5+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (202+ words) On Monday morning, a critic of Donald Trump noted the time and topics of a series of the president’s Truth Social posts that indicate he was up all night — which should be a cause for concern considering his advanced age…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (243+ words) Catholics didn’t take long to conclude that Pope Leo XIV would be an unassuming leader. In contrast with the voluble Pope Francis, who clearly delighted in provoking controversy with off-the-cuff statements, Leo tended to speak in qualifiers—it seems; I…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1356+ words) In the early morning last September 30, hundreds of federal agents swarmed the South Shore Apartments, a beige brick building on Chicago’s South Side. As feds in body armor rappelled down from a Black Hawk helicopter overhead, others crashed through the…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (393+ words) For the past two years, Ukraine has made dramatically effective use of small, cheap drones as complex and deadly tools of warfare. America has paid little attention. So little, in fact, that analysts have been sounding the alarm for some…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1056+ words) BRUSSELS — President Donald Trump’s administration spent the past year dismissing Europeans as pathetic and irrelevant. Now, as he wages a war alongside Israel to force regime change in Iran, he wants Europe to cheer him on. “It’s taken three or…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (510+ words) A sprawling trove of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein is set to reappear after federal officials acknowledged that tens of thousands of files quietly vanished from an earlier dump. The U.S. Department of Justice said thousands of files linked to Epstein…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (366+ words) The six U.S. servicemembers confirmed dead in the U.S.-Iran conflict were killed while inside a triple-wide trailer that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described as “fortified.” The trailer, which served as a makeshift operations center, took a direct hit amid Iran’s…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (366+ words) Concerns about President Donald Trump’s mental fitness are approaching levels comparable to those that forced Joe Biden from the 2024 race. Multiple recent polls show majorities of Americans question the 79-year-old president’s cognitive capacity and physical stamina, including a Reuters-Ipsos poll…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (397+ words) Sami Hamdi, a British political commentator and critic of Israel, was detained by immigration enforcement officers in the United States and will be removed, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, announced on Sunday. “This individual’s visa…...