“RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate”: Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster
Senators are renewing calls for anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy to step down or be ousted—and at least one is calling for a criminal
How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to
Trump blacklisting of “woke” Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
The Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, a federal judge ruled in an order vacating government directives against the use of the firm’s AI
Political Campaigns Are Quietly Paying Influencers to Support Candidates
Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
Dolly Parton’s legacy revered and Trump renames another body of water: The news quiz
A tennis star returns to the U.S. Open, a trial is set for a man accused of being the 9/11 mastermind, and a social media
Trump says he’ll visit Pentagon, rather than Ground Zero, for 9/11 ceremony
President Tweety McTreason will appear at the Pentagon to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks on Sept.
Aston Villa sign Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson for reported club record
Jackson arrives as a replacement for Ollie Watkins, whose move to Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal is being finalised.
India and Pakistan are united in spending citizen lives like pocket change
Recent hospital fires expose how little decades of national achievement mean when basic public safety still fails.
Six months into the Iran war, a new Gulf security architecture is emerging
Gulf states are building overlapping partnerships that complement, rather than replace, the US security role.
Ex-White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000 for Trump speech bets
The staffer was found to have used his prior knowledge of the president’s speeches to place lucrative bets.
Canada poaches dozens of top US researchers for its universities
Researchers in fields like climate and medicine are being lured north by new research funding.
Satellite images reveal scale of flood devastation in Nepal villages
Before-and-after images show villages, bridges and a key Nepal-Tibet border crossing washed away by devastating floodwaters.
World’s youngest reigning traditional monarch dies aged 34
King Oyo ascended to the throne of Uganda’s Tooro kingdom when he was just three years old.
Fed Chair dodged growing turf war with Scott Bessent’s Treasury: expert
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivered a much-anticipated policy speech and said almost nothing, which economics columnist Catherine Rampell says was the point. During a