If there’s one general area of questioning that overshadows all others that I receive, it’s questions about vocalizations. One caw, five caws, quiet wows, and loud clicks. We can’…

Reclaiming an age-old put-down as a badge of Mexican American identity.

In our first post of this three-part series , we outlined Papua’s violent colonial history, the ongoing Free West Papua movement , and the inextricable connection between this history, present-d...

The oil and chemical tanker, which is sailing under the false flag of an African country, was spotted entering the Irish Sea this weekend.

With Donald Trump’s return to power, a neo-Nazi group buoyed by his rhetoric is expanding its reach and changing the face of white extremism in America. Its leaders: a Texas couple, both born to Ku Klux Klan leaders.

The city of six million people could soon run out water, amid climate change, sanctions and governance failures.

The race became a microcosm for the clashes and pressures on the American legal system this year, in part because one of the two top candidates is the younger brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Some say there was a deeper, darker meaning to the White Sox infamous 1979 promotion.

When crowds reach a high density of people per square meter, ripple-like movements begin to form.

The move exposed a quietly orchestrated deal between the president and El Salvador, culminating in a back-and-forth with a U.S. federal judge over the course of one frenetic day.

Undoing decades of painstaking work and endangering billions of people.

The 2025 edition of Amnesty International’s annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights, assesses national, regional and global developments across a wide range of human rights themes. It ide...

What the Justice Department actually said in court reinforces the wisdom and necessity of the Supreme Court’s dramatic move.

When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.

We’ve gotta start counting from 1 again...

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Despite the support of some of those close to him, including actress Fanny Ardant, the image of the actor, described on the witness stand as 'unhealthy' and 'dangerous,' was further tarnished on the t...

Every week, Israelis take to the streets in a multifaceted protest with a common thread of animosity toward the prime minister. The dissent is amplified by the resumption of bombings in Gaza.

Amid reports of escalating settler violence in the West Bank, the UN rights office, OHCHR, briefed the Palestinian rights committee at UN Headquarters in New York, which also featured a screening of t...

More than 200 million claimed leaked and stolen data records relating to X users have been posted on a popular hacker forum. What you need to know.

Convicted of embezzlement of public funds, the French far-right leader was on Monday sentenced to a five-year ban on running for office, effective immediately, even pending an appeal.

On 26 March 2025, the leadership of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences emailed its membership a statement with the subject line, “Our Global Film Community.” The statement was ostensibly ...

Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.

Pete Hegseth lacks the credibility and experience required to lead a body as massive and as critical as the Department of Defense; his confirmation as secretary of defense would be a major risk to Ame...

Professor Timothy Snyder posted that people are waking up and Trump's attempted oligarchical coup is fading.

Trump officials have demanded more European military spending and questioned the continent’s values. Leaked messages show the depth of the rift.

A federal judge has ruled that a drag show at Texas A&M University can go on as scheduled this week despite a Board of Regents effort to ban it.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems.

Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously on Friday to dismiss Ronen Bar, head of Israel's domestic intelligence service. The Supreme Court suspended the legally dubious procedure, and their deci...

A chaotic restructuring ordered threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The U.S. judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under a 1798 law excoriated government lawyers at the outset of a hearing on Friday over whether to maintain the ban.

The day before Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, his university degree was revoked, preventing him from running for president in 2028. The primary of his party, the CHP, is due to take place on Sunday, M...

The EU has its Trojan horses and Nato’s cornerstone has crumbled. But European allies, including the UK, are bound by an urgent shared purpose, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci

‘Virtual meeting’ to be held on Saturday with leaders from mainly European and Commonwealth countries

COLUMN. Can France, an over-indebted nation, sustainably place itself at the forefront of the fight for sovereignty? This question concerns not only the president, but all political parties and citize...