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Overcast view across the Neva River in St. Petersburg toward the gold spire of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, with a dark sedan parked on the stone embankment

After Witkoff Called Putin a Humanitarian, Hillary Clinton Said She Believes Putin Holds Photos and Videos of Trump

Steve Witkoff sat across from Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg early Wednesday and told him, “You are a humanitarian also, sir.” The same day, Hillary Clinton…

By Mark Masterson · 8h ago · 3 min read

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A Chemical Tank Exploded in Toledo. More Than 900 People Were Told to Leave.

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Ramaswamy Confirms His Campaign Made the Ad of Amy Acton’s Mother Calling Her a Liar. It Is Spending $4 Million to Run It.

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Russia Freed a 74-Year-Old American Teacher as Witkoff Met Putin, and Nobody Has Said What Moscow Got

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By Jim Merphy · 2d ago

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Is Alberta Voting to Leave Canada Today? Not on This Ballot

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Fire at Canada’s Wainwright Military Base Kills Several as Alberta Hospitals Are Overwhelmed

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By Mark Masterson · 3d ago

Black smoke rising from a row of oil storage tanks beside a harbour on an overcast morning, with a fire engine parked on the quay

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Riot police in helmets and shields advance through tear gas toward masked protesters near a burned car and newspaper kiosk on a Paris street.

France Arrests 1,200 After Masked Protesters Burn a Town Hall During Nationwide Marches Over Schools and Prices

Masked protesters set fire to the 143-year-old town hall in Limoges on Saturday, and…

By Mark Masterson · 4d ago

Smiling Georgia residents hold NO KINGS and VOTE signs and American flags on a courthouse square in autumn

No Kings Rallies Hit More Than 40 Georgia Towns Tomorrow. Early Voting Just Set a First-Day Record.

Tomorrow’s No Kings rallies in Georgia are not protests in the old sense: organizers…

By Mark Masterson · 5d ago

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Trump’s Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Is Out After Five Days, Six Fewer Than Scaramucci

Katie Zacharia stood at the lectern on Tuesday for under 15 minutes, could not…

By Mark Masterson · 5d ago

Two Ukrainian soldiers in helmets crouch at a folding table in a muddy field, looking at a laptop beside a flat satellite terminal and a small interceptor drone launcher

Ukraine’s Military Starlink Got a Speed Cap Days After the US Threatened to Cut Its Intelligence, and No One Will Own It

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Illustration of local men passing rubble in yellow buckets and steel basins beneath a broken school ceiling as rescue workers in orange and yellow vests and a police officer look up

At Least 32 Children and a Teacher Died When a Peshawar School Roof Collapsed. It Was Pakistan’s Fourth Deadly School Roof Collapse Since May.

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Pope Leo XIV in a white cassock waves to well-wishers outside Rome's Gemelli hospital before surgery

Pope Leo Has Lung Cancer After Surgery. Can He Still Make His November Trip to South America?

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Hackers Forced Freezers to 122 Degrees at Hundreds of French Supermarkets. The Pentagon Still Has Not Said Why Its Commissary Freezers Defrosted in August.

A blue-hulled cargo ship with a scorched, buckled section of deck moored at a port quay under an overcast sky, as two uniformed officers and a worker in an orange jacket talk in the foreground

Bulgaria Summons Russia’s Ambassador on Logic, Not Proof, After Drones Sink a Cargo Ship With 11 Missing

Pope Leo XIV, in white, stands behind a clear lectern at the open window of the Apostolic Palace above a red banner.

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Volodymyr Zelensky in a black field shirt speaks at a lectern with two microphones, a Ukrainian flag behind him

Twice in 27 Days, Trump Has Declared a Russia-Ukraine ‘Energy Ceasefire.’ Zelensky Calls the New One ‘News for Me.’

Illustration: three coast guard crew in navy uniforms and orange life vests on a grey inflatable patrol boat scan choppy water near an overturned wooden boat hull off an arid, rocky coastline

At Least 109 Migrants Are Dead After a Boat Capsized Off Djibouti, the Deadliest Shipwreck Recorded There

Illustration of an airport departures board in a darkened terminal with flights to Jeddah, Dammam, Medina, Abha, Tabuk and Jizan all marked cancelled in red

A Missile Killed 12 at Riyadh’s Airport. Trump Says “We May” Join Saudi Strikes on the Houthis.

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Seven Hours After Trump Lifted Sanctions on Russian Diesel, Putin’s Glide Bombs Killed at Least 15 in Zaporizhzhia

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Nicolas Maduro in a dark suit speaking into a cluster of news microphones in front of wood paneling and a Venezuelan flag

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