Archaeologists have discovered four new rooms in a house in Pompeii filled with plates, amphoras and other everyday objects, giving a snapshot of middle class life at the moment Mount Vesuvius’s eruption buried the Roman city in AD 79.
New York Mayor Eric Adams will welcome migrants bused from Texas with open arms as long as the federal government helps pay for it, according to press statements made on Friday that also called the political move “cruel” and the Texas governor “inept.”
Israel struck in Gaza and Palestinians fired rockets at Israeli cities on Saturday after an Israeli operation against the Islamic Jihad militant group ended more than a year of relative calm along the border.
The Cincinnati Zoo is celebrating the birth of a full-term hippopotamus born Wednesday night.
Most electric-vehicle models would be ineligible for a $7,500 tax credit for U.S. buyers under a Democratic proposal in the U.S. Senate, a group of major automakers said on Friday.
Parents in the Commonwealth of Virginia will soon have ample warning when their children are being taught curricula that contain sexually explicit material.
Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Saturday as the city marked the 77th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, with officials including the United Nations secretary general warning of a new arms race following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In an escalation of tension between Washington, Beijing, and Taipei over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China announced the end of conversations with U.S. officials in several areas.
With Earth’s orbit growing more crowded with satellites, a U.S. government agency on Friday said it would begin revising decades-old rules on getting rid of space junk and on other issues such as satellite refueling and inspecting and repairing in-orbit spacecraft.
Absent the warm embrace of the West, three of America’s global rivals have begun to find solace in each other’s company.
