On Monday and Tuesday, Israel expanded its strikes and ground operations in Lebanon as the U.S.’s negotiations with Iran came to a standstill. Overnight on […]
Month: May 2026
Congressional Black Caucus Demands Corporations Oppose Voting Rights Rollbacks
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) sent a letter to hundreds of corporations this week, urging them to recommit to protecting democratic and civil rights following […]
Resilience in agriculture from soil to spuds
Whether you call them French fries, chips or frites, they are more than a staple of European food culture. Across the continent, they remain the most popular […]
Xenia Fedorova, une voix du Kremlin amplifiée par l’empire Bolloré
PARIS — Sa chaîne de télévision a été interdite de diffusion dans l’Union européenne, mais son discours passe sans filtre à la télévision française : la montée en puissance de Xenia […]
Paxton dominates Cornyn in Texas US Senate runoff, the latest sign of Trump’s hold on GOP
PLANO, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, easily defeating four-term Sen…See More
More Than the Sum of Our Parts
How DSA’s new rapid response protocol passed its first test in the Iran crisis. The post More Than the Sum of Our Parts appeared first […]
Trump Let The Truth Slip Out While Claiming That He Is In Perfect Health
Doesn’t every president endlessly ramble about ballrooms in between falling asleep in public? That’s what Donald Trump wants the American people to believe. A president […]
Kawasaki Heavy Industries opens physical AI center in Silicon Valley
While cybersecurity threats from large language models and amoral generative AI without guardrails make front-page headlines, Japanese engineering conglomerate Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has established […]
Frontier isn’t the finish line in US-China AI rivalry
For the better part of three years, the global conversation about artificial intelligence has been framed as a horse race, with the projected winners having […]
Artificial Hype, Authentic Resistance
The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack. When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026, commencement ceremony declared, “The rise […]
The Limits of Vietnam’s Bamboo Diplomacy
By: Khanh Vu Duc When General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm steps onto the stage at the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue, Vietnam’s “bamboo diplomacy” will […]
Iran Restoring Internet, With Limits, After 88-Day Blackout
As the US-Israeli war with Iran continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom and Iranian service, Radio Farda, deliver ongoing […]
Grants allocated for soybean and rice trials in Mossman
The Queensland government will allocate $300,000 for new soybean and rice projects in Mossman as the region continues to search for a future beyond sugar […]
Late pastoralist’s family loses appeal over judgement that father was responsible for bushfire
A court judgement that found pastoralist Tom Brinkworth liable for a 2021 bushfire, five months after he died, has been upheld after an appeal by […]
Press Release: LAWG and Others Call for USMCA Overhaul
For Immediate Release:November 3, 2025 Contact:Vicki GassExecutive DirectorLatin America Working Group (LAWG)vgass@lawg.org Migrant Justice Groups Call for USMCA Overhaul to Stop Displacement and Protect the […]
Controversial electric Ferrari outrages transport minister (and the rest of Italy)
What do Italy’s right-wing Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, former Ferrari boss Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and opposition lawmaker Carlo Calenda have in common? They all […]
US to pull jets, destroyers and submarines from NATO as part of European drawdown
BRUSSELS — Washington told allies it will gradually scale down the number of strategic bombers, fighter jets, drones, submarines and warships dedicated to NATO as […]
Council of Europe calls on Bosnia and Herzegovina for constitutional and electoral reforms
Strasbourg (Fena) – The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a Resolution on Bosnia and Herzegovina within the framework of the […]
Eurozone growth exceeded expectations in 2025, despite Trump
Brussels – The first estimate published on Friday by Eurostat confirms the gradual recovery of the European economy, after a stall at 0.4 % in 2023, […]
Slovenia agrees with the designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization
Brussels – Slovenia agrees with the inclusion of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the list of terrorist organizations of the European Union, said the Slovenian […]