Healthcare crisis escalating in Yemen’s besieged Taiz
Fighting between Yemen’s Houthis and the internationally recognised government is deepening the humanitarian crisis.
US coastguard rescues 16 after boat sinks off Mexico’s Baja coast
Eleven people are believed to be still missing, with rescue operations under way.
Oregon school shooter was former special needs student, police say
A teacher fought teenage shooter and a parent shot him dead, police say on Friday, a day after four people were killed.
Ilhan Omar didn’t flee to Morocco after federal agents’ raid on her home
The source for this claim about the Minnesota congresswoman frequently spreads false and unverified rumors.
Does video show Katie Zacharia struggling to answer beauty pageant question?
The White House press secretary was falsely linked to a video of former Miss South Carolina Teen USA contestant Caitlin Upton.
The uncertain future of Canada’s 30 rescued belugas
An international rescue operation for the last 30 captive whales in Canada made headlines. Then five of them died.
‘You are the snake’: Marjorie Taylor Greene post criticizes Trump’s ‘broken campaign promises’
The former Georgia congresswoman found fault with the president on Gaza, the Epstein files and the war in Iran.
A thousand slogans echoed here – but it could be the end for iconic Delhi protest site
Jantar Mantar, an 18th Century site almost synonymous with demonstrations in Delhi, has been denotified as a protest site.
12 claims about data centers we’ve investigated
As more data centers are built, more rumors about them need fact-checking.
Trump ‘completely wrong’ to restrict support for Ukraine, Italian minister tells BBC
Defence Minister Guido Crosetto tells the BBC the US risks prolonging Russia’s full-scale invasion rather than helping to end it.
Katie Zacharia leaving her White House role less than five days on the job
Her public debut as White House press secretary on Tuesday ended with a flurry of media criticism about her credentials and preparedness.
Army sniper claims he killed ‘reptilian beings’ in Area 51 battle
Nick Betts claims an unidentified soldier of the U.S. Army’s elite special missions unit described to him a secret operation in which he and his
Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a Container
Valve’s October 15 Steam Client Beta changes how the Linux client is built and run. It moves the client to a 64-bit build and runs
FOSS Weekly #26.42: AI in Kernel, Ubuntu 26.10 Firefox Business, Mint Release Changes and More Linux Stuff
AI’s role in kernel work is looking more apparent now. Linus Torvalds’ use of Claude Code has tripled read speeds for concurrent file access, while