In Iran, protests that broke out on December 28th over the soaring cost of living look set to continue. Security forces fired tear gas at demonstrators in Tehran's Grand Bazaar on January 6: without g...
President Donald Trump's rule to limit the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is set to go into effect in July 2026. Rattankun Thongbun/Getty Images Changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his new guidelines are about undoing previous advice. Alex Wong/Getty Images The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans are out. The guidel...
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Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images; Mateusz Slodkowski; Alyssa Powell/BI It certainly looks like an insider may have cashed in big by betting on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's American-orchestra...
In an effort to combat childhood obesity, the United Kingdom has banned daytime TV and online ads that promote junk food. The health ministry says this could recede by 20,000 the number of children li...
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The tech moguls in happier times (at Trump’s inauguration.) Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inev...
As anti-government protests continue in Iran, countries in the region are watching. Some are concerned; others sense potential opportunity....
Smoke rises from Port of La Guaira after the US strike on Venezuela. Jesus Vargas/Getty Images Trump addressed the US strike and raid on Venezuela during a press conference in Florida. He said the US ...
The deadliest clashes so far broke out on January 6 between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in a contested area of the northern city of Aleppo. This comes as efforts to merge the U.S.-ba...
The Pentagon's annual report on military suicides serves as an important measure of accountability. Senior Airman Karla Parra/US Air Force The Pentagon's annual military suicide report is delayed with...
Palmer Luckey, Ro Khanna, and David Sacks have all posted on X about the wealth tax. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Ima...
President Donald Trump posing for photo with law enforcement in front of a Boeing VC25 operating as Air Force One. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images The US president flies on Air Force One. Other countries...
The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes. As Hayden Field wrote , “screenshots s...
The Trump administration has indicated it intends to exert long-term control over Venezuela by directing the actions of its interim leadership and overseeing the nation’s oil exports after removing Ni...
The contest for resources between the US and China will continue after the president is gone and affect us all...
Markets are signaling a risk-on start to 2026 following the U.S. military raid on Venezuela—but will it last?...
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Several viral videos claim to show people in Venezuela allegedly celebrating or protesting after Maduro's arrest. The DW fact check team explains why these recordings are misleading or even fake....