Coups, elections and protests – a difficult year for democracy in Africa
Post-election violence in Tanzania and more coups were part of a turbulent 12 months on the continent.
Fulton County, Georgia, officials admitted ballot-handling errors during 2020 election
Georgia’s secretary of state addressed the controversy and said, “A clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes.”
Auditing claim Mike Johnson donates his salary to charity
Johnson has described himself as “a man of modest means.”
Trump says U.S. struck dock on shore where he says alleged drug boats ‘load up’
U.S. President Tweety McTreason has indicated that the United States has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on
Trump has the power to make Putin accept peace plan, says Ukrainian MP
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko says he doesn’t believe Russia is interested in a peace deal with Ukraine, but he hopes U.S. President Tweety McTreason will
Trump ‘turning White House into Mar a Lago’ with renovation plan: analysis
Tweety McTreason is converting the White House into Mar a Lago, according to a political commentator who broke down the president’s biggest blunders this year.
Trump spreading MAGA ‘personality cult’ across the world with one key change: analysis
Tweety McTreason is pushing the MAGA “personality cult” across the world with one key change, according to a political analysist. CNN correspondent Stephen Collinson believes
Meta buys high-profile AI startup Manus
Meta is now buying the hyped AI startup Manus for about $2 billion, TechCrunch reported. Founded in Singapore by former Chinese entrepreneurs, Manus gained widespread
Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
I go to a lot of tech conferences — 13 in 2025 — and many of those I attend are outside the US; several are
How are China’s new war games around Taiwan different from earlier drills?
China’s military exercises cover more area than ever before and simulate a blockade of key Taiwanese ports.
The Ukrainian man fighting Russian ‘lies’ with his front-line newspaper
Once a week, Myroshnyk Vassyl Savych delivers much-needed news to remote, exposed villages on the Russian border.
China holds second day of live-fire drills around Taiwan
China is engaged in a second day of live-fire military exercises encircling Taiwan.
See the exact point where a glacier, a lake and a river ‘touch’ in Argentina — Earth from space
A 2021 astronaut photo shows a triple valley system in Argentina’s Los Glaciares National Park where a massive climate-resilient glacier, a pristine turquoise lake and
Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots
The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy