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The Gulf and Israel are pursuing rival strategies toward Iran, but neither is likely to get what they want.

Jihadism’s global hub is shifting, and its reach expanding.

History has always been misused, but Washington’s Iran rhetoric is uniquely egregious.

When you look at the fights Brendan Carr actually picks, they aren’t local stories at all. They’re tailored for Donald Trump.

After a string of political victories, the military regime might now grapple with fresh upheaval.

Our lunar future depends on culture not just technology

On Sunday, March 22, three weeks into the US–Israeli war in Iran, Donald Trump received an unlikely pledge of support. The previous Friday he had taken to

Ex-diplomats point to a lack of qualified senior staff and a breakdown in trust.

For the Supreme Court to accept the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, it would have to repudiate the Constitution, its own precedents, and the long-standing position of all three branches of the US government.

EU social policy measures outputs efficiently — but the lived experience of its supposed beneficiaries tells a very different story.

From the president on down, many Americans still do not grasp the implications of drones and other threats.

A Kremlin-backed fintech company is linked to massive trade in dual-use goods.

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Trump carried out regime change without a change in regime in Venezuela. Time will tell what that means for the country.

Clean energy brought income to ranchers and to counties buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Federal policy changes threaten that momentum.

As the planet traps more energy than it releases, global food production is on the line.

Record-low snowpack and an early heatwave that brought triple-digit heat could mean a higher risk of drought and fire in coming months.

The Philippines has seen one of the world’s sharpest increase in petrol prices.

Its northern Kurdistan Region is being hit by both sides.

The White House had said all the thousands of people arrested by ICE were “dangerous" criminals, but two thirds had no criminal record.