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Wildfires last January destroyed communities around Los Angeles. Homeowners say recovery has been slowed by fights with insurers to get their claims paid. (Image credit: Josh Edelson)...
Iran's regime has been cracking down on protesters with brutal force. Images of bodies in shrouds have provoked shock and outrage around the world ā including among five Iranian women living in German...
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As Minneapolis mourns 37-year-old VA intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, fatally shot by US Border Patrol agent, Eve Irvine is joined by Dr. Ernesto CastaƱeda, Director of the Center for Latin American ...
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France 24's Gavin Lee is joined by Liza, a teenager who escaped Russia after being forcibly displaced from Ukraine. Around 20,000 children have been taken from their homes and sent to Russia or occupi...
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As President Zelensky says today that peace talks are progressing and that a U.S. security guarantee is ā100 percent there,ā awaiting only formal approval from President Trump, there has so far been n...
Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Grok will no longer be allowed to create AI photos of real people in sexualized or revealing clothing, after widespread global backlash. "We have implem...
Private jets from dozens of different countries arrived near Davos on Monday. Pete Syme/Business Insider Business Insider tracked private jets landing near Davos on the first day of the WEF annual mee...
Middle managers are taking on more direct reports after the "Great Flattening." dowell/Getty Images The average number of reports for managers is increasing as the "Great Flattening" p...
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...
The author left San Francisco over a decade ago. Courtesy of the author I crave going home to the Bay Area, but long visits remind me why Spain feels right. The Bay Area feels car-bound, expensive, ru...
Graffiti reading "ICE out now!" is seen on the exterior wall of a Target store in Minneapolis. Kerem YUCEL / AFP via Getty Images Target sent a memo to staff acknowledging the stress workers m...
Arman Onal/Anadolu via Getty Images TikTok's algorithm was disrupted on Sunday as the company dealt with a data center outage. Users reported seeing a flurry of old videos in their feeds. Some wondere...