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Trump's messaging on Iran grows increasingly erratic

Trump's messaging on Iran grows increasingly erratic

With his sensational statements on Truth Social and serial phone chats with individual journalists, President Donald Trump has only added to the...

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Aurélia end

Cameras in courtrooms stir debate from baby Lindbergh kidnapping to OJ and Charlie Kirk's killing

Cameras in courtrooms stir debate from baby Lindbergh kidnapping to OJ and Charlie Kirk's killing

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...

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Matthew Brown

The 'becoming Chinese' meme shows China's soft power moment is here

The 'becoming Chinese' meme shows China's soft power moment is here

Have you “become Chinese”? In recent months, 20-somethings around the world have taken over social media with posts enthusing about how they’re...

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Huizhong Wu

Despite Israeli firepower, Netanyahu struggles for political gains in Iran war

Despite Israeli firepower, Netanyahu struggles for political gains in Iran war

The Iran war was meant to deliver a defining victory over Tehran that would secure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's place in history....

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Samia nakhoul and maayan lubell

U.S. refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations white

U.S. refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations white

Whiteness appears to be an official immigration credential in the eyes of the United States government. The Trump administration in late 2025 slashed...

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John broich

Strait of Hormuz: Why the U.S. and Iran are sailing in very different legal waters

Strait of Hormuz: Why the U.S. and Iran are sailing in very different legal waters

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...

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Elizabeth mendenhall

China’s state media turns to social media and AI to tell its story — and often mock U.S.

China’s state media turns to social media and AI to tell its story — and often mock U.S.

The messaging from China’s Communist government may once have been dogmatic and rigid — not anymore. Having largely tamed the internet at home...

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Didi tang and e. eduardo castillo

Vance comes up empty-handed on Iran and Hungary, for now

Vance comes up empty-handed on Iran and Hungary, for now

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...

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Danny Kemp

Iran war diverts U.S. military and attention from Asia ahead of Trump's summit with China's leader

Iran war diverts U.S. military and attention from Asia ahead of Trump's summit with China's leader

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...

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Didi tang

Trump declares victory, no matter what. The Iran war is the latest example of that

Trump declares victory, no matter what. The Iran war is the latest example of that

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...

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Will Weissert

Why a social media ban for teenagers misses the point

Why a social media ban for teenagers misses the point

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...

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Jeremy howick

After ceasefire, negotiating a lasting deal with Iran would require overcoming regional rivalries and strategic incoherence

After ceasefire, negotiating a lasting deal with Iran would require overcoming regional rivalries and strategic incoherence

President Donald Trump’s rapid and dramatic turn from threatening to kill “an entire civilization” in Iran on the morning of April 7 to...

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Ioana emy matesan

Evangelicals amplify Trump's religious framing of Iran war

President Donald Trump is using Christian rhetoric to rally core supporters behind the increasingly unpopular war with Iran, religious and political...

10.04.2026 50

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Nathan layne and tim reid

What does the Iran ceasefire deal mean? It depends on which side you talk to

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...

09.04.2026 50

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Will Weissert

If aliens exist, what would they think of us?

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...

08.04.2026 60

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Corey Williams

What's real anymore? AI warps truth of Middle East war

"Is Netanyahu real or AI?" an internet headline blared, pointing to a video that supposedly showed the Israeli prime minister with six...

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Anuj chopra with afp fact check

China aims to show global leadership with Iran war diplomacy. U.S. appears uninterested

China is stepping up its diplomacy on the Iran war, putting forward a five-point proposal with Pakistan, rallying support from Gulf countries and...

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Didi tang

Trump gloats over possible war crimes in Iran

Threatening to destroy Iran's electricity grid and to reduce the country of 90 million to destitution, U.S. President Donald Trump is shattering...

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Shaun Tandon

Bondi struggled to prosecute Trump foes. But will a new attorney general make a difference?

Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies. But there's no...

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Eric Tucker

Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of U.S. cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms

For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the United States. Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for...

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Jess reia

A war meant to break Iran could leave Tehran stronger, and Gulf exposed

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...

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Samia Nakhoul

Trump threatens to destroy Iran's desalination plants. Here’s what that could mean for the Mideast

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to target Iran’s energy infrastructure, including the country's desalination plants. Such a...

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Annika hammerschlag

If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic

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...

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Emily hodgson anderson

War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines U.S. ability to talk peace around the world

Operation Epic Fury – the latest round of military strikes against Iran – began when Iran was engaged in negotiations with the United States to...

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Debak das

One month into Iran war, only hard choices for Trump

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...

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Matt Spetalnick

Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine for the war in Iran were ignored

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...

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Monica duffy toft

As juries turn against social media for harming kids, Big Tech's invincibility starts to show cracks

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young...

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Barbara Ortutay

Gulf warnings and fears of miscalculation preceded Trump’s pause in Iran showdown

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...

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Samia Nakhoul

Job performance reviews are outdated and often pointless. Why do we still use them?

Every year organizations roll out their refreshed strategies, new KPIs and ambitious goals for the year ahead. But despite the changing pace in work...

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Danaë anderson and jeremy morrow

Judge orders Voice of America be put back together again. What are the chances that will happen?

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...

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David Bauder

Attacks on hospitals are surging in war zones. What do the laws of war say about protecting them?

Afghanistan says at least 400 people have been killed in a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Monday night, with...

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Shannon bosch

Going nuclear? Why a growing number of Washington’s allies are eyeing an alternative to U.S. umbrella

Canadians are openly discussing the merits and risks of pursuing a nuclear weapon. Europeans are similarly considering a nuclear deterrent for the...

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Amy mcauliffe

Israel rapidly killing Iran's top leaders, but experts warn the strategy could backfire

Israel has killed one senior Iranian leader after another in airstrikes as it seeks to topple the Islamic Republic. But its past experience of...

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Sam Metz

Pete Hegseth is working hard to make sure the public hears only good news about Iran war

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...

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Kathy kiely

Gulf states press U.S. to neutralize Iran for good as Hormuz crisis deepens

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...

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Samia Nakhoul

Trump faces coalition of the unwilling on Iran

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...

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Danny Kemp

Oil isn’t just fuel: Iran conflict could disrupt markets for everything from plastics to fertilizers

Tensions in the Middle East often trigger concerns about rising gasoline prices. But disruptions to oil supplies could affect much more than the cost...

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André o. hudson

Two weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels

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....

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Will Weissert

1933 and the ghost of Japan’s internationalism

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...

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Imran Khalid

Japan needs to consider offensive potential entailed in 'active defense'

When she announced a snap general election at a press conference on Jan. 19, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi cited proactive fiscal spending, a drastic...

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Aisa kiyosue

Trump-Infantino 'bromance' tested by Middle East war

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran represents a serious challenge to FIFA chief Gianni Infantino's relationship with President Donald Trump less than...

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Coralie febvre and keyvan naraghi

Iran bets on endurance, energy disruption to outlast U.S., Israel

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...

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Samia Nakhoul

Noem's firing is little comfort to Minneapolis residents struggling to recover from crackdown

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...

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Steve Karnowski

Russia sits back as Iran war escalates, expecting long-term gains

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...

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Vladimir Isachenkov

Hegseth's comments are reminder that government isn't always eager to show human cost to war

Remarks by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the American press emphasizes U.S. casualties in the Iran war because it “wants to make the president...

09.03.2026 100

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David Bauder

Japanese companies leading in building nature-positive businesses – but gaps remain

Nature is rapidly becoming a strategic priority for Japan. The national Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2023–2030 sets an explicit mission...

08.03.2026 100

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Jenni black

Growing more complex by the day: How should journalists govern use of AI in their products?

Like so many sectors of the economy, the news industry is hurtling toward a future where artificial intelligence plays a major role — grappling...

07.03.2026 100

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David Bauder

Isolated and under fire: Iran strikes out as Russia and China stand aside

With its supreme leader killed and its war machine under relentless U.S. pressure, Iran now stands largely alone - its longtime partners Russia and...

06.03.2026 100

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Samia Nakhoul

How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for U.S.

President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Feb 24, doubled down on his false claims that the U.S. elections system is compromised. He...

05.03.2026 90

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Shelley inglis

Dubai's safe-haven status being put to the test

For decades, Dubai's sales pitch featured gleaming skylines, tax-free salaries, ease of doing business and something far more intangible: the...

04.03.2026 100

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Hadeel Al Sayegh