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Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out...
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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...
With the last stage of Jimmy Lai's national security trial drawing to a close, Hong Kong's High Court is set to decide on the sentence for the pro-democracy tycoon. Will Lai get life in prison?...
America's hospitals are dropping their labor and delivery services. skaman306/Getty Images 60% of rural counties offered no labor and delivery services in 2023, a new report found. Many pregnant patie...
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A couple in San Francisco are honoring their late pet rabbit by opening a cafe where visitors can meet, pet and adopt bunnies....
Iran's protests face an information blackout, fueling a surge of AI-generated videos and recycled footage online. DW Fact check investigates how disinformation thrives when truth is hard to verify....
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Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...
ICE officers have made over 2,500 arrests in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images The AFL-CIO has endorsed a Minnesota economic blackout on January 23 in response t...
Amanda Litman and her husband hosted friends for dinner to help relieve their sense of loneliness. Amanda Litman Amanda Litman and her husband, who have two young kids, were feeling socially isolated....
Consumer research shows trust for crypto is shaped by control and access, with their habits now reaching policy moves on housing....
Some families aren't leaving their homes as aggressive ICE operations continue in Minnesota, leaving their children confined and stressed. Across the Twin Cities, kids are anxious and afraid. (Image c...
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...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a "national language", in an apparent gesture of good will towards the minority following clashes in recent days. The decre...
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...
Adek Berry/Getty Images China's population declined for the fourth year in a row, reaching 1.405 billion. Falling birth rates and an aging population threaten China's economy and the global economy. G...
The United Nations announced it will assume control of the Al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, which houses thousands of people suspected of having links to the Islamic State group, after Kurdish-led ...