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Nonprofit Public Safety Programs Reeling After Major DOJ Grant Cuts

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations on June 23 about the 2026 Fiscal Year budget request for the Department of Justice. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images North America Six months after the Justice Department cancelled more than $800 million in federal grant money

Trump Rebukes Air Traffic Controllers Amid Shutdown

President Trump gives brief remarks to members of the press after exiting Air Force One on Sunday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President Trump is slamming U.S. air traffic controllers who called out of work during the government shutdown, during which they were forced to stay on the job without

Death by Lightning: An 1880s West Wing

Michael Shannon plays President James Garfield and Betty Gilpin is first lady Crete Garfield in Death By Lightning. Larry Horricks/Netflix hide caption toggle caption Larry Horricks/Netflix Death by Lightning, a new four-part miniseries on Netflix, is a period piece that plays like a 19th-century version of The West Wing . It's full of political intrigue

FDA Removes Black Box Warnings on Menopause Hormones

The Food and Drug Administration says it is removing the black box safety warnings from all hormone therapy creams, pills and other treatments prescribed to ease the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. The prominent warnings said these therapies could raise the risks for some cancers, dementia, heart attacks and strokes. "The FDA today is announcing

Car Blast Near New Delhi’s Red Fort Kills Eight

Ambulances are lined up at the scene after a car explosion near the historic Red Fort in New Delhi, India, on Monday. AP/AP hide caption toggle caption AP/AP NEW DELHI — A car explosion near the historic Red Fort in India's capital city killed eight people on Monday and injured at least 19 others, police

Supreme Court Won’t Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis makes a statement to the media at the front door of the Rowan County Judicial Center in Morehead, Ky., in September 2015. Timothy D. Easley/AP hide caption toggle caption Timothy D. Easley/AP The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case challenging its landmark decision to legalize

David Szalay wins Booker Prize for Flesh

Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won the prestigious Booker prize for his novel Flesh, which tells the story of a tortured Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. Szalay, 51, beat five other shortlisted authors, including Indian novelist Kiran Desai and the United Kingdom’s Andrew Miller, to claim the 50,000 British pound ($65,500) award

Poll: Muslim Voters Return to Democrats

Ninety-seven percent of Muslim respondents in a CAIR survey say they voted for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Muslim voters in the United States overwhelmingly favoured Democratic candidates in last week’s elections, amid mounting anger at President Donald Trump’s policies, a new exit poll suggests. The survey, released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations

War’s Overlooked Toll on the Climate

Inside Story Leaders at COP30 are being urged to consider the environmental toll of conflict. Speaking at this year’s COP30 in Brazil, UN chief Antonio Guterres called the inability to limit global warming to 1.5C (2.7F) a “deadly moral failure”. But does the same apply when it comes to protecting the environment in conflict? Israel’s

Ukraine probes alleged $100m kickback at Energoatom

Ukranian president promises accountability after anticorruption bureau announces probe into alleged Energoatom scheme. Ukraine’s anticorruption agency has launched an investigation into an alleged $100m kickback scheme involving Energoatom, the state-run nuclear power company that supplies more than half of the country’s electricity. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), which operates independently of the government
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