President� Donald Trump� is facing perhaps the most daunting question of� the war with Iran, one that could define his time in office: Will he put U.S. troops on the ground in Iran to secure some� 970 pounds of enriched uranium� that Tehran could potentially use to build nuclear weapons? Trump has offered� shifting reasons� […]

Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published Thursday. The annual report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, also found that� Finland� […]

Heavy rains and strong winds lashed Pakistan’s largest city overnight, killing at least 15 people and injuring several others as walls and roofs collapsed at multiple locations, emergency services and

On shelves crammed with cuddly toy native animals in an Australian airport gift shop, one fluffy possum stood out: Its big brown eyes were moving. A browsing passenger first spotted

A tiny desert community in Southern California reached 108 degrees on Wednesday, tying the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S. It came amid a record-breaking winter heat wave

European Union leaders on Thursday lashed out at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, accusing him of hijacking critical aid for Ukraine and undermining EU decision-making in an effort to win an election at home. In a rare public tirade against a member of their ranks, leaders insisted that Orbán must respect the 27-nation bloc’s� decision […]

A mix of uncertainty, anger and hope simmered in Cuba on Wednesday following comments by U.S. President Donald Trump this week saying that Washington could take� “imminent action”� against the island’s government. Trump, whose government has come at its Caribbean adversary more aggressively than any U.S. government in recent history, has effectively cut Cuba off […]

Illinois Gov.� JB Pritzker� on Wednesday condemned special interest money that poured into the state ahead of� this week’s primary, including from a pro-Israel political group that the billionaire and potential 2028 presidential contender once supported. Pritzker, a Jewish Democrat who also spent money to influence races Tuesday, was a donor to the� American Israel […]

U.S. companies will be allowed to do business with� Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company� after the Treasury Department eased sanctions, with some limitations, on Wednesday as the Trump administration looks for ways to� boost global oil supplies� during� the Iran war. The Treasury issued a broad authorization allowing Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., or PDVSA, […]

We’ve long had your back, now it’s our turn. That is how the famously transactional U.S. President Donald Trump is framing his demands that allies help him with� the Iran war. He wants to call in IOUs for decades of U.S. security guarantees. The string of refusals indicates his stock of European goodwill is low. […]

There was a shooting Tuesday at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in a small town at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains in Georgia, and the gunman was

Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives.