WASHINGTON -- Dutton and Wrenlee are on the rise but they're no match for champs Liam and Olivia as the top baby names in the U.S. last year.The Social Security Administration released the annual list Friday. The agency tracks baby names in each state based on... More »
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- South Africa's foreign ministry summoned the U.S. Ambassador to a meeting Friday over allegations he made a day earlier that the country had provided arms and ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine.Amid the diplomatic fallout ov... More »
Thunderstorms are expected to hit western and central Texas and the Pacific Northwest will see potentially record-breaking high temperatures on Friday.Tornadoes were reported across central Oklahoma on Thursday night, with some reports of damaged buildings, an... More »
Just eight days after their fateful title decider in Astana, China’s victorious Ding Liren and his vanquished Russian opponent, Ian Nepomniachtchi, are trailing in Bucharest. The Superbet Classic, which finishes in the Romanian capital on Monday, is the first ... More »
SOMERTON, Ariz. — U.S. immigration policy Title 42 expired Thursday night, marking the end of restrictions implemented by the Trump administration amid the COVID-19 pandemic that allowed the government to prevent asylum seekers from entering the country. In t... More »
The Conservatives’ decision to water down proposed legislation to remove 4,000 EU laws from the statute books is still a “reckless” and “irresponsible” project, leading barristers have said.While the business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, was accused of “a massive... More »
New satellite images released from Nasa this week showcase the dramatic reappearance of California’s Tulare Lake after water swallowed swaths of land across the state’s agricultural center that had long been dry.Taken between the start of February and the end ... More »
The timing of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.A Ukrainian soldier removing branches that had concealed a howitzer.Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesWhen will Ukraine’s counteroffensive come? Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, said yesterday that it needed mo... More »
Aboard a train heading to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico CNN — On top of the rumbling freight train, the young man says he has been attacked and robbed. There is no shade from the burning sun in the day, nowhere to keep warm in the perishing cold of ... More »
© David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News Jay Chaudhry, founder and chief executive officer of Zscaler, during a television interview in 2015.SAN FRANCISCO — Earlier this year, a sales director in India for tech security firm Zscaler got a call that seemed to b... More »
As New York City is trying to move illegal migrants into the suburbs, Democrats in El Paso, Texas, plan to bus more migrants to the city. El Paso has set up transportation to send more migrants to New York City, Democratic mayor Oscar Leeser said Wednesday... More »
A Russian ship, the Lady R, docked at South Africa’s Simon’s Town naval base outside Cape Town in December. Photo: ESA ALEXANDER/REUTERS JOHANNESBURG—South Africa supplied weapons and ammunition to Russia with the help of a Russian cargo ship that surreptitiou... More »