Category: World

What is being dubbed as the largest gold deposit in the world has been found in China, state outlet Xinhua news said. The gold reserves are worth 600 billion yuan, according to Reuters, which amounts to $83 billion U.S.  The discovery was made by geologists with the Hunan Provincial Geological Institute about 12 miles beneath…

Neither fame nor fortune will make you immune to cancer.  Actor James Van Der Beek, 47, knows this all too well. Van Der Beek, best known for his titular role in television’s “Dawson’s Creek” as well as his portrayal of backup quarterback Jonathan “Mox” Moxon in the 1999 picture, “Varsity Blues,” announced on social media…

Colorado State Rams women’s volleyball coach Emily Kohan called the team’s Mountain West Tournament Championship win over San Jose State on Saturday a “statement” victory. The Rams earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with the four-set win over the Spartans. San Jose State competed in the tournament under a shroud of controversy over…

Former U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe defended Barbra Banda, whom the BBC named Women’s Footballer of The Year despite controversy surrounding the player’s eligibility in Africa. Banda withdrew from the Zambian squad for the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco after failing to meet sex eligibility requirements in 2022, the BBC previously reported. Banda…

After a presidential election, the losing party faces a crossroads. The message from voters is clear: take a look in the mirror, recalibrate and prepare to come back stronger by the midterms.  Too often, this process devolves into internal blame games, leadership shuffles and ideological purges that look more like therapy sessions than strategic planning. Having debated Trump…

St. John’s men’s basketball coaching legend Lou Carnesecca, who coached the program for more than two decades, has died, the school announced Sunday night. He was just a few weeks shy of his 100th birthday. Carnesecca was the coach of St. John’s for 24 seasons over two stints. He led the team to 18 seasons in…

China’s foreign ministry lashed out at the U.S. and Taiwan on Sunday after the U.S. State Department approved a $385 million arms sale to the island. Chinese officials also criticized the U.S. for approving Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te to visit Hawaii and Guam, a U.S. territory. China considers Taiwan to be its sovereign territory and…

Irish exit polling suggests that the incumbent center-right parties could likely form a coalition government, though vote counting continues on Sunday and the left-wing Sinn Féin remains in the running. Center-right party Fine Gael was the first choice of 21% of voters, and another center-right party, Fianna Fáil, had 19.5%, according to an Ipsos B&A…

The Pentagon is in the process of fitting the first-ever shipborn hypersonic missile system to a U.S. stealth destroyer once considered to be defunct. The USS Zumwalt is stationed at a Mississippi shipyard as it undergoes the retrofit. The U.S. Navy is installing missile tubes towards the vessel’s bow, where two inactive gun turrets were…

A truck carrying 44,000 pounds of chickpeas burst into flames while driving through Death Valley National Park in California last month, park officials said Friday. The truck was descending Daylight Pass and Mud Canyon Road, which is closed to commercial truck traffic, when its brakes overheated and caused the truck to catch fire at around…