Omar Abou Nabout has spent years seeking accountability for the killing of his father in a barrel-bomb strike in Syria in 2017. Four Syrian generals have now been indicted on war crimes charges in France in a landmark legal case.
The European Union has told Meta it has a week to explain in greater detail how it is fighting the spread of illegal content and disinformation on its Facebook and Instagram platforms following the attacks across Israel by Hamas.
The congressman temporarily leading the House of Representatives as it searches for a new speaker was selected for the job by Rep. Kevin McCarthy before he was ousted from the speaker's chair, and some lawmakers want to expand his power beyond the limited portfolio of the interim speaker.
Rite Aid, which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, is now preparing to shed more than 100 stores nationwide as part of its restructuring efforts.
Two months after the state of Florida formally apologized to Leonard Cure for the 16 years he lost following a wrongful conviction for armed robbery, authorities say he was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop just across the state line in Georgia.
Influential donors to Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania say they will cut their ties to the schools in protest of college administrators' response to alleged anti-Israel speech and antisemitism on campuses in the wake of Hamas' terror attacks.
On Thursday, New York's attorney general filed a lawsuit against three digital asset firms that were caught up in the collapse of Bankman-Fried's empire last fall — Gemini Trust, Genesis Global Capital and Digital Currency Group, parent company of Genesis.
As the Biden administration kicks off a years-long negotiation process to divvy up the shrinking water supply of the Colorado River, there are finally some signs of optimism after several bleak years.
Former President Donald Trump is backing West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in the state's Republican Senate primary, the latest sign that Trump remains mostly aligned with Senate GOP leaders in regard to candidate selection as the party seeks to avoid the pitfalls of the 2022 midterms.
Retired Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton experienced a "scary setback" in her fight against a rare form of pneumonia this week, after showing remarkable progress towards recovery just days ago, her daughter said Wednesday night.
There's a difference between "long" and "epic," although in movie terms the two frequently get confused. Martin Scorsese delivers the former but not the latter with "Killers of the Flower Moon," his second consecutive three-and-a-half-hour movie derived from a true story and underwritten by a prestige-hungry streaming service.
AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes has created a firestorm on social media after sharing a photo of himself receiving a massage topless during a management meeting.
Europe's visa waiver program is being postponed until 2025. From ETIAS to accommodation taxes in Europe, including charges for cruise passengers and Venice's entry fee, here are the expenses adding to your European trips from 2024 onwards.
In a workplace that's become increasingly dominated by instant messaging apps like Slack, global banks (and regulators) are taking unprecedented steps to police how their employees communicate.
Nestlé plans to close one of its plants that make baby formula, citing a sharp drop in China's birth rate, in a fresh example of the far-reaching implications of the country's demographic crisis.
Passalacqua, a luxury hotel on Lake Como, was voted the best hotel in the world this month at the inaugural World's 50 Best Hotels awards. Here's why its management think it won.
