Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs have the biggest game of the year coming up Sunday when they clash with the Baltimore Ravens for a spot in Super Bowl LVIII. But the first question lobbed in his direction was about his girlfriend, Taylor Swift. Kelce approached the podium during Friday’s press conference with reporters in Kansas … Read more
Five more elite schools agreed to a settlement to resolve claims they colluded on financial aid. The 2022 lawsuit accused nearly 20 top schools of working in a “price-fixing cartel” to limit aid to students. They did not admit any wrongdoing, and current and former impacted students will receive cash payments. Five more elite schools have … Read more
BEIJING — Myanmar’s military has reached a cease-fire agreement with an alliance of ethnic minority guerrilla groups it has been battling in the country’s northeast, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Friday. Myanmar’s militray government confirmed the development. The agreement was brokered at talks mediated by China on Wednesday and Thursday in Kunming, a Chinese provincial … Read more
A farmer was offered cash and a trip to a lap dancing club if he agreed to having a giant wind turbine on his land, according to council documents. Officials from a green energy company are trying to persuade landowners in Wales to sign up for wind generators and pylons by offering them financial incentives. … Read more
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The government of Guyana, under pressure from neighboring Brazil and a Caribbean trading bloc, agreed Sunday to join bilateral talks with Venezuela over an escalating territorial dispute. The century-old dispute between the two South American nations recently reignited with the discovery of masses of oil in Guyana. The government of Nicolas Maduro, … Read more
Rain at one point has claimed to investors that it has held advanced talks to sell systems to Google, Oracle, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon. Microsoft declined to comment, and the other companies did not respond to requests for comment. Security Fears The funding round led by Prosperity7 announced last year brought Rain’s total funding to … Read more
The Blue Zone entrance at the Dubai Exhibition Center ahead of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. More than 70,000 politicians, diplomats, campaigners, financiers and business leaders will fly to Dubai to talk about arresting the world’s slide toward environmental catastrophe. Photographer: Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg via Getty Images … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — War-shattered families in Israel and Gaza woke to a hopeful-but-agonizing limbo Wednesday, following the early-hours approval of a deal between Israel and Hamas. The agreement allows the exchange of at least 50 Israeli hostages for 150 Palestinian prisoners during a four-day pause in combat operations … Read more
Al Pacino has agreed to pay Noor Alfallah $30,000-per-month in child support, court docs show. Pacino, 83, will also have to pay Alfallah, 29, a sum of $110,000, according to the docs. A judge ruled the two will share joint custody of their four-month-son, but Alfallah will have primary physical custody. Al Pacino has agreed to … Read more
Why is it so hard for Palestinians to enter the U.S. as refugees? Palestinians rescue a child after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (Abed Khaled/AP) NBC News reports: “Out of more than 60,000 total refugees resettled in the United States in fiscal year 2023, 56 Palestinians were admitted. In the past 10 years, fewer than 600 … Read more