A Chinese phone application called “dead or alive” that helps users check in daily has become a top-ranked app, reflecting the trend of solo living among the country’s young people. The Sileme app, or...
The city of Philadelphia filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over the National Parks Service's removal of a slavery exhibit at the President’s House....
The U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century, according to a report released by the Brookings Institution....
Erfan Soltani, 26, was detained at his home in Fardis on 8 January. Four days later, authorities notified his family a death sentence had been issued and confirmed....
Mark Owen welcomes Aida Tavakoli, co-founder of We Are Iranian Students, who offers a window into the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Iran under a blanket of state-imposed darkness. Her voice, urgent...
The family of a Nicaraguan migrant who died at an ICE detention facility in Texas is pushing back against DHS' suggestion that his death may have been a suicide....
Steve Downes, the actor behind Master chief’s iconic voice, has said deceptive AI reproductions of his voice “cross a line that gets into an area I am uncomfortable with” — and he wants it to stop. Sp...
Alexander Soofer, manager of an LA-based housing program, is being charged with wire fraud and pocketing $10 million in public funds. Carlos Barria/REUTERS Alexander Soofer, manager of an LA-based hou...
A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a hom...
Financial incentives for future parents have failed to have the desired effect. At the current rate, China's population could drop as low as 800 million by the year 2100, according to the United Natio...
Catherine Viette welcomes Kim Aris, son of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who bears witness to the fraught political landscape of Myanmar five years after the 2021 military coup. Mr. Ari...
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers working at the Social Security Administration (SSA) broke protocols, had more access to sensitive data on Americans than previously disclosed, and w...
For the past 8 years at Louisa County High School in Mineral, Virginia, students have been using skills learned in their auto tech class to refurbish cars – and donate them to single mothers in need....
Ricardo Martinez II spent more than a decade as a 911 dispatcher, handling thousands of emergencies as US 911 centers face a nationwide staffing and funding crisis. Across the country, emergency call ...
Eyewitnesses recall the scenes of suppression and bitter days many Iranians spend nowadays amid ongoing anti-government protests. Speaking to Euronews, they recount their personal experience from viol...
Eyewitnesses recall the scenes of suppression and bitter days many Iranians spend nowadays amid ongoing anti-government protests. Speaking to Euronews, they recount their personal experience from viol...
The author raised her kids in Chicago. Unaihuiziphotography/Getty Images I knew many people who moved away from Chicago to raise their kids, but I stayed. In Chicago, my kids had access to parks, muse...
Magic: The Gathering has kicked off 2026 with a return to Lorwyn, and Lorwyn Eclipsed might be the most excited I've seen the community since, well, Edge of Eternities (the last Universes Within set)....
Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota closed on Friday and thousands of protesters turned out in severely cold weather to demonstrate against the ongoing immigration crackdown in the state. Professor of...
Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country's exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,”...