He said there was now an established pattern of Thailand taking action against Cambodia's "scam-invested oligarchs" followed by Cambodia escalating tensions with Thailand then issuing "a punishing, over the top military response".

Yes, Lakanwal was radicalized, but it was the CIA, not the Taliban, who accustomed him and thousands of other Afghan men to wanton violence. – @alibomaye.bsky.social

Thieren accused the UN of enabling antisemitism and compared world leaders’ discussions on Palestinian statehood to making a deal with a “Nazi devil”.

This account is the most comprehensive to date of the backlash against Kirk’s critics, tracing how senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, local Republican lawmakers and allied influencers mobilized to enforce the Trump movement’s views.

Anduril’s setbacks underscore a broader challenge: America’s defense industry, long defined by costly world-class systems such as jets, missiles and aircraft carriers, must adapt to a battlefield where cheap, mass-produced drones have become central to modern warfare.

Victoria was quiet on the other end of the line. I actually emailed the professor, I explained. “And she said she never spoke with you.” In the silence that followed I realized Victoria had hung up. She has not responded to my emails since.

Professor Wisit Wisitsora-at promised to speed up fraud investigations when he became SEC Chairman. 16 months later, he's done nothing on Finansia X. Documents reveal why: he is compromised.

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

The next phase of the administration’s escalating pressure campaign on the Maduro government could be sabotage or some sort of cyber, psychological or information operations.

That means that in the 48 days between Oct. 6, when he landed in Albania, and Sunday, when he is scheduled to return to New York, Mr. Adams will have spent roughly 27 percent of his time thousands of miles away from the city he governs.

He has dedicated years to research and has interviewed more than 100 people who say they either know of or have entered the supposed tunnels. But the owners of the historic homes that allegedly lead to them have uniformly declined to participate in his inquiry.

More than 60 percent of Sixteen Thirty Fund’s revenues in 2024 came from just five benefactors who cut eight-figure checks to the group, including one who gave $58.9 million and another who gave $51.4 million, according to the filings.

It is extremely unusual for judges to examine how prosecutors act in front of grand juries, let alone to openly criticize their conduct. But that is exactly what Judge Fitzpatrick did to Ms. Halligan.

“The Austrian government and intelligence service helped Mossad and helped their war criminals,” Mr. Almousa said. “This is the worst level of criminality.”

After everything the Nordenströms had told me about her, she assumed I might take their side: “The babysitter always goes down, right?” But after months reviewing court documents, family photos, and copies of several forged checks, I found that the contours of her story turned out to be true.

Former union officials interviewed by ESPN said that Players Way appeared to be a landing spot for Clark's loyalists -- and, said one, "Few players knew anything about it."

Nearly every judge who reviewed Fraser’s trial found something wrong with it—even if they didn’t agree on what that was.

On at least three occasions in the past two weeks, an official Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's official editorial line landed in sync with its owner's financial interests.

Epstein was an invaluable resource for Israel’s former prime minister... sharing whispers from within Russian elite circles and intel on Putin’s interlocutors in Europe and the U.S—and even advising him on how to engage with the Mossad.

The so-called suspicious activity report that JPMorgan filed identified transactions with Leon Black, the co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; Glenn Dubin, a well-known hedge fund manager; the lawyer Alan Dershowitz; and trusts controlled by Leslie Wexner, the retail tycoon.

The Union County district attorney’s office, about 2,500 miles away from Washington, D.C., had become perhaps the most unlikely casualty of the Trump administration’s sweeping budget cuts last spring.

“A very good analogy for Aaron is Fox Mulder. Everyone sees him as this guy shouting at the heavens about aliens. But at the end of the day, the aliens exist.”

“We really want to put our energy into what we can build together with the power of a mayoral administration and the power of not only DSA but of a broad left-labor coalition. I think we have the opportunity to really transform the city in ways that haven’t been seen before.”

“They live with relatives in the city. They only come here in the morning to see if an NGO will give them something. They have learned that if you stay in the community, you will never get aid.”

“Assad’s men are drinking whiskey and playing cards in Moscow, or they are lounging in some Emirati villa,” a friend of several top-ranking regime officials said. “They have forgotten about any place that was called Syria.”

“At a moment when U.S. forces are building up across the Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela are at a boiling point, the departure of our top military commander in the region sends an alarming signal of instability within the chain of command.”

"Mr. Hegseth’s initiatives, former Pentagon officials say, point toward a defense secretary at odds with the news media to a degree unseen in modern times."

"While population growth might seem a more obvious reason for land consumption, the more direct correlation in Europe is with wealth, since wealthy countries develop not only essential things, but unnecessary things, from golf courses to artificial ski slopes."

“What is shocking here is that a prominent head of a major media corporation in the US was caught blatantly offering assistance to a foreign government to spy on Americans and undermine their civil rights.”

"As mayor, Mamdani could leverage his platform as well as public policies to help turn New York back into a bastion of worker power—an affordable city with an organized working class strong enough to overcome the billionaires, Trump, and the Democratic establishment."

Gaza's healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent - The Lancet

“She cares more about dogs than she cares about human beings here.”

The UN’s top representative in Gaza has enabled Israel’s weaponisation of aid, alienated Palestinian and international colleagues, and contributed to Israeli efforts to sow division among humanitarians, aid workers involved in the response told @newhumanitarian.bsky.social.

“It remains clear that Cambodia’s military buildup was significantly more proactive than Thailand’s.”

| Institutional humanitarianism might want to disown political activism as outside of its remit, unserious, and doomed to fail. Yet much of humanitarianism started as political activism. Humanitarians lost much relevance when they stopped seeing themselves as part of the political landscape. |

| There is no reliable data to determine how many such attacks occur each year, but there is abundant anecdotal evidence that homeowners have turned to chain saws and poisons when they can’t see the vistas for the trees. |

| LaFeber said in response to questions that he was not aware of any recommendation from the board to revoke his license — though according to recordings and minutes of the public dentistry board meetings, he was present when the dentistry board took its vote. |

| TBI would push technology and AI solutions on countries with far more fundamental issues to contend with. In Ethiopia, with the country on the brink of civil war in 2020, the TBI was working on a draft AI policy, seen by this investigation, which called for the introduction of self-driving cars. |

| Benicio came in to work on his sequence, and he [helped write] the best sequence in the movie in a day and a night. Together at dinner. |

The directive stands at odds with many of Christian Aid’s Palestinian partners at a time when the organisation is undergoing a major restructuring to outsource programme implementation to local partners. “We’ve all got plenty of stories about partners being censored.”

| A number of eight-wheeled Strykers, a type of battlefield troop carrier, also rolled past. The Stryker is the only new armored vehicle to be widely adopted by the Army since the Eighties, a remarkable statement in itself, proof of nearly fifty years of military-industrial doldrums. |

| He ended up in jail for only one day, though, after posting a $100 million bond. The mathematics of his situation became Lynch’s obsession. “What are the odds?” he would constantly ask his friends and lawyers, especially Weingarten, who found it maddening. “It was the stupidest question ever.” |

"Yet he has not allowed the Nepali language to be taught in schools and has made no attempt to right the wrongs of his government, continuing instead to peddle lies and misinformation about the Lhotshampa."

"The CIA’s vetted military units have become Mexico’s most successful forces for hunting down suspected traffickers. But the capture of drug kingpins has fractured cartels and sparked bloody power struggles."

“We were influenced by several protests in the region, like in Indonesia and Bangladesh," said Ashish Lamichhane, a 28-year-old environmental consultant and member of Nepal’s youth-led movement.

"It’s a story that could really only happen in America: an active shooter taken out by an armed citizen, who’s then gunned down by police."

'News stories, podcasts, and rumors... perpetuate untrue stereotypes that women aren’t as capable as men. Erika German says that men have questioned her abilities while she was rescuing them, with one asking, “What is she gonna do?”'

"Lauren Ashleigh Hays was in fact a young adult living in Arkansas. The woman who had been building a life in Willow Springs for nearly three years was her 45-year-old mother."

"According to prosecutors, Nasyrova decided to kill her doppelgänger and steal her life—or at least her immigration status. Her weapon of choice: a slice of cheesecake."

"The one stat that’s really lodged in my brain is that 20% of companies acquired by private equity enter bankruptcy proceedings within 10 years, compared to 2% of other types of other companies."