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NOAA has raised the odds of a historically powerful El Niño event to 90 percent for the coming fall and winter seasons. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center issued its August 2026 forecast showing a 90 percent…

A former senior US Treasury official has warned that Iran’s oil exports dropping to nearly zero under the renewed US naval blockade could destabilize the regime within two to three months. Miad Maleki, who served under both President Trump and…

A German historian has used artificial intelligence to identify a notorious Nazi executioner in a World War II photograph more than 80 years after it was taken. Jürgen Matthäus, a historian specializing in Holocaust research, made the breakthrough after a…

SpaceX is set to blast off a Falcon 9 rocket from California Saturday night on a secretive military mission. The rocket is scheduled to launch at 6:50 p.m. From Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, according to the company’s announcement.…

Hurricane Lala strengthened to Category 1 status as it bore down on Hawaii’s Big Island, with tropical-storm-force gusts already hitting the island early Saturday. The storm was located about 80 miles southeast of South Point, Hawaii County, in the latest…

Giacomo de Mola, a world champion spearfisher, has spoken out about discovering what he called an “underwater museum” off the coast of Sicily. View this post on Instagram De Mola, 47, and his fellow diver Igor Bisulli found the ancient…

Ana María Saavedra’s cousin confirmed on Instagram that the last missing triplet sister was found dead. View this post on Instagram Ana María, 23, was the first-born of the triplets and the only one pulled alive from the rubble of…

At least 20 people are dead after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Flores coast early Saturday. The quake hit at 5:58 a.m. Local time, according to the US Geological Survey, with an epicenter 42 miles north-northwest of Ende…

Margarita Reut, 32, was arrested and charged with terrorism after confessing to planting a trash-can bomb that killed a former Ukrainian submarine commander in Russian-occupied Crimea. Reut, a Russian national born in Yaroslavl, was detained in Sevastopol last Thursday following…

Record-breaking rain has killed at least eight people and left more than 10,000 travelers stranded near Tokyo. The deluge struck Chiba prefecture, east of the Japanese capital, on Thursday during one of the country’s busiest holiday travel periods. Among the…

Gunnar Garfors has singled out Seoul as his favorite big city and called it “vastly underestimated.” The Norwegian explorer, 49, who became the first person to visit all 198 countries in the world twice, shared his travel insights with the…

The Sultan of Brunei has stripped his daughter-in-law of all her royal titles following conduct deemed “unbecoming” of the royal family. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, 80, issued a royal command revoking the title “Yang Amat Mulia Pengiran Anak Isteri” from Pengiran…

The death toll from an overloaded ferry disaster on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba has climbed to at least 44, officials said Wednesday. The vessel, operated by Zimbabwe’s Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, capsized on Tuesday afternoon near Long Island with far more…

A 4-year-old was killed when a tree fell on a home in Geneva Township, Indiana, around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Deputies found the 4-year-old boy trapped in a back bedroom where the tree had fallen, and he was pronounced dead at…

A baby was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Cali, Colombia after the 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday. When the deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Colombia on Monday, Brian Osorio Zuluaga ran out…

Crews rescued 172 people and recovered the body of a passenger from a ferry that caught fire in rough seas Wednesday near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, authorities said. The fire started about 4:15 a.m. While the Putri Yasmin…