Father of boy rescued from pounding California surf says he is beyond grateful to teen lifeguard
The father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son.
Iran vows to ‘punish the aggressor today’ after U.S. unleashes ‘heavy wave’ of strikes
Iran vowed to “punish” the United States on Thursday after the American military said it had completed a “heavy wave of strikes” overnight, the latest retaliation for an attack by Tehran on U.S. forces in the Middle East.
China generates less than half of its electricity from coal for the first time
China, the world’s largest coal consumer, generated less than 50% of its electricity from the fossil fuel in the six months to June, marking a first for the country which has been promoting the use of renewable energy, officials said.
Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 13; Poland scrambles fighter jets
Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people in Ukraine, including one in Kyiv, in attacks extending as far as the western city of Lviv, forcing neighboring Poland to scramble fighter jets to secure its airspace.
Bullets that killed 2 bystanders at Seattle festival weren’t from arrested teen’s gun, police say
Shell casings found at the scene of Sunday’s shooting indicate four weapons were fired during the shootout, according to court documents.
Hope dwindles for rescue in southwestern Japan quake as death toll climbs to 23
Rural communities in southwestern Japan were struggling to get their lives back to normal Thursday, two days after a powerful earthquake set off an explosion at a mall, toppled a factory chimney and flattened homes, killing at least 23 people.
Man gets 6-month sentence for ramming car into Jewish group’s N.Y. world headquarters
A New Jersey man was sentenced Wednesday to six months and a week behind bars for ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, the Jewish institution in New York where his lawyer said he’d been trying to win acceptance as he struggled with psychological issues.
The 44 days between a pedophilia allegation and an Oklahoma murder-suicide
Six weeks passed between the night Jeremiah Shawn Duffey was accused of molesting a child and the night he is alleged to have killed his wife in a murder-suicide.
Todd Blanche’s rocky road: From the Politics Desk
In today’s edition, we dig into the uncertain paths forward for Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination and the Iran war.
Man convicted in federal terrorism trial over stabbing of author Salman Rushdie
A man was convicted Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel “The Satanic Verses.”