peace in the combustible Mideast
The government said that tourism revenues reached about 753 billion yuan ($103 billion) during the combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period that ended Friday, a rise of 1.5% over 2019 and 130% compared to last year when pandemic restrictions were still in place
The flood began shortly after midnight Wednesday, when the waters of a glacial lake overflowed, cracking open the biggest hydroelectric dam in Sikkim state
A video showing alleged irregularities has become central to the controversy over potential fraud involving ballot drop boxes
Previous conflicts brought widespread death and destruction in Gaza and days of rocket fire on Israeli towns. The situation is potentially more volatile now, with Israel’s far-right government stung by the security breach and with Palestinians in despair over a never-ending occupation in the West Bank and suffocating blockade
The legislation vetoed Saturday would have allowed those 21 and older to possess psilocybin, the hallucinogenic component in what’s known as psychedelic mushrooms, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and mescaline
The move was the latest example of Trump attempting to flex his influence within a Republican Party he has already fundamentally reshaped in the eight years since his first White House bid
Local authorities gave an estimate of 100 people killed and 500 injured, according to the same update from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented infiltration Saturday into southern Israel, sending fighters across the border and firing thousands of rockets into the country
Jeff Bezos’s company flew its first test Starlink satellites in 2018 and the first operational satellites in 2019. It has since launched more than 5,000 Starlinks from Florida and California, using its own Falcon rockets
Relations between the world’s two largest economies have faced no shortage of strain over the last year. The two countries’ differences have also been exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s increased assertiveness in the Taiwan Strait
Venezuela has suffered political, economic and humanitarian crises over the past decade, pushing at least 7.3 million people to migrate and making food and other necessities unaffordable for those who remain
More than 70% of 100 stocks of American marine mammal species are vulnerable to threats, such as loss of habitat and food, due to the consequences of warming waters
The expansion of medical cannabis sales into drug stores will put low THC oil within reach of many more patients. Patients will be able to buy it at pharmacies if they show a state-issued low THC oil registry card and identification
Trump’s attorneys asked a New York appeals court to prevent Judge Arthur Engoron from enforcing his ruling of last week, which revokes the Republican frontrunner’s business licenses and puts a court-appointed receiver in charge of his companies
The family expressed ‘extreme disappointment’ in the report, noting that the prosecutor relied on the findings of the Georgia Bureau Investigations, which was involved in the enforcement operation
House Republicans are deeply fractured and some have been asking him to lead them — a seemingly fanciful suggestion that he also promoted after inflaming the divisions that forced out McCarthy as speaker
Mohammadi, an engineer by training, has been imprisoned 13 times and sentenced to 31 years in prison. She has remained a leading light for nationwide, women-led protests, sparked by the death last year of a 22-year-old woman in police custody
The club remains split between those that support Brussels’ initiatives focused on distributing migrants between members and those countries, like Hungary or Poland, whose far-right governments consider the influx of outsiders a threat
The Republican later sent out a fundraising email with details of the crash, asking supporters to ‘stand for free speech’ and help out his campaign
The strike for three days in California as well as in Colorado, Oregon and Washington was a last resort after industry giant Kaiser Permanente executives ignored the short-staffing crisis worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, union officials said
