Israel approves sweeping death penalty legislation targeting terrorism, EU condemns move
JERUSALEM: Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian terrorists convicted of deadly...
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Conversion Therapy Gets Speech Protections — But Trans Kids’ Existence Gets No Protection At All
A protester demonstrating for trans rights in New York City on Feb. 3, 2025. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images...
Iran moderates pushing Trump deal risk being ‘eliminated’ as regime fractures deepen
Iranian officials pushing for negotiations with the United States risk being labeled traitors and "most likely eliminated," according to a...
Russia allegedly sharing satellite intelligence on US bases with Iran, world leader claims
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian reconnaissance satellites have recently imaged key U.S. and allied military facilities across the...
Trump Wanted to Replicate His Venezuela “Success” in Iran. What Has It Even Looked Like?
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks alongside Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, after their meeting at the Miraflores Palace in...
Two Thirds of People Arrested by ICE in Minnesota Surge Had No Criminal Records, New Data Reveals
The majority of immigration arrests made by federal agents during President Donald Trump’s enforcement surge in Minnesota last winter were...
What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research?
Iranian Red Crescent emergency workers use an excavator to clear rubble from a residential building that was hit in an...
Father loses legal fight to halt euthanasia of 25-year-old daughter in Spain
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide &...
Trump’s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding
President Donald Trump talks endlessly of “peace.” He ran for office promising to keep the United States out of conflicts, claims to...
US allows Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba amid blockade as Trump says island ‘has to survive’
The U.S. government will allow a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba, effectively easing a blockade that...
Over 2 dozen children among 33 bodies pulled from Kenyan mass grave: authorities
At least 33 bodies — including children and dismembered remains stuffed in sacks — were unearthed from a mass grave...
Israel looking for ‘solutions’ to open Christian sites after barring church leader on Palm Sunday due to war
Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre and other major holy sites were closed on Palm Sunday under Israeli wartime restrictions,...
North Korea tests solid-fuel missile engine as Kim boosts threat to US mainland
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un oversaw a test of a new high-thrust solid-fuel rocket engine, according to state media,...
The Regime Survives, Trump Has to Deal, and Iranians Are the Biggest Losers
A man sweeps up debris near a residential building that was hit in an airstrike in the early hours of...
Protesting the Smash-and-Grab Presidency With Nikhil Pal Singh
Donald Trump’s second term has been broadly defined by an overwhelming sense of chaos. Every week the U.S. finds itself...
