A UN watchdog today criticized "intensified immigration crackdowns" in the U.S. and accused President Trump and other American leaders of using "racist hate speech" — both of which it said had "sparked grave human rights violations."
Iran targeted the world’s busiest international airport Wednesday and attacked commercial ships, as U.S. and Israeli strikes rocked Tehran.
Winning the war in Iraq didn’t fix Iraq. More than 20 years after the U.S. invasion, the country sits firmly in Iran’s sphere of influence.
A security scholar says this new war with Iran risks repeating the same mistake: military success without a plan for what comes next.
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A global food price shock looms as Middle East war rages on. Here's who will be hit hardest
Woman who lost all 4 limbs after sepsis from childbirth finds long awaited kidney transplant match
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Gang members would drag us away if we didn’t come with them.” This undocumented teenager escaped the gangs of Honduras. In America he’s dodging ICE.
Two oil tankers hit by explosive-laden boats in Iraqi waters amid reports Iran may be using unmanned surface vessels.
There has never been a singular Christian perspective on how religion, power and politics ought to relate to each other – not even in medieval “Christendom,” which many Christian Nationalists idealize as a time before separation of Church and State.
"Thyroid cancer used to be rare in Fukushima Prefecture, with one case in a million.
After five rounds of screening, the incidence rate is now 400 cases out of 380,000 people—1,000 times higher than before the disaster."
—Thomas A. Bass
More than a dozen children—most of whom were born to surrogate mothers—were found in an L.A. mansion. Ava Kofman reports on the mysterious couple behind this story. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VOPv86
President Donald Trump was touring a pharmaceutical company in Ohio — trying again to turn attention to his domestic achievements — when talk again returned to the restive Middle East. https://cnn.it/4s7DFS4
Tens of millions of Americans have delayed surgeries, vacation plans, career moves and other big life decisions because of the cost of health care, a new West Health-Gallup survey found.
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau in 2023, according to a source and published Justice Department documents.
New Podcast Episode:
Intelligent Machines: We Have Computer At Home
Coffee and the Rise of the Machines
with @leolaporte.me, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, @paris.nyc, Guy Kawasaki
This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.
Asia scrambles to confront energy crisis unleashed by Iran war – with no end in sight
Japan’s vending machines, often a marvel of engineering and old-school tech, are also falling victim to mundane economic pressures. Their omnipresence could someday be a thing of the past.
US airports are asking for donations for TSA workers who are going without pay during the partial government shutdown.
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NPR spent several days traveling across a pair of swing districts in Pennsylvania to find out. The answers show how much has changed since the 2020 election. n.pr/3P4vAir
Explosive-laden Iranian boats appear to have attacked two fuel tankers in Iraqi waters, setting them ablaze and killing one crew member, after projectiles struck four vessels in Gulf waters, said port, maritime security and risk firms reut.rs/4rugn7U
The United States and Iran have signaled no quick end to their war, with Trump saying it was necessary to finish the job and Iran warning that the world should be ready for oil at $200 a barrel after striking tankers in Iraqi waters and other ships near the vital Strait of Hormuz reut.rs/4bioYUX
On one-year anniversary, Democrats decry dismantling of Department of Education | via Shauneen Miranda #ksleg
Mounting scrutiny of Iranian-linked networks in Britain leads to renewed demands for IRGC ban
Modern tech runs on critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and rare earths. Now companies are eyeing the deep ocean as the next mining frontier.
(But many of these places contain ecosystems we still know very little about.)
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