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A taxi driver who raped a teenage female passenger in a parking lot and then left her in sub-zero temperatures has been jailed for six years and nine months. In December 2023, David Brown, 50, picked up an 18-year-old girl after she spent the night in Inverness and wanted to return to her Highland village….
Our politics has been compared to vice president. Sometimes, a more appropriate metaphor is that we live in a cartoon. Every good cartoon needs a supervillain or three. Our supervillains have created millions of jobs, made goods cheaper and more accessible, and revolutionized access to information, among other horrific things. I mean billionaires. Reasonable people…
Our politics has been compared to vice president. Sometimes, a more appropriate metaphor is that we live in a cartoon. Every good cartoon needs a supervillain or three. Our supervillains have created millions of jobs, made goods cheaper and more accessible, and revolutionized access to information, among other horrific things. I mean billionaires. Reasonable people…
Editor’s note: The CNN original series Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever follows journalist Kara Swisher as she explores the booming life-extension industry and the people determined to defy death. Watch episode five on Saturday at 9pm ET and stream the premiere episode live on the CNN app. If you want to live a long…
Switzerland’s federal intelligence agency said it would finally make public long-sealed documents about notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, but gave no details on when. Mengele fled Europe after World War II but has been rumored to have spent time in Switzerland for years, despite an international arrest warrant being issued. Historians have repeatedly requested…
Brad Brooks WIGGINS, Colo., May 16 (Reuters) – Amy Van Duyn sat behind the cash register at a Stubs liquor store and stared out the window at a red and green gas price sign that she said seemed to be rising every day. The price is $4.34 per gallon, about 50% higher than prices in…
President Donald Trump’s pet project hangs by a thread. The political risks of spending taxpayer money on parts of a new White House ballroom have rattled congressional Republicans, who have questioned whether $1 billion in security funding for the Secret Service can be approved — even as officials from the Secret Service, Department of Homeland…
Foreclosures in the U.S. are up 26% from last year as inflation and rising costs catch up with homeowners. Indiana has been hardest hit, with one foreclosure filing for every 739 homes in the first quarter of 2026, according to findings from real estate data firm Attom. That’s nearly two-thirds higher than the national rate…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Norway’s foreign ministry confirmed on Friday that it has revoked export licenses related to Malaysian naval missile systems and said sales of its most sensitive defense technology are now limited to allies and closest partners. The move blocked the delivery of naval strike missile systems and launcher components for Malaysia’s…
Losses at troubled Air India weighed on Singapore Airlines’ profits last year, even as the city-state’s flag carrier posted record revenue and passenger traffic. Singapore Airlines reported a 57.4% drop in net profit to S$1.2 billion ($927 million) for the 2025 fiscal year ended in March. Singapore Airlines lost S$945 million ($739 million) on its…