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Iran Strikes Kuwait Desalination Plant as US Bombs Cut Bandar Abbas Road Links

New Delhi, July 17 -- KUWAIT CITY - The fire at Kuwait's power and water desalination plant was contained within hours, but the threat it represents has no quick fix. Iranian missiles struck one of th... Read More


Roblox's New AI Tool Lets Anyone Create a Playable Game With a Text Prompt

New Delhi, July 17 -- the characters she wants, the kind of world she imagines, the way the game should work. Within moments, something playable comes back. That is the premise of Build, Roblox's new ... Read More


Google Vids Adds AI Avatars and Gemini Omni, Moving Into HeyGen's Territory

New Delhi, July 17 -- SAN FRANCISCO - The first time you use Google Vids' new personal avatar feature, you submit a selfie and record ten seconds of your voice. The next time your employer needs a tra... Read More


House Republicans Fracture Over $95B Iran War Funding and SAVE Act Bundling

New Delhi, July 17 -- WASHINGTON - The first signs of Republican fracture around the Iran War emerged Thursday in a Capitol Hill hearing room, when Rep. Warren Davidson declared three members of his c... Read More


Epstein Survivors Call DOJ Meeting With Blanche Abrasive and Not Productive

New Delhi, July 17 -- WASHINGTON - Annie Farmer waited more than two decades for the kind of meeting that happened Thursday afternoon at the Justice Department. She sat down with acting Attorney Gener... Read More


ICE Officer Who Killed Colombian Father in Maine Had Documented Violent History

New Delhi, July 17 -- BIDDEFORD, Maine - Three days after an ICE officer shot and killed her husband on a residential street, Karolina Rojas sat before cameras and searched for words. "My soul is brok... Read More


US Mortgage Rates Hit 11-Month High at 6.55% as Middle East Lifts Treasury Yields

New Delhi, July 17 -- WASHINGTON - For the second year in a row, American homebuyers who held on through the spring hoping rates would fall found themselves priced out again at summer. The 30-year fix... Read More


SpaceX Shares Dip Below IPO Price as Losses Mount and China Closes In

New Delhi, July 17 -- SPCX) touched $132.28 during the session, trading below the $135 price that millions of retail investors paid on June 11 in the largest initial public offering in stock-market hi... Read More


Airlines Warn Permanent Daylight Saving Time Needs Two Years to Implement

New Delhi, July 17 -- WASHINGTON - The most popular bipartisan legislation in years is about to test whether it can survive the operational objections of one of Washington's most effective lobbying in... Read More


Venezuela Earthquake Death Toll Nears 5,000 as US and Europe Hold $11B in Recovery Funds

New Delhi, July 17 -- CARACAS - Cinthia Pulido describes what the first moments of June 24 looked like from street level in La Guaira. The state arrived, she says - eventually. What stopped the dying ... Read More