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Ohio State suspends fraternity while investigating a video showing men engulfed in flames
SpaceX reveals plans for what could be the biggest-ever initial public offering
The prospectus did not put a dollar figure on the amount Musk hopes to raise but various reports have put it at $75 billion or so. The company has said the money will help to finance projects to put men on the moon…
US announces criminal case against former Cuban President Raúl Castro
Marlene Alejandre-Triana, whose father, Armando Alejandre Jr, was among those who died, said the charges were “long overdue.” She said her father only wanted t…
A de-extinction company has hatched live chicks from an artificial eggshell
Colossal’s CEO Ben Lamm said the artificial egg technology could one day be scaled up to genetically tweak living birds to resemble New Zealand's extinct South…
US Rep. Thomas Massie loses Kentucky GOP primary to Ed Gallrein in another victory for Trump
Massie, who has served in Congress since 2012, was one of the most outspoken holdouts. He pushed for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, criticized the w…
Justice Department announces nearly $1.8B fund to compensate Trump allies in a deal to drop IRS suit
Nearly 100 Democrats in the House of Representatives signed onto a legal brief urging a judge to block what they described as an unprecedented resolution that they said would unjustly enrich people close to the pre…
Teenage gunmen open fire on San Diego mosque, killing 3 men and then themselves
Police began using whatever technology they could to find the 17- and 18-year-old, including automated license plate readers. The department dispatched authori…
AP finishes US restructuring with round of 20 layoffs
The layoffs, which had been expected, come about a month after AP, one of the world’s oldest and most influential news organizations, offered buyouts to more than 120 journalists based in the United States. About 4…
Judge declares a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after jury says it is deadlocked
An appeals court overturned his 2020 New York conviction on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jury deliberations broke do…
FBI offers $200,000 reward to catch ex-Air Force specialist wanted on espionage charges in Iran
It wasn't immediately known why the FBI was bringing attention to Witt's case. The United States and Iran have been at war since Feb. 28.
Cisco leads Wall Street to more records and the Dow back to 50,000
Such voracious demand for AI, and the big profits it’s producing, have been major reasons the U.S. stock market has set records throughout this year. Cerebras Systems, an AI processor company, raised $5.55 billion …
US Border Patrol chief Michael Banks is resigning, in latest DHS leadership change
CBP is one of the federal agencies that participated since last year in a series of immigration enforcement operations, carried out primarily in cities governe…
Tech carries Wall Street to records, even as most stocks fall after discouraging inflation data
Earlier in the day, Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. said that its profit for the 12 months through March zoomed by nearly five-fold from the previous year as its AI investments paid off. China’s Alibaba Group said its…
Senate confirms Trump pick Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve, following Powell
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said in a floor speech that it's critical that a Fed chair “understand not only the macro” but also “appreciate the …
US grocery prices rose in April, but gas spikes weren't the only reason
The meat, produce and dry goods vendors that supply Sparrow Market, a small independent grocer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, all added fuel surcharges to their deliveries in recent weeks, owner Raymond Campise said. Whol…
Prosecutors to retry Alex Murdaugh in deaths of wife and son after high court overturned convictions
Still, the ruling is a win for Murdaugh, who admits to being a thief, liar, insurance cheat and bad lawyer, but has adamantly denied killing his wife Maggie an…