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Daniel Rodriguez, the man who attacked then-Washington, DC, police officer Michael Fanone with an electroshock weapon in the neck during the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 and a half years in prison.

Several buildings have caught fire following an explosion in the fifth arrondissement, officials say.

I spent weeks immersed in the world of the Comm, a nebulous community of young hackers, aggressive criminals, and people just hanging out on Discord.

The lawsuit was the first time that the Federal Trade Commission under chair Lina Khan has taken Amazon to court.

Noting that inflation has cooled but "remains well above" the Fed's 2% target, Powell said the central bank still has more work to do.

The role of industrialized countries in polluting the planet is made visually obvious.

The director of marine operations at OceanGate was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull.

The results are the federal government’s last major data release on the academic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The US leader makes the remark just after talks aimed at easing tensions between the countries.

With oxygen supplies dwindling - under 24 hours' worth remains - the next few hours are critical.

In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.

An aircraft heard sounds at 30-minute intervals from the area where the sub disappeared, according to internal e-mails sent to DHS leadership obtained by Rolling Stone

Experts inside and outside the company warned of potential dangers and urged the company to undergo a certification process.

"All previously sealed documents, including the bond, are to be unsealed to the extent that the names of [Santos'] suretors are to be disclosed," U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert said in a Tuesday ruling.

Holly Patrick @ The Independent:

The OceanGate CEO believed to be missing on board a Titanic exploration submersible described how the vessel was “built with camping” parts and operated with a “game controller” in a resurfaced video.

In November 2022, Stockton Rush told CBS the Titan craft was built with “off-the-shelf components.”

Pointing at parts of the vessel, Mr Rush said: “We can use these off-the-shelf components. I got these from Camping World.

“We run the whole thing with this game controller,” he added, picking up a gamepad.

Reporter David Pogue said pieces of the submersible seemed “improvised,” but Mr Rush told him the vessel would be “safe” even if parts didn’t work.

Mr Rush is believed to be among the five-person crew aboard the craft.

The shifting of mass and consequent sea level rise due to groundwater withdrawal has caused the Earth’s rotational pole to wander nearly a meter in two decades. By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly

More than 70 people were shot, 13 fatally, in Chicago over the holiday weekend, including a father of four who was gunned down at a Father's Day park gathering.

In 2020, along with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a dramatic spike in murders in the United States. This increase in lethal violence, understandably, was covered extensively in national and local media outlets. Yet, much of this coverage lacked critical context. While the increase in murders was significant, the overall murder rate remained far below its peak in the 1980s and 90s.

Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

(article is 1 day old so not exactly breaking news) With Twitter's value tanking, the business is pivoting to video

The CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, is on board the missing submersible that vanished during a mission to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, the

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U.S. and Canadian rescue teams were racing against time to locate a submersible carrying five people to the wreckage site of the Titanic after the submarine ...

The UN has adopted the world's first treaty to protect the high seas and preserve marine biodiversity in international waters, marking a milestone after nearly 20 years of effort, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Monday.