More than three years after a family of four from India froze to death while trying to enter the U.S. along a remote stretch of the Canadian border in a blizzard, the convicted ringleader of an international human smuggling plot was sentenced in Minnesota on Wednesday to 10 years in prison. Federal prosecutors had recommended nearly 20 years for Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, and nearly 11 years for the driver who was supposed to pick them up, Steve Anthony Shand, who got 6 1/2 years Wednesday. “The crime in many respects is extraordinary because it did result in the unimaginable death of four individuals, including two children,” U.S. District Judge John Tunheim said.

A humanitarian relief effort in Gaza spiraled into disorder as thousands of Palestinians, pushed to the brink by severe hunger, overwhelmed a food distribution site managed by a US-funded organization. Israeli forces fired into the air in an attempt to restore order, while American personnel supervising the operation briefly pulled back for safety.
The region has endured nearly three months of severe restrictions on aid, leaving over two million residents in Gaza teetering on the edge of starvation. Last week marked the first instance of aid resuming, albeit in limited amounts.

The Czech Republic has accused China of being “responsible” for cyberattacks against a a communication network of its Foreign Ministry, officials said on Wednesday. The Foreign Ministry in Prague said the malicious activities started in 2022 and targeted the country’s critical infrastructure, adding it believed the Advanced Persistent Threat 31, or APT31, hacking group, which is associated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, was behind the campaign. It was not immediately clear what specific information were seized or what damage was caused by the attacks. The Czech ministry said a new communication system has already been put in place.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast. There’s an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it’s even more probable that the world will again exceed the international temperature threshold set 10 years ago, according to a five-year forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.K. Meteorological Office.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two pigeons sneaked aboard a Delta Air Lines plane, de

This Memorial Day Weekend marked a historic milestone for NYC, with zero reported shootings on Sunday and the lowest number of shootings ever recorded for Memorial Day weekend.