3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (292+ words) The Republican Party kicked off its first-ever midterm political convention on Wednesday in Dallas, Texas. At least 33 House Republicans and several others locked in tight Senate races opted to skip the two-day event, which comes with President Trump’s approval ratings…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (434+ words) Iranian media is reporting several explosions rang out early this morning in coastal areas of southern Iran. The apparent U.S. attacks came after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned it would target oil tankers docked in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (183+ words) The Trump administration is looking to obtain greater access to Venezuela’s minerals, including gold. That’s according to Reuters, which reports the move would open up Venezuela’s mining sector to U.S. investment, giving U.S. companies access to crucial minerals....

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (425+ words) The governments of Canada, France and the United Kingdom said Tuesday they will ban goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. They join several other U.S. allies, including Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain,…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (425+ words) A researcher at the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic publicly resigned on Tuesday, warning that the race to produce frontier AI models could lead to self-improving superintelligent machines that pose an existential threat to humans. Jacob Coxon specialized in training new…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (555+ words) Saudi Arabia has vowed to retaliate after Iran-backed Houthi forces from Yemen struck Saudi cities and energy sites, leaving over 70 people injured, including children. The Houthis claimed the attacks were in retaliation for more than 120 strikes launched by Saudi Arabia…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (158+ words) We speak with Sara Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, about how flight attendants were affected by the 9/11 attacks. Nelson was working in Chicago that day, but she lost five of her friends, who were fellow…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (195+ words) Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, more people are believed to have died from cancer, respiratory and other illnesses due to exposure to the airborne toxins than the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. In the weeks…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (744+ words) Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meatpacking and processing company, shuttered a beef processing facility in Joslin, Illinois, last month, laying off more than 2,500 primarily immigrant workers “virtually overnight.” The company cites the historic cattle shortage as a primary reason for the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (769+ words) The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves, nine months after the U.S. military abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a raid on Caracas…...