Japan on Friday announced an emergency cybersecurity package that includes the use of artificial intelligence and cyber rescue teams after a wave of massive data breaches hit major companies and government agencies. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told a ministerial meeting Friday that a rapid resp...
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Jay Rockefeller, the last member of his family’s political dynasty — and the only Democrat — who served as West Virginia’s governor and later a longtime U.S. senator, has died. He was 89. Rockefeller died Thursday night at his home in Washington, said Mary Stewart, vice president...
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Fear for safety, financial worries and the thought of starting over alone are some of the reasons people stay with an abusive partner. For one San Antonio survivor, calling 911 became the first step toward getting help and leaving for good. Ariel, whose identity is being protecte...
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Airstrikes hit a market in southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing at least 20 people, according to an official with Iran-backed Houthi rebels. It would be one of the deadliest attacks since fighting resumed between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces. Another 15 people ...
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Portugal coach Jorge Jesus says that he had not expected Cristiano Ronaldo to retire from international soccer despite their recent public falling out . “I thought he would return. I certainly intended to call him up,” Jesus said when he presented his Nations League squad on Frid...
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As he takes stock of his Republican Party’s midterm drubbing, President Donald Trump faces the difficult question of what to do about his unpopular 8-month-old war against Iran . For weeks, Trump threatened a post-election full-scale bombardment if Tehran didn't accept his terms....
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Pope Leo XIV is kicking off a three-nation tour of Latin America with a visit to Uruguay, three weeks after undergoing lung cancer surgery that had put the entire trip into question....
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School enrollment was already expected to plunge by 2 million kids by 2030. Education experts say deporting immigrant families, many with school-age children, is making the crisis worse....
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Former Republican state Rep. Ernset Bailes, who lost his seat after opposing Gov. Greg Abbott's school voucher push is among the governor-elect's first appointments. Here other picks reflect priorities in public education, organized labor and local government....
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A man was shot and killed by a San Antonio police officer after pulling a gun, while another man shot himself following a chase on the far West Side, according to Chief Jesse Salame. The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Friday at Lone Star Parkway and Wild Pine, not far from A...
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U.S. President Donald Trump has discussed efforts to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East in a telephone call with Qatar's emir as the region remained on edge over the possibility of renewed U.S. military action against Iran . Meanwhile, deadly Saudi airstrikes at a popular ma...
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Japan has protested to Moscow after Russia placed four subsidiaries belonging to Japan Tobacco Inc. under the temporary management of a Russian company and demanded that the measure be withdrawn immediately, Japanese officials said Friday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara to...
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The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult linked to the deaths of more than 400 people was sentenced on Friday to 200 years in prison for the murders of 191 people. The High Court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa issued the sentence for Pastor Paul Mackenzie. He was convicted of mur...
