A former chemical-industry executive who fought against stronger regulations under the first Trump administration is returning to take critical roles at the Environmental Protection Agency, two people with knowledge of the appointment said, raising concerns of corporate influence on chemical safety regulations. Nancy B. Beck, a toxicologist and former executive at the American Chemistry Council, […]

In a welcome update for Xbox owners, Microsoft has announced that its consoles will soon support external USB drives that are larger than 16TB in size. This feature is now available for members of the Xbox Insiders program to test–specifically, members who have unlocked the Alpha Skip-Ahead tier–and is expected to roll out to the […]

The world is full of uncertainty, but one thing that people can reliably count on is Netflix raising prices–and that’s happening again soon. Netflix has announced its latest price increase, with all three major tiers seeing an increase of at least $1 for the monthly rate. Here are the new rates, which are effective immediately […]

Ask any collector of Game Boy Advances games what their holy grail is, and chances are high that Ninja Five-O is on that list. A cult-classic action game released by Konami way back in 2003, physical GBA copies are typically listed for a very high price on the reseller market, but fortunately, you can save […]

Israel’s military continued what it called a new counterterrorism operation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday, arresting at least 25 people over the last day, Palestinian news media reported. The total death toll since the start of the raid rose to 10, up from eight on Tuesday, and four more people were injured in […]

In Melbourne, masked men set fire to a storied synagogue. In Sydney, a synagogue was defaced with red swastikas spray painted along the fence, while a day care center was torched and scrawled with antisemitic slurs under the cover of night. A rash of antisemitic attacks in recent weeks has rattled the Jewish community in […]

The North Korean soldiers fighting for Moscow in Russia’s Kursk region are assigned their own patches of land to assault. Unlike their Russian counterparts, they advance with almost no armored vehicles in support. When they attack, they do not pause to regroup or retreat, as the Russians often do when they start taking heavy losses, […]

Prince Harry’s lawyer announced on Wednesday that he had reached a settlement with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers over accusations of unlawful information gathering — an abrupt end to a case that Harry had cast as a last chance to hold the tabloids to account for years of predatory behavior. News Group Newspapers offered Harry […]

The 613 men had traveled from their native Niger to neighboring Libya, where many of them planned to reach Europe over the Mediterranean Sea, a journey thousands of people from sub-Saharan Africa endeavor to make every year. But late last month, the men were deported by Libyan authorities in one of the country’s largest expulsions […]

Minutes after the fighting stopped in Gaza on Sunday, Islam Dahliz and his father and brother set out for the neighborhood where they had lived until Israeli forces ordered them to leave. They were looking for the family home, but the landscape around them scrambled the senses. Familiar landmarks, streets, neighbors’ houses — everything was […]