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Delta, United, Southwest Ban Humanoid Robots From Flights Over Battery Safety

New Delhi, July 30 -- Three of America's four largest airlines reached the same conclusion in the span of two months: humanoid robots are a battery-safety problem, not a passenger amenity. Delta Air L... Read More


Cracker Barrel CEO Exits With $4.6 Million Severance and Private Security After Failed Rebrand

New Delhi, July 30 -- The $700 million experiment to modernize Cracker Barrel ended Wednesday with a $4.6 million severance package and a private security detail for the chief executive who ran it. Ju... Read More


SK Hynix Miss Triggers South Korea's Worst Stock Market Day on Record

New Delhi, July 30 -- a miss. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 11 percent on Tuesday, its worst single-day loss in the benchmark's history, erasing approximately $2 trillion in market value... Read More


Iranian Drone Strikes US-Owned Gas Tanker at Egypt's Damietta Port, Fire Spreads to Second Vessel

New Delhi, July 30 -- CAIRO - A drone struck the US-owned floating gas storage vessel Energos Winter at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta on Wednesday, triggering a fire that spread to a second t... Read More


Houthis, Guided by Iranian Advisers, Plan to Charge Ships at Bab el-Mandeb, Copying Iran's Hormuz Playbook

New Delhi, July 30 -- DOHA - Yemen's Houthi armed group is working with Iran's Revolutionary Guards to design a toll system for vessels transiting the Bab el-Mandeb strait in the Red Sea, copying a st... Read More


Saudi Arabia Reaches Out to Dozens of Countries to Form Coalition Against Houthis in Red Sea

New Delhi, July 30 -- RIYADH - Saudi Arabia is quietly reaching out to dozens of governments to build an international coalition to protect Red Sea shipping from Yemen's Houthis, according to sources ... Read More


US Launches Heavy Wave of Strikes on Iran, CENTCOM Hits Dozens of IRGC Targets Across Six Provinces

New Delhi, July 30 -- DUBAI - American warplanes carried out what US Central Command described as a "heavy wave" of strikes against Iran early Wednesday, targeting dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guar... Read More


Senate Advances Graham Russia Sanctions Act 86-12, Leaving India in Tariff Crosshairs

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- India did not send a delegation to the US Senate chamber on Tuesday. It did not need to. When 86 senators voted to advance a sweeping new Russia and Iran sanctions package, the ... Read More


Illinois Becomes First State to Formally Classify Gambling Disorder as an Addiction

SPRINGFIELD, July 30 -- For the more than one million Illinoisans estimated to live with gambling disorder, last Friday carried a legal inflection point that advocates have sought for years, alongside... Read More


Sam Altman Arrived at the Senate With a Concession: AI Development May Need to Slow Down

New Delhi, July 30 -- that the artificial intelligence industry might need to slow down. The concession, framed as a conditional, came in a podcast interview that circulated before his visit. "We may... Read More