LONDON — A man has been charged with harassing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after reports the former Prince Andrew was threatened by a masked man while walking dogs near his home. Alex Jenkinson, 39, is due at Norwich Magistrates Court on Friday to face two counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to harass someone or cause alarm or distress. Norfolk Constabulary announced the charges on Thursday night. Police said the suspect was arrested Wednesday evening after a man was reported “behaving in an intimidating manner” near Andrew’s home in eastern England. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that a man wearing a ski mask ran toward the former royal while shouting abuse. Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, the younger brother of King Charles III, moved to the king’s private Sandringham Estate, about 100 miles (160 kilometres) north of London, after he was evicted from his longtime home near Windsor Castle following revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Tennessee Republicans on Thursday approved a new congressional map dismantling a majority-Black U.S. House district centered on Memphis, as several other Southern states seek to leverage last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that severely weakened the landmark Voting Rights Act.

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.

Indoor tanning is associated with a 75% increase in melanoma risk. A proposed FDA rule intended to protect children is now gone.

A Montreal business says a suspect was caught on surveillance camera taking off with thousands of dollars of underwear from their warehouse last weekend.

Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died Wednesday, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87. The Ohio-born Atlanta businessman, nicknamed “The Mouth of the South” for his outspoken nature, built a media empire that encompassed cable’s first superstation and popular channels for movies and cartoons, plus professional sports teams like the Atlanta Braves. Turner was also an internationally known yachtsman; a philanthropist who founded the United Nations Foundation; an activist who sought the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons; and a conservationist who became one of the foremost landowners in the United States. He played a crucial role in reintroducing bison to the American west. He even created the Captain Planet cartoon to educate kids about the environment.

An investigation is underway after a watercraft operator slammed into a grey whale feeding off the coast of Vancouver this week—an incident that caused shock and upset among bystanders. Social media videos show the moment a personal watercraft struck the massive cetacean as it was surfacing for air Monday evening in Burrard Inlet, near Siwash Rock. The force of the impact sent the operator flying off the vehicle and into the water. “It was awful to watch, to be honest,” said Rachael Taylor, who witnessed the incident. “I have a lot of concern for both the whale and the person.”

Lucille Blumberg received the email from a U.K. colleague at the start of a long weekend. It was the afternoon of 1 May, Labor Day in South Africa, where Blumberg works as an infectious disease specialist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. But the email’s contents were concerning enough that Blumberg sprang into action. A cruise ship passenger with what appeared to be severe pneumonia had been airlifted from the U.K. territory of Ascension Island to a hospital near her. Could it be an outbreak of legionella or even a case of avian influenza acquired on one of the islands where the ship stopped? Early tests at the hospital had come back negative. As Blumberg reran them on a fresh sample, her team considered less likely possibilities, including hantavirus, an infection that usually stems from contact with infected rodents and is often fatal. She decided to test for hantavirus if the other tests came back negative at 7 a.m. the next day. “I think at 1 minute past seven, I called the head of the lab,” to run the test, she says. By Saturday afternoon it was clear the patient had the pathogen, and the cruise ship might be experiencing the first recorded outbreak of it on a ship. Cruise ships aren’t exactly strangers to infectious disease. There have been many large outbreaks of flu and COVID-19, for instance, and norovirus can run rampant on a trip, causing intestinal misery. But a hantavirus outbreak on a ship has never been documented—the virus does not usually spread from person to person—and the incident has raised a series of scientific and medical challenges that researchers from around the world are teaming up to solve.

The interview was cut short because Kukla kept excusing himself to vomit, according to Kaiser’s final report. The teacher had grown increasingly anxious, and at one point, told the investigator he had defecated in his pants.

I felt as if millions of TikTok grifters cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

China currently handles the majority of device testing for the U.S. market.

Iran launched attacks on the UAE and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz while the U.S. destroyed six Iranian boats "that attempted to interfere" with Project Freedom.

New historical and archaeological research is shining an embarrassing light on one of the darkest periods of British foreign policy. Investigations by a leading Scottish maritime historian have succeeded, for the first time, in locating the main secret British headquarters of the American Civil War Confederate government’s transatlantic gun-running operation. Other research, carried out over the past decade, has revealed the extraordinary extent to which substantial sections of Britain’s business elite were working with impunity to help the slave-owning southern states win the Civil War – despite the fact that Britain was officially neutral and had outlawed slavery almost 30 years earlier. What’s more, in the Bristol Channel, the remnants of one of the Confederate gun-runners – the 395 ton Matilda – has been tentatively identified on the seabed off the coast of the island of Lundy.

The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.

You might not know Paul Pressler’s name. But your life has been profoundly affected by the fruits of his labor. Though he may not be as familiar as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, or other lions of the religious right, few have done more to shape our modern political and religious landscapes. Fueled by an unyielding belief in biblical inerrancy—the notion that Christian scripture is the perfect, literal word of God—Pressler in the eighties and nineties pushed the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s second-largest faith group, into a civil war that drove moderates from its ranks. As the architect of the SBC’s so-called conservative resurgence, Pressler—or the Judge, as many knew him—played a crucial role in the marriage of the Republican Party and the white evangelical voters who still sustain its power. For nearly four decades he served as a quiet GOP power broker, helping elevate generations of conservative Christians to the Texas Legislature, Capitol Hill, and the White House. That legacy began to crumble in 2017, when Rollins filed a lawsuit in Harris County alleging that Pressler had raped him repeatedly over decades and that prominent Southern Baptist figures and churches had concealed or mishandled evidence that Pressler was a sexual predator. Perhaps because of Rollins’s lengthy rap sheet—which included convictions for drunk driving, drug possession, and theft—the lawsuit received scant attention in the months after it was filed. Then, around January 2018, while burning out the last hour of an evening reporting shift at the Houston Chronicle, I found a document buried in thousands of pages of court filings showing that in 2004, Pressler had agreed to pay nearly half a million dollars to settle an assault lawsuit. Other filings contained references to additional accusers, at least one of whom was willing to come forward about other sexual misconduct. Intrigued, I started calling sexual-abuse survivors who had spent years warning the SBC that its 47,000 churches were being infiltrated by predators. They all told me the same thing: This is far bigger than one lawsuit.

Archaeologists think a broken bronze cup found in Spain was made for a soldier as a memento of his time stationed at Hadrian's Wall in England.

A spokesman for Rudy Giuliani says the former mayor of New York City is in critical but stable condition at a hospital.

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.

The University of Houston's Special Collections Library is home to thousands upon thousands of priceless books and ancient manuscripts. But I was there to look at something most people threw away when they left college: blacklight posters from the 1960s and '70s printed and sold by a Houston company that no longer exists. My guide (or perhaps trip-sitter) for the day was Christian Kelleher, the Director of Exhibitions and External Relations at UH's libraries. Founded in 1969, Houston Blacklight & Poster Company was once one of the biggest distributors of the bright, colorful posters that adorned dorm rooms, basements and garage hangouts and became synonymous, along with lava lamps and bongs, with hippies and the counterculture movement.