MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani returns to the mound in pitching debut for the Dodgers
Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani made his pitching debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers Monday and returned to the mound for the first time since 2023 after elbow surgery.
Morning news brief
In a speech, President Biden appeals for more funding for Ukraine and Israel. Russia detains a Radio Free Europe editor. GOP states swore off a voting tool — now they're scrambling to recreate it.
Ransomware attacks against hospitals put patients' lives at risk, researchers say
Increasingly, hospitals have been the target of ransomware attacks. Researchers find that if you are unlucky enough to be in the hospital when a ransomware attack occurs, your risk of dying goes up.
A Russian-American journalist is detained by Russia
A dual U.S.-Russian citizen who works for Radio Liberty in Prague was detained by Russian authorities while visiting family in Russia.
A 96-year-old bottle of scotch is expected to sell for $1.4 million
Sotheby's is auctioning off the bottle of Macallan 1926, which was aged over six decades. Another bottle of Macallan sold in 2019 for $1.9 million.
It's unclear when desperately needed aid will be allowed into Gaza
Critical supplies are running low for the more than two million Palestinians stuck in the Gaza Strip.
The UAW strike is not the first time a union weaponized the element of surprise
The United Auto Workers union is showing the power of surprise as they threaten future strikes. That tactic was pioneered by a different union. Flight attendants.
Marine barracks bombing 4 decades ago still echoes in the Middle East
Forty years ago, a devastating bombing at a U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 241 U.S. service members. It's widely seen as the attack that touched off the so-called war on terror.
A bitter truth of the war in Ukraine is that Russia's invading troops have allies
After a powerful Russian missile kills a fifth of a Ukrainian village's population, survivors grapple with revelations that pro-Russian neighbors may have helped coordinate the attack.
Shortly after a Gaza hospital was hit, disinformation spread across social media
Disinformation ran rampant on the social media site formerly known as Twitter after explosions at a hospital in Gaza. Changes to the platform have made finding credible information harder than ever.