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The contours of the 2026 World Cup serve as a clear indicator of just how much the footballing relationship between Mexico and the United States has evolved over the four decades since the Azteca Stadium last hosted the tournament.

Congressional Democrats overwhelmingly shifted to support Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s bid to block U. S. involvement in Israel’s war on Lebanon.

Recent scientific reassessments strengthen the case for rapid climate action rather than weaken it.

The Supreme Court ruled to uphold bans on trans girls in school sports — a far-reaching blow against the struggle for trans rights.

Poland has been successful partly due to strong personal ties, but history suggests that its luck may not hold forever.

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.

“We don’t have a solution, ” an Israeli military official said.

Andy Burnham is on the verge of taking power—and of being confronted with his own limitations.

In 984 days of fighting, “total victory” eluded Netanyahu on all fronts.

Donald Trump has reversed the government’s longstanding benevolence toward Cuban asylum seekers, even as his administration exacerbates the crisis they fled.

If the United States wants the cease-fire to last, it needs to take Tehran’s politics seriously.

Even this U. S. administration is confronting limits to the politics of exit.

The United States should heed its own track record of backing individuals in conflict-affected states.

Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.

Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one of the state’s biggest industries.

A first-of-its-kind investigation by The Intercept found that the greatest threats to women serving in the Army come at the hands of male soldiers.

Police forces with records of unconstitutional policing continued to engage in excessive force even as the Trump administration declared federal oversight unnecessary, according to a new yearlong review by the ACLU.

Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight decades.

Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette didn’t take Melat Kiros seriously. Now she’s scrambling to convince Colorado voters she’s still the progressive pick.