Rescuers in Russia have yet to contact the 13 miners who have been trapped hundreds of feet underground for nearly two days after a gold mine collapsed, a Russian official said Wednesday. Specialist mine rescuers flew in from Russia’s coastal region and other Siberian regions to help dig through rubble and pump water out of the Pioneer gold mine in …

St. Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean, hasn’t seen many tourists in the past for good reason: It’s one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. Until 2017, it took five nights by boat to reach the British overseas territory, which is nearly halfway between southern Africa and Brazil. Today, with weekly commercial flights …

Michael Cohen will not face sanctions after he cited fake legal cases in a court filing generated by artificial intelligence, a federal judge said Wednesday. Cohen, former President Trump’s onetime fixer and lawyer, had pleaded guilty to tax and campaign finance violations and is currently under supervised release. He has repeatedly sought to have his sentence reduced, and in his …

The Dutch government has systematically put the interests of the aviation sector above those of people who live near Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, a Dutch court ruled Wednesday, saying that the treatment of local residents amounts to a breach of Europe’s human rights convention. “The state has always prioritized the ‘hub function’ and the growth of …

Border officers in Southern California seized nearly 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine worth millions of dollars after discovering the drugs hidden in a shipment of carrots, officials said Tuesday. The drugs were seized just before noon on Sunday at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facilitynear San Diego, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said. CBP officers stopped a 44-year-old man who was …

Former Trump officials are joining together to form a non-profit that aims to shine a light on what its founders say are dangerous policies in place in Europe that are “infiltrating” into the U.S. — including censorship and illegal immigration. The EU-US Forum is being set up by Matt Mowers, a former senior White House advisor at the State Department, …

The Biden administration and the state of Texas on Wednesday are making oral arguments in a high-profile case over the state’s anti-illegal immigration law — hours after it was briefly blocked by the Supreme Court. The oral arguments over the law, known as Senate Bill 4, were set to begin at 11 a.m. ET. The law, signed by Gov. Greg …

The former Missouri teacher who resigned after school administrators found out about her OnlyFans account has been fired days into a new job. Brianna Coppage’s bosses learned within one workweek that she had an OnlyFans account, and claimed the new community support specialist at Compass Health “violated social media policy,” according to The New York Post. “I lasted five days …

A baby seal — had it not been spotted by a passerby — might have met a dire fate. But at Odiorne Point State Park in Hampshire recently, an individual spotted a small gray seal lodged in a deep gap between rocks near the water — and alerted authorities about it, as SWNS reported. The person reached out to the …

Since being fired as the replacement host of “Jeopardy!” in August 2021 shortly after longtime host Alex Trebek died of pancreatic cancer, Mike Richards has had time to reflect on the series of events that led to his termination. In a new interview, the former executive producer of “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune” opened up about his whirlwind experience hosting …