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The man’s wife wrote on Reddit that he suffers from travel-related anxiety and she was hurt when he ditched her at the start of their vacation to Mexico jun xu/Getty Business class on an airplane (stock image) A newlywed was left furious after her husband took her business class upgrade and left her to sit […]

It’s been nearly two weeks since the solar eclipse provided Americans with one type of celestial event, but don’t stop looking at the skies yet — another event is on the way. Fortunately, this celestial event doesn’t require glasses and is viewable over multiple days: the Lyrid meteor shower. Even better, while this month’s solar […]

An American sniper in Ukraine said his unit prefers  AK-74 rifles over Western ones. That’s partly because they can get more bullets when they attack a Russian position. Ammunition and other supplies from the West have dried up, leaving Ukraine running short. An American veteran fighting in Ukraine said soldiers in his unit prefer to […]

An American sniper in Ukraine says his unit prefers AK-74 rifles over Western ones. That’s partly because they can get more bullets when they attack a Russian position. Ammunition and other supplies from the West have dried up, leaving Ukraine running short. An American veteran fighting in Ukraine says soldiers in his unit prefer to […]

LAWRENCE TWP. – A 44-year-old Xenia man who was riding a bicycle on Interstate 77 in Tuscarawas County was killed Friday night after being struck by a car, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Bicyclist Bartholomew James Kosins Snow was traveling southbound on the highway in the left lane at 10:05 p.m. when he was […]

In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest scenes over the past few years. Some of the area’s perennial creosote bushes died back during a severe drought that hampered the region through 2022. Then torrential downpours — from the remnants of Hurricane Hilary and subsequent storms — revived annual wildflowers from seed […]

(Adds new Ukrainian reports of Russian attacks, paragraphs 12-15) By Tom Balmforth and Olena Harmash KYIV, April 20 (Reuters) – Ukraine attacked eight Russian regions with dozens of long-range strike drones, setting ablaze a fuel depot and hitting three power substations in a major attack early on Saturday, an intelligence source in Kyiv told Reuters. […]

At least two Palestinians have died and a further seven suffered gunshot wounds in an Israeli military operation in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm on the West Bank, the Palestinian health authority reported on Saturday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that the operation had begun on Friday and was continuing into Saturday. […]

Of the more than 300 Iranian projectiles launched Israel’s way last week, the vast majority were shot down by Israel and its allies. Israel’s response on Friday against military targets in Isfahan also had more to do with spectacle than substance. Whatever comes next, Iran’s attack – and the way it was characterised in the […]

A military base in Iraq housing a pro-Iranian militia has been damaged in an explosion, killing one and wounding eight, security officials there have said. Iraq’s military reported no drones or fighter jets in the area before or during the blast, and the US said it was not involved. Meanwhile the militia, the Popular Mobilisation […]

Sinking Feeling A new study has discovered that a staggering number of Chinese cities are sinking into the Earth. According to the study, which was conducted by a team of over 50 Chinese scientists using radar observations and published this week in the journal Science, almost half of China’s 82 major cities are experiencing rapid […]