Lead Four people were injured by a black bear in the Sasakino district of Fukushima on Tuesday after the animal entered a residential and industrial area, authorities said. The incidents followed an emergency call from the Fukushima Steel Works reporting attacks on two employees; first-aid responders treated three men and a local woman. None of … Read more
Lead: A government release of more than 1,500 pages of documents has revealed private messages from Lord Peter Mandelson that sharply criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer, No 10 staff and ministers. The material, published after a Commons vote to disclose vetting files, includes messages dated March–August 2025 and prompted a day of Westminster reaction on … Read more
Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds is speaking after the government released more than 1,500 pages of documents linked to Lord Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US, which include private messages critical of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other ministers. The files, published on 1 June 2025, contain WhatsApp exchanges and emails in which figures … Read more
Lead On June 1, 2026, the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams reached an agreement to send reigning Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to Los Angeles. The reported package to Cleveland includes defensive end Jared Verse plus a 2027 first-round pick, a 2028 second-rounder and a 2029 third-rounder; both teams posted announcements late … Read more
The Israeli military captured Beaufort Castle in south Lebanon on Sunday, raising an Israeli flag over the hilltop stronghold for the first time in 26 years as air and ground operations expanded. Witnesses and local officials described white phosphorus smoke and advancing troops, while Israeli authorities released footage of soldiers entering an undefended castle and … Read more
Lead: Tonight and throughout June 2026, observers worldwide can catch a rapid sequence of lunar phases, planetary pairings and seasonal targets from the bright Venus–Jupiter approach to the full moon on June 29. Key highlights include close passes (Mercury with M35 on June 2), a tight Venus–Jupiter conjunction (1.5° on June 9), a rare daylight … Read more
Lead: Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo report 282 confirmed Ebola cases as of early June 2026, with the outbreak concentrated in eastern Ituri province. The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited a new treatment centre in Bunia on Sunday, May 31, and recognized several health workers who survived infection. Authorities … Read more
Lead In Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities say at least 282 confirmed cases of Ebola have been identified as the outbreak remains concentrated in the east. Health officials report 264 of those confirmed infections are in Ituri, and the outbreak has so far killed 42 people in Congo and one in neighboring … Read more
Lead Serena Williams, 44, has announced she will return to professional tennis next week at the Queen’s Club WTA 500 event in west London, entering the doubles draw with a wildcard. The former world No. 1 has not played since the 2022 US Open, where she described stepping away as “evolving away” rather than formally … Read more
On Monday, U.S. equities were mixed as energy prices spiked and technology stocks posted selective gains. The S&P 500 traded near unchanged while the Dow fell about 0.4% after a slide of roughly 231 points; the Nasdaq was also close to flat. Oil benchmarks jumped—West Texas Intermediate rose about 7% to near $94 a barrel … Read more
On Saturday at 2:06 p.m., a roughly 1‑metre (3ft) wide meteoroid entered Earth’s atmosphere near the New Hampshire–Massachusetts border north of Boston, producing bright daylight sightings and a series of loud booms felt from Delaware to Montreal. The American Meteor Society (AMS) logged dozens of reports of a daytime fireball, ground shaking and a two‑pulse … Read more
Federal documents obtained by CBS News show the Trump administration is drafting a Department of Homeland Security regulation that would let U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) dismiss certain asylum applications without the customary in-person interview. The change, reported June 1, 2026, would allow USCIS officers to quickly deny cases filed more than one year … Read more
On Saturday afternoon around 2:11 p.m. Eastern Time, a meteor exploded over the waters off Massachusetts, producing a loud boom heard across the region and a bright daytime fireball seen by dozens. Preliminary reports to the American Meteor Society and satellite data from NOAA helped reconstruct the event; NASA estimated the breakup released energy equivalent … Read more
European leaders publicly denounced Israel’s widening military push into southern Lebanon after Israeli forces captured the medieval Beaufort (Qalaat al-Shaqif) castle and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to press deeper into territory held by Hezbollah. The condemnation, voiced by France, the UK and Germany, came amid an already fragile US-mediated truce that has been sporadically … Read more
Lead: Four nurses discharged from a hospital in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and an earlier recovery by a laboratory worker have raised cautious optimism about the Bundibugyo-strain Ebola outbreak as the World Health Organization reported the recoveries on May 31. The outbreak has reached 282 confirmed cases and 42 deaths after 19 new positive … Read more
