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Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of journalists who cover the social media platform and its new owner Elon Musk, including reporters working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and other publications. The company hasn’t explained why it took down the accounts and made their profiles and past tweets disappear. Read More: Amid […]

Australian police are investigating the extremist views of three people who shot and killed two officers and a neighbor at a rural property before they were killed hours later by police in a gunfight. Investigators will look at the possible extremist links of the killers after a series of posts under the name of Gareth […]

Comment on this story Comment UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council warned Thursday that the threat of terrorism has increased and become more diffuse in various regions of the world aided by new technologies. It strongly condemned the flow of weapons, military equipment, drones and explosive devices to Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and […]

Chess prodigy Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi and his family, who fled Nigeria in 2017 fearing attacks by the terror group Boko Haram, have officially been granted asylum in the United States, the family confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday. Tani, now 12, rose to fame at just 8 years old, when he defeated 73 of the […]

Comment on this story Comment KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Two people died and 51 others were feared buried after a landslide hit a campsite outside Kuala Lumpur early Friday, Malaysia’s fire department said. A fire department official in central Selangor said 79 people were believed to have been at the campsite in Batang Kali, around […]

Boris Becker appears at Southwark Crown Court on April 29, 2022 in London. Karwai Tang London — German tennis legend Boris Becker has been freed from prison after serving eight months of a two-and-a-half year sentence and now faces deportation from the U.K., the British news agency Press Association reports. The 55-year-old German, who’s lived […]

Patriot missile systems have long been highly sought by U.S. allies in contested areas of the world as a shield against incoming missiles. In Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific, they guard against potential strikes from Iran, Somalia and North Korea. So it was a critical turning point when news broke this week that […]

A July 26, 2022 file photo shows a man who fell ill after consuming tainted bootleg liquor being brought for treatment to a hospital in Ahmedabad, India. Ajit Solanki/AP Patna, India — At least 31 people died and 20 others were hospitalized in serious condition after allegedly drinking tainted liquor sold without authorization in eastern India, […]

A beloved humpback whale named Moon was left with a broken spine and completely unable to use her tail to propel her through the sea after being struck by a ship. But she’s now on a mission of “tenacity & tragedy,” having swum more than 3,000 miles from Canada to Hawaii in what experts believe […]

A sudden jump in migrants in El Paso, Texas, who are seeking asylum is straining local resources. More than 2,000 people are arriving at the border a day to be processed – among them, a group who says they were held by armed kidnappers along the way and held in a warehouse.  Ingrid Lopez was […]