The explosions began, as they have every night this week, around 9:30 in the evening local time — a familiar, dreadful rhythm settling over southern Iran. In the port city of Bandar Abbas, residents heard three blasts tear through the…
Military delegations from the United States and Lebanon convened in Beirut this week to work out the practical details of a US-brokered framework agreement aimed at securing the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon. While the discussions represent…
There is a quiet anxiety running beneath the surface of American financial markets right now, one that the cheerful headlines about falling oil prices have done little to dispel. While consumers welcome relief at the pump and equity traders celebrate…
Senior US military commanders knowingly bypassed warnings that intelligence on Iranian targets was severely out of date, approving strikes — including one that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers at an elementary school — in a rush to…
Russia launched one of its most devastating attacks on Kyiv in weeks early Monday morning, killing at least 15 people in the capital and three more in the surrounding region, wounding dozens, and reducing residential buildings to rubble — all…
In Catia la Mar, a coastal city in northern Venezuela, the ground has stopped shaking — but the anger has not. Residents of this earthquake-battered community have turned their fury toward the state, which they say has been conspicuously, painfully…
A Climate Emergency in Real Time A catastrophic heatwave is killing people across Europe, shattering temperature records, and overwhelming public services — the second major extreme heat event to strike the continent in just two months. Scientists are unambiguous: the…
G7 Leaders and AI Executives Push for International Oversight as Trump’s Anthropic Crackdown Alarms Allies French President Emmanuel Macron called on wealthy democracies to jointly regulate advanced artificial intelligence Wednesday at a high-level G7 summit in France, as the Trump…
Trump Calls $300 Billion Iran Fund “Fake News” — Hours After His Own Officials Confirmed It President Donald Trump publicly denied Monday that the United States had offered Iran access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund as part of a…
China Leads World in Nuclear Expansion as Arms Control Frameworks Collapse China is expanding its nuclear arsenal faster than any other country on Earth, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)‘s 2025 yearbook, released this week. Beijing now…