Iranian official media on Wednesday said 3,117 people were killed during protests which first erupted in late December and which activists say were suppressed with a deadly crackdown. here are many ve...
The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked January 12 to at least 2,000 people killed, activists say. With the Internet down in Iran, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more ...
Internet access was partially restored in Iran after two weeks of blackout during the anti-government protests which authorities violently cracked down on. This partial access allowed thousands of vid...
A day after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed to quit large parts of Syria under a ceasefire, the Syrian army said "a number of" Islamic State (IS) group prisoners, who had been un...
Community donations at Smitten Kitten (left and right), and BabyBel Mozzarella the cat (middle), are supporting Minnesotans. Mikayla Stanek (Smitten Kitten); Vanessa Beardsley (Catzen) January is typi...
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] We’ve never lived more interconnected lives — or felt more divided. Separated by belief, culture, and access, we turn inward...
Martin Luther King Jr. fought for both racial and economic equality. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Martin Luther King Jr. fought for both racial and economic equality during his life. He argued f...
Mainland China’s and Hong Kong’s birth rates fell to record lows last year, despite extensive government incentives to encourage larger families. In Hong Kong, registered births fell 14 per cent to a ...
A decade after ending China's longtime one-child policy, authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies to try to encourage more births – tactics that range from cash subsidies to taxing condom...
Rockstar Games has reportedly granted the wish of a terminally-ill fan whose family member asked if they could play Grand Theft Auto 6 ahead of its November launch date. The unnamed fan was contacted ...
Naomi Osaka plays at the Australian Open 2026. Robert Prange/Getty Images Naomi Osaka's tense Australian Open handshake and post-match interview sparked debate over competitive women. In high-stakes e...
Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today. Yuichiro Chino/Get...
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...
From left: Barbara Face pictured as a teenager when she first started drinking, at the height of her alcoholism, and sober, as she is today. Courtesy of Barbara Face Barbara Face began drinking at 14 ...
Despite bitter cold with temperatures starting around −29 °C, organisers said up to 50,000 people marched through the streets of Minneapolis and St Paul to demand that immigration enforcement officers...
It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articl...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb of St. Paul; after stints on both coasts, my wife and I settled here to raise our daughters in a freezing state that had always welcomed...
Alexandria Rucker is turning 30 this year. Courtesy of Alexandria Rucker The youngest millennials turn 30 in 2026, marking a generational milestone in America. This cohort of new adults is more divers...