Congress lets the government go dark. What closes, what doesn’t
After midnight on Wednesday, the federal government began a partial shutdown when competing funding measures died in the Senate and a stopgap failed to...
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WASHINGTON — The world is witnessing Government shutdowns in...
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Britain set to formally recognize Palestinian state amid Gaza crisis, defying US and Israel
London — The United Kingdom is expected to formally recognize the State of Palestine this weekend, following the conclusion of US President Donald Trump’s...
Government and Politics
Washington circus corruption Patel hearings Trump court chaos US decay
Washington —A storm of political theater is unfolding in Washington as congressional hearings, courtroom fights, and partisan investigations place the United States under a...
Africa
Iran defies UN snapback, recalls envoys from London, Paris, Berlin
Tehran — Iran framed the impending return of United Nations sanctions as a political ritual rather than an existential turning point, casting European capitals...
Russia Ukraine war day 1,306: NATO alarm, Russia steadies the home front
New York — The war in Ukraine entered day 1,306 with a combustible mix of Baltic airspace theatrics, refinery fires inside Russia, and showy...
Conflicts, Military and War
Russia Ukraine war day 1305: Oil fires, Baltic air scares, and a jittery UN week
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Conflicts, Military and War
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro condemn US “aggression” as global instability rises
Caracas — Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro accused the United States on Monday of waging “aggression” on multiple fronts, warning that Washington’s actions have severed...
Economy
Trump tariffs reset global trade as costs pile up and growth bends
New York — The global economy is settling into a new normal built around tariffs, not treaties, and the shock is only beginning to...
Foreign Affairs
Nepal bets on Sushila Karki to calm crisis and run March 5 vote
Kathmandu — Nepal dissolved its lower house and set a general election for March 5, 2026, hours after President Ramchandra Paudel swore in former...
Israel strikes Sanaa’s Press hub, killing Yemeni journalists
Sanaa — At least ten Yemeni journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes that hit central Sanaa and sites in al-Jawf on Wednesday, according to...
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Israel Palestine Conflict day 665: Aid Flotilla dares blockade as toll soars
GAZA CITY — Israeli strikes again battered the coastal enclave on Wednesday even as an unprecedented civilian flotilla pressed toward the shoreline in a...
Conflicts, Military and War
Yemen strikes Israeli-occupied territories as Israel lashes out in deadly retaliation
Teman — Yemen's armed forces launched a missile attack on Israeli targets in the occupied Palestinian territories. This strike, reported by local media in...
Conflicts, Military and War
Britain set to formally recognize Palestinian state amid Gaza crisis, defying US and Israel
London — The United Kingdom is expected to formally recognize the State of Palestine this weekend, following the conclusion of US President Donald Trump’s...
Conflicts, Military and War
Gaza suffers under Israel’s brutal ground invasion as humanitarian collapse accelerates
Gaza — Israel's recent ground invasion of Gaza City marks a brutal escalation in its ongoing campaign of destruction and displacement. Thousands of Palestinians have...
Foreign Affairs
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Russia Ukraine war day 1314: Kyiv reels as ZNPP risk and Baltic airspace jitters grow
Kyiv — The explosions came in waves, thickening the pre-dawn sky over the capital with streaks of light and the dull thud of impacts...
Conflicts, Military and War
Washington meeting sells hope as Gaza bleeds again
Tehran — The bombardment of Gaza City intensified on Monday even as Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House for talks with Donald Trump...
Conflicts, Military and War
Russia Ukraine war day 1313: Moscow’s deterrent salvo redraws Europe’s air rules
Kyiv — The night bled into morning under the thud of intercepts and the whine of generators. In one of the heaviest combined barrages...
Conflicts, Military and War
Russia Ukraine war, Day 1316: Chornobyl power cut jolts Europe
Moscow — Russia Ukraine war Day 1316 unfolded with a familiar, and more perilous, rhythm: missiles and drones probing power nodes, fresh damage to...
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Entertainment
The end of Kidman–Urban: A 19-year love story
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have separated after 19 years of marriage, ending one of entertainment’s most watched cross-Pacific partnerships and sending a ripple...
Entertainment
Bad Bunny seizes the Super Bowl stage at Levi’s Stadium
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Fashion & Lifestyle
Giorgio Armani’s last Milan show turns grief into proportion
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Entertainment
Diddy’s day of reckoning: Judge will decide who gets to speak, and how much it matters
NEW YORK — When Sean “Diddy” Combs enters a Manhattan federal courtroom for sentencing on Friday, the proceeding will revolve around two dry-sounding convictions...
Business
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Tesla’s 497,099 ‘record’ was a tax-credit sugar high
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Government and Politics
America held hostage: Shutdown bites at airports and parks
WASHINGTON — The federal government entered its second day of a shutdown on Thursday, October 2, 2025, with hundreds of thousands of civilian employees...
Conflicts, Military and War
Gaza Flotilla Grab: Israel’s Navy pounces at dawn, hundreds in custody
GAZA CITY — Under the slate light of a churning Mediterranean, gray silhouettes fanned across the water and closed in. By dawn on Thursday, most...
Reports
BTC.Z, ETH.Z, USDT.Z: Suspicious token network mimics real crypto across CoinMarketCap exchanges
Dubai — On a quiet evening in early April, a mid-sized financial firm based in the Gulf wired what it believed to be a...
Casino & Gambling
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The cryptocurrency gambling sector has moved beyond traditional regulatory frameworks. Another parallel ecosystem of non-standard betting markets has appeared, exploiting the anonymous properties of...