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Tehran is threatening to “regionalize the war” if Washington uses force.

Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

From South Korea to Canada, allies are hedging their bets.

The pro-Israel lobby poured money into New Jersey’s special election — and ended up splitting the vote between two moderates.

Trump’s AG is ramping up death penalty prosecutions, targeting defendants previously told they wouldn’t face execution.

Major fighting has ended, but irreconcilable positions will bedevil Trump’s peace plan.

In 1962 Françoise Ega, a Martinican woman working odd jobs and raising five children in Marseille, stumbled upon a newspaper article about Carolina Maria

Brazil’s Cerrado is being transformed by industrial agriculture - with British trade playing a direct role in the loss of water systems, biodiversity and climate stability.

Shell sues Netherlands for billions in secretive ‘corporate court’ over Groningen gas field closure.

As tech giants find creative ways to generate electricity, they’re building a glut of new fossil fuel projects.

The Labour Party’s decades of backbiting and pettiness have collapsed on it.

Advances in drilling and subsurface engineering are unlocking a constant, carbon-free power source deep within the Earth.

A rare supermajority grants the Japanese prime minister a sweeping mandate to enact economic and defense reforms.

Without the treaty, nuclear forces will become hard to verify and harder to trust.

Russia continues to bomb Ukraine’s fossil-fueled power plants, leaving much of the nation shivering during a brutal winter. But Ukraine’s new emphasis on developing decentralized power — from solar panels to wind turbines — is advancing an unexpected green energy transition.

Despite a landslide victory, questions remain over the prime minister’s popularity and her fiscal plans.

In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

A former Biden national security adviser hoping to unseat Mike Lawler consulted for two defense tech firms that partner with Palantir.

A contested idea has seen many alleged deaths.