General News

New York (AFP) - United Airlines announced Tuesday it had ordered a total of 110 new planes from Boeing and Airbus, and secured options to purchase 90 more, in a...

San Francisco (AFP) - A self-driving car operated by US company Cruise ran over a woman after she was first knocked in front of it by a hit-and-run driver in...

Washington (AFP) - The United States announced sanctions Tuesday on a China-based network for producing and distributing chemicals used to make drugs including those fueling a deadly national fentanyl crisis....

New York (AFP) - The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of one of cryptocurrency's biggest exchanges, began Tuesday with a jury set to determine if he committed massive fraud...

Miami (AFP) - A Florida man convicted of murdering two women in 1996 is to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday. Michael Zack, 54, is to be put to...

New York (AFP) - Ford announced Monday that over 300 more workers have been temporarily laid off due to "knock-on effects" from the ongoing strike against the company and two...

Washington (AFP) - From developing a one-and-done coronavirus shot to overcoming misinformation and global vaccine inequity, Nobel prize winner Drew Weissman says that at 64, he's only "speeding up. "The...

Berlin (AFP) - German sandal maker Birkenstock on Monday set a price for its initial public offering of shares at $44 to $49 each, which could see the company raise...

Washington (AFP) - Amid soaring rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, US health authorities on Monday proposed that doctors begin prescribing a common antibiotic as a pill taken after sex,...

New York (AFP) - New York worshippers celebrated mass at St. John the Divine Cathedral on Sunday alongside hundreds of animals -- including a camel, a pony, snakes, ostriches, geese,...