Rapper Travis Scott was detained at a Paris hotel after an altercation with a security guard, French prosecutors said Friday. The detention occurred after police were called to the Georges V hotel to arrest a man “nicknamed Travis Scott for violence against a security guard,” according to a statement from the Paris public prosecutor’s office. … Read more
A third teenager has been arrested in connection with a foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Austria’s interior minister said Friday. Gerhard Karner said an 18-year-old was taken into custody Thursday evening in Vienna after allegedly being in contact with the main suspect. Karner announced the arrest during an unrelated news conference … Read more
American Quincy Hall, 26, won his first Olympic medal, claiming gold in the men’s 400-meter race. Meanwhile, the American artistic swimming team earned a medal for the first time in two decades, taking silver. As the Olympics wrap up in the next few days, team sports will head into their championship games.
I am back again in Japan with Japanese peace institutes, marking this most solemn of events in the global peace calendar. On 6 August 1945 Hiroshima endured a traumatic human loss of statistically seismic proportion – followed on 9 August by equally devastating mass casualties in Nagasaki. The human and environmental impact of these bombs … Read more
American track and field star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a new world record and claimed the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles final Thursday, repeating her win in Tokyo. American Anna Cockrell nabbed the silver in an upset over world champion Femke Bol of the Netherlands, who finished third for the bronze. McLaughlin-Levrone finished the race in … Read more
“Death to America, death to Israel” emerged as a slogan of the 1978–1979 Islamic Revolution, then was transformed into a reason for existence of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Conventional and chemical weapons that pounded Iranian cities from Iraq during the latter nation’s US-supported war between 1980–1988 did not topple the Islamist regime. Nor have … Read more
Authorities said one of two suspects who had pledged allegiance to ISIS planned to pose as a police officer and drive a bomb-filled car into crowds outside the Vienna, Austria, stadium where Taylor Swift was set to perform this week. Nicole Sganga has more.
The U.S. men’s basketball team defeated Serbia 95-91 Thursday in the semifinals of the Paris Olympics, mounting a huge comeback after being down by double digits entering the fourth quarter. They scored six points in two seconds. And just like that, against what looked like overwhelming odds, the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team was on its … Read more
Authorities found Islamic State group and al Qaeda material at the home of the second suspect in a foiled plot to attack the Taylor Swift Eras Tour shows in Austria, which were canceled on Wednesday. No other suspects are being sought, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said in Vienna on Thursday. “The situation was serious, the … Read more
The White House says Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks are “close,” amid fears of a widening Middle East war following high-profile assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Israel launched a rare airstrike on Lebanon’s capital of Beirut on July 30, killing Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, a close advisor to Hezbollah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah. A day later, the … Read more