Dolores Huerta, the Stockton teacher who became the negotiating engine of the farmworker movement, co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez and gave American politics three of its most durable words —…
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War / Middle East — Saudi intercepts Houthi missile fired toward the oil-rich Eastern Province — the third straight day of interceptions, after Riyadh debris damage and a Taif shoot-down. Civil Defence alerts for Najran and the Eastern Province were lifted, with no casualties or damage reported.
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Saudi intercepts Houthi missile fire for a third consecutive day: after falling debris damaged property in Riyadh on Tuesday and a missile was destroyed over Taif on Wednesday, the kingdom’s air defences brought down…
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The Hong Kong Tai Po fire report — more than 1,000 pages from a judge-led independent committee — held four government departments partly responsible for the blaze that killed 168 people last November, described a…
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Twenty-seven Ugandans who enlisted to fight for Russia's army in Ukraine have been killed or are presumed dead — 11 of them confirmed dead and 16 whose bodies could not be located anywhere, including among prisoners…
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A Russian jet-powered drone struck a crowded platform at Dnipro's main railway station on Thursday morning as passengers were boarding a commuter train to Zaporizhzhia, killing 13 people, Ukrainian officials said.…
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Moscow's mayor said air defences downed most of 613 drones headed for the capital overnight — a claim that climbed in rolling updates all night — while three Moscow airports restricted flights and a Russian strike…
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Six days before an election that could decide control of the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump called for Alaska’s Democratic Senate nominee, Mary Peltola, to be prosecuted and removed from the ballot — after a New…
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Sudan’s war is no longer only Sudan’s. UN-appointed investigators told the world on Wednesday that weapons, military technology and foreign fighters are still flowing in through a transnational network — in the same…
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North Korea workers in Russia are being recruited through a commercial website, priced per head, and delivered to Russian companies in groups of fifty or more — on student visas, under North Korean embassy…
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Two of the world’s most valuable companies reported within an hour of each other on Wednesday evening, and the market gave opposite verdicts on the same strategy. Microsoft turned its artificial intelligence spending…
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Savannah River Site emergency: a fire in a single room at the Savannah River National Laboratory triggered an “unfiltered ground-level radiological release,” a Site Area Emergency declaration and an FAA airspace…
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The Vance letter to Iran has reached the one desk in Tehran that can answer for the guns. JD Vance wrote to Mohsen Rezaei, the Revolutionary Guard’s longest-serving commander and now secretary of the Supreme National…
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Israel’s military said on Wednesday that a series of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip between October 22 and 26 killed six Hamas operatives — three of them men it accuses of taking part in the October 7, 2023…
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FEC cyberattack filing system outage: for nearly 41 hours, the Federal Election Commission’s electronic filing system was dark in the final week before the Nov. 3 midterms — and with it went the public’s only…
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US boat strike Pacific: a go-fast vessel was destroyed in the Eastern Pacific on Oct. 27 and five people were killed, U.S. Southern Command said — pushing one outside tally of the campaign to 243 dead, with no…
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Brooklyn Bridge ICE protest arrests: about 30 demonstrators blocked the bridge’s Manhattan entrances for roughly 30 minutes on Wednesday over the Marble Hill shooting of Oscar Belgal — and the NYPD took 14 into…
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The UK Budget 2026 key points, at a glance: a £100 Household Energy Payment for some 20 million households, a bank tax rise to pay for it, the abolition of gas standing charges, a reprieve for cash ISA savers — and a…
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Fed rate decision October 2026: the Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady at 3.75% to 4% — but two policymakers voted to raise them, the statement hardened its language on inflation, and December has become the…
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A Kharkiv drone strike in the middle of the day has killed a 60-year-old man in the city’s Osnovianskyi district — the same district a jet-powered Russian drone set ablaze the night before, in a 24-hour double hit…
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The Iran war cost $47 billion and counting. Pentagon figures provided to Congress put the total at $47.1 billion as of October 16 — up more than 25% since July — with more than $29 billion needed to replace expended…
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Healey budget Ukraine aid took centre stage in the Chancellor’s first Budget on Wednesday: £7 billion of economic support over three years, £3 billion of export finance capacity and £500 million rushed into Ukraine’s…
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BROOKLYN — A federal jury has convicted Halima Salman, 27, of receiving military-type training from the Islamic State in Syria, closing a case that prosecutors, the Justice Department and the reporters who covered it…
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Kinshasa / Ten thousand confirmed cases, 4,887 dead and nearly half of all patients dying — Congo’s Bundibugyo outbreak is now the largest and deadliest in the country’s history, the second-largest Ebola epidemic…
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Saudi airstrikes Yemen market: the Houthi-run Health Ministry says strikes on a crowded market and a fuel station in Al-Hazm, the capital of Al Jawf province in northern Yemen, killed 13 people and wounded 16 on…
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A Kuwaiti court sentenced three men to death on Monday over an alleged plot to assassinate the interior minister in collaboration with Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah. On Wednesday, Iran’s embassy in Kuwait denied that…
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The Cassidy Hutchinson grand jury has said no. A federal grand jury in Washington on Tuesday declined to indict the former White House aide over the testimony she gave Congress about President Donald Trump and…
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The Black Sea ship drone attack campaign struck again on Wednesday, this time in the middle of a meeting called to stop it. Three naval drones hit the container ship Contship Jet off Bulgaria’s northern coast while…
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Two days after Jordanian jets struck Islamic State sites inside Syria — and, by Syria’s account, killed seven civilians, three of them children — Amman and Damascus chose a committee over a crisis. Syria says the…
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Beijing on Wednesday dismissed Taiwan’s accusation that it was behind the Taiwan comedian Huang Yi-hao attack plot as a fabrication by Taiwan’s ruling party, a week after New Taipei prosecutors indicted five people…
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