Opinion | George Santos Is More Dangerous Than You Know
By now, you probably know a lot about George Santos, the congressman who scammed with abandon and made up almost everything. His college diploma. His grandparents who “survived” the Holocaust.…
More Advertisers Halt Spending on X in Growing Backlash Against Musk
More major advertisers have paused their spending on X, the social media service formerly known as Twitter, as the backlash continued over Elon Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory…
Don Walsh: The man who made the deepest ever dive
The remarkable story of Captain Don Walsh and his 11km journey to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
SpaceX rocket launches, separates and loses contact
US entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched his Starship rocket from its launch site in Texas, for a second time. The rocket flew for about eight minutes before SpaceX said it…
Hospital evacuees among those fleeing Gaza City with tanks on street
Palestinians including hundreds who left al-Shifa hospital are seen fleeing Gaza City on foot. Gunfire was heard as people made their way and Israeli tanks and diggers were seen on…
The Other China Shock: How Surging Chinese Imports Transformed Global Agriculture | naked capitalism
By Casper Worm Hansen, Professor of Economics University Of Copenhagen, and Asger Wingender, Associate Professor of Economics University Of Copenhagen. Originally published at VoxEU. China’s emergence as the world’s leading…
DeSantis’s Two-Pronged Approach in Iowa: Hit Trump on Abortion, and Get Personal
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida paused, looked down and then told a banquet hall filled with conservative Iowa Christians something that he had never before said in public: His wife,…
What to Know as Argentina Votes in a Pivotal Election
For months, Argentina has been consumed by a single question. Will Javier Milei — a far-right libertarian whose brash style and embrace of conspiracy theories have drawn comparisons to former…
A Mother’s Search for Her Son Leads to a Pauper’s Grave and More Questions
For months, Bettersten Wade called the police in Jackson, Miss., desperate for any update or sign that detectives were making progress in tracking down Dexter, her 37-year-old son who left…
For Years, Two Men Shuttled Messages Between Israel and Hamas. No Longer.
Finally, five years and four months after Mr. Shalit was captured, their back channel bore fruit. Mr. Shalit was released in October 2011, in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian…