California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of gun control measures into law Tuesday, impacting where Californians can legally carry weapons and levying the nation's first state tax on firearms and ammunition, prompting at least one lawsuit and likely future legal challenges from gun rights advocates.
Two of the largest retail chains in France have announced they will forego all profit on fuel sales, yielding to government pressure to sell gasoline and diesel at cost. The savings for motorists at the pump? $1 to $2 per tank.
China's ousted foreign minister Qin Gang had an extramarital affair with a high-profile Chinese television presenter who had a child through surrogacy in the United States, the Financial Times reported Tuesday citing multiple unnamed sources, deepening intrigue around the unexplained disappearance and removal of the senior diplomat.
Namibian rugby star Johan Retief has been ruled out of his country's final World Cup game against Uruguay later Wednesday, after being "bitten by a spider" at the team's hotel in Aix-les-Bains, eastern France.
A federal judge in Texas declared on Tuesday that a state law that bans "sexually oriented performances" on public property and in the presence of anyone younger than 18 is unconstitutional.
Gen Xers, now in their 40s and 50s, are the first generation to have entered the labor market after employers ditched pension plans in favor of 401(k)s. Theirs may be a cautionary tale for those coming up behind them.
Former Spain women's soccer coach Jorge Vilda, Spanish national team director Albert Luque, and Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) marketing director Rubén Rivera have been summoned to testify as suspects as part of the case against RFEF's former president Luis Rubiales, Spain's National Court announced on Wednesday.
UBS shares plunged Wednesday following a report that the Swiss bank faces a widening probe by the US Department of Justice over suspected compliance failures that allowed Russian clients to evade sanctions. compliance failures that allowed Russian clients to evade sanctions.
Israel will be joining the US Visa Waiver Program, allowing Israeli citizens to soon enter the United States without a visa and vice versa, the Biden administration has announced.
Wes Anderson's brand of straight-faced weirdness can be an acquired taste, but the writer-director finds a hospitable outlet for his sense of whimsy in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," a 39-minute adaptation of the Roald Dahl story. He also finds the right outfit to bankroll that in awards-hungry Netflix, which surely has visions of Oscar nominations dancing in its head as it kicks off a week of Anderson-directed Dahl shorts.
London's office market has plunged into a "rental recession," with the share of empty space hitting its highest level in three decades, investment bank Jefferies said in a note Wednesday.
The United States is holding back assistance that might aid the government of Gabon following last month's coup, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement released by the US State Department on Tuesday.
The UN Refugee Agency has rebuked UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman over her claims that world leaders have failed to reform the global refugee system due to fears of being branded as "racist or illiberal" and that the asylum framework is creating "huge incentives for illegal migration."
Amid a flurry of calls by fellow Senate Democrats to resign, Sen. Bob Menendez arrived at federal court in New York Wednesday morning for his initial appearance on charges relating to an alleged bribery conspiracy involving payments in gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, a luxury car and passing sensitive information to the Egyptian government.
The tale of D.B. Cooper, who leaped out of a hijacked plane with $200,000 in 1971 and disappeared, is the stuff of legend. But one man believes DNA testing could offer some new clues.
