A shipwreck in India, an ammunition seizure in Senegal, and a raid on an oil tanker in Malaysia – all three incidents involve ageing vessels, operating with false papers and one recurring figure: Captain Suniel Kumar Sharma.
Top Democrats close to AIPAC stick to criticizing Trump’s process failures — but primary candidates are calling for a referendum on the war itself.
President Donald Trump released a video at 2:30 am ET on February 28th announcing that major combat operations were underway.
PALO, Iowa—There are two restaurants in Palo, not counting the chicken wings and pizza sold at the only gas station in town.
Last week, when the Environmental Protection Agency finalized its repeal of tightened 2024 air pollution standards for power plants, the agency claimed the rollback would save $670 million.
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This is an introduction of U.S. forces into hostilities. It absolutely triggers the 48-hour notice requirement.
In the fight against climate change, sometimes you have to go out on a limb.
After losing my son to gun violence, I started interviewing people who had taken a life in order to understand how we were trapped in the same cycles of suffering—and how we could heal.
Andreas Krieg is an associate professor at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London and the author of Socio-Political Order and Security in the Arab World.
As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy.
In order to continue to exploit Black prisoner labor and profit from it, Thomas E. Kilby, the governor of Alabama, ordered the construction of the Kilby prison and even named it after himself.
On the poetry that influenced the Civil Rights trailblazer and the art he inspired.
Trump 2.0 seems to be about regime change,” said one observer.
Americans should not be fooled or led astray by the corporate media or the Beltway consultant class: fact-free fearmongering and warmongering about Iran have been among the most thoroughly bipartisan positions in Washington for many …
Emails show Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem corresponded with the disgraced financier for more than a decade after Epstein was first jailed in 2008 for procuring a minor for prostitution
Nasrallah Abu Siyam was just trying to save his neighbors’ goats. He was 19 years old, and he was living in the small village of Mukhmas in the occupied West Bank, northeast of Jerusalem.
Bits flicker inside a chip. Billions of transistors switch per second. Electrons pulse through circuits — no chemicals, no receptors, nothing that can feel. But on a screen, an AI agent appears. It seems to understand language.
After “several funders did not renew their grants,” the Harvard-based hub making academia accessible to reporters cut its program director and managing editor positions.
