Two NASA astronauts currently in the International Space Station will continue to stay there until technical problems with their Boeing Starliner capsule are fixed, officials said on July 25. Thruster failures and helium leaks in the Starliner capsule have caused the month-plus delay for NASA crew Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, according to officials. The […]

Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky hopes that athletes have trained and will compete “clean” at the upcoming Paris Olympics, referring to the 2021 case when Chinese swimmers failed doping tests but were permitted to continue to compete. The FBI opened a criminal investigation into the doping case involving 23 Chinese swimmers during the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, […]

An event celebrating the traditional family and its values took place in two cities simultaneously in Greece last week. Perperidou Nikoleta, one of the organizers in the northern city of Thessaloniki, told NTD that the Family Pride event, held on July 6, celebrates the traditional Greek family and discusses its problems, such as education, employment, […]

Two inert grenades caused a halt to a Hawaii airport on Tuesday, after security personnel spotted them inside the bag of a Japanese man who was detained and released pending investigation. According to a police press release, two grenades were found around 5:40 a.m. by security personnel at Hawaii’s Hilo International Airport during the security […]

An Arizona man admitted to killing his wife one week after she was reported missing, and an exhaustive search started, according to officials Daniel Paduchowski pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder in the death of his 45-year-old wife, Kelly Paduchowski. He also pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence, concealment of a dead body, and […]

American wrestler Kyle Snyder is hoping to become the fourth American to win two golds in Olympic wrestling, as the 28-year-old heads to the Paris Olympic Games. Aged just 20, he won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games, and silver at the 2021 Tokyo games. He was also a three-time NCAA […]

Five people were charged Wednesday with conspiring to bribe a juror in Minnesota with $120,000 in cash. The juror was on one of the biggest fraud cases involving U.S. COVID-19 relief programs, in which over $250 million was taken. In April, seven people went to trial after being accused of participating in a scheme to […]

A 3,300-year-old shipwreck discovered in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel contains hundreds of preserved urns, possibly carrying oil and wine. The shipwreck—which the Israeli Antiquities Authority called the world’s oldest discovered—was found by London-based natural gas company Energean while investigating the sea bed with a robot for an environmental study. The ship’s […]

China’s communist regime is expected to have the same number of intercontinental ballistic missiles—usually used as carriers of nuclear warheads—as the United States and Russia by 2030, according to a Swedish research center. However, the regime is expected to have fewer nuclear warheads than either the United States or Russia. According to a new report […]

Six-time Olympic medalist swimmer Matt Grevers has come out of retirement at the age of 39 to compete in the Paris Olympics. Grevers competed in the preliminaries for the 50-meter freestyle on Thursday, after three years of retirement from competitive swimming, to try to make it to the Paris 2024 Games. He joined the U.S. […]

American chipmaker ON Semiconductor Corporation (onsemi) is investing up to $2 billion to expand its factory in the Czech Republic. Onsemi and the Czech government announced the new investment in its existing factory in the Czech town of Roznov pod Radhostem on Wednesday. The investment is the biggest in the country since the split of […]

UFC champion Conor McGregor announced on Saturday that his bout with Michael Chandler in the UFC 303 event is postponed due to an injury during training. UFC President Dana White had also made known on Thursday that the Irishman would not fight in the main event of the June 29 card, with a rematch between […]

Wells Fargo fired several employees for faking mouse movement and keyboard strokes when working from home. Wells Fargo reported this week that it has fired more than a dozen people for “simulation of keyboard activity.” Bloomberg first reported on it, citing filings to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The fired employees worked in the bank’s […]

Texas law enforcement arrested a “most wanted illegal immigrant” on June 13, the second since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a list of the 10 most wanted in the state. Victor Hugo Chox Gonzalez, 38, was arrested in Fort Worth by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) special agents, according to a press release. Hw […]

Tyson Foods suspended its CFO, the son of Chairman John H. Tyson after he was arrested for intoxication for a second time. The U.S. meatpacker said Curt Calaway, a senior finance executive at the company, will take over as interim CFO. John R. Tyson, 34, was arrested early Thursday by University of Arkansas police in […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Wednesday warned about scams targeting seniors in the lead-up to World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15. In an IRS press release, the agency warned about the threat of impersonation scams that pretend to be government officials with the aim of stealing sensitive personal information or money. The […]

Two of the New York Jets’ biggest names—Aaron Rodgers and Haason Reddick—were absent from the start of the team’s mandatory minicamp unexcused this week, according to Jets head coach Robert Saleh. “Aaron and I spoke before OTAs [organized team activities] started,” Mr. Saleh told reporters on Tuesday. “He’s been very good in communication—he’s been here […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that a case of human infection with avian influenza A (H9N2) virus, also known as the bird flu, was detected in a child in the West Bengal state of India. The patient was a 4-year-old child who recovered and was discharged from the hospital, according to a […]

A food company is recalling a batch of its 4-ounce packs of baby arugula, as it found the salad greens had the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. Lake Worth, Florida-based Green Life Farms recalled all of the packages from its lot #LW15124 of baby arugula on June 7 after routine testing revealed the presence […]

Five individuals in California were arrested for allegedly running sham hospices and billing the Medicare program $15 million, most of which they then laundered to purchase real estate and vehicles. Petros Fichidzhyan, 43, of Granada Hills, California; Juan Carlos Esparza, 32, of Valley Village, California; and Sarpis Srapyan, 34, of Van Nuys, California, are charged […]