NONTHABURI: Police have arrested the woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving numerous senior monks on charges of enabling malfeasance, laundering money and receiving stolen goods. Wilawan “Golf” Emsawat, 35, was arrested at her house in a luxury housing estate in Nonthaburi after police found evidence of a 380,000-baht sum transferred to her by a senior monk from a bank account of his temple.

BERLIN — Arachnophobes beware: Customs officials on Monday released photos from a seizure of roughly 1,500 young tarantulas found inside plastic containers that had been hidden in chocolate spongecake boxes shipped to an airport in western Germany. Customs officials found the shipment at Cologne Bonn airport in a package that had arrived from Vietnam, tipped off by a “noticeable smell” that didn’t resemble the expected aroma of the seven kilograms (about 15 pounds) of the confectionery treats, Cologne customs office spokesman Jens Ahland said.

Household energy bills in some Republican-leaning states could rise by more than $600 every year, analysis of the so-called ‘big, beautiful bill’ finds

The former governor will also face the city's current mayor, Eric Adams, who's running as an independent.

As the Trump administration's “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.

Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?

Rahm Emanuel says Democrats focus too much on bathrooms. He's wrong about which party is obsessed...and about everything else.

In 1995, Sega rushed the Saturn to market, blindsiding retailers and fans. The mishandled launch opened the door for Sony's PlayStation and marked the beginning of the end for Sega's console business.

We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display.

To refer to X.com as a dumpster fire would be to disrespect dumpster fires.

On the other hand, more sellers are exiting the market, with delistings rising 31% in June compared to the previous year. Over the spring selling season, from March to May, delistings reached a ratio of 13%—in other words, for every 100 new listings, 13 are delisted.

The final piece of the puzzle was discovering that Neanderthals had a smaller population than researchers previously thought.

It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood

The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic

Order comes after California raids resulted in clashes with protesters and a shooting outside a Texas detention center

The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …

During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account: On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came.

It’s a familiar cycle. Texas bears witness to a terrible tragedy, and citizens soon raise questions. Could the loss of life have been prevented or mitigated? Who, if anyone, bears responsibility? Those in power respond with “Now’s not the time” or point fingers at other authority figures. And then little is done. Uvalde. The West fertilizer explosion. The 2021 winter freeze. Hurricane Beryl. Texas politicians have a knack for shifting blame and limiting their exposure to accountability. And so the cycle begins again with the horrific flooding in the Hill Country, where at least 119 people have died, including 27 children and counselors at Camp Mystic. Another 173 remain missing. State officials have blamed the National Weather Service for botched forecasting. The Trump administration is defending the DOGE cuts that decimated the weather service. Kerr County officials, meanwhile, are arguing, essentially, that the flooding was merely an act of God, and the loss of life couldn’t possibly have been mitigated. (Some social media users, helpful as always, are overdosing on conspiracies about cloud seeding and Egyptian gods.) On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott lashed out when asked a question about who bears responsibility. “Who’s to blame? Know this: That’s the word choice of losers.” He then made a lengthy football analogy. Losing teams look for culprits, he said, while championship programs respond to mistakes by saying, “We got this. We’re going to make sure that we go score again, that we’re going to win this game.”

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent appeared in a Los Angeles County courtroom Friday to face felony charges for assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest while off-duty and armed with a department-issued handgun. Isaiah Anthony Hodgson, 29, faces four felony and three misdemeanor charges related to the incident, which happened Monday at Shoreline Village. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Hodgson was drunk inside a restaurant when he followed a woman into the women’s restroom. The woman alerted restaurant management and reported that Hodgson’s firearm and magazine were visible. He fled the restaurant shortly after and was confronted by a security guard who saw the federal agent carrying his magazine is his hand while his gun was tucked into his waistband. That security guard asked him repeatedly to leave, the D.A.’s Office says.