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AI developers are ramping up efforts to win over the hearts and minds of officials in Europe and the United States, hoping to sway governments as they...
Thousands of Americans will gather to celebrate April 20 – or “4/20” – the most important day of the year for cannabis enthusiasts. But this...
The market for oil is global, which is why events like the war in Iran affect oil prices – and prices of the wide range of products made from oil...
The Trump administration's historic move to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug was cheered by some advocates...
When U.S. President Donald Trump this week attacked Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, two of...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer came to power on a promise to govern Britain efficiently after years of political turmoil. Less than two years later,...
With his sensational statements on Truth Social and serial phone chats with individual journalists, President Donald Trump has only added to the...
From the Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial to O.J. Simpson's double murder case, cameras in the courtrooms have long exposed the inner workings of...
Have you “become Chinese”? In recent months, 20-somethings around the world have taken over social media with posts enthusing about how they’re...
The Iran war was meant to deliver a defining victory over Tehran that would secure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's place in history....
Whiteness appears to be an official immigration credential in the eyes of the United States government. The Trump administration in late 2025 slashed...
The Strait of Hormuz exists in the eye of the beholder. While everyone agrees that, geographically speaking, it is a strait – a narrow sea passage...
The messaging from China’s Communist government may once have been dogmatic and rigid — not anymore. Having largely tamed the internet at home...
JD Vance had two jobs last week: get an Iran deal and keep Hungary's Viktor Orban in power. Neither happened for the U.S. vice president. The...
In 2011, President Barack Obama declared it was time for America to leave behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and “pivot” to Asia to counter...
In the January 2004 pilot of “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump said something he would never admit now. “It wasn’t always so easy,” he said in...
Taylor Little became so badly addicted to her smartphone that she felt she had lost many of her teenage years. “I was literally trapped by...
President Donald Trump’s rapid and dramatic turn from threatening to kill “an entire civilization” in Iran on the morning of April 7 to...
President Donald Trump is using Christian rhetoric to rally core supporters behind the increasingly unpopular war with Iran, religious and political...
A tenuous ceasefire deal in the Iran war allowing negotiations for a longer-term peace between the United States and Iran appears to be in jeopardy...
For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think...
"Is Netanyahu real or AI?" an internet headline blared, pointing to a video that supposedly showed the Israeli prime minister with six...
China is stepping up its diplomacy on the Iran war, putting forward a five-point proposal with Pakistan, rallying support from Gulf countries and...
Threatening to destroy Iran's electricity grid and to reduce the country of 90 million to destitution, U.S. President Donald Trump is shattering...
Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies. But there's no...
For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the United States. Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for...
If President Donald Trump ends the war with Iran without a deal, he risks leaving Tehran with a stranglehold over Middle East energy supplies and Gulf...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to target Iran’s energy infrastructure, including the country's desalination plants. Such a...
In February 2023, a little more than a year after the launch of ChatGPT, Vanderbilt University sent an email to its student body in the wake of a...
Operation Epic Fury – the latest round of military strikes against Iran – began when Iran was engaged in negotiations with the United States to...
With global energy prices up and his job approval ratings down, Donald Trump faces stark choices after a month of war against Iran: cut a potentially...
Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are lost in leaders’ minds − when leaders misread what they and their adversaries can do, when...
For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young...
Donald Trump’s abrupt pause in his showdown with Iran followed warnings from Gulf states that the war was veering into a far more perilous phase and...
Every year organizations roll out their refreshed strategies, new KPIs and ambitious goals for the year ahead. But despite the changing pace in work...
In a strongly worded decision last week, a federal judge ordered that the Voice of America — its mission to provide news for countries around the...
Afghanistan says at least 400 people have been killed in a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Monday night, with...
Canadians are openly discussing the merits and risks of pursuing a nuclear weapon. Europeans are similarly considering a nuclear deterrent for the...
Israel has killed one senior Iranian leader after another in airstrikes as it seeks to topple the Islamic Republic. But its past experience of...
Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship to become the only woman journalist to land on Normandy Beach on D-Day. She carried stretchers before...
Gulf Arab states did not ask the U.S. to go to war with Iran, but many are now urging it not to stop short by leaving the Islamic Republic still able...
President Donald Trump spent his first year back in power disparaging U.S. allies. Now he wants them to help America in the Iran war -- and they are...
Tensions in the Middle East often trigger concerns about rising gasoline prices. But disruptions to oil supplies could affect much more than the cost...
In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels....
The recent inaugural summit of the Board of Peace in Washington has been presented by the Donald Trump administration as a decisive turning point The...
When she announced a snap general election at a press conference on Jan. 19, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi cited proactive fiscal spending, a drastic...
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran represents a serious challenge to FIFA chief Gianni Infantino's relationship with President Donald Trump less than...
Iran is wagering it can outlast the United States and Israel--not militarily, but by grinding the war into a brutal contest of endurance. Its strategy...
Daniel Hernandez's grocery store in south Minneapolis has served Latino families for over 5 years, but he says it's on the verge of closing...
As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded with words of indignation but no visible action to support its Middle...