Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The Senate is set to vote today on two health policy plans — one from Democrats and one from Republicans — aimed…
Yodelling, the traditional singing of herders in the Swiss Alps, was recognised by the United Nations on Thursday as part of the world’s cultural heritage. Yodelling was added to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, at a meeting in New Delhi. “As the emblematic song of Switzerland, yodelling encompasses a wide…
New Jersey Transit will build a temporary bus terminal to help with transportation for travelers attending the FIFA World Cup from all over the world. The temporary bus terminal will shuttle matchgoers to and from MetLife Stadium and Secaucus Junction. 8 matches, including the final, which will be played at MetLife Stadium. The NJT board…
The negotiations that remade the North American Free Trade Agreement were, as one participant put it, a series of “near-death” experiences. For more than a year, starting in 2017, envoys from the United States, Canada, and Mexico met to determine the future of a trade alliance worth trillions of dollars. They clashed over everything from…
Annual arrests in the United States since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have dropped by 25%, according to a new analysis released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice. “Adult arrests have not come back up from that 2020 plummet,” said the report’s lead author, Stephanie Kennedy, Ph.D., policy director at the CCJ. Kennedy analyzed…
Though AI toys are generally marketed as kid-safe, major AI developers say their flagship chatbots are designed for adults and shouldn’t be used by children. OpenAI, xAI and leading Chinese AI company DeepSeek all say in their terms of service that their leading chatbots shouldn’t be used by anyone under 13. Anthropic says users should…
NEW YORK — Cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for misleading investors who lost billions when his company’s crypto ecosystem collapsed in 2022. Kwon, known by some as “the cryptocurrency king,” pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court in August to fraud charges stemming from Terraform Labs’ $40 billion crash. The company…
A life-threatening bushfire is burning near suburban homes in Perth, with residents warned to leave and multiple roads already closed. An emergency warning has been issued in parts of Kenwick, Wattle Grove, Maddington and Beckenham in Perth’s south-east. “You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive,” the WA Department of Fire and…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in public Thursday for the first time in 11 months in Norway as her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize award on her behalf. Machado had been in hiding since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters…
Kayla Epsteinand Ione Wells,São Paulo Watch: Video shows US military seizing oil tanker off Venezuela coast US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said, marking a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro’s government. “We have just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela…