A former Tanzanian ambassador and outspoken government critic was abducted by unknown individuals, his family said. Humphrey Polepole’s brother told the BBC the alleged abduction had occurred in the early hours of Monday, at his home in Dar es Salaam. “We went to the house where he was living and found the door broken, electric wires cut, and a large amount of blood spilled,” said Godfrey Polepole, the younger brother of the former ambassador. Videos of the bloody incident have been shared online. He said the family had reported the matter after visiting the residence. Dar es Salaam’s police chief…
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Amy McGrath on Monday officially launched another Kentucky Senate bid, aiming to take the seat held by retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell. McGrath, a retired fighter pilot, announced her candidacy on X, saying the Bluegrass state deserves a senator “battle-tested and ready to fight.” “I know what courage looks like. Right now, way too many politicians don’t, and Americans are being thrown under the bus by cowards in Washington without the moral backbone to serve our nation with honor,” McGrath said in her announcement. In 2019, McGrath ran against McConnellin one of the most expensive senate races in Kentucky history. In…
A group of 10 migrants deported from the United States arrived early Monday in the African nation of Eswatini, authorities there said. They are the latest of more than 40 deportees sent to Africa since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five nations there to take migrants under the new third-country deportation program that rights groups and others have protested. A lawyer for two of the latest deportees told The Associated Press earlier on Monday that their flight had arrived in the southern African kingdom after departing from Alexandria, Louisiana, and stopping in Puerto…
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, brushing aside an argument from Ghislaine Maxwell that she should have been shielded from prosecution under a plea agreement that Epstein struck with federal authorities. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2022 for carrying out a years-long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls. In her appeal at the Supreme Court, filed in April, Maxwell argues she should have been covered by a non-prosecution agreement Epstein secured as part of his agreement to plead guilty in Florida. She was…
Verizon announced on Monday that the board of directors has appointed former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the company’s new CEO. Schulman replaces Hans Vestberg, who had led the company since 2018. Shares of the company sank roughly 2% in morning trading. Verizon said Vestberg will remain on the board of directors until the 2026 annual meeting and will serve as a special advisor through Oct. 4, 2026, to ensure a smooth transition and close the deal to acquire Frontier Communications. Verizon on Monday also announced that Mark Bertolini would be chairman of the company’s board of directors. “The board…
The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodies. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi will share the prize “for their fundamental discoveries relating to peripheral immune tolerance,” the Nobel Committee announced Monday at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. The laureates identified “regulatory T cells,” which function like the immune system’s security guards and prevent immune cells from attacking our own body, a cause…
Journalist and entrepreneur Bari Weiss is taking charge at CBS News and her startup, The Free Press, is being acquired by CBS parent company Paramount. Starting today, Weiss is the editor-in-chief of CBS News, a new position that has stirred anxieties within the storied news division. Weiss said in a memo to staffers that she wants to help make CBS “the most trusted news organization in America and the world.” She will continue to run The Free Press as a standalone brand within its new owner, Paramount. The company did not release details about the transaction, but the Wall Street…
Fifth Third Bancorp said Monday it will acquire fellow regional bank Comerica for $10.9 billion in an all-stock deal that will create one of the largest U.S. banks by assets. When the deal closes, it will create the ninth-largest U.S. bank — with roughly $288 billion in assets. The transaction is expected to finalize in the first quarter of 2026. “The things that have defined Fifth Third over the course of the past 10 years have been this focus on stability, profitability and our ability to drive organic growth,” Fifth Third CEO Tim Spence told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in an…
A man was disarmed and arrested after he shot to the air in rage outside a popular club in Eldoret. The incident happened Sunday October 5, 2025 morning outside the Tamasha Entertainment. The accused person was identified as Dennis Nyamu who is a licensed gun holder. Nyamu had arrived at the club at about 1 am in the company of other revelers when they asked to wait at the entrance for a search. He was frisked and found to be armed. He was then informed by the security team he would not be allowed into the facility because he was…
Passengers aboard a ferry were Sunday left in shock when an unidentified man jumped into the Indian Ocean while the vessel was en route from the Mainland to the Island side in Likoni. Police said the incident occurred at around 5:45 a.m. The duty officer from KPA Ferry Security, reported that the man described as an adult leapt into the ocean, leaving behind his mobile phone and a pair of slippers on the deck. The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) security team immediately dispatched a rescue boat to the scene, and a search and rescue operation was launched. The motive of…
Rescue efforts were under way Sunday in the remote Tibetan slopes of Mount Everest where a snowstorm has trapped nearly 1,000 people in campsites on the eastern side of the mountain, according to Chinese state media. Hundreds of local villagers and rescue teams have been deployed to clear out snow blocking access to the area which sits at an altitude of more than 4,900 metres (16,000 feet). Chinese media said that some tourists have already been rescued. Heavy snowfall began on Friday evening and has intensified on the eastern slopes of Mount Everest in Tibet, which is an area popular…
Tensions between title rivals Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri reached a new high as their McLaren team clinched the constructors’ championship at the Singapore Grand Prix. Norris slid into Piastri in passing him at the first corner at the start of the race, leading the Australian to claim it was “not fair” the team did not ask them to reverse positions. George Russell took his second victory of the season from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who spent the closing laps holding off an attack from Norris. Piastri closed in on the pair in the closing stages after being delayed by…
Lewis Hamilton has been given a five-second time penalty following the Singapore Grand Prix, meaning the Ferrari driver falls from seventh to eighth in the finishing order. It comes after Hamilton was found guilty of “leaving the track without justifiable reason multiple times” while managing a brake issue on his car in the closing stages of Sunday night’s race. Having finished the encounter just four-tenths ahead of Aston Martin rival Fernando Alonso, Hamilton drops back to eighth position, losing a couple of points in the process. In their post-race investigation, the stewards noted a breach of Article 33.3 of the…
Seven al-Shabab militants who attacked a high-security prison in Somalia’s capital have all been killed, the country’s government has said. A huge explosion and gunfire were heard coming from Godka Jilicow – a detention centre that holds al-Shabab militants – in Mogadishu on Saturday evening. In a statement, al-Shabab said it released “all the Muslim prisoners” from the facility and inflicted heavy casualties on those guarding the centre. The militants disguised themselves as soldiers in order to enter the prison, government-run news agency Sonna Live reported on Sunday. The government did not indicate how many of its security forces were…
Hamas on Sunday called for a swift start to a hostage-prisoner exchange with Israel, as negotiators from the two warring sides were set to meet in Egypt for crucial talks aimed at ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza. Foreign ministers of several countries, including Egypt, said the talks were a “real opportunity” to achieve a comprehensive and sustainable ceasefire. “Hamas is very keen to reach an agreement to end the war and immediately begin the prisoner exchange process in accordance with the field conditions,” a senior Hamas official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The diplomatic push follows the…