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Supporters in red caps applaud and wave small American flags in an arena rally crowd under stage floodlights

Trump on Iran at Nebraska Rally: ‘Let Them Take Out Los Angeles. Let Them Take Out San Diego.’

The crowd in Grand Island, Nebraska, cheered. On Monday night, in the middle of…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 6

A health officer in a mask, gloves and blue gown points an infrared thermometer at an arriving passenger as travellers with luggage queue at an airport terminal window, a turboprop airliner parked outside

23 Passengers Shared a Flight With Kenya’s First Ebola Patient Before He Died in Nairobi

Kenya's first Ebola patient passed routine screening at Nairobi's airport a month into his…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 6

Responders in white protective suits beside a van at a taped-off gate of a concrete research building under heavy clouds

Did a Russian Lab Worker Die of Plague After Breaking a Test Tube?

Officials say the cause was pneumonia of unknown origin. Everything they did afterward says…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 5

A wet, empty aircraft apron behind a security fence at dusk with a single vehicle in the distance

US Pulls All 12 B-1 Bombers From RAF Fairford, Where Six Men Were Arrested a Week Ago

The headline version: the US pulled its bombers out of Britain after an Iran-linked…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 5

Two Okinawa Prefectural Police officers stand at the lit entrance of a Naha business hotel at blue hour, one writing in a notebook, on a wet empty street

A US Marine Was Arrested Over a Woman’s Killing in Okinawa. Japan’s Prime Minister Protested the Same Day.

Japanese police arrested a US Marine over the killing of a woman in a…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 4

Diesel storage tanks and a moored tanker at a port terminal at dusk with a warship on the horizon

120 Million Barrels of Diesel: The US Demands Europe’s Emergency Reserves or Threatens an Export Ban

Washington wants Europe to hand over a lot of diesel, and it is attaching…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 2

A military cargo aircraft on a desert airbase tarmac at sunset while equipment crates are loaded

Last US Troops Leave Iraq Under a 2024 Deal Trump Is Now Calling a Victory

The last American troops left Iraq on Wednesday, finishing a withdrawal timetable that Washington…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 1

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a navy suit speaks on stage in front of an American flag backdrop, with service members in the foreground

Hegseth’s Culture War Inside the DOD – Strange Speech to 600 Troops

Pete Hegseth stood in front of about 600 junior officers and senior enlisted troops…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 1

White passenger jet in flight over a desert coastline at dawn

After a Cockpit Stabbing Diverted a Tel Aviv-Bound Jet to Saudi Arabia, Israel Calls It a Hijacking the Airline Hasn’t Confirmed

“Further updates will be issued as additional confirmed details become available.” That is flydubai’s…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 30

Police car and army bomb disposal truck behind cordon tape on a misty country road beside an airfield fence, with a B-52 bomber on the runway beyond

Five Men Arrested Near a British Air Base Used for U.S. Strikes on Iran

What the president said: “They were looking to do big damage to our fort,…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 27

Shrink-wrapped military crates strapped to pallets in a dim hangar, with an empty conference table and two vacant chairs in the background at dusk

Trump Called the $14 Billion Taiwan Arms Package, Frozen Since May, a Negotiating Chip

Standing beside Xi Jinping this week, President Trump described a stalled $14 billion weapons…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 25

Diplomats in dark suits walk out of the UN General Assembly Hall toward the camera, their backs to Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the green marble rostrum beneath the gold UN emblem wall

Dozens of UN Delegations Walk Out on Netanyahu’s Speech, and He Calls Them ‘Moral Cowards’

Dozens of delegations left the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu spoke, for the second…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 24

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Empty weathered flight deck of a US Navy aircraft carrier at dusk with a heavy gray sea running past the hull

The Navy Disclosed Eight Suicide Attempts on the Lincoln, Not the Steady Picture It Gave in August

Donald Trump at a White House briefing room lectern, grim-faced, with a red line chart falling steeply on a screen behind him

Trump’s Approval Falls Below 30% for the First Time as Only Two-Thirds of Republicans Approve

Donald Trump stands alone at the end of a red carpet on an airfield as an Air China Boeing 747 taxis behind him, with a military honor guard holding US and Chinese flags

Why Is Trump Meeting Xi on the Tarmac When Xi Sent a Deputy to Meet Him in Beijing?

Donald Trump grips the green marble UN General Assembly rostrum while delegates sit in a half-empty hall

6 Wrong Claims, 1 Walkout: Trump Tells the UN He Could “Annihilate” Iran

Aerial photograph of a small coral island at golden hour, a thin coastal ring of houses and palm trees surrounding a raised interior plateau of bare white coral pinnacles, ringed by turquoise reef and open ocean

Society/Culture

Nauru, the Island Australia Pays to Hold Its Deportees, Told the UN to Call It Naoero

An oil refinery burns in a dense urban district, black smoke rising from one unit among tall steel distillation columns, with Soviet-era apartment blocks in the foreground and a distant high-rise skyline on the horizon.

Ukraine Hit the Refinery That Fuels Moscow on the Last Day of Russia’s Election

American and Danish flags flying side by side beside white geodesic radar domes at a US military installation on a snow plain in Greenland

Trump’s Greenland Deal Promises Basing Rights Washington Has Held Since 1951

The United Nations Security Council chamber seen from behind two empty delegate seats with folded microphones, other members seated around the horseshoe table

Russia and China Vetoed the Iran Sanctions Panel, and It Had Not Worked All Year

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the European Parliament podium in Strasbourg as MEPs applaud

What Did Canada’s Mark Carney Ask Europe For in His Free-World Speech to the European Parliament?

Rows of empty curved delegate desks beneath the colorful stalactite ceiling of the UN Human Rights Council chamber in Geneva

Investigators from the UN Say the U.S. Aimed at the Iranian School Where 120 Children Died

Illustration of a gray U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry radar plane on a desert air base apron with its rear fuselage and tail torn apart, debris and a burned truck nearby

$3.7 Billion in Losses: New Photos Show Iranian Strikes Wrecked U.S. Bases Across the Gulf

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in front of the European Parliament rostrum in Strasbourg as lawmakers applaud

EU Invites Canada to Become Its First Associate Member – Trump Calls it a ‘Hostile Act’

Rain-speckled windshield view of brick townhouses on a quiet night street, with an unmarked envelope of cash on the passenger seat

Russia Offered $40,000 to Kill a Dissident in Washington. All Five Men Charged Are Already Out of Reach.

Surface-to-air interceptor missile rising on a bright exhaust trail over dark mountain ridges at night, a burst of debris high in the sky, and a lit city skyline glowing on the horizon

Saudi Arabia Shot Down a Drone Headed for Mecca, the City Its New Defense Pact Is Named For

Mark Carney gestures toward a quadcopter and a fixed-wing drone on a display table as Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on, with Canadian and Ukrainian flags behind them

Canada’s Carney Pledges Millions of Drones With a Third for Ukraine, a Plan Funded So Far at $50 Million

Donald Trump Jr. in a navy blazer holding a champagne flute on a wooden island dock at dusk, with fireworks bursting over a lit villa and palm trees behind him

A Putin Ally Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Celebrations. The Money Came Through a Gazprom-Funded Boxing Group.

Stacked cases of motor oil on steel warehouse shelving with a small purchase-limit sign clipped to the shelf edge

Costco’s Two-Case Motor Oil Limit Traces Back to a Wrecked Gas Plant in Qatar

Aerial view of an idle oil pumping station and above-ground pipeline in the desert at dusk, with smoke rising from scorched ground as workers inspect the line

Saudi Arabia Shut Its Hormuz Bypass Pipeline After Drones From Iraq, and Oil Is Climbing Again