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The Middle Class Is Cracking Authored by Charles Hugh Smioth via OfTwoMinds blog, Borrowing more to maintain spending is hanging on by one's fingernails, not middle-class security. The middle class is cracking, but if you want a statistic that "proves" this, there isn't one. The cracking isn't a statistic, it's the culmination of observations logged over the past 15 years about these critical measures of what it takes to qualify as middle class: 1. How much income a household needs to secure the minimum qualifications of a middle class standard of living / quality of life, based on the conventional standards of the 1960s - 1980s. (The

Medicare Secures 71% Price Cut On Novo's Anti-Obesity Drug As Part Of Broad Affordability Push The Trump administration is laser-focused on "Operation Affordability," aiming to drive down the cost of food and healthcare ahead of the midterm election cycle. On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a savings of 44%, or $12 billion, from last year's negotiated Medicare spending on 15 drugs used to treat severe chronic conditions and cancer.   Of those price cuts, CMS negotiated a 71% discount on GLP-1 medication, including Ozempic and Wegovy, for Medicare patients. Other significant reductions include a 50% cut for Pfizer's Ibrance, a 48% drop for

Homebuyers See Record Discounts In October: Report Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Retailers aren’t the only ones offering huge discounts for Black Friday. A Nov. 24 press release from Zillow indicates that the average home listing experienced record-breaking cumulative discounts of up to $25,000 in October. A for sale sign is posted in front of a home on in San Anselmo, Calif., on March 22, 2023. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images While typical price cuts are closer to $10,000, multiple reductions are starting to become the norm as homes are sitting longer on the market, according to the release. Many sellers are

Trump's Approval Rating Has Not Changed Among Republicans Recent online squabbles and upheavals among MAGA related influencers and politicians might lead a person to believe that the conservative base was beginning to crack.  In fact, in less than a year of Trump's return to the White House an army of web personalities have taken to social media to declare MAGA "dead." The latest feud between Trump and libertarian favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene has stirred the soup, but there is a reason why MTG chose to resign and the latest polls explain her decision clearly.  Trump's support among Republicans remains steadfast and MTG

Retirement Deadlines You Can't Miss By December 31 Authored by John Rampton via The Epoch Times, As the year winds down, many people are thinking about holiday plans, family gatherings, and completing work projects. However, for retirees and those planning for retirement, financial deadlines carry a special urgency. Tax bills, retirement accounts, and even healthcare costs can be affected by some of these cutoffs. By missing them, you could be losing out on valuable opportunities, or worse, you may face penalties. Zephyr_p/shutterstock The good news? To stay on top of retirement-related deadlines, here are the most important ones you need to know before December

These Are The Largest Bodies Of Water In Our Solar System From the icy crusts of distant moons to the oceans beneath their surfaces, the solar system is teeming with hidden water. This visualization from Made Visual Daily, via Visual Capitalist, compares all known and estimated bodies of water in our solar system, including those beneath the surface, on a volumetric scale. The data comes from sources including USGS, NASA’s Ocean Worlds program, and a variety of planetary science missions, like Cassini and MESSENGER. COMPARING WATER VOLUMES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM Below is the full breakdown of water volumes by celestial body or source: Earth’s ocean holds 1.3 billion

UK Schools Locked Down In Secret "Pegasus" Pandemic Drills Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a eerie redux of 2020’s chaos, UK schools are being thrust into unannounced lockdown simulations under the guise of “pandemic preparedness drills”—with children herded into classrooms, doors barricaded, and parents left in the dark, sparking whispers of social engineering rehearsals for the next big scare. The covert operations, exposed in The Telegraph’s bombshell report, mirror pre-COVID “Event 201” tabletop exercises that eerily foreshadowed global shutdowns—raising the specter: Was the pandemic a trial run for something far more insidious? > Schools locked down again in secret pandemic drills > > Exclusive:

Economists' Warning: Germany's Costly Pension Package Must Be Scrapped Immediately Submitted By Thomas Kolbe Germany’s public pension system is under mounting pressure. Amid a deepening economic crisis, uncontrolled poverty migration, and a rapidly aging population, a shrinking workforce is being forced to shoulder an ever-growing burden. Meanwhile, the number of pension recipients continues to rise and has now smashed through the 21-million mark. The widening deficit in the pension fund — and the surging federal subsidies needed to stabilize it — shows the system is slipping out of control. Political pressure for reform is intensifying, yet Berlin offers nothing but costly giveaways, ignoring

Foreigners Commit 44% Of Sexual Violence Cases In Italy, Half Of Gang-Rapes, While Only Representing 9% Of Population Via Remix News, Data from Italy’s Interior Ministry for 2024 shows that foreigners commit nearly half of all rapes, while only representing 9 percent of the country’s resident population. Specifically, the graph shows they are arrested in 44 percent of cases. Sexual Violence cases, Italy, 2024 The troubling data, which was cited by Italian journalist Francesca Totolo, also shows that when it comes to gang rapes, “50 percent of perpetrators were foreigners.” The situation is reportedly “even more of an emergency” when analyzing data concerning minors. In 2023, 56 percent of the arrests and reports

China Deploys World’s First Commercial Supercritical CO2 Power Generator China has activated what the South China Morning Post describes as the world’s first commercial power unit using supercritical carbon dioxide, or sCO₂, marking a notable step forward in clean energy technology. Developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation, the generator replaces traditional steam with high-pressure CO₂ to turn waste heat from steelmaking into electricity, according to SCMP. The first installation, located at the Shougang Shuicheng Steel complex in Liupanshui, Guizhou, links two 15-megawatt units to the grid and is expected to deliver roughly 50 per cent higher efficiency than typical steam-based waste-heat systems. Unlike

Does Germany Poses A Significant Non-Military Threat To Polish Sovereignty? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Its continued hegemony over Central & Eastern Europe threatens to further erode Poland’s already limited sovereignty, but this can be shattered with US support, though at the cost of subordinating Poland to Trump 2.0’s envisaged “Pax Americana” that would also impose limits on its sovereignty. “The AfD’s Co-Leader Declared That Poland Could Become A Threat To Germany” earlier this month, the rationale of which was explained in the preceding analysis, but it’s also true that some in Poland regard Germany as threat to their country as well. Whereas

Escobar: The European Matryoshka Of Irrelevance Authored by Pepe Escobar, The EU/NATO combo cannot but play the role of pathetic yapping chihuahuas. That’s the price you pay for a matrioshka of supreme stupidity. No one ever lost money betting on the politically suicidal instincts of post-Orwellian EU – that acronym for a virtual Europe. Call them juvenile bipolar psychos or a bunch of yapping chihuahuas: no Jupiterian or Mercurial voice of reason has been capable to impart to the “leadership” in Brussels and their vassals in most European capitals – yes, there are healthy exceptions – that losers in wars do not dictate terms. And

CDC Shuts Down Monkey Labs Amid Tuberculosis "Time Bomb" Fears The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will end all nonhuman-primate research conducted at its own facilities, marking the first time since the National Institutes of Health retired its chimpanzees in 2015 that a major federal health agency has fully shuttered an in-house monkey program, Science reports. Scene from "Project X" The decision affects roughly 200 macaques currently housed at the CDC’s Atlanta campus. A CDC spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg that the agency is developing a wind-down plan but declined to provide a specific timeline or details on the fate of the

Brazilian Ex-President Bolsonaro Placed In 12-sq Meter Jail Cell To Begin Sentence  Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered by the country's supreme court to start serving his 27-year sentence, even as what could be a very lengthy further appeals effort carries on. He was convicted in September for plotting a coup, based on allegations he also cooperated with foreign influence, for not accepting the election results which brough President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to power.  Bolsonaro, who only somewhat recently was living in Florida after which he returned to his home country to face and attempt to fight the charges, will reportedly

Japan Launches DOGE-Like Initiative To Cut Government Waste Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, Japan’s finance minister on Nov. 25 unveiled a plan to cut wasteful government spending, drawing parallels to the United States’ Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama arrives at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, on Oct. 21, 2025. Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama launched the “Office for Administrative Reform and Promotion of Efficiency,” which she said will work with the finance and internal affairs ministries to review measures such as government subsidies and special tax treatments for companies, according to The

Game Over DOGE: US Starts Fiscal 2025 With Record Budget Deficit, Shocking Interest Expense It was back in February, when we explained to Elon Musk why his strategy to shock the US government into spending "efficiency" through DOGE, while noble, is ultimately doomed to wit: "What Musk is doing in trying to streamline the govt is admirable but ultimately it will be Congress that decides the endgame. And there things are as status quo as always." Status quo it was indeed, and it took the world's richest man several months to realize it, and while there has been a heated fight in the

Chinese Text-To-App 'Vibe Coding' Tool Went So Viral It Crashed Software engineers have been increasingly relying on AI to help with complex coding tasks, a practice known as "vibe-coding." Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Adobe Stock While vibe-coding has been largely limited to helping with portions of a project, Chinese developers have created an AI tool that converts text into a complete app.  The app, LingGuang, launched last Tuesday and reached over 1 million downloads in four days. By Monday, the app crossed 2 million downloads, according to the developer - Ant Group (an affiliate of the Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group), while LingGuang ranked #1 on Apple's mainland China

Dead Cows Don't Fart? Countries Raise Concerns Over Methane-Reducing Additive For Bovines Authored by Jonathan Turley, Scandinavian countries are moving to suspend the mandated use of Bovaer, a methane-reducing additive designed to reduce bovine flatulence. A contributor to methane pollution, cow farts were supposed to be reduced by the additive to reduce climate-harming pollutant. However, there are widespread reports of collapse, lethargy, reduced feed intake, fever, diarrhea, and significant drops in milk production. There are also reports of cow miscarriages and deaths, though most involve discomfort and farmers reported that the cows improved after cessation of the supplement. What could follow is a

HUD Launches Hotline To Crack Down On Crime, Illegal Immigrants In Public Housing Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner announced the launch of a new national hotline that allows public housing residents to report on criminals and illegal immigrants in HUD-funded housing. The hotline, 1-800-347-3735, can be used by residents to call the HUD Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for reporting “criminals, illegal aliens, sex offenders, human traffickers, and those guilty of gang activity, drug distribution, and fraud,” Turner said at a Nov. 24 press briefing in Memphis, Tennessee. Residents can

Trump Snubs Zelensky's Urgent Meeting Request - Will Host Only When Final Deal Is Agreed To Update(1640ET): Trump's latest comments on Ukraine peace progress suggest a direct meeting with Zelensky may not happen after all. The Ukrainians are pushing a face-to-face by Thursday, or at least this week. But President Trump is not going to meet with Zelensky until a deal is agreed to. Thus it appears the US president is serious about seeing a real compromise reached. Zelensky is seeking to convince Washington to nix the territorial concessions part of the now 19-point peace plan. Below are the key lines of Trump's

Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup. The far-right populist, 70, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...

Parliamentary group urges government to clamp down on overseas territories before flagship anti-corruption summit The UK government has been accused of caving-in to pressure from the British Virgin Islands by allowing it to limit access to a register of company share ownership to only those deemed to have a legitimate interest. The restriction, to be discussed at talks starting on Tuesday between Foreign Office ministers and leaders of the British overseas territories (BOTs) in London, is in defiance of legislation passed by the UK government as long ago as 2008 that would make the register available to all. Continue reading...

King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage A prominent Canadian-American author, who has long claimed Indigenous ancestry and whose work exposed “the hard truths of the injustices of the Indigenous peoples of North America”, has learned from a genealogist that he has no Cherokee ancestry. In an essay titled “A most inconvenient Indian” published on Monday for Canada’s Globe and Mail, Thomas King said he had learned of rumours circulating in recent years within both the arts and Indigenous communities that questioned his Cherokee heritage. Continue reading...

This live blog is now closed. * Trump news at a glance: judge tosses criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James The president was online early today, and fired off a Truth Social post at 5:38am touting the economic impact that his sweeping tariffs will soon have on the country. He also noted that countries’ efforts to stockpile US goods ahead of the levies kicking in was “wearing thin”. “These payments will be RECORD SETTING, and put our Nation on a new and unprecedented course,” he wrote. “This Tariff POWER will bring America National Security and Wealth the likes of which

Eleven people were injured as three teachers fought the bear during attack on walking trail in British Columbia Conservation officers in British Columbia are still searching for a female grizzly bear and her two cubs, four days after the sow attacked a group of schoolchildren and their teachers in an “exceedingly rare” encounter that has shaken the remote Canadian community. Eleven people, some as young as nine years old, were injured on Thursday when the bear emerged from the forest near 4 Mile, a Nuxalk community near the town Bella Coola and attacked a school group on a lunch break alongside a

Several people reportedly trapped inside burning towers as firefighters tackle huge blaze in Tai Po district At least 13 people have died after fire engulfed several high-rise towers of a residential complex in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district, with thick grey smoke billowing out as emergency services tackled the blaze. Police said several people remained trapped inside the burning towers, while two people were in a critical condition with severe burns. Continue reading...

President Lai Ching-te declared there was ‘no room for compromise on national security’ in face of escalating harassment and espionage Beijing’s threats to Taiwan are “intensifying” and its preparations to invade are speeding up, Taiwan’s government has said while announcing a $40bn special defence budget and a swathe of measures to counter Chinese attacks. The Taiwan president, Lai Ching-te, said there was “no room for compromise on national security”, and he was committed to boosting Taiwan’s defences in conjunction with US support. Continue reading...

Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing David Adeang was ‘seriously corrupt’ yet still signing $2.5bn deportation deal * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Nauru’s President David Adeang, a predecessor and other individuals have been accused in the Senate of corruptly siphoning off millions of dollars of Australian taxpayer money intended for the island’s arcane offshore processing regime. A previously unreleased report by Australia’s financial intelligence agency, Austrac, suspected Adeang of “corruption and money laundering” after detecting a “rapid movement of large volume and

Hakyung Lee was found guilty of murdering her children and concealing their remains in a storage locker A mother who murdered her two children and hid their bodies in suitcases stored inside a rented locker has been sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand. Hakyung Lee, a New Zealand citizen originally from South Korea, was found guilty earlier this year of killing her children in a crime that has become known as the “suitcase murders”. Continue reading...

Villagers demonstrate against drive for alternative funeral practices instead of burial to preserve land resources Protests have erupted in China’s southern Guizhou province, the latest in a string of rural demonstrations that have seen incidents of unrest increase by 70% compared with last year. The protests in Shidong town started over the weekend in response to a directive from local authorities that people should be cremated rather than buried after their death. Continue reading...

Western Australian employers reported the biggest pay gap and Tasmanian employers the smallest, but all states reported an improvement, study finds * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s gender pay gap narrowed further in 2025, but women still earn on average about $28,000 a year less than men, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s latest equality scorecard has revealed. Women earn, on average, 78.9 cents for every $1 men earn, according to the analysis of 5.4 million Australian workers across more than 8,200 employers. Continue reading...

Consumers advised to be sceptical about sales season discounts as AI makes it even harder to detect scams * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast So-called “ghost store” operators are taking advantage of Christmas and Black Friday to lure shoppers to their websites, as the consumer regulator warns Australians that artificial intelligence is making it even harder to identify deceptive retailers. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) considers ghost stores – which falsely market themselves as local brands – to be “scam adjacent”, as some send imitation products from overseas and others fail to deliver anything

While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 target * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% last financial year, in what the Albanese government says is the largest annual drop due to reduced fossil fuel use outside the Covid-19 pandemic. About half of the 9.9m tonnes reduction was due to an increase in solar and wind generation pushing coal-fired power out of the system, according to new government data to be released on Thursday. Continue reading...

Multiple roofs torn from buildings in NSW central west while more than 20 public schools closed due to catastrophic fire danger * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A man has been killed by a falling tree during surging storms that have left tens of thousands of people without power. The 76-year-old died on Wednesday afternoon after being struck by the tree at Glenworth Valley on the New South Wales Central Coast. Continue reading...

If Labor cannot reach deal on Thursday, it will mark second time in 12 months that it has failed to secure planned EPBC Act reforms * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese is yet to land a deal to rewrite federal nature laws ahead of parliament’s final sitting day of the year, leaving the long-promised reforms at risk of collapse for the second time in 12 months. But political, industry and environment movement sources expect the Greens will eventually accept an 11th-hour compromise after Labor offered new concessions to secure the minor party’s support. Continue reading...

EU’s foreign policy chief says ‘there’s one aggressor and one victim’ in conflict amid US push to end the war In case you missed it, US president Donald Trump defended his peace envoy Steve Witkoff overnight after Bloomberg reported that he allegedly advised Putin’s aide Ushakov on how to speak with Trump and conduct the talks. Trump did not appear too bothered by it, though. Continue reading...

In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here When Sylvie Delezenne, a marketing expert from Lille, was job-hunting in 2015, she was delighted to be contacted on LinkedIn by a human resources manager at the French culture ministry, inviting her to Paris for an interview. “It was my dream to work at the culture ministry,” she said. Continue reading...

Former French president released from prison only this month in connection with separate conviction The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been convicted of illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, after the country’s highest court rejected his final appeal. Sarkozy, who was the country’s rightwing president between 2007 and 2012, was convicted of hiding illegal overspending for his unsuccessful re-election campaign that was shaped by vast American-style rallies. Continue reading...

US volunteers who have poured into Ukraine to help amid war are dismayed by Trump’s continuing pressures on Kyiv Americans involved in the Ukrainian war effort are embarrassed and dismayed by Donald Trump’s continuing pressures on Kyiv and think his administration’s latest peace plan is tantamount to backstabbing and another catastrophic failure of US foreign policy. “Complete bullshit and a betrayal by Trump,” said an American special forces veteran who has helped train and advise the Ukrainian military since the full-scale Russian invasion began in February 2022. “But are you even surprised?” Continue reading...

Commission president says undermining of sovereign European nation would ‘open the doors for more wars’ * Europe live – latest updates The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has warned against “the unilateral carving up of a sovereign European nation”, as Europe scrambles to assert influence over a US effort to end the war in Ukraine. Speaking to European lawmakers in Strasbourg on Wednesday, von der Leyen said Russia showed “no signs of true willingness to end the conflict” and continued to operate in a mindset unchanged since the days of Yalta – the much-criticised and misunderstood 1945 summit to settle

Israeli military and security service say ‘broad counter-terrorism operation’ in Tubas to continue for several days Hundreds of Israeli soldiers supported by armoured vehicles have conducted raids in the Palestinian town of Tubas near Nablus in the biggest such military deployment by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza last month. Palestinian media reported that a curfew was imposed on Tuesday night on Tubas and some neighbouring communities, roads were closed by earthen barriers and families forced from their homes to allow Israeli forces to use the buildings. Continue reading...

Gulf nation is accused of placing monitoring software on computers of two dissidents living in London Bahrain is to tell the UK’s supreme court that it enjoys sovereign immunity from claims it placed surveillance software on the computers of two dissidents when they were living in London. The Gulf country has lost the sovereign immunity claim both in the high court and court of appeal, and a decision to take the case further to the supreme court shows how important it is to the country’s reputation. Continue reading...

Report says Israel’s operations ‘significantly undermined every pillar of survival’ and reduced the economy by 87% Israel’s war in Gaza has created a “human-made abyss”, and reconstruction is likely to cost more than $70bn (£53bn) over several decades, the United Nations has said. The UN’s trade and development agency (Unctad) said in a report that Israel’s military operations had “significantly undermined every pillar of survival” and that the entire population of 2.3 million people faced “extreme, multidimensional impoverishment”. Continue reading...

Four main food distribution sites operated by the opaque company had been flashpoints of deadly violence A controversial and secretive private company backed by the US and Israel that distributed food in Gaza has announced the end of its operations in the devastated territory. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which had four food distribution sites that became flashpoints of chaos and deadly violence between May and October, said in a statement that it would shut down permanently, having “successfully completed its emergency mission”. Continue reading...

Embassy’s employment of Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips is potentially violation of UK sanctions law, say experts The British embassy in Tel Aviv may have broken both UK sanctions law and UK government security policies by employing an Israeli citizen who owns a home in an illegal settlement in occupied Palestine, legal experts have said. The embassy’s deputy head of corporate services and HR, Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips, moved to Kerem Reim in 2022. She listed a house she bought there as her home address on financial documents at the time. Continue reading...

Human rights monitors say it is not safe to return, citing reports of ‘serious crimes in the run-up to elections’ Myanmar’s junta applauded the Trump administration on Wednesday for halting a scheme that protected its citizens from deportation from the US back to their war-racked homeland. About 4,000 Myanmar citizens are living in the US with temporary protected status (TPS), which shields foreign nationals from deportation to disaster zones and allows them the right to work. Continue reading...

The strikes come a day after a suicide attack on a security compound in Pakistan’s Peshawar city Pakistan strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan have killed 10 people – among them nine children – a Taliban government spokesperson has said, a day after a suicide attack on a security compound in Pakistan’s Peshawar city. “The Pakistani invading forces bombed the house of a local civilian resident ... As a result, nine children (five boys and four girls) and one woman were martyred” in Khost province, Zabihullah Mujahid said on X. Continue reading...

India’s prime minister among those paying tribute to celebrated actor whose career spanned six decades Dharmendra, one of the most enduring stars of India’s Bollywood cinema, has died at the age of 89. Born Dharam Singh Deol, but later known as Dharmendra, he rose to fame in the 1960s and became one of the most celebrated and popular stars of Indian cinema in a career that spanned six decades. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Tshering Tobgay says his country is doing ‘a lot more than our fair share’ on climate and west must cut emissions ‘for the happiness of your people’ The wealthy western countries most responsible for the climate crisis would improve the health and happiness of their citizens by prioritising environmental conservation and sustainable economic growth, according to the prime minister of Bhutan, the world’s first carbon-negative nation. Bhutan, a Buddhist democratic monarchy and biodiversity hotspot situated high in the eastern Himalayas, is among the world’s most ambitious climate leaders thanks to its people’s connection with nature and a strong political focus on

Hasina sentenced in absentia by court in Dhaka over deadly crackdown on student-led uprising last year Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year. A three-judge bench of the country’s international crimes tribunal convicted Hasina of crimes including incitement, orders to kill and inaction to prevent atrocities as she oversaw a crackdown on anti-government protesters last year. Continue reading...

Office for Budget Responsibility blames ‘technical error’ after forecasts were published ahead of budget * At a glance: the key points from the budget Paul Nowak, the TUC general secretary, has rejected the concerns raised by the Resolution Foundation (see 9.54am) about the rise in the minimum wage rates. Asked about the thinktank’s comments, Nowak told Times Radio: I don’t accept those concerns ... First of all, that recommendation is based on the Low Pay Commission, which brings together employers, unions, independent experts, they’re tasked with making a recommendation on the minimum wage, which balances getting money into people’s pockets and the impact

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster city council investigate whether data has been compromised At least two London councils have been hit by a cyber-attack and have invoked emergency plans as they investigate whether any data has been compromised. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City council, which share some IT infrastructure, said a number of systems had been affected across both authorities, including phone lines. The councils, which provide services for 360,000 residents, shut down several computerised systems as a precaution to limit further possible damage. Continue reading...

John Cowen, who has schizophrenia, to remain in hospital for ‘indefinite duration’ after attack on player at tournament A former Countdown champion has been detained in a hospital for treatment after attacking a rival player with a knife during a tournament. Preston crown court heard that John Cowen, 31, ran across a room in Blackpool to attack a fellow player, Thomas Carey, before being restrained by attenders. The space had been hosting a Focal Countdown Group event, where former Countdown champions and contestants faced fans in spelling and number challenges. Continue reading...

Rachel Reeves is freezing tax thresholds in an attempt to plug the hole in the public accounts. Find out how it affects your tax bill * Budget 2025 – live updates The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has announced that income tax thresholds will be frozen until the 2030-31 tax year. Freezing tax thresholds results in “fiscal drag” – a phenomenon where people are dragged into higher tax bands when they get pay rises. Continue reading...

Prime minister says Reform leader’s explanations about alleged comments are ‘unconvincing to say the least’ Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to his school contemporaries who claim the Reform leader racially abused them while at Dulwich College. The Guardian reported last week the testimony of Peter Ettedgui, who said a 13-year-old Farage “would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers”. Continue reading...

Kevin McCarthy says exit of the Trump loyalist turned critic is a sign of broader trouble for Republicans Certain Republicans are moving to criticize Steve Witkoff and his relationship with Moscow, after the transcript of a call between Trump’s envoy and a senior Kremlin official was leaked yesterday. “It is clear that Witkoff fully favors the Russians. He cannot be trusted to lead these negotiations. Would a Russian paid agent do less than he? He should be fired,” said outgoing Republican congressman Don Bacon, of Nebraska. Continue reading...

Bruna Ferreira, who has a child with the White House press secretary’s brother, is now in custody at an ICE facility * US politics live – latest updates Karoline Leavitt’s nephew’s mother has been detained by US immigration agents in Revere, Massachusetts, as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area resident who migrated with her family to the US from Brazil as a child, is now in custody at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Louisiana, according to Boston radio station WBUR, which first reported the arrest. Continue reading...

Witkoff also offered tactical guidance on how Putin should raise subject with Trump, audio recording suggests. Plus, the female pilots on Ukraine’s frontline Good morning. Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a senior Kremlin official last month that achieving peace in Ukraine would require Russia gaining control of Donetsk and potentially a separate territorial exchange, according to a recording of their conversation. What did Witkoff say? “Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere,” Witkoff told Ushakov during the five-minute conversation, according to a transcript of

In Dearborn, provocateurs have held anti-Islam rallies, attempted to burn the Qur’an and rile residents for clickbait White nationalist and rightwing agitators recently descended on Dearborn, Michigan, to hold an anti-Islam rally at which they attempted to burn a Qur’an and manufacture controversy over the city’s large Arab-American population. But the protest has been dismissed by local leaders as a cheap publicity stunt aimed at generating money and clicks for far-right influencers. But there is little doubt the Michigan city has become a repeated target for the publicity-hungry far-right because it holds the US’s highest percentage of Arab-American residents. Similar provocateurs have

White House pressure campaign has not found willing participants in all states – including Republican-led ones The unprecedented push to create new congressional districts mid-decade is hitting roadblocks in the form of local elected officials from both parties. Republicans face headwinds in the 2026 midterms: the party in power often loses ground in the election after a presidential win, and Trump’s agenda isn’t going over well. The 2025 off-year elections showed voters favoring Democrats at higher-than-expected margins. Trump wants to keep the House in Republican control by redrawing congressional maps to create more Republican-friendly districts. He first pressured Texas, which responded by

The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The Russians shared the paper, which outlined Moscow’s conditions for ending the war, with senior US officials in mid-October, following a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, the sources said. The paper, a...

On the face of it, the United States appears closer than ever to mounting a military campaign to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela. US President Donald Trump says he has authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations inside the Caribbean nation, and has massed troops, fighter jets and warships just off its coastline. US service members in the region have been barred from taking Thanksgiving leave. Airlines have cancelled flights to Venezuela after the Federal Aviation...

US President Donald Trump has denied a report that he was considering removing FBI Director Kash Patel amid a string of controversies. “No, he’s doing a great job, I think,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday aboard Air Force One. MS NOW reported earlier Tuesday that Trump was considering replacing Patel with FBI co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey, as concerns swirled over the director’s social media posts during high-profile investigations and the use of a government jet to visit his...

Well, thank God we don’t live in a computer simulation after all. At least that’s according to a new paper by University of British Columbia physicist Mir Faizal and his team of international researchers, including cosmologist and science writer Lawrence Krauss. Or rather, there is no God to thank because if our universe is not a computer simulation, there is no supreme programmer in the first place. The team targets an influential simulation argument proposed by Swedish philosopher Nick...

The FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic members of the US Congress who in a video message told members of the military they can legally refuse to carry out unlawful orders, a Justice Department official said on Tuesday. The Pentagon on Monday threatened to recall Senator Mark Kelly, a US Navy veteran and one of the six lawmakers, to active duty potentially to face military charges over what Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth described on social media as “seditious” acts. US President...

Joan Branson, the wife of British billionaire Richard Branson, has died at age 80. Branson announced her death on Tuesday on social media. No other details were disclosed. “Heartbroken to share that Joan, my wife and partner for 50 years, has passed away,” he said. “She was the most wonderful mum and grandmum our kids and grandkids could have ever wished for. She was my best friend, my rock, my guiding light, my world.” Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Atlantic airline, space tourism...

As China’s traditional spirits and premium wines grapple with declining consumption, a significant shift is under way across the beverage landscape. This three-part series examines the challenges faced by Maotai town as its once-coveted baijiu liquor loses its lustre, the impact of economic shutdowns on European wine imports, and the rise of craft beer as a budget-friendly alternative for consumers seeking quality without breaking the bank. Marshall Su, a 30-year-old headhunter based in...

As South Africa hands over the Group of 20 presidency, something more consequential than a routine rotation is taking place. The moment marks the end of an unprecedented cycle: four consecutive presidencies led by major economies of the Global South – Indonesia, India, Brazil and South Africa. For four years, the G20 was steered by countries whose development priorities, demographic structures and geopolitical positions diverged from those of the Group of Seven. In 2026, the gavel will pass to...

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup, after he exhausted all appeals. The brash former army captain who fired up Brazil’s right and reshaped the country’s politics was ending a divisive career jailed in a small room at police headquarters equipped with a TV, mini-fridge, and air conditioning. Bolsonaro, 70, was convicted in September over a scheme to stop Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from...

US President Donald Trump did not bring much holiday cheer Tuesday when bestowing ceremonial pardons on two Thanksgiving turkeys, dispensing more insults than goodwill at the traditional White House ritual. He joked about sending the turkeys to an infamous prison in El Salvador that has been used to house migrants deported from the United States. He said the birds should be named Chuck and Nancy – after Democratic stalwarts Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi – but “I would never pardon those...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday he was ready to advance a US-backed framework for ending the war with Russia and discuss disputed points with US President Donald Trump in talks he said should include European allies. US and Ukrainian officials have been trying to narrow their gaps over Trump’s plan to end Europe’s deadliest and most devastating conflict since World War II, with Ukraine wary of being strong-armed into accepting a deal largely on Russian terms, including...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that a key theme of his interviews for the next chair of the Federal Reserve has been simplifying the US central bank, which he indicated has become too complex in how it manages money markets. “One of the things in terms of the criteria that I’ve been looking for” has been the interplay of the Fed’s various instruments, Bessent said on CNBC Tuesday. “I realise the Fed has become this very complicated operation.” Bessent said his final second-round...

French authorities on Tuesday arrested four more people in the probe into last month’s spectacular daylight theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the top Paris prosecutor said. “They are two men aged 38 and 39, and two women aged 31 and 40, all from the Paris region,” Laure Beccuau said, following earlier charges against four others over the heist. On October 19, a four-person gang raided the Louvre, the world’s most visited art museum, in broad daylight, taking just seven minutes to...

There are moments in statecraft when a government reveals its strategic character. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s new administration has shown one such moment – and it was encouraging. On Ukraine, Berlin has moved with a decisiveness long thought beyond its political metabolism. Weapons are flowing. Defence production is expanding. Germany is anchoring Nato’s eastern flank and, for the first time in decades, speaking like a country prepared to bear the burdens of European security. On China,...

The EU’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany, on the grounds that Polish law does not allow marriage between people of the same sex. “The spouses in question, as EU citizens, enjoy the freedom to move and reside within the territory of the Member States and the right to lead a normal family life when exercising that freedom and...

The Netherlands has discovered that it could end up hemmed in by its technological prowess. A day after the United States tightened export controls on Chinese companies on September 29, the Dutch government moved to take control of Nexperia, a Chinese-controlled chipmaking firm. This coordinated act of carrying out US containment policy triggered a cascade that exposed the cost of the Netherlands being indispensable but not impartial. It likely prompted China’s decision to use rare earth...

Russia rained missiles and drones overnight on Kyiv, killing six people, authorities said on Tuesday, as three people died in Russia’s Rostov region in massive Ukrainian strikes. The heightened attacks came after US President Donald Trump initially gave Kyiv until November 27 - the American holiday of Thanksgiving - to respond to his proposal to end the fighting, a timeline and blueprint that European leaders have balked at. Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said four...

The US military said on Monday it was weighing a court-martial against Democratic senator and former astronaut Mark Kelly for appearing in a video urging troops to refuse unlawful orders. The Pentagon’s probe marks an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration’s backlash against six Democrats with military or intelligence service backgrounds who made the viral video. Kelly - a decorated US Navy combat pilot and former astronaut who commanded the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final flight -...

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, how can we unite and act together to defend gender equality and the rights of women and girls? This was the guiding question of the fourth ministerial conference on Feminist Foreign Policy, which France hosted late last month, convening governments from across the globe, representatives of international organisations, public development banks, as well as civil society, research bodies and philanthropic foundations. On this...

The US Justice Department on Monday renewed its request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking cases, arguing they should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his long-time confidante. US Attorney Jay Clayton cited the Epstein Files Transparency Act – passed by Congress last week and signed into law by US President Donald Trump – in court filings asking Manhattan federal Judges...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that a proposed peace plan now under discussion with the United States and Europe has incorporated “correct” points, but sensitive issues were to be discussed with US President Donald Trump. “As of now, after [talks in] Geneva, there are fewer points, no longer 28, and many correct elements have been incorporated into this framework,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address. “Our team has already reported today on the new draft of steps...

Earlier this month, the US Democrats, whom many had written off, swept the local and state elections. From Zohran Mandani becoming New York mayor and Abigail Spanberger becoming Virginia governor to two statewide wins in Georgia’s public service commissioner races, the Democrats had a good run. The winning message was, ironically, what lost them the last presidential election: affordability. President Donald Trump has since sounded the alarm that Republicans must reclaim the issue of...

The Trump administration said on Monday it is ending temporary legal status for citizens of Myanmar in the United States, arguing they can safely return to the war-torn Southeast Asian country and citing the military junta’s planned elections as evidence of an improving situation. The move sparked concern for individuals who may be forced to return to Myanmar, which has been in political turmoil since the military seized power in a 2021 coup, ousting a civilian government and sparking a...

The BBC’s chairman acknowledged Monday that it was too slow in responding over a misleading edit of a speech by US President Donald Trump but rejected claims that the broadcaster’s impartiality was being undermined from within its own board. Senior BBC leaders were quizzed by Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee amid a major crisis at the publicly funded corporation after its director general and head of news both quit earlier this month and Trump threatened to file a billion-dollar...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has reaffirmed Beijing’s steadfast support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, sending a congratulatory letter on the eve of the embattled leader’s birthday that pledged continued backing for the South American country’s sovereignty amid mounting regional tensions and US military pressure. In the message, released by Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry over the weekend, Xi described China and Venezuela as “intimate friends, dear brothers and good partners”. He vowed to...

A US federal judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against two perceived adversaries of US President Donald Trump, former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling the US attorney he hand-picked to prosecute them was unlawfully appointed. The ruling throws out two cases Trump had publicly called for as he pressured Justice Department leaders to move against high-profile figures who had criticised him and led investigations into his conduct. Lindsey...

Immigration authorities in Colombia have taken 17 children into protective custody after they were rescued from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose members have been accused of sexually abusing and kidnapping minors in several countries. Gloria Esperanza Arriero, the director of Colombia’s national immigration service, said on Monday that her agency questioned nine members of the Lev Tahor sect during a hotel inspection on Sunday. “We will likely deport them,” Arriero said, “because there are no...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the G20 summit last week amid speculation that he could visit Beijing early next year and the country’s controversial embassy in London will be approved. The two leaders are understood to have greeted each other only briefly during a “brush-by” rather than holding formal bilateral talks, after which a readout covering what was discussed would usually be expected from Starmer’s office. China was represented by Premier Li...

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday voted to uphold the imprisonment of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was detained over the weekend for tampering with his ankle monitor using a soldering iron. Bolsonaro was taken into custody on Saturday from his home, where he had been under house arrest after a judge declared him a flight risk as he appeals a 27-year sentence for plotting a failed coup. The far-right firebrand was convicted in September over a scheme to stop President Luiz Inacio Lula da...

Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who along with Bob Marley popularised reggae, ska and rocksteady music over a six-decade career, has died, his wife Latifa Chambers announced on Facebook on Monday. The cause was a seizure followed by pneumonia, she said. Born James Chambers on July 30, 1944, during a hurricane in St James Parish, northwestern Jamaica, he moved in the 1950s from the family farm to the country’s capital, Kingston, with his father, determined to succeed in the music...

European officials said on Monday they were comforted by the outcome of discussions on US peace proposals for Ukraine that they had viewed as tilted in Russia’s favour, but they didn’t disclose details of the weekend talks and warned of a long road to peace. “The negotiations were a step forward, but there are still major issues which remain to be resolved,” Finnish President Alexander Stubb wrote on social media about Sunday’s meeting in Switzerland between US and Ukrainian officials. US...

Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports, three sources with direct knowledge of the case said. Prosecutors suspect the e-commerce giant acted like a “Trojan horse”, bringing Chinese goods into Italy without paying sales taxes or customs duties, according to a court document seen by Reuters. The scheme could have cost the state hundreds of millions of euros and may extend across the European...

The United States on Monday formally designated Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organisation, layering additional terrorism-related sanctions on the group it has said includes President Nicolas Maduro and other high-ranking officials. Venezuela’s government rejected what it called a “ridiculous” US plan to designate the “non-existent” group. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this month the US would designate Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns, as a foreign...

A Democratic senator on Monday asked US President Donald Trump to answer key details about a plan by TikTok’s Chinese owners to sell a majority stake in the short video app’s US assets. Trump signed an executive order on September 25 declaring that a plan to sell TikTok’s US operations to a consortium of US and global investors meets the national security requirements set out in a 2024 law and gave them 120 days to complete the transaction. In doing so, he delayed enforcement of the law banning...

Amid the climate crisis, China’s quiet leadership in the fight for a sustainable future offers a reason for optimism, particularly for the Global South. After two weeks of contentious negotiations, Cop30 in Brazil concluded with an uneasy deal that sidestepped any mention of fossil fuels, exposing deep divisions and mounting frustrations. Indeed, even as Cop30 convened, the world was already suffering “summit fatigue”. After decades of lofty declarations and limited follow-through, many question...

Israel’s military announced the dismissal of three generals and disciplinary actions against several other senior officers over their failure to prevent the October 2023 assault by Hamas, the deadliest attack in the country’s history. The move comes two weeks after Israeli military chief Eyal Zamir called for a “systemic investigation” into the failures that led to the onslaught, even as the government dragged its feet on establishing a state commission of inquiry despite public pressure. The...

Alibaba Group Holding’s logistics arm, Cainiao, has expanded its parcel delivery service to eight African countries – including Morocco, Ghana and Nigeria – as it races to give Chinese e-commerce merchants a cheaper, more reliable way to reach the fast-growing continent. The company planned to extend the service to South Africa and Egypt by the end of December, Cainiao said in a statement over the weekend. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Cainiao said underdeveloped logistics...

Former British prime minister David Cameron has revealed he was successfully treated for prostate cancer as he backed a targeted screening programme for the United Kingdom’s most common cancer in males. Cameron was urged to get tested by his wife, Samantha, after the pair heard the founder of Soho House, Nick Jones, speaking about his experience with cancer during a radio interview a year ago, The Times reported. The politician had a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, an MRI scan and then a...

The US is poised to supply Saudi Arabia with its most advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets, a move that analysts say reflects a new era of Middle East policy in which countering Chinese influence is fast becoming as important for Washington as maintaining Israeli military superiority. It would make Saudi Arabia only the second country in the region, after Israel, to operate the fifth-generation jet. US President Donald Trump announced the decision following a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s visiting...

A joint declaration at the Cop30 summit in Brazil – reached without United States participation after Washington again pulled out of the Paris climate pact – has kept fragile climate cooperation alive for the Global South, even as the talks fell short of a fossil fuel phase-out. Observers said the outcome revealed both the limits of a strained multilateral system and the room that still existed for developing nations to influence the global energy transition, with several pointing to the UN...

By December 1, Russia is likely to approve and present its long-term road map for developing its rare earth sector, following President Vladimir Putin’s directive to the cabinet on November 4. On the surface, this is a domestic industrial policy story about catching up in the hi-tech arena. However, this view misses the woods for the trees. This road map is a sophisticated geostrategic manoeuvre, a single stone aimed at three strategic birds: reclaiming autonomy over strategic resources,...

Plans for a new nationwide UK digital ID are sparking widespread public concern, but some critics including far-right politicians are fuelling fears with unproven claims that it will be used to boost government control over people’s lives. They have warned that a digital ID would be used to store data on vaccinations and carbon footprint and limit access to flying and food, which the government has vehemently denied. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in September said the ID card would be...

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. ‘Disaster’: Egyptian exhibition at Hong Kong museum descends into chaos 2. ‘Limited alternatives’: why Japan will struggle to replace China’s tourists 3. Malaysia’s poorest state prepares a poll shock for the prime minister 4. China team simulates large-scale electronic warfare against Musk’s...

Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped and have been reunited with their parents, the Catholic Church and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday. But around 253 of the kidnapped children, along with 12 staff members and teachers, were still with the kidnappers, said CAN Chairman Bulus Yohanna, a Catholic Bishop who is also the proprietor of the school. In a statement, Yohanna said the pupils escaped on Friday and...

A close ally of Bosnia’s Serb Republic separatist leader Milorad Dodik won a snap presidential election in a tight race with opposition candidate, the election commission said on Sunday, citing preliminary results. “According to preliminary, unofficial and incomplete results, Sinisa Karan won 50.89 per cent of the votes,” Jovan Kalaba, the commission’s president, said at a news conference. Kalaba said that opposition candidate Branko Blanusa of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) won 47.81 per cent...

A U.S. proposal may cross a number of red lines for the Russian leader, who sees little to lose and much potentially to gain from continuing to fight.

January shows the Russian leader astride a snowmobile. For February, he flips a judo partner. In August, he offers advice: “My recipe for energy: Sleep little, work a lot and don’t whine.”

Despite a cease-fire with Hezbollah, almost daily strikes demonstrate an embolden Israel’s strategy to eliminate its enemies any time, anywhere.

Leo XIV will meet political and religious leaders in Turkey and Lebanon, providing an early test of his geopolitical mettle. Here’s what to know.

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado faces criticism that she is exaggerating threats posed by Venezuela’s leader to justify U.S. force to overthrow him.

The military has released 21 video clips of U.S. attacks on vessels it says are trafficking drugs. But they tell only part of the story.

Mary Schiely relies on SNAP benefits, as do many customers at the small grocery store where she works. The nation’s day of feasting is not the easiest for them.

Things were looking up last year at pandemic-battered Navajo Nation parks. Then their lifeblood, foreign visitors, slowed to a trickle.

The increases come as more and more international travelers are choosing to stay away from the United States and amid turmoil at the National Park Service.

Rachel Reeves, the top economic official in an increasingly unpopular government, announced a series of measures intended to put the country’s finances on a stronger footing.

Rising youth unemployment is one of the challenges that will affect the success of the British chancellor’s economic approach as she unveils a crucial budget on Wednesday.

An Appalachian community in Virginia was electrified by its high school team’s winning streak. Until the team’s coach disappeared — and allegations against him surfaced.

The dozen candidates include an activist endorsed by Bernie Sanders, New Jersey’s lieutenant governor and an ousted congressman running in a new district.

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1. His request for resignations targeted political appointees.

Over three years have passed since Season 4 of the hit Netflix series, and the ultimate showdown is finally here. Here’s where the young heroes left off.

This is a classic breakup drama.

Six-word stories of gratitude.

The president spent so much time talking that Meyers thinks the turkeys would have preferred to be put out of their misery.

Restaurant owners in Brooklyn have warned one another about a woman who frequents their establishments, photographs her food and then doesn’t pay for it.

Companies said they managed tariff pressures in the latest quarter as consumers focused on discounts and high quality.

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.