Category Archives: World
Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scouting America will alter several policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday as he pushes a...
Feb 27, 2026
UN nuclear watchdog says it's unable to verify whether Iran has suspended all uranium enrichment
VIENNA (AP) - Iran has not allowed the United Nations nuclear agency access to its nuclear facilities bombed by Iran and the United States during a 12-day war in June, according to a confidential repo...
Feb 27, 2026
Trump says he's 'not happy' with Iran talks but will wait to see what happens in further rounds
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's "not happy" with Iran talks so far but that he'll wait to see what happens in additional rounds of negotiations with the Middle Eas...
Feb 27, 2026
A new Gallup poll shows how Americans' sympathies have shifted in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
WASHINGTON (AP) - American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians, according to new Gallup polling, after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis. Tha...
Feb 27, 2026
UK Green Party wins special election, pushing Starmer's Labour to third place
LONDON (AP) - The Green Party won a special parliamentary election in England on Friday, a big boost for the small party and a blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose center-left Labour Party was r...
Feb 26, 2026
Pakistan is in 'open war' with Afghanistan after latest strikes, defense minister says
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged cross-border attacks overnight in a dramatic escalation of tensions that led Pakistan's defense minister to say on Friday that the two countries are...
Feb 26, 2026
US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say
The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a "seemingly threatening" drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers s...
Feb 26, 2026
Matthew Tkachuk and Auston Matthews celebrate US hockey gold with ceremonial puck drop
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Matthew Tkachuk grabbed an American flag, skated down the ice and presented a game puck to 101-year-old U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Jim Sileno. That's how the Florida Panthers cap...
Feb 26, 2026
171 bodies found in mass graves in eastern Congo, an official says
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congolese authorities and a civil society group said Thursday that mass graves were found in part of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fight...
Feb 26, 2026
Judge rejects request to block Trump White House from building its $400 million ballroom project
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday rejected a preservationist group's request to block the Trump administration from continuing construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished t...
Feb 26, 2026
