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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...
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...
Nature is rapidly becoming a strategic priority for Japan. The national Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2023–2030 sets an explicit mission...
Like so many sectors of the economy, the news industry is hurtling toward a future where artificial intelligence plays a major role — grappling...
With its supreme leader killed and its war machine under relentless U.S. pressure, Iran now stands largely alone - its longtime partners Russia and...
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...
For decades, Dubai's sales pitch featured gleaming skylines, tax-free salaries, ease of doing business and something far more intangible: the...
President Donald Trump, whose fierce denunciation of military adventurism abroad fueled his unlikely rise to the top of the Republican Party, risks...
On a U.S. late-night television show Saturday, the host played a clip from 2011 of a businessman warning that president Barack Obama "will start...
With his large-scale attack on Iran, Donald Trump has seized a legacy-defining moment to demonstrate his readiness to exercise raw U.S. military...
When a coupon suddenly appears on your phone as you approach a store, you might find it convenient and even helpful. But the same AI systems that know...
Generative artificial intelligence has become a routine part of creative work. Novelists are using it to develop plots. Musicians are experimenting...
John Davidson, whose life inspired the award-winning biopic “I Swear,” involuntarily shouted a racial slur during Michael B Jordan and Delroy...
Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write...
For years, social media companies have disputed allegations that they harm children’s mental health through deliberate design choices that addict...
Doing the right thing in the wrong way. This phrase is particularly appropriate for Japan's current nuclear energy policy. The government should...
While the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Friday against President Donald Trump's use of tariffs marks a clear setback for his use of trade...
Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain’s House of Lords. Parliament’s upper chamber...
Stephen Colbert's comments that network executives pulled his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico over fears it would...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s comment that he is discussing potential arms sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping is raising concerns in...
When the Federal Aviation Administration closed the airport in El Paso, Texas, and the airspace around it on Feb 10, the cause was, ironically, the...
The Washington Post sports section died Wednesday. Whether you blame natural causes or more avoidable factors, the loss for the D.C. area is immense....
In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues...
Don't tune into the Super Bowl hoping for a break from the tumultuous politics gripping the U.S. The NFL is facing pressure ahead of...
In late January, the gold price reached an all-time peak of around $5,500. January 30 saw one of the largest one-day falls in prices, which sank by...
Japan’s most recent national election has provided political clarity at a time of domestic economic pressure and evolving regional dynamics. While...
With an upcoming FIFA World Cup being staged across the nation, 2026 was supposed to be a bumper year for tourism to the United States, driven in part...
The best presidents – including figures such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington – are celebrated not only as good leaders, but as good men....
In the first weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a strange pattern emerged in Western media coverage. Headlines oscillated between...
A year ago, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said he wanted to rebuild trust in federal health agencies, and vowed to employ “radical...
In announcing its “Great Healthcare Plan” in January, the Trump administration became the latest in a long history of efforts by the U.S....
In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial...
There’s a chance the dreaded buzz of propellers heard on Ukrainian battlefields is coming from drones built in a country with a population of just...
The United States and Russia could embark on an unrestrained nuclear arms race for the first time since the Cold War, unless they reach an...
No longer confined to the partisans and activists, the fierce backlash against Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has begun to break out across...
The Trump administration’s recent surge of more than 3,000 federal agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, is creating ripple effects for...