Lebanese emergency services are overwhelmed and need better gear to save lives in wartime
When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency unlike anything they had ever seen. About a dozen ...
Palestinian officials say 32 killed in Israeli strikes on southern Gaza
At least 32 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in southern Gaza killed at least 32 people overnight and into ...
Mexico’s Sheinbaum will keep doing mañanera briefings, though her style is unlike her predecessor’s
Mexico’s new President, Claudia Sheinbaum, will start her day Wednesday much like her political mentor, ex-President Andrés ...
Swine fever sweeps Italy’s north, threatening production of prized prosciutto and livelihoods
One of Giovanni Airoli’s sows turned up positive for African swine fever in late August. Within a week, all 6,200 sows, ...
Vance and Walz keep it civil in a policy-heavy discussion: VP debate takeaways
Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged ...
MLB Playoffs Notebook: Tarik Skubal Is a Pitching Chameleon
The most impressive skill of Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal is not that he can throw 100 mph or that he has a nasty changeup that is about 12 mph slower or that he has two wicked breaking pitches. It ...
Online voting in Alaska’s Fat Bear Week contest starts after an attack killed 1 contestant
Let the chunk-off begin. Voting starts Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite ...
11 workers at a Tennessee factory were swept away in Hurricane Helene flooding. Only 5 were rescued
As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept working. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power ...
Sex workers are hit hard by Congo’s mpox outbreak but say their only option is to keep working
It’s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she’s still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma ...
Okaloosa County will become the home of the world’s largest artificial reef
Okaloosa County commissioners believe they have sealed the deal to buy the SS United States. The old cruise ship has been ...
Thai police arrest driver and work to identify victims of the school bus fire that killed 23
Thai police have arrested the driver of a bus carrying young students and teachers that caught fire and killed 23 in suburban ...
Fact-check fight: CBS News cuts candidates’ mics after JD Vance objects to a moderator’s correction
CBS News briefly cut off the microphones of vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz during an exchange in their ...