WORLD “Torture chamber,” mass grave found in Kherson, Ukraine after Russia’s retreat

Russian airstrikes targeted gas, electricity, and other key infrastructure across Ukraine on Thursday, knocking out heating and water supplies to a huge number of civilians just as winter sets in. As the snow started falling around the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Vladimir Putin’s tactics had left more than 10 million Ukrainians without electricity. That […]

Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account after online poll

Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter on Saturday, reversing a ban that has kept the former president off the social media site since a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was poised to certify Joe Biden’s election victory. Musk made the announcement in the evening after holding […]

Truck in North Carolina holiday parade crashes, kills girl

A truck pulling a float for a holiday parade in North Carolina crashed Saturday, striking and killing a girl participating in the event, news outlets reported. The driver who lost control of the vehicle and struck the child was arrested and charged with reckless driving and other offenses, the Raleigh Police Department said in a […]

House GOP pushes Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power next year to investigate the Biden administration and, in particular, the president’s son. But the midterm results have emboldened a White House that has long prepared for this moment. Republicans secured much smaller margins than anticipated, and aides to President Joe Biden […]

North Korea’s Kim boasts new ICBM as US flies bombers

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un boasted that a recently tested intercontinental ballistic missile is another “reliable and maximum-capacity” weapon to contain U.S. military threats, state media reported Saturday. The United States responded to the North’s weapons launch by flying supersonic bombers in a show of force. The North’s Korean Central News Agency said Kim […]

UN climate talks poised for deal creating disaster fund

Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks, the creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich nations’ carbon pollution. “There is an agreement on loss and damage,” which is what negotiators call the concept, Maldives […]

Qatar bans sale of beer at World Cup stadiums in about-face

Qatar banned the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums on Friday, a sudden U-turn on the deal the conservative Muslim emirate made to secure the soccer tournament with only two days to go before the opening game. The move was the latest sign of the tension of staging the event, which is not just […]

Aqua restaurant opens new location in Bonita Springs

Hurricane Ian has set back many businesses and even shut down some for good, but new restaurants and shops are popping up. What had been a long-abandoned Perkins Restaurant off Bonita Beach Road and US-4 is now a fine dining restaurant called Aqua. Gulfshore Business shows you a new place to have some fine dining. […]

FDA approves lab-grown meat for the first time

For the first time, the FDA is giving the green light to meat grown in a laboratory. The agency said in a notice on Wednesday that a “cultivated chicken” product made by Upside Foods is safe to eat. The FDA “evaluated the information submitted to the agency and has no further questions at this time […]

Lettuce again on the Florida menu to slow manatee starvation

Lettuce will be on the menu again this year for Florida manatees as part of an effort to slow the starvation deaths of the beloved marine mammals, wildlife officials said Wednesday. Plans are already in place to resume an experimental feeding program at a warm-water power plant near Cape Canaveral. Last year, about 202,000 pounds […]