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The Environmental Protection Agency has granted two requests from California to enforce strict standards for vehicle emissions, including a rule aimed at banning sales of new gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035

A grand jury in Washington has returned an indictment against former Congressman David Rivera for failing to register as a foreign agent of a sanctioned Venezuelan media tycoon on whose behalf the Miami Republican allegedly lobbied the Trump administra...

New York prosecutors are using a 9/11-era anti-terrorism law in their case against the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

Republicans will still be in charge when the Wisconsin Legislature returns to work in January but will have the narrowest majorities in years

A friend of brothers who are prominent in luxury real estate in Florida and New York and are charged with sex trafficking and assault has surrendered to face an allegation that he helped two of them rape a woman nearly a decade ago

The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it

The hip-hop mogul is currently detained at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn which is often described as 'hell on earth'. According to reports, Combs altered appearance during a court appearance on Wednesday for a pretrial hearing left attendees stunned. The once-glamorous hip-hop icon said to look visibly thinner, with dramatically grayer hair, prompting speculation that months behind bars have taken their toll.

CBI court in Bhubaneswar granted conditional bail to three persons arrested in connection with a bribery case in Odisha. The court on Wednesday granted bail to Chanchal Mukherjee, group general manager of the CPSU Bridge and Roof Company (India) Limited, and contractors Santosh Moharana and Debadutta Mohapatra. The bail was granted by the court on the production of a bond of Rs 1 lakh and two sureties each, said advocate Subham Satpathy, one of the lawyers engaged by the accused persons. While granting bail, the court put a condition that the accused persons cannot leave Bhubaneswar without its permission. They will also not attempt to tamper with evidence and will cooperate with the investigation.

Smasher Sports, backed by global investment firm Terra Invest and former Wimbledon tennis player Ashok Amritraj-backed Hyde Park Entertainment, has acquired the Delhi Franchise of the World Pickleball League (WPBL), the company said on Wednesday. “The investment underscores the league’s potential to transform the country’s sports entertainment landscape,” the statement said. The WPBL features six teams and is affiliated with the All India Pickleball Association (AIPA).

MMA) fighter Conor McGregor has reached a preliminary agreement to fight American social media influencer-turned-fighter Logan Paul in an exhibition boxing match, the former UFC champion said on social media on Tuesday. McGregor, who was ordered to pay damages last month after a jury in a civil trial at Ireland's High Court found he assaulted a woman in 2018, said the fight would take place in India but did not specify when it would potentially occur. «I am in preliminary agreements with the Ambani family to face Logan Paul in a boxing exhibition in India. I have agreed,» McGregor wrote on X. «I will then seek my return to the Octagon,» he posted.

What do you do when the energy is flagging, you’re eighty hours into a ninety-hour week and someone needs you to really concentrate on changing the colour scheme on a slide pack from ochre yellow to mustard yellow?  According to a number of currently working bankers who have spoken to the Wall Street Journal and been surprisingly willing to be quoted under their own names, you reach for drugs that are meant to treat ADHD and you carry on.

A British court says police can seize more than 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) in unpaid taxes from influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan

Pallab De, an X (formerly Twitter) user, vented his frustration on the platform, accusing Zomato of selling Rs 10 water bottles for Rs 100 at a concert venue, where attendees were not allowed to bring their own bottles. His post quickly gained traction, resonating with many users who were equally outraged by the price hike with one pointing out how going to events feels like being in the proverbial “Squid Games”. In his post, Pallab De shared an image of the water bottles he purchased, showing an MRP of Rs 10, which was being sold for a much higher price. He expressed his disbelief over how such practices could occur, tagging the Telangana High Court advocate and prompting a wave of responses from social media users who were quick to criticize the overpricing. The tweet has garnered about 3.7 lakh views on the micro-blogging site.

Punjab government on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that continuous, elaborate meetings were held with Jagjit Singh Dallewal, farmer leader who is on an indefinite fast at Khanauri border, and other farmers, but they declined interacting with the high-powered committee constituted by it. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan was informed by Punjab advocate general Gurminder Singh that the committee invited them on December 17, but protesting farmers did not engage with it. Singh said the state government was trying to persuade the farmers on a daily basis and suggested they could be permitted to submit their demands directly to the court. The top court said, «We clarify that court's doors are always open to any suggestion or demand by farmers directly or through their authorised representative.»

A Jersey Shore environmental group says damage from decades of toxic waste dumping at one of America's most notorious pollution sites caused $1 billion worth of damages

Svetlana Dali certainly is tenacious.The alleged Delta Air Lines stowaway is, once again, making headlines — this time for trying to sneak her way into Canada, reportedly cutting off her ankle monitor before boarding a Greyhound bus to the Great White North.Dali, a 57-year-old Russian national, was taken into custody in Paris late last month after she snuck onto a Delta Air Lines flight at New York’s JFK International Airport without a boarding pass on Nov. 26 and flew all the way to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, apparently concealing herself by spending long periods of time in the plane’s multiple bathrooms.She was detained when authorities discovered she didn’t have a valid visa to enter the country, French National Police said at the time.After two unsuccessful attempts to deport her back to the U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TEL AVIV—Israel’s defense minister signaled the country is planning to keep tighter and longer-term security control over territory just across its border in Syria and in Gaza, taking advantage of its weakened neighbors to better insulate itself from possible threats. Israel seized control of the 155-square-mile buffer zone separating it from Syria after the Assad regime that had ruled the country for more than half a century collapsed just over a week ago.

Indonesia's mining industry is rapidly expanding on demand for the minerals needed to help power the global energy transition, like nickel, cobalt and bauxite

Qualcomm grilled a former Apple executive on Tuesday about a key question for the future of the chip industry: Who owns the intellectual property built on top of Arm's computing architecture? At stake in a trial in U.S. federal court in Delaware this week is the fate of Qualcomm's push into the laptop business, where it is helping partners such as Microsoft try to regain ground that Windows computers lost to Apple after the iPhone maker introduced its own custom chips. Arm's flagship product is a computing architecture that competes against Intel's architecture and is ubiquitous in smartphones and increasingly used in laptops and data centers. Competing computing architectures are the reason that, until relatively recently, most smartphone apps did not work on most laptops.

President-elect Donald Trump is accusing the Des Moines Register newspaper and its pollster of “brazen election interference” for publishing a poll the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris was leading by three percentage point...

Canada has imposed economic sanctions on five Venezuelan officials, including the head of the country’s high court, accusing them of engaging in electoral fraud during the disputed July presidential election