Massive 11,000-carat ruby believed to be second-largest ever found in conflict-ridden country
A massive ruby unearthed in Burma is being hailed as the second-largest ever discovered in the conflict-ridden country.The ruby weighs...
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US-backed pipeline proposal targets global reliance on Strait of Hormuz amid Iran threats
A new U.S.-backed proposal to build a network of overland energy pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz is gaining attention...
Mike Waltz pushes UN resolution to stop Iran mining key global shipping route
The United States is advancing a new United Nations Security Council resolution targeting Iran’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz...
Meet the Four Democrats Who’ll Decide If Trump Gets His Domestic Spying Law
A messy fight over whether the U.S. government can conduct warrantless surveillance of American citizens could come down to whether...
Palantir Is Helping Trump’s IRS Conduct “Massive-Scale” Data Mining
military contractor Palantir is helping the IRS analyze dozens of different data sets on Americans to investigate a broad range...
Miner rescued alive after spending nearly 2 weeks trapped underground in flooded area
A miner in Mexico was saved in an "astonishing rescue" after spending nearly two weeks trapped underground, officials said. A dam...
An American Company Drilled for Oil in Kenya — and Left Behind Soaring Cancer Rates
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Goat meat goes down like big shards of glass when the symptoms...
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...
Israel says Iranian leader who ordered Strait of Hormuz closure killed in targeted strike
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Commander Alireza Tangsiri was targeted and killed in an Israeli attack, Israel's Defense Minister Israel...
US military sends drones, alongside 200 troops, to Nigeria amid fears of renewed Boko Haram insurgency
The U.S. military has sent MQ-9 Reaper drones to Nigeria, a U.S. defense official reportedly told The Associated Press, as...
Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database
Donald Trump signs an executive order on March 25, 2025, directing the Treasury Department to modernize and centralize its payment...
Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars
In the last few days, President Donald Trump has said that the U.S-Israel war on Iran will end soon, after...
Protests and Power Plays: From Tehran to the Arctic Circle
The people of Iran are in the midst of one of the country’s biggest uprisings — and harshest government crackdowns...
Greg Grandin on Trump’s “Universal Police Warrant”
How long will the United States claim control over Venezuela “Only time will tell,” President Donald Trump told the New...
