Six Months Into the Iran War, No End in Sight and a $37 Billion Tab
A “Little Excursion” That Became a Six-Month War When President Donald Trump launched joint strikes with Israel against Iran on February 28, he promised Americans it would be swift. It was a notable milestone for a Republican leader who repeatedly assured Americans that attacking Iran…
Norway’s King Harald V Dies at 89, Ending a 35-Year Reign of Quiet Strength
A King Who Refused to Quit King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen in order to marry his school sweetheart, has died….
Convicted Genocide War Criminal Ratko Mladic Dies in UN Prison at 84
The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Is Gone, But His Crimes Will Never Be Forgotten Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general who spent his final years serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, died on Thursday, August 27, at a United…
Thieves Vanish With 3,000-Year-Old Spanish Gold Treasure in Four Minutes
Thieves stole most of Europe’s largest prehistoric treasure from a museum in Villena, eastern Spain, in a swift four-minute raid. The robbers made off with 59 of the 66 artifacts from the roughly 3,000-year-old Treasure of Villena, a Bronze Age collection valued at over $2 million. The heist follows a recent Europol warning about a rise in museum robberies across Europe.
Jury Resumes Deliberations Today in Lindsay Clancy Children Murder Trial
A Nation Waits for a Verdict After more than five weeks of harrowing testimony, a Massachusetts jury resumed deliberations this morning, Friday, August 28, in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy — the Duxbury mother who strangled her three young children in January 2023 before…
Meta Agrees to Pay Up to $17 Billion in Historic Child Safety Settlement
A Landmark Reckoning for Social Media In what is being called the largest state consumer protection settlement since the tobacco industry’s massive 1990s payout, Meta agreed on Wednesday, August 26, to pay up to $17.1 billion and overhaul its platforms to better protect children. The…
New Pill Doubles Survival Time for Late-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Patients
A Breakthrough Decades in the Making For most of the past half-century, a diagnosis of late-stage pancreatic cancer has been, in the words of one patient, a death sentence. That reality shifted on Wednesday, August 26, when the FDA granted expedited approval to a pill…
Glacier Collapse Unleashes Catastrophic Floods Across Nepal and Tibet Killing Hundreds
A Wall of Water With No Warning Rescue teams searched Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities following a glacier collapse — a disaster that left at least 273 people…
Canada Fires Back With $20 Billion in Tariffs as US-Canada Trade War Hits New Low
A Historic Alliance Under Siege The United States and Canada — two countries that have shared the world’s longest undefended border for generations — are now locked in one of the most bitter trade disputes in their history. On Tuesday, August 25, Canada announced sweeping…
America Loses Dolly Parton, the Queen of Country Music and Humanity, at 80
A Legend Falls Silent Dolly Parton, who rose from humble beginnings to the greatest heights of American music and became one of the country’s most philanthropic, unifying, and beloved stars, died Tuesday in Nashville. The family statement said she passed “peacefully,” after “bravely facing a…
