Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and senior leader of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been jailed for 10 years in a case where they were charged with leaking state secrets. The sentencing in what is called as the cypher case comes less than two weeks before the general elections. Khan, who is already serving a three-year jail term in a corruption case, has been barred from standing in the elections on February 8.

One of the more poignant and ridiculous and enduringly popular contemporary American insanities is the belief that one person—it's almost always a man, although Jennifer Garner did get to do it in a movie once—can make a critical difference in any bad situation, provided that person is angry and violent enough. The most crystalline expression of this probably came from bedtime extremist and retired rapper Mark Wahlberg, who told Men's Journal back in 2012 that, "if I was on that plane," by which he meant United Flight 93, "it," by which he meant the tragic events of September 11, 2001, "wouldn’t have went down like it did." In the apology that Wahlberg subsequently issued, he allowed that, "to speculate about such a situation is ridiculous to begin with." It absolutely is, but also idle fantasies of retribution are something like the national pastime.

The move is the latest step in the MTA's fight against fare evasion.

Notorious MAGA podcaster Terpsehore Maras filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court earlier this month in support of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain on the 2024 ballot. The case is an appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s December ruling disqualifying Trump from the state’s primary ballot under the 14th Amendment, based on a lower court finding that his actions at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot constituted an insurrection. Maras’ amicus brief came after an intense 48-hour fundraising drive kicked off on her podcast, the Tore Says Show. In it, she invited followers to have their names “etched in history” by joining her, calling for donations that she couched in doublespeak. The funds would go towards legal fees for the brief, she said, but never divulged exactly what she needed. The fundraising campaign had no target amount set and, at the same time, Maras added a disclaimer that she could be pocketing the excess. “I don’t have to explain shit to you,” she said. The gambit appears to have worked. Her followers, believing in her fight to save Trump and America, gave Tore at least $56,000 in a two-day span. That’s far beyond what it could reasonably cost to file such a brief, experts said, and far beyond what many of her supporters could afford—as users pleaded for more time to donate until their Social Security checks came in.

As the Times faces scrutiny for its coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, it has capitulated to the pro-Israel media watchdog CAMERA.

A U.S. man who founded an orphanage in Haiti was charged Monday with traveling from Miami to the Caribbean country to have sex with underage children after spending over a decade dodging accusations that he abused minors in his care. Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 71, who was arrested Saturday in Denver, had even won a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit in a Maine federal court against an advocate who accused him of sexually abusing boys at his orphanage in Haiti. Geilenfeld had also been arrested in Haiti on the very same allegations that landed him in a Port-au-Prince jail amid the defamation battle —only to have the case dismissed by a judge when some of his alleged victims were a no-show in court.

Physicist Arno Penzias, who co-discovered the cosmic microwave background, helping to confirm the Big Bang theory of the universe's beginning, died on Monday at age 90. In the 1960s, Penzias and colleague Robert Woodrow Wilson were working at Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., on a new type of microwave antenna shaped like a giant horn. They planned to use the ultrasensitive system to study radio emissions from the Milky Way. What they eventually found instead was a signal that originated from outside our galaxy that turned out to be the smoking gun proof for the Big Bang theory.

The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.

The actions of Rebecca Hill, the Colleton County clerk of court during Murdaugh's double murder trial in 2023, were at the center of a key hearing.

Former fans of Nicki Minaj are criticizing her new diss track, "Big Foot," aimed at Megan Thee Stallion.

A father attending a junior varsity basketball game in Canyons School District was banned from future games after he wrongly insisted a player on the opposing team was transgender.

The U.S. this week carried out a strike in Somalia that killed three militants with al Shabaab, an American-designated terrorist group with ties to al Qaeda. The Sunday strike targeted al Shabaab f…

White House energy advisor, others attended Friday ground-breaking, but local group says risks have not been fully studied

These characteristics define a “habitable zone” around stars — tantalizing places to target in the search for life-friendly exoplanets. But scientists are increasingly subjecting the entire galaxy to similar scrutiny. In the same way that continents with distinct biospheres host distinct flora and fauna, different regions of the galaxy could harbor different populations of stars and planets. The Milky Way’s turbulent history means that not all corners of the galaxy are the same, and that only some galactic regions might be just right for making planets we think could be inhabited.

Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused repeated requests from Biden to dial back attacks in Gaza. Biden might have finally had enough.

Biden said the United States “will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.”

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that she thinks some protests in the United States demanding a ceasefire in Gaza could be linked to Russia, and that the FBI should conduct a probe into their funding. Her comments were dismissed as "unsubstantiated smears" by some rights advocates, who said such remarks amounted to dehumanization of the Palestinian people. Pelosi, who made the remarks in a CNN interview, provided no evidence for her claims. She was asked whether opposition to President Joe Biden's policy in the war in Gaza could hurt the Democrat in November's presidential election. "For them to call for a ceasefire is Mr. Putin's message, Mr. Putin's message. Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he (Russian President Vladimir Putin) would like to see," Pelosi told CNN.

West African nations Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have withdrawn from the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS, their respective juntas announced Sunday. They accused the bloc of “inhumane” sanctions to reverse the coups in their nations. ECOWAS said in a statement that it wasn't notified of the countries’ decision to withdraw. The juntas said in a joint statement read on state television in all three countries that they have “decided in complete sovereignty on the immediate withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)," alleging that the bloc has “moved away from the ideals of its founding fathers and pan-Africanism” after nearly 50 years in existence. “Furthermore, ECOWAS, under the influence of foreign powers, betraying its founding principles, has become a threat to its member states and its populations whose happiness it is supposed to ensure,” their statements read.

Scott Neu, a former sheriff’s deputy who was fired in 2015 for allegedly forcing jail inmates to fight each other, and costing the city some $280,000 in settlements, is being rehired by the Sheriff’s Office, Mission Local has learned. Though Neu was criminally charged by former District Attorney George Gascón in 2016 with 17 criminal counts, these charges were dropped after the Sheriff’s Office allegedly destroyed evidence in the case; in one instance, an investigator’s laptop was smashed with a hammer, purportedly due to a virus. Neu is being reinstated to his former position — in which he worked in the county jail — the City Attorney’s Office confirmed today.

Apple’s new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use their own engines on iOS. Although this may seem like a welcome change, Mozilla spokesperson Damiano DeMonte tells The Verge it’s “extremely disappointed” with the way things turned out. “We are still reviewing the technical details but are extremely disappointed with Apple’s proposed plan to restrict the newly-announced BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps,” DeMonte says. “The effect of this would be to force an independent browser like Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations — a burden Apple themselves will not have to bear.” In iOS 17.4, Apple will no longer force browsers in the EU to use WebKit, the underlying engine that powers Safari.