With attacks spreading across the West Bank, locals and activists describe ‘vague’ orders, political pressure and systemic issues that result in troops punishing Palestinian victims rather than Israeli assailants.

The Times of Israel

Germany’s chancellor clashes with AfD leader Alice Weidel, saying her migration policy amounts to “ethnic cleansing” for skilled workers.

BBC News

Many of the paintings in the tomb have retained their original colors despite spending more than 40 centuries buried beneath the desert sands, officials said.

CBS News

A departing researcher says AI companies are ’gambling with our lives’ by racing to develop self-improving AI.

The Verge

An Israeli newspaper says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was directly warned by the president of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a major offensive just days before the militant group attacked on Oct. 7, 2023.

AP News

The Trump administration has announced new sanctions against all of Iran's airlines and nearly a dozen foreign companies doing business with Iran's Mahan Air, which had earlier been sanctioned for its ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The sanctions are part of Operation Economic Outcast, a financial pressure campaign by the administration.

The Hill

Israel's response to London's trade ban with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank shows how important this moment is.

BBC News

U.S. forces struck several Iranian tankers amid the Strait of Hormuz war escalation and has Iran warning of a "faster, heavier and more painful" response. CENTCOM said one vessel sank. Oil Prices and gas costs climbed as the Trump administration's pressure campaign.

Fox News

Party hails 'historic' result, but it is not immediately clear whether it will be able to form a government.

Al Jazeera

Pro wrestler Andy Williams, known as The Butcher in AEW, died after suffering a medical emergency during a match in Millvale, Pennsylvania. He was 48.

Fox News

Germany's AfD's TikTok-fueled rise in Saxony-Anhalt is raising fears the country could see its first far-right governor since World War II.

NPR

Pacific nation leaders have expressed collective concern over China’s ballistic missile launch into their waters.

AP News

Iran has fired at Kuwait as part of its retaliation for U.S. bombardments earlier this week. Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense reported that air defenses intercepted missiles and drones on Thursday.

AP News

Romanian prosecutors officially indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on Friday for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering, and his brother Tristan for complicity, years after they began investigating them.

CNN

These are the photos that got ‘Wheel of Fortune’ announcer Jim Thornton suspended by the show and grilled by law enforcement. TMZ reports the longtime announcer’s online activity — including a pedophilia-support chat room — drew scrutiny at Los Angeles airport.

TMZ

The National Audit Office is urging Defra to work more closely with households, communities and businesses so the flow of crucial food into the country can withstand supply shocks that are becoming increasingly common and severe. Its report says the department has taken some steps but has not done enough to get citizens and industry to plan for possible emergencies.

The Guardian

The environment secretary has said Britain’s insolvency laws cannot deal with the aggressive behaviour shown by the companies that control Thames Water, as she confirmed ministers were prepared to take it into public ownership — which could mean a change in law. The battle over Thames looks set to become the first test of the prime minister’s determination to bring Britain’s utilities into public control.

The Guardian

British people have been urged to have enough food and water on hand to survive a few days without power or water, as the UN said the El Niño climate phenomenon was “supersizing before our eyes”. The environment secretary said forecasters were braced for a wild, stormy UK winter and that the likelihood of one showed the importance of keeping supplies at home.

The Guardian

Sweden has ended its aid programme to Liberia, halting support worth hundreds of millions of pounds as the country’s second-largest donor. Sexual and reproductive health services in Liberia now face an uncertain future, campaigners warn.

The Guardian

Ukraine has launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war, setting a Wildberries distribution warehouse south of Moscow ablaze and killing at least six people, according to Russian authorities. Moscow said it shot down 1,478 Ukrainian drones in 24 hours — the highest total it has ever claimed — while seven Ukrainians were also killed in Russian strikes on 13 locations.

The Guardian

A powerful magnitude-7.7 earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Flores, killing at least 47 people. Search-and-rescue teams are working to reach survivors, with damage and casualties still mounting.

BBC News

Inside "mega master" calendar hearings, immigration judges are scheduling cases on short notice and deporting people who do not show up. The report details how the new mass-hearing tactic is quietly expanding the reach of deportation proceedings.

The Guardian

President Lee Jae-myung has proposed negotiations to officially end the Korean War, a conflict frozen since the 1953 armistice. The offer revives a long-dormant diplomatic track that could reshape security on the peninsula.

BBC News

Bookshops across the UK and Ireland are puzzled by bulk purchases of secondhand books — a pattern that follows news that AI companies have spent millions buying books to scan for data. Sellers worry the odd orders are part of a broader AI data-grab.

The Guardian

Five years after the Taliban's return to power, Afghan women describe public floggings, lost jobs and barriers to healthcare that endanger their lives. The BBC collected testimony from women across the country as the anniversary of the takeover passed.

BBC News

Coverage for hundreds of thousands of Arkansas Medicaid enrollees is in doubt after the administration refused to renew a key state waiver under a budget-neutrality rule change in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — and Arkansas may not be the last state affected.

KFF Health News

Record rainfall in Chiba prefecture triggered flooding, landslide warnings and power outages, killing five people and stranding thousands at Tokyo's Narita airport. Evacuation orders were issued for some 400,000 residents.

The Guardian

Some seriously ill patients improve enough on hospice to lose eligibility — about 1 in 16 — and families are rarely prepared. This piece pairs one widow's account of her husband being told he was dying 'too slowly' with a practical guide to patients' rights, appealing a discharge, and what care remains.

KFF Health News

To prove the president's claims of illegal voting, the government mobilized Homeland Security Investigations — a branch built to fight the worst cross-border crime. So far, ProPublica finds, the unprecedented effort has produced meager results.

ProPublica

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is expected to lead the South Pacific nation for a second term after his party took 12 of 24 parliamentary seats, with one seat undecided after bad weather delayed voting on the island of Nassau.

AP

Forecasters warn the rainy season in the Amazon is delayed, and a powerful "Godzilla" El Niño could peak just as the already-stressed forest is most vulnerable. The combination of human-driven heating and a strong El Niño risks a severe blow to the world's largest rainforest.

The Guardian

Italian police have recovered three paintings by French masters stolen in a March heist from the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma, one of a string of high-profile thefts from European museums this year.

The Guardian

Two years after a federal overhaul of opioid-addiction treatment rules, a survey finds relaxed methadone prescribing has improved patient retention. Adoption, however, is far from uniform across clinics.

STAT

France's top court has struck down a government ban on social media access for under-15s, ruling it infringed freedom of expression and privacy — a setback for President Macron as momentum builds worldwide for Australian-style age restrictions.

The Guardian

Since 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted puzzling objects nicknamed "little red dots." A new study proposes they could be giant black holes with some characteristics of stars — a new class of celestial object that would upend how we read the early universe.

Smithsonian Magazine

New activist footage shows bulldozers plowing up ground at the mouth of Big Bend National Park's Santa Elena Canyon as part of the Trump administration's multibillion-dollar 'smart wall' expansion on the US-Mexico border — alarming conservationists in Texas's largest and most-visited national park.

The Guardian

Older Americans are working later in life more than ever, and younger workers increasingly wonder whether senior roles are failing to open up. The piece examines the evidence on both sides — what delayed retirement means for careers, pensions and the wider economy.

NPR

Grifols, the Spanish company that runs Canada's only private plasma-donation clinics, has paused collections at its 17 sites after two donors died and a government investigation opened into potentially unsafe practices.

The Guardian

For decades, communities used the EPA's cancer-risk estimates to hold local polluters accountable. This year, that data is missing from the agency's reporting — and Grist reports the gap leaves residents and regulators navigating air-quality hazards in the dark.

Grist

Navy patrols are raiding makeshift mining camps in Peru's Madre de Dios region, where illegal gold mining is pushing into protected Amazon reserves, leaving behind mercury pollution and cratered, deforested land.

AP

Paintings and sketches the novelist Iris Murdoch made during the second world war — kept in a room she described as private — are now on public display. Curators say the works show Murdoch "engaging with her world in a new light."

The Guardian

Zimbabwean novelist Sue Nyathi, whose debut novel became the Netflix series "The Polygamist," self-funded the book and says viewers see their own lives in it. Her journey raises a pointed question for the industry: who can afford to write at all?

BBC News

Millions of drivers are encountering speed cameras for the first time — and many do not like it. Supporters point to clear evidence that cameras make roads safer, setting up a fight over the technology playing out state by state.

NPR

Schlitz — the beer that helped rebuild Chicago after the Great Fire — has officially disappeared from the city's bars after 177 years. Its legacy spans the 1893 World's Fair and modern architecture, far beyond the pint glass.

Smithsonian Magazine

Male spiders of one species willingly flip into their partner's jaws during mating — a seemingly strange behavior that a new study traces to a surprisingly simple genetic basis. The finding suggests even bizarre animal behaviors can be wired into DNA.

Smithsonian Magazine

A skeleton unearthed in Scotland bears more than 160 fractures — injuries an archaeologist first compared to modern car-crash victims. Analysis shows the man was likely struck by a high-speed projectile during Edward I's 1304 siege of Stirling Castle: an English trebuchet.

Smithsonian Magazine

Negotiators' latest draft of a global plastics treaty is weaker than earlier versions, with health commitments watered down amid heavy industry lobbying, according to NGOs following the talks. Experts say the agreement risks locking in the status quo rather than cutting plastic pollution.

The Guardian

Phillip Ormerod, 102, was taken to hospital after an incident at the Crow's Nest pub in Cwmbran, Wales, and later died of his injuries.

The Guardian

As AI agents begin buying things and acting across company boundaries, the paper trail proving what a user actually authorized often does not exist. When an agent oversteps, no single record shows who approved what — a looming consumer-protection problem.

The Conversation

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached a sixth province, with more than 2,100 deaths among over 4,500 cases; the WHO says it is on track to surpass the deadliest outbreak in history, which killed at least 11,000 people in 2014–16.

The Guardian

The effects of the administration's 2025 tariffs are still showing up in the prices consumers pay, and new levies are adding to the overall burden. The piece explains what "forever" tariffs mean for household budgets and why the costs keep flowing through.

The Conversation

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine — but the machines kept breaking, robot arms smashed into things and there was even a dumpster fire. Taxpayers funded a $533 million plant that, ProPublica finds, produced virtually nothing.

ProPublica

Hospitals and other providers are increasingly demanding payment before care is delivered, collecting more of what patients may owe up front as rising deductibles squeeze household budgets.

KFF Health News

An AP exclusive reveals Immigration and Customs Enforcement's plan to equip officers with gloves capable of delivering electric shocks. Democratic officials and civil-rights advocates call the technology unnecessary and cruel, warning of misuse during arrests.

Associated Press (AP Exclusive)

Ángel Aguirre, former governor of Guerrero state, has been formally charged over the 2014 disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa teacher-training students — accused of forced disappearance and of ordering surveillance tapes destroyed that might have revealed their fate.

The Guardian

Lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., and older adults face the highest risk — yet only about a quarter of eligible patients are up to date on screening. This story follows one former smoker whose routine scan caught the disease early, with practical guidance for readers.

KFF Health News

Chinese automakers are shifting from exporting cars to building them in Africa, betting on rapid urbanisation and a growing middle class — a pivot driven by slowing demand at home and new trade barriers in Europe and North America. Chery, China's largest auto exporter, has already acquired Nissan's former plant near Pretoria to build EVs and hybrids.

AP

At a time when contaminated milk killed thousands of children, a Gilded Age millionaire quietly built a "retail giving" network that made milk safer across the country. His legacy is little remembered today — largely because he never created a foundation that outlasted him.

The Conversation

Kazakhstan has become the first country to restore a tiger population after extinction, releasing a wild-caught female named Umit ('hope') into a reserve on Lake Balkhash — the last reliable sighting there was more than 70 years ago — with plans for a self-sustaining population of about 50.

The Guardian

The spa town of Balatonfüred on Lake Balaton is a gem for sailors, hikers and wine lovers, and a new hop-on, hop-off bus tour finally makes its little-known wineries easy to visit.

The Guardian

A new study links extreme temperatures to flare-ups of chronic pain — the kind that makes walking, carrying groceries or sleeping hard — and researchers argue public heat warnings ignore the millions who live with it.

The Conversation

Joyce Thomas, 78, who has lived in Sweden for 21 years, faces deportation after Brexit ended her right to stay; authorities say her application came too late, while UK officials say Sweden applies the rules far more strictly than other EU states. She is now taking the case to a higher court.

The Guardian

Scammers are cashing in on the year's hottest movie by luring fans to fake 'watch it free' streaming sites that risk phishing attacks and malware infections — a timely warning for anyone tempted by a too-good deal online.

The Guardian

A Guardian investigation examines the serious and growing health risks posed by wildfire smoke, with older people and those with respiratory conditions especially vulnerable.

The Guardian

The president has renewed his effort to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, escalating a legal and political fight with implications for the central bank’s independence and the economy.

The Guardian

Research finds that normal blood pressure, no type 2 diabetes and not smoking between ages 45 and 65 were associated with almost 13 extra years of dementia-free life — practical, hopeful guidance for the decades that most shape later brain health.

The Guardian

The change follows concerns about the pressure on the prison system and the impact of early-release rules.

The Guardian

Many older people fear that accepting paid care means losing their independence, and researcher Emily Kenway argues any social care review that ignores that reluctance is doomed.

The Guardian

Hadi Matar was found guilty in federal court over the 2022 attack that left author Salman Rushdie seriously injured on a lecture stage in western New York.

The Guardian

Valentín Lavín Romero is the 14th mayor murdered since Claudia Sheinbaum became president in 2024, highlighting the ongoing crisis of political violence in the country.

The Guardian