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An Italian expert credentialed by the United Nations and living in Tunisia is at the center of a highly unusual First Amendment lawsuit, despite not being a citizen and the speech in question taking place overseas. U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese has been placed back on the sanctions list after

The announcement of an end-of-hostility deal between the United States and Iran has done little to shift investor expectations that the Federal Reserve will hold or even raise interest rates this year, even as oil prices fall in response to the apparent diplomatic breakthrough. President Donald Trump recently announced the planned signing of the ceasefire

It’s often said that bigger means better. This year’s FIFA World Cup may put that to the test. By almost any metric, the 2026 tournament is the largest ever: the most host countries; the longest distances between stadiums; the most players, teams, and matches; and then there’s the eye-watering ticket prices. The scale is a

The battle over the slavery exhibit at the President’s House site in Philadelphia took another turn on Thursday as a federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration’s decision to remove it. The latest court order reversed a February injunction by a Philadelphia district court judge that required the National Park Service to restore the

On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, a deal that sets off a 60-day ceasefire and longer-term nuclear talks between the two nations. It also, critically, reopens the Strait of Hormuz, that narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that usually serves as one of the globe’s vital energy

A report from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board has highlighted regulatory failures that allowed OceanGate’s unregistered, unflagged, and uncertified Titan submersible to operate out St. John’s, Newfoundland, for years before it imploded on a tourist trip to the wreck of the Titanic in 2023. “When it came to the Titan, critical information existed across multiple federal

EXCLUSIVE — The Republican National Committee said it raised $14.8 million in May, ending the month with $125.5 million on hand as it continues padding its coffers ahead of November, according to figures first shared with the Washington Examiner. The cash on hand is the highest ever for the committee at the end of a

We usually associate movie critics with quiet deliberation in darkened theaters or measured prose on the printed page. But if ever the job of critic was transformed into something unmistakably vivid, audaciously mustached, and alive on the small screen, then that transformation belonged to Gene Shalit, the film and book critic whose “Critic’s Corner” on

A clinic in London, run by a former maker of artisanal ice cream, is treating patients with stage 4 cancer using a method that involves sealing them, naked from the neck down, in a plastic bag while gassing them with the oxidizing industrial bleach chlorine dioxide—a treatment that even the person administering it admits is

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham won a special election in the United Kingdom on Thursday. The Labour Party candidate defeated Rob Kenyon of the Reform U.K. party to return to Parliament in the seat for Makerfield, a small area in Greater Manchester county in northwest England. He received 24,927 votes to Kenyon’s 15,696, earning 54.8%