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Colombian President Gustavo Petro (left), Brazil's federal Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes and Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, have all been sanctioned by the Trump administration. Oliver Contreras, Evaristo Sa and Bastien Ohier/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Oliver Contreras

X marks many spots. jclegg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption jclegg/Getty Images What is X? X is a letter, a sound, a word, a symbol. X is the unknown. It can be sleek and edgy; it can be religious. For just a simple shape of two crossed lines, X is a lot of things. "I

Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., along with other members of the Democratic Women's Caucus of the House of Representatives, are calling for all clinics that get Title X funding to get the same dollars in 2026 as in 2025. Ed Zurga/AP hide caption toggle caption Ed Zurga/AP A group of 128 Democratic members of Congress are

Leqaa Kordia, left, embraces friends, family and suppporters after being released from the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, Monday, March 16, 2026. Tony Gutierrez/AP hide caption toggle caption Tony Gutierrez/AP ALVARADO, Texas — A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration's 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, which makes the Grok chatbot, is being sued by teenagers who say the company's AI models were used to create nonconsensual nudes of them. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images Three Tennessee teenagers have filed a class action lawsuit against Elon

Residents and Taliban police gather the remains of a projectile at the site of a strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 13. Barackatullah Popal/AP hide caption toggle caption Barackatullah Popal/AP KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital late Monday, saying the airstrike had killed at

A federal judge in Boston blocked changes to U.S. vaccine policies championed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Samuel Corum/Getty Images A federal judge Monday dealt a major blow to the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the nation's vaccine policies, including the controversial

The U.S. Supreme Court Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from going ahead with plans to deport some 6,000 Syrians and  350,000 Haitians who were granted Temporary Protected Status by Presidents Obama, Biden, and Trump himself in his first administration. But

A tsetse fly — their bite can spread the parasite that causes sleeping sickness. Patrick Robert/Corbis/Sygma/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick Robert/Corbis/Sygma/via Getty Images Sleeping sickness is a notorious disease — immortalized in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. A single bite from a tsetse fly carrying the parasite is all it takes to

People line up in the street to buy bread in Havana, Cuba, Friday, March 13, 2026. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption toggle caption Ramon Espinosa/AP HAVANA — Officials in Cuba reported an island-wide blackout Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen and its power grid continues to