US Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing Article 415 words 36 votes
US Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon politics Article 802 words 16 votes
US President Donald Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology’ politics Article 502 words 25 votes
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her politics Article 914 words 33 votes
A federal judge rules the dismantling of USAID likely violated the Constitution and blocks Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts politics Article 562 words 37 votes
Court asked to intervene after email tells USAID workers to destroy classified documents politics Article 508 words 18 votes
US Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests politics Article 385 words 50 votes
Former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte arrested on an ICC warrant over drug killings politics Article 441 words 25 votes
US war heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion purge politics Article 1194 words 25 votes
US Justice Dept. says ending Louisiana petrochemical case helps ‘dismantle radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs’ politics Article 696 words 26 votes
Donald Trump administration cancels $400M in grants and contracts with Columbia University politics Article 806 words 20 votes
US President Donald Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow up politics Article 1028 words 91 votes
US Senator Mitch McConnell won’t seek reelection in 2026, ending long tenure as Republican power broker politics Article 1123 words 32 votes
Donald Trump media company sues a Brazilian Supreme Court justice investigating Jair Bolsonaro politics Article 508 words 13 votes
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged over an alleged coup. What’s next for him? politics Article 700 words 9 votes
Donald Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership politics Article 1153 words 34 votes
Marco Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans politics Article 778 words 15 votes
Live updates of day one executive orders / actions taken by US President Donald Trump politics Article 816 words 37 votes
Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire in Gaza, Qatari and Hamas officials say politics Article 727 words 21 votes
US Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's views on women in combat, infidelity, and extremism, in his own words politics Article 1204 words 16 votes
What to know about the siege outside South Korea’s presidential compound politics Article 883 words 2 votes
A deadly accident has Hawaii officials pleading for an end to amateur fireworks shows [three killed, twenty injured] politics Article 574 words 14 votes
US President Joe Biden gives life in prison to thirty-seven of forty federal death row inmates so Donald Trump can't have them executed politics Article 917 words 30 votes
Donald Trump nominates Fox News host and Army National Guard Major Pete Hegseth for US defense secretary politics Article 152 words 26 votes
US satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families politics Article 393 words 85 votes
Doctors say Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is recovering after surgery for a brain bleed politics Article 163 words 11 votes
Syria launches counterattacks in an attempt to halt insurgency, as Iran’s top diplomat meets Bashar al-Assad politics Article 1133 words 10 votes
Icelanders will elect a new parliament Saturday after disagreements over immigration, energy policy and the economy forced PM Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government politics Article 763 words 9 votes
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro planned and participated in a 2022 coup plot, an unsealed police report alleges politics Article 1036 words 18 votes
Brazilian police arrest five officers over alleged coup plot and plans to kill President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva following the 2022 elections politics Article 15 votes
Beautification project in California prison inspired by Norwegian approach to incarceration – rehabilitation in humane prisons surrounded by nature leads to successful reintegration into society Article 1000 words 30 votes
Moldova narrowly votes to secure path toward EU membership after accusing Russia of interference politics Article 46 votes
Takeaways from AP's report on affordable housing disappearing across the US politics Article 814 words 37 votes
Sweden to issue another update of a Cold War-era civil emergency advice booklet later this month – new version adapted to better reflect today's security policy reality politics Article 321 words 8 votes
Norway may put a fence along part or all of the 198-kilometer border it shares with Russia – move inspired by a similar project in its Nordic neighbor Finland politics Article 490 words 17 votes
São Paulo mayoral candidate treated in hospital after getting clobbered with chair politics Article 533 words 7 votes
Donald Trump is safe after Secret Service opened fire at suspect with firearm near his Florida golf club politics Article 61 words 48 votes
Germany’s expansion of border controls is testing European unity politics Article 1000 words 12 votes
China-linked ‘Spamouflage’ network mimics Americans online to sway US political debate politics Article 795 words 25 votes
Norway's government wants to relax restrictions on abortion to make it legal for women to terminate pregnancies up to the eighteenth week of gestation politics Article 347 words 27 votes
Former US President Donald Trump’s post of fake Taylor Swift endorsement is his latest embrace of AI-generated images politics Article 1058 words 36 votes
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to resign, paving way for new leader politics Article 736 words 20 votes
Recreational marijuana sales in Ohio can start Tuesday at nearly 100 locations politics Article 203 words 37 votes
What to know about the proposed Kids Online Safety Act and its chances of passing in the US Congress politics Article 1231 words 20 votes
Five killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh in violent clashes over government jobs quota politics Article 549 words 14 votes
Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd politics Article 213 words 144 votes
Finnish lawmakers narrowly approved controversial bill that will allow border guards to turn away third-country migrants attempting to enter from neighboring Russia politics Article 536 words 11 votes
The US Supreme Court weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision politics Article 721 words 67 votes