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Māori lawmakers who performed a protest haka receive temporary bans from New Zealand’s Parliament
Three New Zealand lawmakers from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, will receive temporary bans from Parliament and severe censure, it was announced Wednesday, over ...
Jamie Lee Curtis AI video taken down after she appeals to Zuckerberg directly
( The Hill) – Oscar-winning actor Jamie Lee Curtis said Monday that an artificial intelligence-generated video depicting her likeness was finally removed from Instagram after she made a public appeal ...
Newark problems, crashes put focus on air traffic controller shortage and aging equipment
The recent chronic delays and cancellations at New Jersey’s largest airport have highlighted the shortage of air traffic controllers and the aging equipment they use.
Rochester Lilac Festival: What to expect on Day 6
Today is the sixth day of the 2025 Rochester Lilac Festival! News 8 is sharing what special events and live performances are taking place on each day of the festival. If ...
Weather Forecast: Rain showers galore to finish the week
ROCHESTER, NY (WROC) – It has been a very warm start and temperatures will hold tight in the 60s throughout the day. There are scattered rain showers this morning, but those showers will fade this ...
Russia convicts a prominent election monitoring activist and sentences him to a 5-year prison term
A court in Moscow on Wednesday convicted one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group on charges of organizing the work of an “undesirable” organization and sentenced ...
Pope vows every effort to work for peace in regions where Christians persecuted, forced to flee
Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote ...
Hungary targets critics with bill that would blacklist critical media and NGOs
The nationalist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced a bill late Tuesday that would allow the government to monitor, restrict, penalize and ...
Three correction officers connected to Marcy beating reject plea deals
Three of the correction officers connected to the death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility rejected their plea deals.
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 48 people, including 22 children, hospitals say
At least 22 children were killed in Gaza overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday in a punishing series of Israeli airstrikes on homes in northern Gaza, according to ...
Trump’s meeting with Syria’s former-insurgent-turned-leader to give the country ‘chance at peace’
President Donald Trump will meet with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of the Mideast nation’s longtime ...
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Live updates: After a lavish Saudi welcome, Trump to meet Syria’s new leader before going to Qatar
President Donald Trump is to meet with the new Syrian leader, a onetime insurgent, before wrapping up his visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and heading to Qatar, the second leg of his ...