Getty Images Alex Honnold was the first climber to perform a rope-free ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park An American climber has postponed scaling the Taipei 101, one of the world’s tallest buildings, rope-free for another 24 hours due to wet weather. Alex Honnold, who scaled El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park…
When federal immigration agents pounded on the door of his Minneapolis home, the oldest son in a family of 10 knew he had to move his siblings to a safer place. Their mother, a 41-year-old Indigenous Ecuadorian office cleaner without a known criminal record besides minor traffic offenses, had been detained in early January because…
NEW DELHI: The kin of late singer Zubeen Garg on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the government to set up a “special court” for a fast-tracked trial in the case.They also sought “proactive” engagement with Singapore, where Garg had died in September last year, to monitor court proceedings at the “highest level.”“We…
‘No Plan B’ Kushner was optimistic on Thursday, saying “there is no Plan B” beyond his vision and telling world leaders in Davos he wants “New Gaza” to be “a hope, a destination, have a lot of industry, and really be a place where the people there can thrive and have great employment.” “We think…
Neff agreed with other AutoAdmit commenters who argued that Michael Brown deserved to be killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, complaining that “the violent criminals are even MORE heroic to Black people.” He claimed that the four liberal congresswomen known as the Squad—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib—want to “MAKE…
Standing in the lobby of the St. Regis hotel, about to head into a Monitor event with reporters this week, I warned Rahm Emanuel that the C-SPAN lapel mics we were both now wearing could be “hot” – that is, switched on. I was thinking, in particular, about the prominent Democrat’s penchant for salty language….
Peta Howell Part of Teignmouth Grand Pier has washed away in the storm Part of a historic pier has washed away as Storm Ingrid brings heavy rain and strong winds to Devon and Cornwall. Teignmouth mayor Cate Williams said the town had “taken a real battering” overnight into Saturday with “just wild” waves damaging part…
Russia launched drone and missile attacks on Ukraine overnight, killing one person and injuring 23 others despite taking part in talks with the US aimed at ending the war. The mayor of Ukrainian capital Kyiv said one person had died and four had been wounded following a “massive enemy attack”, while Kharkiv’s mayor reported that…
Reuters Police say they are not expecting to find any more survivors from the landslide Rescue efforts for six missing people buried by a landslide in New Zealand on Thursday have been called off, with efforts now moving to recovering bodies, police have said. “Tragically it is now apparent that we will not be able…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Pentagon said in an unclassified national defense strategy document titled “Restoring peace through strength for a new golden age of America” on Friday, that it plans to shift more of the responsibility of deterring North Korea to South Korea. The U.S. would take a “more limited”…