It is the summer of 2024, and a 13-year-old boy has just been added to a private Signal group by a recruiter with a menacing username.
A message soon appears in the chat: “Are you ready to murder someone?”
Within hours, the chat is filled with…

It is the summer of 2024, and a 13-year-old boy has just been added to a private Signal group by a recruiter with a menacing username.
A message soon appears in the chat: “Are you ready to murder someone?”
Within hours, the chat is filled with…

TOKYO — Popular twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to their homeland in China in late January, officials said Monday, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century.
Prospects for their replacement are not…

PARIS — Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday to strike over working conditions and other complaints, dealing another blow to the Paris landmark and home of the “Mona Lisa” after an embarrassing jewelry heist in October.
The CFDT union…

Flash floods have killed at least 37 people in Morocco’s coastal Safi region, according to state-owned television.
Cars and mounds of rubbish were seen sweeping through the main port city of Safi after torrential rain hit on Sunday.
Dozens of…

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NEW DELHI — Dense toxic smog blanketed India’s national capital Monday, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks, disrupting travel and causing authorities to impose the strictest containment measures.
More than 40 flights…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian federal and state government leaders on Monday agreed to immediately overhaul already-tough national gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on…