A New Zealander studied for a year to win the Spanish world Scrabble title. He doesn’t speak Spanish
A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title — ...
Alex Jones keeps Infowars for now after judge rejects The Onion’s winning auction bid
A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding for the conspiracy theory platform as flawed as well as how ...
A Lebanese man who spent 32 years in Syrian prisons is welcomed home
Suheil Hamwi spent 32 years in a Syrian prison, and now, after an offensive by insurgents that toppled the government of Bashar Assad, he’s finally returned to his ...
Taiwan demands that China end its military activity in nearby waters
Taiwan demanded Wednesday that China end its ongoing military activity in nearby waters, which it said is unilaterally undermining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait ...
BDS to sell land to FDOT for flyover project
Bay District Schools is selling a piece of property to the Florida Department of Transportation. DOT officials have agreed to pay $1.9 million for about an acre of land ...
BDS students will follow a new dress code come August
Bay District School board members have finally decided on a new student dress code for the beginning of the next school year. For most of Bay County’s older ...
Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast is making strides in maternity care with their Family Birth Place branch
Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coasts continues to strive for greatness. Their family birthplace facility has recently been recognized as a 2025 high-performing ...
Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study finds
The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has ...
A Malibu wildfire prompts evacuation orders and warnings for 20,000, including Dick Van Dyke, Cher
Weather conditions were forecasted to improve this week in Southern California, aiding firefighters in their battle against a wind-driven wildfire that’s forced up to ...
Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone bring chaotic winter weather to East Coast
The U.S. East Coast was beginning a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather on Wednesday that was rainy, windy and potentially dangerous, due in part to an atmospheric river ...
Rights group demands probe of ex-governor, 2 army officers in Congo for possible humanitarian crimes
Amnesty International called for an investigation Wednesday into a former governor and two top army officials in Congo for “possible crimes against humanity” during a deadly ...
These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza
Reem Ajour says she last saw her husband and then 4-year-old daughter in March, when Israeli soldiers raided a family home in northern Gaza. She is haunted by ...