Virgin Orbit seeks bankruptcy protection after mission fail

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a failed mission this year and increasing difficulty in raising funding for future missions. The company laid

TikTok fined $15.9m by UK watchdog over misuse of kids’ data

Britain’s privacy watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty yesterday for a slew of data protection breaches, including misusing children’s data. The Information Commissioner’s Office said it

Autopsies show 30 people died from gunfire in Peru protests

In autopsy after autopsy, Peruvian anti-government protesters share the same cause of death: “firearm projectile.” Christian Armando Mamani, a 22-year-old musician, was walking by the protest

Finland joins NATO, military alliance chief says

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday Finland will become the 31st member of the world’s biggest military alliance today, prompting a warning from Russia that it

Russia blames Ukraine for bomb that killed military blogger

Russia’s top counterterrorism body yesterday blamed Ukrainian intelligence agencies for the bombing attack that killed a well-known Russian military blogger who fervently supported Moscow’s war

Four hurt in German hospital fire, suspect arrested

Four people were seriously hurt in an overnight fire at a hospital in Berlin, including a patient who sustained life-threatening injuries, authorities said yesterday. A man was arrested

War-crimes warrant for Putin could complicate Ukraine peace

An international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin raises the prospect of the man whose country invaded Ukraine facing justice, but it complicates efforts to end that war in

Rebounding Pope Francis marks Palm Sunday in Vatican square

Bundled in a long, white coat and battling a hoarse voice, Pope Francis presided over Mass in St. Peter’s Square before tens of thousands of faithful on

Apple rolls out buy now, pay later service: What to know

Apple is getting into the buy now, pay later space with a few tweaks to the existing model — including no option to pay with a

TikTok propaganda labels fall flat in ‘huge win’ for Russia

A year ago, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, TikTok started labeling accounts operated by Russian state propaganda agencies as a way to tell users they were being

Musk, scientists call for halt to AI race sparked by ChatGPT

Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans? That’s the conclusion of a group of

Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on spying charge

Russia’s top security agency has arrested an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U.S. correspondent was put behind bars on

Harris, in Africa, confronts painful past, envisions future

Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday stepped through the black doors of a colonial-era seaside fort and down into the dungeons, touring a site where millions of

King Charles III makes world debut as tour starts in Germany

King Charles III arrived in Berlin yesterday for his first foreign trip as Britain’s monarch, hoping to improve the U.K.’s relations with the European Union and to

Shattered: Catholic community confronts its founder’s lies

The findings of an initial expert report were astonishing: One of the 20th century’s revered Catholic leaders, who built an international movement of community care for people

Nashville shooter who killed 6 drew maps, surveilled school

A former student shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school yesterday and killed three children and three adults after elaborately planning the massacre by

Study says warming-fueled supercells to hit South more often

America will probably get more killer tornado- and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms, according to a new study that also warns the lethal storms will edge eastward to

DeSantis team welcomes contrast with Trump ‘chaos’ candidacy

Jim McKee is standing at the end of a line that snakes through five aisles of fiction inside the Books-A-Million store in Florida’s capital city. He

In Macron’s country, streets and fields seethe with protest

A big day has come for French high school student Elisa Fares. At age 17, she is taking part in her first protest. In a country

Twitter hunts Github user who posted source code online

Some parts of Twitter’s source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, the social media company said

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