Under the cover of night, small boats depart from the Libyan coastline, headed toward sanctuary in Italy. Packed onto rickety ...

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After 43 days, the longest US government shutdown in history ended on November 12, 2025. As of late February 2026, a partial ...

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Many Americans take clean air for granted, but it is the product of detailed federal regulations that weigh the economic ...

Accra, Ghana. Cheers erupt from the gathered crowd as a man’s name is announced. Clad in a red beret and a camouflage uniform, the national flag stitched onto his sleeve features a yellow star, not ...

In 1947, members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the notorious “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic representation ...

In the 1930s, the Soviet Union engineered the Holodomor in Ukraine, starving a population residing in some of the most fertile land in Europe. Unrealistic grain quotas were imposed on Ukraine to power ...

In 2013, Mike Hallatt was banned from every Trader Joe’s in the United States for stocking his car with their goods and ...