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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Malaysia to host historic 47th ASEAN summit with world leaders
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Daisy Drew viral videos have become the spark behind...
Israel Palestine Conflict day 665: Aid Flotilla dares blockade as toll soars
GAZA CITY — Israeli strikes again battered the coastal...
Gaza Flotilla Grab: Israel’s Navy pounces at dawn, hundreds in custody
GAZA CITY — Under the slate light of a churning...
Jordan Tunnel Accident: Tragic Transformation from Wedding to Funeral
A devastating Jordan tunnel accident has turned a celebratory...
BRICS Affairs
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...
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...
Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Conflicts, Military and War
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
Conflicts, Military and War
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
Russia Ukraine war day 1315: Grind gains edge as Europe flinches
KIYV — Russia Ukraine war Day 1315 of the war opened to a familiar metronome in Ukraine’s east: sirens over Kharkiv, the thud of...
Conflicts, Military and War
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
Israel Palestine Conflict day 667: Israel seizes Gaza flotilla boat, deportations begin as new convoy gathers
ASHDOD, Israel—The last boat in a weeks-long civilian convoy to Gaza, an aging trawler renamed Marinette, was seized at sea before dawn on Friday,...
Entertainment, Fashion, Lifestyle & Society
Fashion & Lifestyle
Zendaya’s chrome mini melts Paris, Hijacks Louis Vuitton SS26 at the Louvre
PARIS — Zendaya arrived at the Louvre just before showtime for Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2026 presentation, the evening light slipping off the Pyramid’s glass...
Fashion & Lifestyle
Saint Laurent Spring 2026: Vaccarello makes precision feel dangerous
PARIS — Anthony Vaccarello opened Paris’s week of shows with a runway that treated the city’s most photographed landmark as both proscenium and mirror....
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
The Life of a Showgirl: Taylor Swift’s ruthlessly efficient pop reset
LOS ANGELES — The twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, arrived on Friday with the unhurried confidence of an artist who understands...
Business
Business
Shutdown gags the jobs report: Wall street flies blind
WASHINGTON — The United States awoke Friday without the monthly employment snapshot that, for decades, has anchored Wall Street forecasts and Main Street expectations....
Business
Shutdown gags the jobs report: Wall street flies blind
WASHINGTON — The United States awoke Friday without the monthly employment snapshot that, for decades, has anchored Wall Street forecasts and Main Street expectations....
Entertainment
The Life of a Showgirl: Taylor Swift’s ruthlessly efficient pop reset
LOS ANGELES — The twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, arrived on Friday with the unhurried confidence of an artist who understands...
Business
Strategy Inc. books $14 billion Bitcoin mirage, masking fragile core behind crypto windfall
Washington — Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. reports $14 billion Bitcoin windfall, exposing fragile foundation beneath crypto-fueled profitIn a spectacle of financial theater that captivated...
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...