The Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Friday that an aid package including Howitzers, drones, armored vehicles, missiles, artillery rounds and ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) would soon be sent to Ukraine. The new aid was the nineteenth package sent to Ukraine using presidential drawdown authority since August 2021, with President Joe Biden’s administration having sent a total of $10.6 billion in military aid to the war-torn country since January 2021....

The company also does not have access to some computer chips needed to power its devices. The U.S. blacklisted Huawei after it suspected the company might be aiding China’s espionage efforts, an accusation it denies. “It’ll be interesting to see what the HarmonyOS user interface looks like and whether there really are some features that give it a leg up with some users, but I’m not holding my breath,” Bryan Ma, vice president of client devices research at market research company IDC, told the Associated Press....

The DR Congo international opened the scoring at Vicarage Road in the sixth minute with his first English Premier League goal as the Terriers cruised to a 4-1 victory over Watford. However, in the 19th minute, the former Borussia Monchengladbach and Ingolstadt striker was stretchered off after a collision with the Hornets goalkeeper, Heurelho Gomes. After undergoing scans on his knee, the John Smith’s Stadium outfit confirmed that Kachunga has damaged his medial collateral ligament and could be out for eight to12 weeks....

Nick Evans, who rescues snakes in the region and provides educational and awareness programs about reptiles and amphibians, was called to the settlement after a number of people had seen the snake over several weeks. The river below the settlement had been used as a dumping ground that had likely attracted a huge number of rats, Evans said in a Facebook post. “It [the black mamba] must have been in heaven!...

The six-foot-long Whatcheeria was discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of What Cheer, Iowa, a press release has revealed. It was brought to the Field Museum in Chicago, where scientists made new discoveries about the ancient and now extinct species, published in an article entitled ‘Ancient Iowan superpredator got big by front-loading its growth in its youth.’ Whatcheeria was an early tetrapod that lived up to 340 million years ago, emanating from the Early Carboniferous period of Iowa....

The alarming clip appears to have been filmed from inside a vehicle, located on a stretch of highway that had been carved into the side of a mountain. Suddenly, the side of the mountain begins to crumble, and an avalanche of earth comes plummeting down across the road. Enormous quantities of debris, mud, and trees continue down the side of the hill, blocking the road and ending up out of frame....

Remains of the dinosaur were first uncovered in 2006 west of Eromanga, in the northeastern state of Queensland, Australia. They represent the largest skeletal remains of a dinosaur ever to be discovered in the country. After 15 years of painstaking excavation, palaeontologists from the Queensland Museum, the Eromanga Natural History Museum and the University of Melbourne have finally described the dinosaur scientifically in a paper published in the open-access journal PeerJ, naming it Australotitan cooperensis....

UPDATE, 9:25 p.m. ET: Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork told reporters Thursday evening (per Yahoo Sports) that Freeze admitted to a “pattern of misconduct” during a meeting with him and school administrators Wednesday night. Bjork did not specify the nature of the misconduct, which he said was discovered through a search of phone records. Bjork said Freeze would have been fired for cause, per the “moral turpitude” clause in his contract, had he not agreed to resign....

Researchers recruited 250 Native Hawaiians whose blood pressure was above the normal range of below 120/80 mmHg, despite receiving treatment. The average age of the participants was 58 years old and 80 percent were women. The participants learned about high blood pressure in three hour-long lessons, covering topics including diet, exercise, and how medication can treat the condition. Researchers assigned one half of the group a regime involving hula dancing, while the others acted as the control group and weren’t given further guidance....

Three people were injured in the early morning blast. The explosion originated from an RV parked in downtown Nashville. Witnesses said that a 15-minute countdown to the explosion was broadcast from the vehicle, warning those nearby to “evacuate” the area due to a bomb. It is not clear whether anyone was inside the RV. No further injuries or deaths have been confirmed. However, Drake said that police believe the tissue “could be” remains, while two law enforcement officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that human remains were found in the area....

The Associated Press reported that France will sell the UAE 80 upgraded Rafale warplanes for 16 billion euros ($18 billion). They will also buy 12 Airbus-built combat helicopters. As French President Emmanuel Macron traveled Friday to the Persian Gulf to sign the deal, groups such as the Human Rights Watch denounced the move. The groups warned that the aircrafts could be used for “unlawful attacks or even war crimes” in Yemen and Libya....

Three times before Sunday, Kaepernick was the 49ers’ starting quarterback against Green Bay, winning all three and interchangeably ripping his boyhood favorite team with his arm and his legs. MORE: Worst Week 4 performances | Packers’ Richard Rodgers making a name for himself That didn’t happen for a fourth time. Kaepernick struggled as a passer (13-of-25, 160 yards, 6 sacks, INT, 55.4 rating) and was contained as a runner (9 rushes for 52 yards) in now 1-3 San Francisco’s 17-3 home loss to the Packers....

Footage shared on social media showed the dramatic moment when Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), was seized by officers as she addressed the media next to Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow. She had also been arrested on Thursday. Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya, who had joined protesters in Pushkin Square, posted on Instagram that she had been detained. There were chants of “Russia without Putin” and footage shared on Twitter by news outlet RBC showed clashes between police and protesters....

The Federal Aviation Administration implemented a traffic management program Monday morning due to haze and smoke, Alex Renteria, a spokeswoman for Denver International Airport, told Newsweek. Flights were being spaced out more than usual for better visibility, according to Renteria. Eight flights had been cancelled and more than 300 were delayed as of 4 p.m. EST, she said. Whether more flights would be delayed throughout the rest of the day depended on weather and wind patterns....

The foreign ministers of the other 26 members of the EU called for a cease-fire amid exchanges of airstrikes between Israel and Palestinian militants that have resulted in more than 200 Palestinian deaths and 1,400 wounded. Ministers reiterated that a long-term political solution is necessary to resolve the conflict. Twelve people in Israel, including a 5-year-old boy, have been killed due to rockets launched from the Gaza Strip into civilian areas....

NASCAR runs smack-dab into the brunt of the storm, according to several weather predictions. With landfall expected between North Carolina and New Jersey on Sunday, there’s a real possibility of big problems for stockcar racing. MORE: Sprint Cup standings | Dover schedule | Wet, possibly dangerous weekend for sports This week’s Sprint Cup race is huge in its impact on the Chase. Questions were being asked about postponement dates is as expected Sunday is washed out....

The National Weather Service (NWS) said that Nicholas had become a hurricane late on Monday and that the main wind and flooding was likely to stay east of South-Central Texas as it continued to move to the northeast. The NWS said it was downgraded to a tropical storm by the early morning. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said early Tuesday morning that Nicholas had made landfall on the eastern part of the Matagorda Peninsula, 10 miles west-southwest of Sargent Beach, Texas....

But the rising cost of oil and the current recession, which started among subprime consumers and is steadily eating its way up the economic ladder, may combine to change the hybrid vehicle’s image from a white-collar status symbol to a blue-collar money-saver. Given that consumers—even well-off consumers who shop at places such as Starbucks and Nordstrom—have been pulling back in recent months, one would have thought that hybrid sales would be tanking....