General News

Montreal (AFP) - Around 9,000 people have been evacuated in northeastern Canada because of raging wildfires, officials said Saturday. Residents of the towns of Labrador City and Wabush in Newfoundland...

Washington (AFP) - Ruth Westheimer, the wildly successful sex therapist who became a pop culture phenomenon in the 1980s with her bluntly delivered advice on how to spice up your...

Quito (AFP) - An Ecuadorian court sentenced a gang member to nearly 35 years in prison Friday for plotting and ordering from his cell the murder of a journalist turned...

Houston (AFP) - Josh Vance stands in the airconditioned entrance of Sunnyside Community Center in Houston, Texas, one of the designated "cooling centers" open to the public after Hurricane Beryl...

San Francisco (AFP) - US mobile operator AT&T reported Friday that hackers had stolen call and message data from virtually all of its customers for six months in 2022 --...

New York (AFP) - US carrier Southwest Airlines plans to jointly develop a fleet of electric air taxis to serve the California market with transportation startup Archer Aviation, the companies...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Alec Baldwin's trial for involuntary manslaughter was paused Friday as his lawyers claimed police "buried" evidence about the fatal shooting on the set of...

New York (AFP) - JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup reported increased second-quarter profits Friday despite somewhat higher costs to account for bad loans in light of greater stress on lower-income customers....

Santa Fe (United States) (AFP) - Live rounds were found in the cartidge belts of Alec Baldwin and another actor on the set of a Western movie that was the...

New York (AFP) - A famous aphorism holds that a "rising tide lifts all boats," but small capitalization equities are still waiting for a boost from the 2024 bull market...