Venezuela accuses US of ‘extortion’ over seizure of oil tankers
An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council was called to discuss the US seizure of two tankers.
Aid cuts push Sudan deeper into “acute hunger”
“The impact of the funding cut is very clear on the humanitarian aid.”
Arab League welcomes Sudanese gov’t peace plan presented at UN
Paramilitary RSF group rejects plan, saying that proposals for its withdrawal are ‘closer to fantasy than to politics’.
Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one
Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.
“Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment
CBS cannot contain the online spread of a “60 Minutes” segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, “Inside CECOT,”
F1’s new engines are causing consternation over compression ratios
There’s still another couple of months before the 2026 crop of F1 cars takes to the track for the first preseason test. It’s a year
Watch: Rescuers find survivor in wreckage of Mexican Navy medical flight
Footage captures the moment rescuers discover a survivor in the wreckage of a plane crash that killed at least 5 people, with one person still
Discovery of a fat-regulating enzyme points to a new obesity therapy
Obesity is a global epidemic and a major cause of morbidity and mortality because it increases the risk for comorbidities, including heart disease and fatty
Study validates OVCAR3 as a model for high-grade serous ovarian cancer
A new research paper was published in Volume 12 of Oncoscience on October 14, 2025, titled “Bridging clinical insight and laboratory model in high-grade serous
Engineered womb lining model opens a window into embryo implantation
By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and Stanford University have been able to study
Engineered sensor reveals the brain’s hidden chemical conversations
Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their outgoing signals).
States sue HHS over a move that could curtail youth gender-affirming care
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its
AI analysis maps a century of global aging research
A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 11 of Aging-US on November 25, 2025, titled “A natural language processing–driven map of the
Investigation reveals timeline in Melodee Buzzard’s death
Investigation reveals timeline in Melodee Buzzard’s death