Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government is making an effort to "smoke them out" and arrest them, officials announced Thursday. The United States on Thursday announced entry bans against more than 350 members the Nicaraguan National Police. The Biden administration sanctioned a Syrian conglomerate on Thursday, accusing it of using oil proceeds to fund Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force and Houthi militants. President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has chosen two members of his personal criminal defense team to fill key roles at the Justice Department. New York gets a new U.S. attorney, the Department of Veterans Affairs a new leader and the Supreme Court a new solicitor general under appointments announced by President-elect Donald Trump. The Oklahoma City Police Department has placed one of its officers on administrative leave after body camera footage shows him throwing a 70-year-old man to the ground following a traffic ticket dispute. Durk Devontay Banks pleaded "not guilty" in a Los Angeles courtroom where he was arraigned Thursday on charges accusing him of hiring people to kill a rival rapper. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled it is illegal to force union-backing employees to attend meetings held by their companies that are designed to undermine support and argue against the labor groups. A proposed $300 million upgrade to Georgia's Fulton County Jail system would greatly improve conditions and address many issues raised by the Department of Justice, local officials said on Thursday. Universal Pictures announced Thursday the re-release of "The Sugarland Express." The film returns to theaters Dec. 8. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration levied a $165 million penalty against the Ford Motor Co. for mishandling a 2020 recall of vehicles equipped with defective rear-view cameras. Measles is making a comeback, with cases up more than 20% across the globe to more than 10.3 million over the last year, the World Health Organization and the U,S, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday The Palm Springs, Calif., City Council is expected to vote Thursday on a reparations settlement for former residents of a mostly Black and Latino neighborhood destroyed for commercial development in the 1960s. A diaper-wearing kangaroo escaped near a Florida elementary school, sparking a search before being apprehended by sheriff's deputies. The malaria parasite may be gaining resistance against artemisinin, the drug most often used to try and save children with mosquito-borne malaria. A Maryland man scored a $150,000 prize from a Powerball drawing, marking his third big jackpot from the Maryland Lottery. Russell Wilson and Derek Carr are among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's five must-start fantasy football quarterbacks for Week 11. "Bookie," a comedy series starring Sebastian Maniscalco and Omar J. Dorsey, will return for a second season on Max. Tokyo authorities arrested a 65-year-old U.S. tourist for allegedly defacing the grate of a local shrine on Tuesday. "Transformers One," the first fully CG-animated "Transformers" film, will premiere Friday on Paramount+. Four Southern Californians arrested Wednesday are facing fraud charges for allegedly using a person in a bear costume to fake vandalism damage to a Rolls Royce Ghost. It cost insurance companies $141,839. Fourteen percent of the world's people -- more than 800 million -- now have diabetes, a doubling of the global rate for the blood sugar disease since 1990, new statistics show. |
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