U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his family will travel to Italy and India this week and next to meet with leaders and visit cultural sites. Vance’s office said Wednesday his trip from Friday to April 24 will include visits to Rome and New Delhi along with the Indian cities of Jaipur and Agra. The…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union’s space success in the 1950s and 1960s, state news agency TASS reported. TASS cited Putin, who was speaking on Russia’s space policy at a meeting with students, as saying: “You know, there’s a person…
The Somalia -based militant group al-Shabab on Wednesday attacked a strategic town that serves as a major base for government troops, raising new concerns about the sustainability of the fight against the al-Qaida-linked militants. The dawn attack on Adan Yabal in Middle Shabelle region started with the launching of explosives before the militants attacked on…
A federal panel of experts on Wednesday recommended an expansion of RSV vaccinations for adults and a new combination shot as another option to protect teens against meningitis. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices also voted to recommend a shot to protect travelers from a mosquito-borne illness called chikungunya. But it’s not clear who will…
The filmmaker Andrew Ahn grew up in what he calls “a Blockbuster Video family.” They would rent three or four movies every weekend. When Ahn was 8, his mom rented the VHS for Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet.” “She was like, ‘It’s this Asian movie that white people are talking about,’” Ahn remembers. “She rented…
