China Tightens Rare-Earth Grip on U.S. Firms, Threatening Trade Clash
Author: Keith Bradsher. Dated: 2026-06-22. Added: 2026-06-22.
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Global Food Supply Faces a Dangerous Bottleneck as Iran War Persists
Date published: 2026-03-26. Date added: 2029-03-29. Author: Ana Swanson.
Australian Sky Turns an Apocalyptic Blood Red
Date published: 2026-03-29. Date added: 2026-03-29. Author: Johnny Diaz.
There Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideast
Date published: 2026-03-29. Date added: 2026-03-29. Author: Helene Cooper.
Former Prince Andrew Arrested in Britain Over Epstein Ties (Live Updates)
Dated: 2026-02-19. Added: 2026-02-19.
Image caption “A photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Giuffre in 2001, in Ms. Giuffre’s book. She said in a civil case that she was forced to have sex with him when he was a prince. Credit...Niklas Halle'N/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images”.
Image caption from Nobodyʼs Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (2025) by Estate of Viginia Roberts Giuffre: “Prince Andrew, me, and Maxwell in Maxwell’s London townhouse in March 2001. I asked Epstein to take our picture with my disposable camera. Hours later, I was forced to have sex with the prince.”
Maduro Invokes Prisoner-of-War Status, Echoing Panama’s Noriega
Author: Carol Rosenberg. Date: 2026-01-06. Added: 2026-01-12.
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
Dated: 2025-11-30. Added: 2025-11-30.
“Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter, California Regional Multiple Listing Service’s chief executive officer.
Lina Khan Revamped Antitrust. Now She’s Pushing the Democratic Party.
Dated: 2025-09-14. Added: 2025-09-16.
Ms. Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, recently campaigned for the New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, appearing at his victory party in June after he won the Democratic primary. She has become a frequent podcast guest, talking about the virtues of corporate regulation and vigorous law enforcement against monopolies. This month, she returned to teaching at Columbia Law School, where 180 students have signed up for her antitrust class.
Israel Launches Ground Offensive in Gaza City (Live Updates)
Dated: 2025-09-16. Added: 2025-09-16.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel confirmed the start of a new phase in the war on Tuesday when he appeared in a Tel Aviv courtroom to give testimony in his corruption trial. The Israeli news media quoted him as saying, “We have launched a powerful operation in Gaza City.” He added that Israel was at a “decisive” turning point.
Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly
Dated: 2025-09-02. Added: 2025-09-02.
Google must hand over its search results and some data to rival companies but does not need to break itself up by selling its Chrome web browser, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, a decision in a landmark antitrust case that falls short of the sweeping changes proposed by the government to rein in the power of Silicon Valley.
Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Invalidated by Appeals Court
Dated: 2025-08-29. Added: 2025-08-30.
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that many of President Trump’s most punishing tariffs were illegal, delivering a major setback to Mr. Trump’s agenda that may severely undercut his primary source of leverage in an expanding global trade war.
Opinion: I’m a Red-State Mayor. Diversity Is Not Reverse Bigotry.
Author: David Holt, mayor of Oklahoma City. Date published: 2025-08-20. Date linked: 2025-08-21.
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When I took office in 2018 (and for as long as anyone can remember), the mayor’s conference room at City Hall was adorned with the images of our 34 former mayors. All 34 were white, and 33 were men. In the room where it happens, those images were a stark reminder that our aspirations for equal opportunity have fallen short. Those mayors were also overwhelmingly representative of how political power in Oklahoma City has historically emanated from the more affluent Northwest quadrant (where I grew up and live).
I’m a lifelong Republican who believes in meritocracy, but meritocracy cannot be exclusionary. Every person depicted on that conference room wall was a qualified and well-intentioned public servant, but there were women, people of color and leaders from other parts of the city who could have also been competent mayors. Heavy layers of history, exclusion, bigotry and glass ceilings stood in their way.
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Third Interstellar Object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, Is Traveling Through Solar System
Dated: 2025-07-02. Added: 2025-07-03. Alternate title: It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet
Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
Dated: 2025-06-22. Added: 2025-06-22.
A day after President Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been “completely and totally obliterated” by American bunker-busting bombs and a barrage of missiles, the actual state of the program seemed far more murky, with senior officials conceding they did not know the fate of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium.
U.S. ENTERS WAR AGAINST IRAN
Dated: 2025-05-21. Added: 2025-05-21T05:28+00. Alternate title: “Trump Claims Success After Bombing Key Iran Nuclear Sites (Live Updates)”.
Senate Passes Cryptocurrency Bill, Handing Industry a Victory
Dated: 2025-06-17. Added: 2025-06-27.
The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, putting the cryptocurrency industry, which had long been viewed with suspicion by lawmakers in Washington, on the brink of a major policy breakthrough.
Bipartisan approval of the bill, known as the GENIUS Act, followed an aggressive lobbying campaign aimed at transforming the cryptocurrency industry’s image from scandal-plagued experiment to legitimate financial sector.
Senate Passes Cryptocurrency Bill, a Win for Industry
Dated: 2025-06-17. Added: 2025-06-17.
The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins, putting the cryptocurrency industry, which had long been viewed with suspicion by lawmakers in Washington, on the brink of a major policy breakthrough.
Bipartisan approval of the bill, known as the GENIUS Act, followed an aggressive lobbying campaign aimed at transforming the cryptocurrency industry’s image from scandal-plagued experiment to legitimate financial sector.
Senate passage came over the fierce objections of many Democrats, who warned that the measure lacked strict-enough regulations or oversight to prevent abuses, including anti-corruption rules that would bar President Trump and his family from continuing to profit from cryptocurrency.
The bill still must be passed by the House and signed by the president. But the 68-30 vote in the Senate marked the first time the chamber has approved major cryptocurrency legislation. It represented a significant step toward giving the industry what it has long sought from Washington: the credibility that comes with federal oversight.