A National Guard officer carried out a secret second marriage to a woman he met while posted in Mongolia, using a government travel card and forged documents to facilitate the double life, U.S. prosecutors allege. Maj. Collin Welch, 40, pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing about $54,000 in government money and inducing the Mongolian woman and
When Microsoft reported excellent earnings in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it included an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two largest and competing AI labs are faring. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a gain of $3.2 billion, increasing diluted
Thailand’s first purpose-built international content marketplace concluded its debut edition this month with an estimated business value of THB2.2 billion ($65.5 million) generated over three days of structured deal negotiations and co-production. The Bangkok International Content Market 2026, known as BICM2026, was held earlier this month at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok,
New Bell, a famous prison in Douala, Cameroon, is a city within a city. The facility has its own “taxis” (inmates who walk through congested yards to hand-deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help uptight guards keep an eye on the facility), and market (a series of stalls where convicts sell and
The United States has reached a 35-year high in measles cases, according to new figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The United States has seen 2,318 confirmed cases of measles in 2026, just seven months into the year, down from a high of 2,289 last year, when two unvaccinated children
WASHINGTON– The U.S. Navy is taking a major step to restrict press access to information about service members by no longer publishing information about any sailor’s service history, information the service has provided for free for decades. The move, which officials say is being driven by heightened security threats and harassment concerns, comes amid a