A potentially crippling strike up and down America’s East and Gulf Coasts has been avoided – at least for now – after longshoremen and the shipping and port companies reached a tentative deal on a new contract Wednesday. The United States Maritime Alliance, the group representing ship lines and port…

The two best teams in the NBA — the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder — squared off in the first game in league history featuring clubs on 15 and 10 games winning streaks. Oklahoma City entered Wednesday’s showdown having won 15 games in a row, while Cleveland came into…

Israel’s military has announced new media engagement rules for its members after a Brazilian court ordered an investigation into war crime allegations against a soldier visiting the country. The guidelines, announced Wednesday, require the names and faces of most of its soldiers – both active duty and reserve – to…

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman denied allegations made by his sister in a lawsuit filed Monday, which claimed he sexually abused her for almost a decade. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Missouri, accuses him of sexual assault and sexual battery spanning from 1997 to 2006. His sister,…

President Joe Biden will no longer travel to Rome, Italy, this week as scheduled, the White House announced late Wednesday, canceling the trip in the final days of his presidency to monitor raging wildfires across the Los Angeles, California, area. “After returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today…

An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicates has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash, according to the US Department of Justice. During an undercover investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in…

Rescue crews found the body of a British hiker buried in the snow of the Italian Alps and were continuing to search for his friend, who had also been missing since January 1, Italy’s rescue services said Wednesday. Italy’s Alpine rescue service said it only received an alert about the…

Walls of fire devoured neighborhoods, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee for their lives. But as a cataclysm fueled by windstorms charred swathes of Los Angeles, Donald Trump spotted an opportunity. The president-elect responded to six massive blazes by reopening his long-term feud with California Gov. Gavin Newsom,…