USA Update

The doomed Air India flight that crashed Thursday, killing 244 passengers on board, lost control immediately after taking off from the runway.

There appears to be no love lost between Satou Sabally and the Dallas Wings.

I feel ya, Kelly!

The man who shot dead 10 people at an Austrian school was introverted and played violent video games, police say.

Your thumbprint, the pattern of lines in the iris of your eye: These are known to be more or less unique to each person, including you, or at least specific enough to be useful for unlocking your phone. But in a paper published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, researchers report that your patterns of […]

Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, wearing a tangerine sweatshirt and sneakers, barreled down the backstage corridors of the Metropolitan Opera on a recent afternoon, a trolley full of clothes behind her. It was the first act of John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” and Gomez-Pizzo, who supervises costumes for female leads at the Met, was lining up a series […]

At least 204 people were killed when an Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed on Thursday just after takeoff in Ahmedabad, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. It was India’s deadliest aviation disaster since 1996, and one of the deadliest in the world in recent history. The plane was traveling to […]

Rupert Murdoch-owned the Wall Street Journal ridiculed President Donald Trump’s half-baked trade “deal” with China, calling it a “truce that tilts in China’s direction” after months of wavering back and forth. The Journal noted that the much-touted agreement brings trade relations back to the baseline before Trump started his tariff war. After ratcheting up tariffs […]

Kate Beckinsale filed a lawsuit against the producers of her 2024 film, “Canary Black,” claiming she was repeatedly exposed to “dangerous and unsafe conditions” on set, resulting in “severe and debilitating injuries.” The “Underworld” actress, who originally filed the complaint against Anton Entertainment Media Services, Inc., producer John Zois and more as a “Jane Doe” […]

Not everyone can be invited to the Emmys, and not a year goes by without the Television Academy snubbing some of the best that television has to offer. HBO shows Industry and Somebody Somewhere popped up on more year-end best-of lists than almost any other 2024 series, but neither show has been nominated for a […]