Donald Trump Jr has been accused of killing a protected duck while hunting in the Venice lagoon. Andrea Zanoni, a regional councillor in Veneto, said a video of a hunting trip in northern Italy showed Trump Jr with the body of a rare ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea). “This is a species protected throughout Europe by

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Verily headquarters in San Bruno, California. Courtesy: Verily Verily is selling its stop-loss insurance subsidiary, Granular Insurance Company, to the insurance provider Elevance Health , the Alphabet health tech company confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. Verily is one of Google’s sister companies and operates within Alphabet’s “Other Bets” category. The Granular sale is the latest

President Donald Trump’s organization, Trump Media, announced that it would begin issuing ETFs to its customers. The company plans to issue a Bitcoin Plus ETF as part of the new funds. Trump Media will invest up to $250 million in the instruments, held in custody by Charles Schwab. Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) revealed

Nikos Papanikolaou and Seher Asaf BBC News Several more earthquakes have struck waters around the Greek island of Santorini just hours after authorities there declared a state of emergency. The tourist hotspot has been rocked by seismic activity this week with thousands of earthquakes recorded since Sunday. On Thursday evening, a 4.6 magnitude quake was

After two students correctly identified the ancient Greek word for “purple” in a papyrus scroll charred by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, they teamed up with a third student to identify about 5% of the philosophical text, earning the Vesuvius Challenge’s $700,000 grand prize last year. Until then, nothing had been gained from the

Ukrainian robot aircraft broke through air defenses and hit a major military airfield in mainland Russia on Thursday morning, following a noticeable spike in American military aircraft activity over the western Black Sea hours before the attack. The strike hit the Primorsko-Akhtarsky air base in Russia’s southwestern Krasnodar region. The facility is used for aviation

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