Spain’s famous “running of the bulls” resumed Thursday in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in 2020. Officially known as the San Fermin festival, Pamplona’s running of the bulls is one of Europe’s most celebrated events. It features specially bred fighting bulls, guided by six tame steers that keep the herd together as several thousand runners, most of them dressed in white with red neck scarves

The investigation into Haitian President Jovenel Moise’s assassination in Port-au-Prince on July 7, 2021, remains stalled in Haiti but is moving forward in the United States. Haitian National Police (PNH) has made more than 40 arrests in connection with the killing. Among those arrested are 18 ex-Colombian soldiers. They remain jailed and have not appeared in court. Progress on the case has been slow in large part because Haiti’s justice system

Mortgage rates recorded their largest decline this year as investors raise their bets that the economy is headed for a downturn. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 5.30%, mortgage-finance giant Freddie Mac said Thursday. That is down from 5.70% last week but far above 3.22% at the beginning of the year.Growing fears of a recession in the U.S. stand to further push down mortgage rates

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is planning a private fundraiser in Utah later this month that is expected to draw some of the country’s wealthiest Republican donors as he signals a possible run for president in 2024. DeSantis is set to head to Utah the week of July 18 for the private gathering, according to people familiar with the matter. Many asked not to be identified because the campaign is trying to keep the private event from getting too much public attention.

Attorneys representing Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Wednesday he intends to challenge a subpoena compelling him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies’ actions after the 2020 election.Graham was one of a handful of Trump confidants and lawyers named Tuesday in petitions filed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as part of her investigation

Twitter has started testing a new CoTweets feature this week with users of the social network. The CoTweets feature allows two accounts to co-author a tweet and both be tagged in a single tweet. Twitter has confirmed to The Verge that this new feature is now live for some users for a limited amount of time after the company started experimenting with the idea earlier this year.“We’re continuing to explore new ways for people to collaborate on Twitter,” explains Twitter spokesperson

American WNBA star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to carrying cannabis oil on the second day of a trial in Moscowthat could see her sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to media reports from the court.A Reuters reporter quoted Griner as saying: “I’d like to plead guilty, Your Honor. But there was no intent. I didn’t want to break the law.” She then asked to give her testimony at a later date, saying she needed time to prepare, and the court adjourned until July 14.

A hard-working Manhattan bodega clerk who was forced to grab a knife to fend off a violent ex-con, now finds himself sitting behind bars at the notorious Rikers Island jail charged with murder and unable to post $250,000 bail. The sky-high bail for Jose Alba — who has no known criminal history — was just half of what controversial Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office demanded, despite surveillance video showing the clerk being assaulted by his alleged victim in the bodega.

Walmart is making its InHome delivery service available to Walmart Plus subscribers for an extra $7 per month or $40 per year.The service, which brings groceries and other goods from your local Walmart to the inside of your home, was previously available as a separate subscription costing $19.95 per month or $148 per year. InHome’s new $138 annual price is $10 less when compared to the previous annual pricing of InHome alone and also comes with the perks of a Plus membership.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation, marking the end of his ill-fated three-year reign as leader.Speaking in front of his No. 10 residence in Downing Street, London, the scandal-scarred leader said “it is clearly now the will of the parliamentary conservative party that there should be a new leader and a new prime minister.” “The process of that should begin now. the timetable should be announced next week. I want to say to the millions of people that voted for us in 2019, thank you for that incredible mandate.”

James B. Comey and, Andrew McCabe, were selected for tax reviews the IRS says are random.The IRS conducted audits in recent years of two of former president Donald Trump’s most frequent targets of criticism, former FBI director James B. Comey and his deputy, leading Comey to question whether the audits were motivated by political payback against the law enforcement leaders who investigated Trump and his campaign.

Towards the end of her testimony to the House January 6 select committee, former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson raised for the first time the prospect that Donald Trump might have had a line of communication to the leaders of the extremist groups that stormed the Capitol. The potential connection from the former US president to the extremist right-wing groups came through her account of Trump’s order to his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to call Roger Stone

American Airlines Buenos Aires to Miami passenger steals more than $10,000 in cash and two credit cards from two passengers sitting nearby. Diego Sebastian Radio was apprehended by U.S. Customs & Border Patrol upon arriving in the United States having been reported by the flight crew who allege they saw him behaving suspiciously while onboard the aircraft.The crew claim that during the nine-and-a-half hour flight from the Argentinian capital,

The husband of rapper Nicki Minaj was sentenced Wednesday to one year of home confinement for failing to register as a sex offender a representative of the federal prosecutor’s office said. Kenneth Petty was also sentenced to three years of probation and fined $55,000, according to the representative for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. The office had no further comment.Petty pleaded guilty in September to one count of failure to register as a sex offender.

British media say Prime Minister Boris Johnson has agreed to resign ending an unprecedented political crisis over his future.Johnson had rebuffed calls by his Cabinet to step down in the wake of ethics scandals. He gave in after more than 40 ministers quit his government and told him to go. It was not immediately clear Thursday whether Johnson would stay in office while the Conservative Party chooses a new leader, who will replace him as prime minister.

Apple is taking steps to increase security for people like journalists, activists, and politicians with a new setting in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura called Lockdown Mode. This setting hardens an iPhone, iPad, or Mac’s defenses in ways that interrupt methods we’ve seen used to compromise devices for highly targeted attacks. Lockdown Mode blocks many message attachment types, disables link previews, turns off certain web browsing technology by default, blocks invitations and FaceTime calls from unknown sources

Elon Musk quietly had twins with one of his top executives weeks before he welcomed a child with Grimes via surrogate, court documentshave revealed. In November, the Tesla CEO, 51, reportedly had twins with Shivon Zilis, 36, the director of operations at Musk’s brain-machine interface company Neuralink, Insider reported. He now has nine known children.Musk and Zilis filed a petition in April to change the twins’ names in order to ‘have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name

Uvalde police officer had the Robb Elementary gunman in his sight before he entered the school building but was concerned about hitting childrenand asked for permission to take the shot — and didn’t get it, according to an after-action report released Tuesday. The officer’s supervisor “either did not hear the request or responded too late” to stop the 18-year-old shooter — one of several missed opportunities to halt the carnage that ended the lives of 19 children and two teachers.

Boris Johnson was locked in an unprecedented standoff with his own cabinet on Wednesday, as he clung to power after an extraordinary day that saw more than 40 resignations and the sacking of Michael Gove. The prime minister appeared determined to fight on, despite a delegation of senior cabinet ministers, including the home secretary, Priti Patel, and the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, personally urging him to resign.

White House communications director Kate Bedingfield, a longtime aide to President Biden who played an instrumental role in his 2020 campaign, will be departing the administration later this summerWhite House officials said Wednesday. Ms. Bedingfield has been one of Mr. Biden’s most loyal confidantes since his time as vice president under former President Barack Obama

Posting “online insults” will be punishable by up to a year in prison time in Japan starting Thursday, when a new law passed earlier this summer will go into effect.People convicted of online insults can also be fined up to 300,000 yen (just over $2,200). Previously, the punishment was fewer than 30 days in prison and up to 10,000 yen ($75). The law will be reexamined in three years

The heads of the FBI and Britain’s domestic security service issued sharply worded warnings to business leaders about the threats posed by Chinese espionageespecially spying aimed at stealing Western technology companies’ intellectual property. In a rare joint appearance on Wednesday at the headquarters of MI5, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,and Ken McCallum, director-general of MI5,

Aiden McCarthy, 2, lost both his parents in the Highland Park parade shooting.Aiden was found by Lauren Silva, 38, and her boyfriend, who said the toddler kept asking ‘are mom and dad coming back soon?’Aiden was unharmed and has been placed in the care of his grandparents, Misha and Nina Levebeg. A GoFundMe page was established to help Aiden’s family with ‘raising, caring for and supporting’ him. The account had raised nearly $2 million as of Wednesday.

The families of two young girls who allegedly died as a result of a viral TikTok challenge have sued the social media platform,claiming its “dangerous” algorithms are to blame for their children’s deaths. Parents of two girls who died in a 2021 “blackout challenge” on TikTok, which encouraged users to choke themselvesuntil they passed out, filed a suit on Tuesday in the Los Angeles county superior court.

Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone will testify Friday morning after receiving a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 – attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, according to people familiar with the matter. It’s unclear what limits there may be on his closed-door testimony, which is scheduled for about half a day, according to one person familiar with the matter.

Real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield is being held in contempt of court for refusing to comply with subpoenas for information related to its business relationship with the Trump Organization, a judge in New York has ruled. The subpoenas were issued by the New York Attorney General’s office as part of its civil investigation into how former President Donald Trump and his family business valued their holdings.

Apple’s upcoming MacBook Air with M2 processor finally has a shipping date. After a bit longer wait than usual, the new $1,199 laptop will begin shipping on July 15th, with preorders opening on July 8th at 8AM ET. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar announced alongside it at WWDC 2022 is already available. While that familiar-looking model was first out of the gate

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it was moving to make sweeping changes to the federal student loan system, including making it easier for public servants to get debt forgiveness and setting new limits on the accrual of interest. “We are committed to fixing a broken system,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said, in a statement.

Vice President Kamala Harris was “seriously” skewered online for a repetitive, meandering statement at the site of the July Fourth parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois,where the veep repeated an earlier call for federal gun control legislation. Harris, 57, spoke in the Chicago suburb TuesdayTuesday evening after demanding Congress pass a new assault weapons ban

Amazon agreed to add Grubhub to its suite of Prime services in the U.S., in a deal that also gives the e-commerce giant the option to acquire a small stake, the parent of the food-ordering company said.Amazon has an initial option to take a 2% stake in U.S.-based Grubhub, and U.S. Prime members can have their delivery fees waived from select restaurants.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging an Arizona law that requires voters in presidential elections to show proof of citizenship,setting up a fight over a provision similar to one the Supreme Court called unconstitutional in 2013. State Republicans, who passed the new measure in March on a party-line vote, said the law is a safeguard against voter fraud,

The US guitarist Carlos Santana has recovered after collapsing on stage during a concert in suburban Detroit on Tuesday.The audience was reportedly initially told of a serious medical issue and asked to pray for the 74-year-old musician, but Santana was treated swiftly and was seen waving to fans as he was wheeled off stage. He was taken to a local hospital for observation.

Six of the seven people killed in the Highland Park Fourth of July massacre were identified by authorities on Tuesday.The victims include Steve Straus 88 Katherine Goldstein,64 Jacki Sondheim 63 Nicholas Toledo Zaragoza 78 and husband and wife Irina and Kevin McCarthy 35 and 37.The McCarthys leave behind a two-year-old son, Aiden, who was found wandering alone in the aftermath of the shooting.

Highland Park shooter Robert ‘Bobby’ Crimo III dad helped him buy a gun despite cops earlier removing a weapon from him.Bob Crimo and his wife, Denise, said in a brief statement: ‘We are all mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, and this is a terrible tragedy for many families, the victims, the paradegoers, the community, and our own. Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers go out to everybody.’

Brittney Griner’s appeal to US president Joe Biden in a handwritten letter continued to garner reaction Tuesday after the WNBA All-Star acknowledged she feared never returning home and asked Biden not “forget about me and the other American Detainees”. Griner’s letter was delivered through her representatives to the White House on Monday and officials say the president has read it.

After a judge in Florida temporarily halted a state law banning abortions beyond 15 weeks of pregnancy, a state appeal restored the ban on Tuesday.Judge John C Cooper of an appellate court in Florida’s capital of Tallahassee ruled that the ban in question – enshrined in a bill that Republican lawmakers approved in April – violates privacy protections in the state constitution.

Sales contracts for Manhattan apartments plunged by nearly a third in June as the city’s scorching real-estate market started to cool.amid recession fears and declining stocks. New York real estate was on a tear through the early spring, with high prices and strong sales. The median sales price for the second quarter rose to a record $1.25 million, according to data from the firms Miller Samuel and Douglas Elliman.

The Highland Park shooting suspect Robert “Bobby” Crimo III has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder,Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said at a news conference Tuesday evening.”These are the first of many charges that will be filed against Mr. Crimo,” Rinehart told reporters. He added that he expects dozens more charges to be filed against Crimo.

Highland Park parade shooting Kevin and Irina McCarthy leave behind toddler who must ‘navigate life as an orphan.The parents of the 2-year-old boy found in the chaotic aftermath of the Highland Park parade shooting were identified Tuesday as Kevin and Irina McCarthy. The boy, Aiden, was unharmed in the massacre, according to a fundraiser verified by GoFundMe. He will be cared for by family members.

Twitter took the Indian government to court Tuesday over content-removal orders the first time the company has mounted a legal challenge against authorities against authorities here amid a widening internet crackdown.The most recent orders to take down content and block accounts which Twitter complied with Monday were described as “arbitrary” and “disproportionate,”

Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Tuesday released audio of graphic threats made against him, his family, and fellow Republican lawmaker Rep. Liz Cheney.Threats of violence over politics has increased heavily in the last few years. But the darkness has reached new lows. My new interns made this compilation of recent calls they’ve received while serving in my DC office,’ the Illinois Republican wrote on Twitter.

The Georgia special grand jury hearing evidence in an investigation into possible 2020 election interference by former President Donald Trump and others has issued subpoenas to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and key members of Trump’s legal team, including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, NBC News has confirmed.

Russia launched “massive shelling” Tuesday of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine, the city’s mayor said, as Moscow’s forces initiated attacks in Donetsk provinceafter winning control of neighboring Luhansk province. In an interview on Ukrainian television, Mayor Vadim Lyakh first urged residents to flee.Hours later, he reversed course

Boris Johnson’s days as UK prime minister could be coming to an end with the shock resignation of two of his most senior ministers on Tuesday. It could be the beginning of the collapse of the entire Conservative Government – On Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the health secretary stepped down from their respective posts.

British Chancellor Rishi Sunak resigned Tuesday saying the government should be run “properly competently and seriously.” I recognize this may be my last ministerial job but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning,” he wrote in a tweet Tuesday evening. Health Secretary Sajid Javid also handed in his resignation. It comes after a string of scandals

Robert ‘Bobby’ Crimo, 21, was dressed in women’s clothing to hide his tattoos and his appearance.Police on Tuesday revealed that he legally owned multiple weapons including two rifles – one that was used in the attack and another that was found in his vehicle when he was arrested at 6.30pm last night. Crimo’s motive remains unclear, but police say he had been plotting the attack for weeks.

Crypto lender Nexo announced plans to acquire Vauld, one day after its rival halted withdrawals amid cratering digital currency prices. Nexo said in a news release Tuesday that the companies had signed a term sheet that would allow the London-based platform to purchase as much as 100 percent of Vauld

Joe Rogan claimed there’s one person that will never appear on his podcast, Donald Trump.Despite hosting a smorgasbord of polarizing figures on his show, pot-stirring podcaster Joe Rogan claimed there’s one person that’ll never appear on his podcast: Former US president Donald Trump. The 54-year-old comedian and UFC commentator was candid during a Monday episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and elsewhere, GOP leaders have sued to tap pandemic funds for tax cuts .As gas prices climbed toward record highs this May, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis secured a pause on the state’s fuel taxes — a $200 million plan he helped pay for with a pot of federal funds awarded earlier in the pandemic.The policy was intended to save money for local drivers and state coffers alike.

POLITICO has exclusively obtained a trailer for Alex Holder’s “Unprecedented,” the British filmmaker’s upcoming Discovery+ docuseries about the Trump family.The two-minute-plus trailer was included among the hours of footage that Holder turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee under subpoena. Holder gave testimony to the committee behind closed doors on June 23.

November’s midterm elections are still months away, but to many conservative commentators, the fix is already in. Democrats have cheated.Never mind that the claims are false. In Lafayette, La., Carol Ross, host of “The Ross Report,” questioned how Democrats could win a presidential election again after a tumultuous few years in power.

A cryptocurrency lender backed by Peter Thiel and Coinbase Global Inc suspended withdrawals, trading and deposits on its platform,citing volatile market conditions and financial difficulties facing key business partners.Crypto broker Voyager Digital temporarily suspended trading, deposits, withdrawals and loyalty rewards Friday. Major crypto lender Celsius Network LLC has paused withdrawals

A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.The verdict came nearly a year after closing arguments in a bench trial in the lawsuit filed by Cabell County

New York City One person was killed and at least 12 others were injured in a spate of shootingsduring a bloody nine-hour period on Independence Day, police said.Only the borough of Staten Island was spared from the stretch of violence that began at around 3:10 p.m. in Queens, when a gunman opened fire at a man in his 30s.