Representative Steve Scalise, whom Republicans nominated to be the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, dropped out of the race on Thursday as the party failed to resolve its divisions, prolonging the leadership crisis in the chamber.
Jurors convicted a Denver-area police officer on Thursday and acquitted another of charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing.
Four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30 per cent since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time, reports a new study that surveyed these crucial "gatekeepers" between the frozen continent's massive glaciers and open ocean.
Five days after Hamas militants stormed several Israeli communities, killing hundreds of civilians and soldiers, families of those who are believed to have been abducted in the attack say they are struggling to get information about their relatives and fear for their safety as Israeli blankets Gaza with retaliatory airstrikes.
After decades of friendly relations with Israel, Putin's response to last Saturday's deadly attack by Hamas suggests that Russia is aligning more closely with Iran, a known backer of the militant group.
Britain's financial regulator said on Thursday that former Barclays Bank chief executive Jes Staley has been fined and banned from holding senior financial roles in the U.K. for misleading it over the nature of his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
