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A teenager from California has won the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee, following three days of competition at Washington's Constitution Hall.Shrey Parikh went head to head with Ishaan Gupta, a 12-year-old, in the final round. The pair had to...

WASHINGTON -- Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is testifying before House lawmakers investigating Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse cases, a long-awaited appearance that brings fresh scrutiny of the administration's botched release of the Epstein case files.Bondi was defiant in previous...

The drone hit a residential building, injuring two people and causing a fire, officials said. Source link

A Blue Origin rocket exploded on the launch tower in a fiery blast during a test of its engines on Thursday night, the company said.The static fire test at the Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Florida came in...

A Russian drone struck an apartment building in NATO-member Romania, its defense ministry said early Friday morning local time, wounding two people.  "During the night of May 28-29, the Russian Federation resumed drone attacks on...

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night.The explosion occurred during a "hotfire test", Blue Origin said in a statement, describing the incident as an "anomaly".The space technology...

The U.S. military carried out another round of strikes on Iran, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday, another challenge to a shaky ceasefire between the two countries.The official described the strikes as...

The artwork is the centre of a tradition that involves visitors performing three spins on it for good fortune. Source link

A massive fire tore through an apartment complex in Dallas following an explosion on Thursday, resulting in fatalities, authorities said.Several people remain unaccounted for as authorities say they have shifted from rescue to recovery mode.Firefighters were responding to a...

Taiwan Travelogue, a tale of forbidden love and Taiwanese food, has won the International Booker Prize. It's the first novel translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award. BBC Chinese met with author Yang Shuang-zi for a food...