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World · Sep 11, 2026

Haaretz says the UAE warned Netanyahu ten days before October 7. He is suing them for saying it.

World · Sep 11, 2026

A drone hit a courthouse in Sudan at midday. Thirteen people died waiting on paperwork.

Accountability · Sep 11, 2026

New York's government knew the air at Ground Zero was dangerous. It spent 25 years saying the records did not exist.

Accountability · Sep 10, 2026

Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. ProPublica found the gap is widest where abortion is banned.

World · Sep 10, 2026

A ferry carrying 134 people caught fire off Palawan. Eighty-six are still missing.

Geopolitics · Sep 10, 2026

Trump said Iran's military was destroyed. Twenty missiles hit an American air base in Jordan.

Geopolitics · Sep 9, 2026

Albanians have protested for one hundred straight days against a Trump-family resort on their only island. The island is public property.

Science · Sep 9, 2026

One more hour a day of unbroken sitting is tied to a 9 percent higher cancer death risk. Breaking it up every half hour goes the other way.

Accountability · Sep 9, 2026

The war in Iran has cost American consumers an estimated $100 billion in higher energy prices. About $760 of it is yours.

Accountability · Sep 8, 2026

The SEC wants to let pension managers donate to the officials who hire them. Nearly $6 trillion sits behind that rule.

Science · Sep 8, 2026

Drylands are projected to reach 40 percent of the world's land by 2100. That is the improved forecast.

Culture · Sep 8, 2026

Summer box office broke a thirteen-year record by five million dollars. Forty-seven million more people bought tickets.

Accountability · Sep 7, 2026

Jeff Prible has been on death row 24 years. The state's own DNA analyst says the prosecutor misused his testimony.

Accountability · Sep 7, 2026

Tyson closed the Joslin plant overnight. The chief executive's pay went up 51 percent.

Accountability · Sep 7, 2026

Wafaa Akila was eight. Sunday was her first day of school.

Accountability · Sep 6, 2026

A judge ruled the deportation scheme unconstitutional. Nothing about it has stopped.

Accountability · Sep 6, 2026

The president says the ammunition is unlimited. The estimates say two thirds of it is gone.

Accountability · Sep 6, 2026

ICE handed a surveillance app to officers it had not finished vetting.

Science · Sep 5, 2026

Israel drinks from the sea. In late August, the sea stopped cooperating.

Geopolitics · Sep 5, 2026

More than 120 killed as Yemen's war returns to the Red Sea coast.

Accountability · Sep 4, 2026

OpenAI's own test AI broke into another company's servers.

Politics · Sep 4, 2026

New York City banned AI for its youngest 600,000 students.

Accountability · Sep 3, 2026

The Justice Department stopped its own prosecutors from charging an ICE agent.

Accountability · Sep 3, 2026

Nine years after a car bomb, Malta has convicted nobody of ordering it.

Investigation · Sep 2, 2026

Police are buying surveillance cameras with opioid settlement money meant for treatment.

Accountability · Sep 2, 2026

Most Coast Guard surfmen report brain injury symptoms. The service has never looked.

Geopolitics · Sep 2, 2026

The US captured Venezuela's president. The size of the deal is now public.

Accountability · Sep 1, 2026

Polymarket was banned in the U.S. Now Trump Jr.'s fund is putting in another $300 million.

Science · Sep 1, 2026

A glacier came off a mountain in Nepal. The count is still climbing.

Geopolitics · Sep 1, 2026

The US struck Iran for the first time in five weeks. The answer landed in Jordan.

Politics · Aug 31, 2026

Guards at this Texas detention camp dialed 911 more than 160 times

Politics · Aug 31, 2026

A federal judge blocked Trump's mail-ballot rule again

Science · Aug 31, 2026

A flash flood tore through the bottom of the Grand Canyon

Environment · Aug 26, 2026

Nevada's most precious element is being bought by data centers.

Politics · Aug 26, 2026

A fake police camera was destroyed. Prosecutors charged him with three felonies.

Geopolitics · Aug 26, 2026

Hegseth cut the program that counted civilian deaths. The Pentagon is slow-walking its own casualty list too.

Geopolitics · Aug 25, 2026

The UAE says it is hacked 800,000 times a day, so it built its own AI to fight back

Media · Aug 25, 2026

A U.S. military spokesman told a reporter he'd be put on a 'list of people to disregard'

Science · Aug 25, 2026

NASA launches a telescope that sees a hundred times more sky than Hubble

Investigation · Aug 24, 2026

A prosecutor investigating the U.S. boat strikes was shot dead in Ecuador

Science · Aug 22, 2026

A Chinese Robot Just Ran The 100m Faster Than Usain Bolt Ever Did

Health · Aug 22, 2026

Congo Finally Got Ebola Vaccine Doses. They Were Licensed Against A Different Virus.

Investigation · Aug 21, 2026

A Nord Stream Pipeline Bombing Suspect Was Arrested On The Set Of A Film About The Nord Stream Bombing

Economy · Aug 21, 2026

Washington Moved To Push Its Borrowing Costs Down. Two Days Later They Were Higher.

Geopolitics · Aug 20, 2026

Ships Crossing The Strait Of Hormuz Defy Washington's Blockade Ten Times More Than They Defy Iran