Author: Justin M. Larson

Gunfire tore through the dark. Night after night, the 44-year-old physician from Guinea clung to the hope that the besieged city would hold somehow. Then, one morning in late January, the call came: he and the remaining international staff had to be evacuated immediately.“We took the last flight out,” he recalled.Hours later, Goma was in the hands of M23. The Tutsi-led rebel group, backed by neighbouring Rwanda, had just landed its boldest military victory in the region yet.For most, that would have been the end of the story: a narrow escape, a mission cut short. But, as the aircraft lifted…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been taken into custody after arriving at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Baltimore. In a statement, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem confirmed his arrest and said that ICE “are processing him for deportation”.He was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador in March, and then brought back to face criminal charges.US authorities have informed him he may be deported to Uganda, following his refusal to accept a plea deal, his lawyers say.His legal team accuses the US of trying to “coerce” him to plead guilty by threatening to re-deport…

Entrepreneur and ‘Stemistry’ owner Dylan Capshaw shares his journey from young visionary to thriving business owner and why the traditional college route was not the path he chose. Keurig Dr Pepper will acquire Dutch coffee company JDE Peet’s in an $18 billion all-cash deal, the companies announced on Monday. Under the terms of the deal, Keurig Dr Pepper will pay JDE Peet’s shareholders 31.85 euros ($37.26) per share in cash, a 33% premium to JDE Peet’s 90-day volume-weighted average stock price. This will equate to a total purchase price of 15.7 billion euros ($18.4 billion). Keurig Dr Pepper will pay JDE…

Eyewitness video captured the moment a firefighting helicopter spun out of control and crashed into a pond in France. Source link

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersIt’s been two years since the explosion of generative artificial intelligence started to transform Nvidia’s business. Since then, the chipmaker’s revenue has more than tripled and profits have quadrupled.Nvidia’s fiscal second-quarter earnings report, scheduled for Wednesday, will mark the second anniversary of growth, as the company shifted from being known as a maker of gaming chips to its current position at the heart of the technology industry.Last month, Nvidia became the first company to hit a $4 trillion market…

The detention came only three days after he was freed from custody in the criminal case that was filed against him in Federal District Court in Nashville. Source link

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into immigration custody after checking in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its office in Baltimore on Monday morning, his attorney announced.Abrego Garcia was detained as soon as he entered ICE’s office, attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg said.”We asked the ICE officer what the reason for his detention was, the ICE officer didn’t answer,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said, adding that ICE officers would not say which detention center his client would be taken to.”We asked the ICE officer for a copy of any paperwork that’s being served on him today, the ICE officer wouldn’t commit to even giving us…

Fari Ek Vaar – Official Trailer Source link

Turkey’s transport minister was slapped with a speeding ticket after posting a video of himself driving at 140 mph. Source link

An order to stop work on the Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island further rattled the beleaguered Danish company. Source link

Bryan Kohberger Pleads For Transfer; Handwritten Letter Details Prison ThreatsLess than a month after receiving his life sentence, Bryan Kohberger wrote a desperate handwritten plea to prison officials asking to be transferred from his cell block. Dated July 30, the letter, now circulating online, describes constant flooding in his cell and relentless verbal harassment from fellow inmates. Kohberger claimed prisoners shouted sexual threats, with one even vowing to assault him. An incident report later confirmed he was targeted with vulgar language on multiple occasions. However, despite substantiating the harassment, officials denied his request, citing no clear aggressor. Staff reportedly told…

Gaza-based reporters said the four had worked for various international media outlets. At least four other people were killed in the strikes on a hospital. Source link

President Donald Trump on Sunday responded to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s invitation to a public safety walk in Baltimore, offering to send “troops” to the city. Source link

An Evergrande commercial complex in Beijing on Jan. 29, 2024.Greg Baker | Afp | Getty ImagesChina Evergrande Group was delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday — an ignominious exit for the former high-flying developer that once epitomized Beijing’s economic rise and later came to symbolize the country’s property bust.Following its listing in 2009, Evergrande had become one of China’s hottest stocks, with the company’s market cap peaked at $51 billion in 2017. Trading in the company’s shares had been suspended since January 2024 when it received a liquidation order, with its market value falling to just above…

Western car giants are battling crises on multiple fronts, with declining profits , layoffs and widespread cost-cutting measures showing their strain. From rising production costs to U.S. tariffs , intense competition , supply chain disruptions and regulatory pressures , as well as a bumpy electric vehicle transition — top original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are caught in a perfect storm. As Mercedes-Benz Group CEO Ola Källenius recently put it: “Our industry is experiencing heavy rain, hail, storms and snow at the same time.” “It does feel like a polycrisis,” said Sigrid de Vries, director general of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association…

BERLIN — An American man who worked at a U.S. military facility in Germany and allegedly offered to supply sensitive information to China has been indicted on espionage charges, German prosecutors said Monday.The suspect, identified only as Martin D. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Frankfurt in early November. In an indictment sent to the state court in Koblenz earlier this month, he is charged with having declared his willingness to engage in espionage for a foreign intelligence service, federal prosecutors said.The man worked between 2017 and early 2023 for a civilian contractor of the U.S. Defense…

Maren Morris Calls Out Fan Misconduct After Being Groped Source link

LONDON — Four journalists were among at least 14 people killed in an Israeli airstrike at the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Monday morning, officials at the Hamas-run Gaza Government Media Office and Health Ministry said.Hossam Al-Masry, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Dagga and Moaz Abu Taha were the journalists killed, the media office said in a statement.Dagga, 33, had been working as a freelance journalist for the Associated Press since the conflict began in October 2022, the AP reported.Palestinians gather outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 25,…

More than 300,000 people have been told to evacuate as Typhoon Kajiki moved across a wide area between Hanoi and Da Nang. Source link

Michael Wolff Explodes; Points Finger At Trump, DOJ Moves Questioned Source link

Israel’s approval of a settlement project delayed for decades shows how far Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone in dashing Palestinian aspirations. Source link

For President Trump, consistency is less important than leader-to-leader diplomacy. Source link

Despite more than 2,000 National Guard troops authorized by President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said students in the nation’s capital will not be aided by their presence as children return to school this week.”We don’t need federal agencies to help get kids to school,” Bowser told ABC News. “We will take care of getting our kids to school.”The school year begins as Bowser and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) tout proficiency rates in English language arts/literacy (ELA) and math are the highest since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the…

The Chinese consulate in Manhattan has mobilized community groups to defeat candidates who don’t fall in line with the authoritarian state. Source link