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Organisers have apologised for playing the North Korean national anthem for the South Korean men's hockey team at the Asian Games in Japan.

The sanctions, introduced during the Biden administration, targeted Eritrea's governing party and the military.

CBS News observed two MS NOW employees being turned away from the White House on Saturday morning.

Saudi Arabia has hosted a multinational naval coalition meeting aimed at protecting shipping in the Red Sea.

In Gaza, Palestinian actors turn stories of siege and loss into theatre, while confronting the same fears and hardships.

The reforms to Parenting Orders could also see parents losing benefits, Jake Richards MP told the Times.

When tech CEOs warn AI could end humanity, does the media get the story right?

Polls show voters who helped elect president unhappy – and may be willing to vote Democrat in midterms Hispanic voters who helped re-elect Donald Trump in 2024 are discontent with his second-term economic and immigration policies, according to recent polling – indicating they may not be willing to support the president’s party in the midterm elections. Despite a record number of Hispanic voters casting their ballots for the Republican president, more than 65% said they are displeased with Trump’s handling of his job and 78% said they would prefer to see the Democratic party in control of Congress, according to a September poll from the New York Times/Siena University. Continue reading...

Acts of ‘familicide’ have increased dramatically this year – in the US, the killer is more likely to have easy access to a gun The US is often known globally for its shocking levels of violence, but acts of “family annihilation” or “familicide” rank among the most disturbing of crimes. They occur when an assailant kills four or more of their own family members and often see the killer also kill themselves. These types of crime have increased dramatically this year, according to data from Northeastern University . Continue reading...

Officials lack data on miscarriages after October 2025. Detained women aren’t getting the prenatal healthcare they need Maga men have babies on the brain. They may not all be interested in changing diapers or hands-on parenting, but they’re very keen on population growth. “[W]e want more babies, to put it very nicely,” Donald Trump said last year . Trump, who has called himself the “ father of IVF ” and joked that he will be known as the “fertilization president”, surrounds himself with people who profess a similar fondness for children. Only a few days after being sworn in as vice-president, JD Vance declared he wanted “more babies in the United States of America” and went on to make pronatalist policies a theme of his time in office. Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Meet the candidates with labor ties vying for Senate and House seats in midterm races. Most of the nominees are Democrats as the party looks to rebuild support among working-class voters The US labor movement is having a banner election year. More than three dozen nominees for open House and Senate races across the US have backgrounds as labor union representatives or members. Continue reading...

Wildfires have burned more than 8.5 million acres of land in the U.S. this year, and at the peak of the season, there weren't enough people or equipment to fight them.

Lisa Fasone's first pregnancy went smoothly. Then a rare health condition put her dreams of a second child on hold.

101 East meets innovators across East Asia using digital technology to transform how we grieve those we love.

New research on ancient human remains suggests the habitual usage of betel nuts, a plant seed with mind-affecting properties that is popular in parts of Asia despite the health risks it presents.

With growing support networks online and in person, these moms say they’re changing the narrative around Black single motherhood When Chamise Alston was ready to have a child, she connected her computer to her TV and scrolled through profiles with her best friend, dismissing people who seemed like the wrong fit. Unlike the average millennial on a dating app, Alston was scanning a sperm bank catalogue for potential donors. The Maryland-based therapist hoped to conceive a child through the assisted reproductive technology in vitro-fertilization (IVF). That winter day in 2023, Alston and her friend chose a donor who would help her become pregnant with her now 16-month-old daughter. As a Black woman, she felt empowered taking control of her reproductive destiny. Continue reading...

Fed chair presided over unanimous decision to raise interest rates despite intense campaign from White House In the end, Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve acquitted itself well. For all the uncertainty he had sparked at the previous meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, when he refused to provide any indication of what he was prepared to do to tame stubborn inflation, the chair on Wednesday presided over a unanimous decision to raise interest rates for the first time in three years. “Today’s action starts to show that we’re serious about this,” he said at the press conference after the meeting, with “this” meaning inflation in excess of the Fed’s 2% target for over five years. Welcome though it was, his embrace of economic orthodoxy nonetheless did little to dispel the Keystone Cops quality of governance in Donald Trump’s US. Continue reading...

The revelation ‘left experts scratching their heads at exactly what Donald Trump has in his cosmic arsenal’ In Hollywood at least, space weapons are a relatively simple concept. The good guys, from Captain Kirk and his crew in Star Trek , to Luke Skywalker’s rebel alliance in Star Wars, battle intergalactic villains with an array of colorful lasers and particle-beam cannons, then the bad guys get dispatched in a spectacular, explosive finale. The messaging coming out of the White House on the subject, by contrast, could not be more vague. Continue reading...

Armed women, anti-aircraft guns and Shaheed drones were seen in Tehran as hundreds of thousands marched in the capital.

The proposed sale is subject to congressional review.

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned. As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy, Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration agenda. Continue reading...

New agreement with Denmark falls short of Trump’s previously stated goal of US 'ownership' of the island.

The promotion of monocultures is hurting the production of much more nutritious and climate-resistant traditional crops.

The United Nations General Assembly will allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address via a prerecorded video.

Last year, remnants of a typhoon damaged homes, infrastructure and an archaeological dig site. Now, archaeologists are trying to get as many objects out as possible before the next storm.

Oil-rich Guyana is enjoying red-hot growth. But the boom is magnifying tensions over corruption, inequality and strained ties with Venezuela.

It’s not uncommon for lawyers to work well into their 80s. Firms are finding ways to get them to exit and make way for the next generation.

An 81-year-old billionaire has a vision for preserving a tiny West Texas mining town, even as other forces are reshaping the land around it.

Karandeep Anand, head of Character.AI, will report directly to Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, who has made tech a focus.

A healthy economy and reduced issuance by tech companies could support corporate debt.

The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index fell by 0.1% to 99.5 as consumer expectations remained a significant strain.

Why accepting what we don’t know can change how we see the world

The little-discussed potential risk of popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs is on warning labels outside of the U.S.

All those scary numbers aren’t what they seem.

For decades, Salzburg residents dismissed the hit musical as kitsch. Now, a dedicated space aims to reconcile movie myth and local history.

While preserving some of the world’s most precious works in stone, the author has fled grenades and machine-gun fire.

The Chinese leader felt unwell at the recent Brics event in India, reviving worries over who would succeed him.

Officials in England are alarmed at the state of Mentmore Towers, the 19th century estate that served as Wayne Manor in the 2005 film “Batman Begins.”

For many people in the city, the past few months fostered desperately needed moments of communal bliss — and evoked a surprising feeling.

Helmets can reduce some risk, but the sport by nature endangers players’ heads.

The 2026 Trailseeker blends Subaru’s rugged styling with Toyota’s EV architecture, delivering impressive acceleration and ride quality but less-than-stellar range and charging capacity.

Three nineteenth-century memoirs reveal the risks and rewards of life on the road as a traveling bookseller. The post The Women Who Sold Books Door to Door appeared first on JSTOR Daily .