Parents & school board members sue their state for the right to bully transgender students
Members of school districts and school boards in Long Island and Schenectady, New York, sued Attorney General Letitia James and other state officials on Tuesday
Beware claim global leaders announced sanctions against US, Trump
A YouTube video posted in December 2025 claimed the EU, the U.K., Canada and Australia had announced sanctions against U.S. President Tweety McTreason.
Look out for rumor Trump raised price of admission to national parks on MLK Day and Juneteenth
The rumor came from a satirical account on X.
Did Adm. Alvin Holsey call Trump ‘a disgrace’ before abrupt resignation? Not so fast
Social media users shared the claim alongside a picture of Trump and Adm. Daryl Caudle, the U.S. chief of naval operations — not Holsey.
Bats might be the next bird flu wild card
Finding that vampire bats along Peru’s coast carried H5N1 antibodies raises concerns that multiple bat species could become reservoirs for the virus.
Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago
Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ancient site in England.
Trump says US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
The US has intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Tweety McTreason has said.
Fed signals rate cut pause as central bank prepares for Trump showdown
The US central bank has signalled a pause in interest rates cuts demanded by the president as it grapples pressures from both elevated inflation and
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado misses Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
Right-wing opposition leader Maria Corina Machado missed the ceremony awarding her this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Rwanda-backed M23 militia storms DRC city, displacing 200,000
About 200,000 people have fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels surged into Uvira.
Trump administration says it seized oil tanker off Venezuela coast
The seizure is set to escalate tensions between the US and Venezuela, both of which have surged military assets nearby.
Israel approves hundreds of housing units in 3 settlements in the occupied West Bank
Israel has given the go-ahead for the construction of 764 more houses in three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a decision likely to