Long-shot presidential candidates head to a runoff in Romania, a UK minister claims Russia is plotting AI-enhanced cyberattacks, Special counsel Jack Smith moves to drop election interference charges against Trump, a UK petition calling for a new general election crosses 2M signatures, Netanyahu reportedly approves a Lebanon cease-fire 'in principle,' Imran Khan supporters are detained in Pakistan after defying a lockdown, the UAE arrests three suspects in the killing of an Israeli rabbi, a...

US lawmakers call for a classified briefing on Turkey's Hamas ties, police in Brazil accuse Jair Bolsonaro of a coup plot, Vladamir Putin confirms Russia’s use of hypersonic missile in Ukraine, China and Russia oppose a new UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, a judge suspends sentencing in the Donald Trump hush money case, while Trump chooses Pam Bondi for Attorney General after Gaetz’s withdrawal, a GOP senator moves to eliminate the Department of Education, US Securities and Exchange...

Matt Gaetz withdraws from US attorney general consideration, The ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, The US charges an Indian billionaire in a $265M bribery scandal, An Israeli strike in Syria kills dozens, Musk and Ramaswamy unveil plans for federal workforce layoffs, The US Department of Justice says Google should be forced to sell Chrome, Australia launches a bill to ban social media for children under 16, Health Canada grants Neuralink implant approval, Former UK...

Iran offers to cap its near weapons-grade uranium stockpile, the US recognizes Venezuela's opposition leader as president-elect, Pres. Joe Biden approves sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine, dozens are killed in an attack in a Haiti suburb, Somaliland’s opposition leader wins the region’s presidential election, a UK parliamentary committee will reportedly summon Elon Musk, Pres.-elect Trump nominates Linda McMahon for Education Secretary, while Trump also nominates Dr. Mehmet Oz to...

Five officers in Brazil are arrested over an alleged 2022 Lula assassination plot, almost 100 aid trucks in Gaza are looted by armed men, Putin revises Russia’s nuclear doctrine as Moscow says US-supplied missiles hit its territory, sabotage fears abound after two undersea cables are severed in the Baltic Sea, Hong Kong jails 45 pro-democracy activists for subversion, Pres.-elect Trump and Elon Musk attend a high-profile SpaceX launch, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocks the counting of...

Biden allows Ukraine to strike deeper into Russian territory, An Israeli strike kills Hezbollah’s media head, Russia vetoes a Sudan cease-fire resolution at the UN Security Council, Trump taps Brendan Carr to chair the FCC, The US president-elect confirms plans to use the military for deportations, Sri Lanka’s president appoints a new cabinet, Keir Starmer meets Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Brazil, A former Australian radio host is charged with sexually abusing eight people, New Delhi’s...

A UN Security Council draft resolution calls for an 'immediate' gaza cease-fire, Pres.-elect Trump says the Russia-Ukraine war has “gotta stop,” Sri Lanka’s Pres. Dissanayake's coalition wins snap polls, a study suggests that Sudan’s war death toll is much higher than records show, Trump picks RFK Jr. to lead the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Elon Musk reportedly meets with Iran's UN Ambassador, court depositions suggest that NSO Group, not government clients, operates NSO...

Republicans retain control of the US House, An alleged suicide bomber targets Brazil's Supreme Court, French prosecutor seek to jail National Rally’s Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump adds Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard to his cabinet, Ukraine's EU allies reportedly discuss the prospect of negotiations, Israel’s finance minister calls for the annexation of the West Bank, Trump’s transition team drafts an order to assess and dismiss generals, Global diabetes cases are found to have quadrupled in the...

Pres. Joe Biden hosts Pres.-elect Donald Trump at the White House, Libya announces the formation of morality police, Palau’s president criticizes China as his re-election is confirmed, in the UK, Archbishop Justin Welby resigns over a Church abuse cover-up, Donald Trump picks Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead Dept. of Govt. Efficiency, special counsel Jack Smith will reportedly resign before Trump enters the White House, Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years in...

Donald Trump picks Mike Waltz to serve as his national security adviser and Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam is appointed the new prime minister, 50K Russian and North Korean troops reportedly prepare a Kursk offensive, dozens are killed after a car rams into a crowd in China, New Zealand apologizes to over 200K people who were abused in state care, COVID critic Patrick Ruane is jailed for five years in the UK, details of a UK...

Russia and Ukraine exchange their largest drone attacks of the war, Israel reports progress toward a Lebanon cease-fire, Trump names Thomas Homan as 'border czar,' The president-elect’s allies advocate for Rick Scott to lead the Senate, Shigeru Ishiba is re-elected as prime minister of Japan, Haiti's transitional council replaces the prime minister, Keir Starmer attends Armistice Day with Emmanuel Macron, Māori groups march to New Zealand’s capital against a controversial bill, Amsterdam...

Vladimir Putin praises Donald Trump and signal’s Russia’s readiness for dialogue, and Canada’s Justin Trudeau assembles a cabinet team to plan for Trump’s presidency, violence erupts against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, Iraq plans to lower the legal marriage age from 18 to nine, Jonathan Powell is appointed as the UK’s National Security Adviser, the US Dept. of Justice requests a pause on a key Trump case, while the US president-elect appoints Susan Summerall Wiles as his chief of staff,...

Germany’s ruling coalition collapses, Joe Biden gives his first post-election address, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds a phone call with Donald Trump, Lebanon files a UN complaint against Israel over September’s pager attacks, The Bank of England cuts rates to 4.75%, Australia moves to ban under-16s from social media, TikTok is banned from operating in Canada, 2024 is projected to be the world's warmest year on record, Researchers propose a cancer treatment strategy that targets rogue...

Donald Trump is elected as the 47th president of the United States, Ukraine reports first contact with North Korean troops, Israel asserts that most people in Jabalia have fled, China sentences an ex-government employee to death for an alleged state secrets leak, the GOP takes control of the US Senate in the US elections, abortion referendums are held in 10 US states, while a Florida recreational marijuana legalization amendment fails, Spain announces €10.6B in relief funds for its...

US voters head to the polls to choose a new president, Donald Trump casts his ballot in Florida, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is fired, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris plans a general election, Boeing workers end their seven week strike, Western analysts link mystery fires at European cargo depots to alleged Russian plots, The UK sacks nearly 600 police officers for misconduct, France begins a trial in the beheading of a teacher over Prophet Muhammad cartoons, A Pennsylvania judge...

Moldovan Pres. Sandu wins a second term, Harris and Trump campaign on the eve of the election, Democrats say they’re ready if Trump prematurely claims victory, the UK’s Kemi Badenoch begins shadow cabinet appointments, Israel is investigating intelligence leaks from Netanyahu's office, federal police search PwC's Sydney headquarters over a tax leak, a female student is arrested in Iran after stripping in protest of dress codes, IKEA pledges to pay 6M euros to East German prisoners forced to...

Ukrainian Pres. Zelenskyy condemns allies for 'zero' response to the North Korean troop deployment, the polio vaccination campaign in Northern Gaza is set to resume, Botswana’s ruling party loses its 58-year majority, an Australian judge rules that a senator violated racial discrimination law, Trump's “War Hawk” comments on Liz Cheney spark controversy, while Trump and Kamala Harris both make a push for support from Latino voters, the Associated Press claims that the White House changed the...

Joe Biden pledges to attend the US presidential inauguration regardless of who wins, Eight Mexican supreme court justices resign following contentious judicial reforms, North Korea launches its longest-ever missile flight, Flash floods kill dozens in Spain’s worst natural disaster in decades, The UN reports that its Lebanon mission has been targeted 30 times in October, Prosecutors seek a 17-year sentence for Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira, A former FTX executive avoids jail time, Donald Trump...

Scores flee Baalbek in Eastern Lebanon after Israeli evacuation orders are given, Pres. Biden suggests that Ukraine should attack North Korean troops if they enter its territory, Australia announces that it’s ramping up missile production, the Republic of Georgia will conduct a partial recount of its parliamentary election vote, Kamala Harris makes a speech from the Ellipse while Biden's comments stir controversy, the US Supreme Court allows Virginia to remove suspected noncitizens from its...

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon is released from prison, Nevada allows non-postmarked ballots to be counted in the US election, the UN warns that Sudan is enduring a “nightmare” of violence, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is criticized for giving an early preview of the UK’s budget, Israel bars the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, Afghanistan’s women are prohibited from hearing each other while praying, Trump faces calls to apologize following his Madison Square Garden rally, CNN bans...

Twenty thousand people attend Trump's Madison Square Garden rally, Egypt proposes a 48-hour cease-fire in Gaza, The Republic of Georgia's ruling party claims election victory, Bolivia’s Evo Morales claims he suffered an attempted assassination, An ex-WaPo editor accuses Jeff Bezos of striking a 'quid-pro-quo' deal with Trump, Japan’s ruling party loses its majority after a snap election, China sends warships near Taiwan after the US approves a $2B arms sale, Virginia asks the Supreme Court to...

A UN report suggests that the world is on track for up to +3.1°C of warming by 2100, An Israeli strike reportedly kills three journalists in South Lebanon, A report claims that Elon Musk has been in contact with Vladamir Putin since 2022, In India, four people are killed in an attack on army convoy in Kashmir, King Charles III discusses the "Painful Past" at the Commonwealth Meeting in Samoa, An ex-Lord’s Resistance Army commander gets a 40-year sentence for war crimes, Polls show Harris and...

Turkey strikes Kurdish PKK-linked sites following a deadly attack on an aerospace company, Harris and Trump escalate their rhetoric in the final campaign stretch, the US charges a Venezuelan media tycoon with money laundering, the Pentagon says it has evidence of 3K North Korean troops in Russia, Zelenskyy's bid to join NATO is reportedly facing pushback from allies, China accuses foreign actors of attempting to steal its space secrets, Liberal MPs call on Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to step...

Russian Pres. Putin hosts 36 world leaders at the BRICS summit, the polio campaign in North Gaza is halted, EU observers note irregularities in Mozambique’s vote counting, Australia plans to bolster its naval capabilities, a report suggests that an NGO tied to the UK Labour Party seeks to 'Kill Musk's Twitter,' as the Trump campaign also files a complaint alleging election interference by the UK's Labour Party, a report suggests that the Harris campaign is planning for Trump to prematurely...