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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...
“Intimidation," “threats” and “blackmail” are just some of the terms being used by European Union leaders to describe U.S. President Donald...
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable...
In December, President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC in a federal court in Florida. It was only the latest in a long series...
Among the many goals of last week's U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was to send China a message: stay away...
The Department of Homeland Security in September 2025 said that 2 million undocumented immigrants had been forced out of the United States since the...
Washington on Tuesday marked five years since a mob overran the U.S. Capitol, with rioters pardoned by Donald Trump retracing their steps even as...
The Trump administration's capture of Venezuela's president and plans to “run” the country are raising stark new questions about the legality of...
The midterm elections for Congress won’t take place until November, but already a record number of members have declared their intention not to run...
On December 10, the year 2025 reached a murderous milestone. In 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) had recorded 126 journalists...
Zohran Mamdani as a creepy trick-or-treater, Gavin Newsom body-slamming Donald Trump and Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero. This is not the setup to an...
President Donald Trump is reportedly setting his sights on a Christmas peace deal in the Ukraine-Russia war. The timing is apt. Every December,...
When people think of the European Middle Ages, it often brings to mind grinding poverty, superstition and darkness. But the reality of the 1,000-year...
President Donald Trump’s aggressive policy agenda is doing more than reshaping the economy and immigration enforcement - it’s also giving a...
While you read this article, look up and count six people around you. One of them may experience a significant disability, according to WHO data. If...
There’s a lot of debate around the extent to which the manosphere is playing out in young people’s lives and relationships. Some suggest...
The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case to determine whether President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are legal. Until recently, tariffs...
His only official job title at the White House is son-in-law. But Jared Kushner has staged a remarkable -- and sometimes controversial -- comeback to...
In the past week, President Donald Trump and senior Republican lawmakers have presented starkly different views of a top U.S. national security...
A largely overlooked directive issued by the Trump administration marks a major shift in U.S. counterterrorism policy, one that threatens bedrock free...
The United Nations’ global climate summit has finished for another year. Some progress was made in Brazil on climate finance and adaptation. But...
As you enter Iran’s capital, it starts with only occasional glimpses — a passenger in a car speeding by or a pedestrian trying to leapfrog through...
A $100-per-person charge for foreigners entering Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and other popular national parks is stoking apprehension among some...
The fatal shooting of a house cleaner who Indiana authorities say mistakenly went to the wrong address feels hauntingly familiar. It’s a tragic...
As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling...
In the final fractious hours of the U.N. climate summit in Brazil, when a deal to advance the world's fight against global warming was slipping out of...
The UK has announced much harsher rules for asylum seekers including the prospect of more deportations for those whose applications fail. The U.S....
When President Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia's crown prince this week over the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he did more...
It began as a simple stunt -- a long, provocative chat between two lightning rods of the American right. The goal: spark debate, go viral and maybe...
With the United States absent from the U.N. annual international climate summit for the first time in three decades, China is stepping into the...
From ChatGPT crafting emails, to AI systems recommending TV shows and even helping diagnose disease, the presence of machine intelligence in everyday...
Top-level resignations from the BBC over the editing of a speech by President Donald Trump have blown the lid off wider tensions at the British...