Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday.
President Joe Biden on Thursday presented the nation's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles and soccer player Megan Rapinoe.
As the flood cleanup at Yellowstone National Park grinds on, climate experts and meteorologists say the gap between the destruction and what was forecast underscores a troublesome aspect of climate change: Models used to predict storm impacts do not always keep up with increasingly devastating weather events.
A U.S. federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights.
Disneyland Resort's Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked earlier on Thursday, with a series of inappropriate posts that were subsequently taken down, Walt Disney Co. said.
A Thursday statement from Russia's defence ministry said Russian military units involved in combat in Ukraine were given time to rest.
