Politics

UN says violence in southern Lebanon has 'significantly reduced' since MOU

The United Nations said fighting in southern Lebanon has “significantly” decreased since the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding was announced.

Strait of Hormuz threat level downgraded after Iran deal, says U.S.-led maritime security group

The behavior of Iranian forces "has become less volatile" and the U.S. Navy continues to provide oversight, the Joint Maritime Information Center said.

Protesters to rally against World Cup sponsor Hyundai before Mexico game

Guadalajara rally to highlight fate of ‘disappeared’

"I'm begging my own country to let my wife go": Veteran fights to prevent wife's deportation

Princeton, Texas — Retired staff sergeant Wilmer Trujillo served roughly 20 years in the U.S. Army and the Texas National Guard, with deployments and assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq and South Korea.

Are You There, God? It’s Me, J. D. Vance, and I Have Some Notes.

“I don’t worry about what I will find on the other side of eternal sleep,” J. D. Vance writes in his new book, Communion. “Even as a child, I never feared hell.” Charming sentences to find in a book by the sitting vice president of the United States! One that in no way makes me want to run screaming off a cliff!

Labor Department threatens to withhold state funds over UI fraud

The Department of Labor threatened to withhold funds from states if their governors didn’t take further action to combat unemployment fraud and waste.

I’m a 14-year-old trans athlete. No one should face the vicious attacks I have faced

People understand gender differently, and I was taught to respect all ideas. But the vitriol I recently experienced was not a healthy debate

‘I don’t want Europe to fail the way Turkey did’: Ece Temelkuran on fascism, death threats and life in exile

Ten years after she was forced to leave her friends and family, the Turkish journalist feels the importance of home more keenly than ever. And she believes it is at the heart of many of the world’s conflicts

I’ve spent decades fighting for fair elections. Trump is setting the stage for a grim November

Following the supreme court’s gutting of the voting rights act, the president’s recent claims of fraud are cause for serious concern

The violent delights of UFC Freedom 250

On Sunday night, “Cage Fight at the White House” left the world of journalistic metaphor, with a real-life, few-holds-barred mixed martial arts competition on the South Lawn: UFC Freedom 250.

January 6 defendants pursue millions in claims through obscure federal process

Federal Tort Claims Act, over which DoJ has total discretion, provides workaround to Trump’s $1.8bn slush fund

Iran and Turkey want the Middle East. Israel stands in their way

Revisionist powers and Islamist networks have long viewed Israel not as a neighbor but as the central obstacle to reordering the Middle East. Arab states tried and failed in conventional wars. Broader rejectionist forces now pin their hopes on attrition and narrative victory. Turkey sees Israel’s removal as the final step toward restoring strategic depth across the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean. Iran treats it as the prerequisite for consolidating its land corridor to proxies and eliminating the chief barrier to its nuclear threshold and hegemonic claims.