Migration, poverty, public health, rights and the policies that shape them.
A young raccoon nicknamed Mayonesa spent days wandering Dallas with a mayonnaise jar over her head before being rescued by Dallas Animal Services and rehabilitated by Texas Metro Wildlife.
The U.S. national debt surpasses $40 trillion for the first time in history on August 19, 2026.
New data from the International Organization for Migration reveals a sharp increase in migrant fatalities across multiple routes during the first four months of 2026.
A devastating flood event in Japan on August 14 overwhelmed Chiba prefecture and stranded nearly 7,000 travelers at Tokyo's Narita airport during a major holiday week.
"Ahead of International Youth Day, global youth unemployment climbs to 12.4 percent as a new ILO report finds over 257 million young people disengaged from employment and education."
Meta goes on trial in Oakland as a 29-state coalition seeks up to $1.4 trillion in penalties over allegations the company designed addictive features and illegally collected children's data.
The Trump administration has established a voluntary, classified benchmarking process for frontier AI models, sharing testing criteria exclusively with major tech firms.
A federal judge in Rhode Island vacated HUD's 2026 Continuum of Care funding notice, blocking an overhaul that would have redirected billions in homelessness grants away from permanent housing and toward temporary services carrying new political conditions. The ruling held HUD violated the Administrative Procedure Act by skipping the mandatory public notice-and-comment process.
Senator Bernie Sanders has sent letters to major AI CEOs demanding an immediate pause on development and threatening Congressional action if companies fail to act.
The contiguous United States just experienced its hottest month in 132 years of recordkeeping, with July 2026 averaging 76.9°F across the Lower 48 — narrowly edging out the Dust Bowl era of 1936 and the previous modern benchmark set in 2012. Wyoming logged its hottest month of any month on record. The number carries the weight of comparison to a year in which heat killed thousands, but it arrived on top of a climate baseline that has shifted significantly since then.
Amnesty International's 18-page briefing warns that stalled reforms and interlocking legislation in Zambia have reversed human rights gains heading into the country's 13 August 2026 elections.
Two capybara wandered into Brazil's Mato Grosso state legislature on July 30, just as deputies were preparing for a vote.
Abelardo de la Espriella’s inauguration in Cali marks a decisive security-first pivot in Colombia, pitting hard-line eradication tactics and diplomatic realignments against analyst warnings about rebel reintegration and long-term stability.
More than 90,000 rubber ducks were dropped into the Chicago River for this year's Chicago Ducky Derby, which set a new fundraising record for the event.
The VZ Retirement Barometer 2026 shows expected Swiss pension benefits have dropped by 16 percent since 2002, with only a quarter of the public believing the first pillar will be secure in twenty years.
Sandoz settles remaining government antitrust claims for $450 million amid H1 2026 profit plunge
The State Department permanently institutionalizes a refundable visa bond program requiring financial thresholds of up to twenty thousand dollars nationwide for fifty designated countries.
Twenty-four states and Washington, D.C., are challenging a policy that would allow sensitive TANF recipient data to be shared with immigration authorities and other entities.
A new UK policy will set default overnight curfews and disable features like infinite scroll for older teens on social platforms, coming into effect in spring 2027.
FIFA's $20 billion plan to sell stakes in future World Cup profits to private investors has collapsed, and two of the organization's most senior officials are now openly distancing themselves from it. FIFA Secretary General Mattias Grafström — the No 2 beneath president Gianni Infantino — sent an email to all staff calling the failed plan a "sad and reproachable series of events" that created "turmoil which is difficult to comprehend and accept." Arsène Wenger went further, saying he knew nothing of the $20 billion plan and describing its withdrawal as "absolutely necessary and beyond question."
On July 31, 2026, human trafficking networks exploited a Spanish Supreme Court ruling barring summary deportation of sea arrivals, triggering a mass crossing into Ceuta that killed dozens.
A boat carrying migrants from Gambia attempting to reach Spain's Canary Islands was rescued after 25 days at sea, with most of the 160 people on board found dead or missing.