Yemenis face severe shortages in Taiz amid Houthi blockade
Residents in Yemen’s Taiz are facing severe food and water shortages as a Houthi blockade cuts off a key supply route.
How Sudan’s shift to drone warfare is fuelling a civilian crisis
Drone attacks on supply lines and safe cities are taking a devastating toll on civilians.
Why do we carve pumpkins for Halloween? Tracing the history
The tradition of making jack-o’-lanterns to ward off spirits has roots in Irish folklore.
Forget “Malaise 2.0,” GM says it’s still all-in on EVs and autonomy
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Watch out for these 8 claims about polling stations, ballots
Election fraud and lost ballots rumors we’ve investigated are spreading widely ahead of the midterm elections.
333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
Unknown hackers hijacked more than 300 Tor exit nodes and reconfigured them to favor unencrypted email traffic and redirect SSH connections through servers they controlled
Why a student protest movement is challenging 12 years of Vučić rule in Serbia
After two years of student protests, Serbians vote on Sunday in elections that could bring down the ruling party.
What update to Meta’s terms for business accounts says about AI scraping
“If you do not agree to the updated terms, you may stop all access or use of our Products for business or commercial purposes,” the
Teacher in Oregon shooting said she pretended to be dead to survive
The teacher said she could not help children because she was badly injured by the attacker.
Does video show 2026 ‘No Kings’ rallies in 7 US cities?
People reposted the video after recent “No Kings: Vote Early” events without clarifying when it was filmed.
YouTuber arrested after popular Indian finance influencer’s suicide
V Harish, who ran the hugely popular Instagram account “Finance with Harish”, was found dead on Tuesday.
Two killed in Houthi attack on airport in eastern Saudi Arabia, authorities say
It is the latest in a series of attacks by the Houthi movement targeting airports and other sites in the kingdom.
Scientists say they’ve found proof Mona Lisa was losing her hair in Da Vinci masterpiece
Scientists believe Lisa Gherardini, the subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, may have been suffering from alopecia areata
Musk’s backing for a SpaceX-Tesla merger rattled insiders, Reuters reports
Some of the people working on a possible SpaceX-Tesla merger worry that Elon Musk’s public comments could draw shareholder scrutiny and delay the process by