Susan Monarez has been fired just shy of a month into her role as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.“Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” a post on the Department of Health and Human Services X account said., ReadContinue Reading
Russian authorities have constructed a Pantsir air defense tower adjacent to a drone manufacturing facility in Yelabuga, according to the partisan movement ATESH, which claims the measure reflects damage from Ukrainian strikes. The Yelabuga facility represents a high-value target for Ukrainian operations as it produces Geran-2 drones, Russia’s version ofContinue Reading
Escalating drone and missile strikes on Russia’s oil refineries have disrupted 17% of Russian refining. And it’s about to get worse for Russia’s battered oil industry as new, harder-hitting Ukrainian cruise missiles come on-line in greater numbers. Ukrainian forces have struck 10 Russian refineries in recent days, reducing output byContinue Reading
EXPERT Q&A — Russia’s massive drone attack overnight on six Ukrainian regions, which hit energy and gas transport infrastructure and cut off power to over 100,000 people, is the latest sign that Moscow is nowhere near peace. Coupled with the Kremlin’s rejection of meaningful security guarantees for Ukraine, it’s clearContinue Reading
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this August 27th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.Continue Reading
The Minneapolis city government said the shooter had been “contained” after the gunfire at Annunciation Catholic School and there was no longer any “active threat” to residents.Continue Reading
Coffee and beef prices have already surged as tariffs on Brazil are expected to drive them higher., Coffee and beef prices have already surged as tariffs on Brazil are expected to drive them higher. Brazilian officials are considering a legal challenge to the steep tariffs imposed by United States PresidentContinue Reading
Aid experts tell UN Security Council Gaza famine is ‘manmade’ as Israel seeks retraction from hunger monitoring system., UN officials and aid agencies have warned that famine in Gaza is now a reality, with children increasingly dying of hunger as Israel’s siege and bombardment continue to block essential, life-saving aid.Continue Reading
It is a peculiarity of the Cyrillic alphabet used to write Russian that some letters common in English and other Western languages are missing. As a result, the Russian versions of people’s names often look a bit strange. There is no letter “H,” for instance, so Hitler is known inContinue Reading
I’m not just worried; I’m enraged. We’re watching our system of government being systematically, step-by-step refashioned into a surveillance-fueled engine of political vengeance. Even worse, the same chilling logic that ruled Joseph Stalin’s courts — “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” — has become this administration’s sinister operatingContinue Reading
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage. The catastrophe was so bad thatContinue Reading
Lebanon’s often-fractious press corps was united in anger this week over comments by Tom Barrack, the U.S. special envoy to Syria, who warned journalists against ‘animalistic’ behavior and told them to ‘act civilized.’, Read MoreContinue Reading
Forensic Architecture unpacks the architecture of Israel’s genocidal starvation of Gaza., A new investigation (PDF) by research group Forensic Architecture (FA) has found that the Israeli military has pursued a deliberate strategy of starvation that has pushed Gaza towards famine. The report details how Israel has weaponised aid, forcing PalestiniansContinue Reading