New rules in Israel for registering non-governmental organisations, under which more than a dozen groups have already been rejected, could have a catastrophic impact on aid work in Gaza and the West Bank, relief workers warn. The NGOs have until December 31 to register under
The positive description of the Waller interview by officials was not necessarily an indication that he was a favorite candidate for the job.
DirectX 11 hasn't gone anywhere, and don't expect to see DirectX 13 any time soon, either. Or ever, perhaps.
These are the stocks posting the largest moves in premarket trading.
The Bank of Japan’s interest rate hike, raising the benchmark rate to its highest level in 30 years, was the tremor Indonesia had long feared but hoped to delay. By increasing its short-term rate to 0.75%, BOJ governor Kazuo Ueda has done more than stabilize the yen; he has
During his annual press conference and call-in show, the Russian president stated that his troops were advancing in Ukraine, the day after EU leaders agreed on a €90bn loan for Kyiv, avoiding the use of frozen assets.
Mubi, the indie film company behind “The Substance” and “Die, My Love,” has restructured its content leadership as it navigates industry headwinds. Mubi, which had scaled aggressively in recent years, currently employs approximately 400 staff across 14 international and U.S.
That Land of Ooo never looked so good.
The suspect threw multiple petrol bombs and smoke bombs at Taipei Main Station, before attacking people at Zhongshan Station.
Get your game on with some of the Switch's massive library of games. The post Nintendo Switch OLED With Joy-Con Retocks at All-Time Low as Grade-A Refurbished While New Stock Is Sold Out appeared first on Kotaku .
TAIPEI, Dec 19 - Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai said several people had been injured after a person released smoke bombs at a Taipei subway station and then attacked bystanders, according to comments Cho made on his Facebook page on Friday.
Many scholars have assumed nudges—a small push that encourages better choices—are always good for society. But UC Berkeley Economics professor Dmitry Taubinsky says it's not that simple. Instead, policies that create nudges to influence behavior should be tested with data and
The best games of 2025 include Clair Obscur, Ghost of Yotei, Hades 2, and more. See Polygon's picks for 2025's best games.
A team of Australian and international scientists has, for the first time, created a full picture of how errors unfold over time inside a quantum computer—a breakthrough that could help make future quantum machines far more reliable.
Let’s examine four of those “dangerous trends” our founders would not have celebrated.
Every major Wall Street firm and bank is expected to seek a piece of this monster deal.
South Africa has accused the US of employing Kenyans without work permits to process refugee applications.
A person released smoke bombs at a Taipei subway station and then attacked bystanders.
Plus: Brown, MIT shooting suspect found dead; Trump move blows up funding deal; DNC keeps 2024 postmortem private.
French lawmakers failed Friday to agree a 2026 budget in joint committee talks, forcing government to seek emergency legislation to roll over 2025 budget.
A BBC-commissioned review has concluded there is no need to rewrite the broadcaster’s editorial editing guidelines following the controversy over a “Panorama” program that misleadingly edited President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 speech, instead pointing to failures in judgment,
LONDON, Dec 19 - British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Friday welcomed a decision by European Union leaders to loan 90 billion euros ($105 billion) to Ukraine to fund its defence against Russia.
LONDON, Dec 19 - Britain imposed sanctions on Friday on individuals and organisations it said were linked to violence perpetrated against civilians in Syria, including some who financially supported former president Bashar al-Assad's government.
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Democrats are increasingly discussing affordability and blaming high costs of goods on President Trump. But Brian Beutler and Will Stancil, two liberal political
"A fun little way to keep things spicy."
The Met Office warns that 2026 is likely to become the fourth year on record where temperatures hit 1.4°C above preindustrial levels.
When Sudanese nurse Asmaa returned to the Darfur city of El-Fasher, she found only bodies where her neighbours once lived and no sign of the family she had come to save. The Rapid Support Forces, battling Sudan's military since April 2023, seized the army's last stronghold in
T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. President Trump’s
José Luis Cienfuegos, an indefatigable force for the modernization, international vision, new talent focus and industry and popular impact of three important Spanish film festivals, died from a stroke on Dec. 2. He was 61. Two weeks later, Spain’s Council of Ministers announced
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The Bangladeshi activist was shot on the streets of Dhaka on Dec 12 and died six days later in a Singapore hospital.
At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, write the authors of a new article from Polity, neoliberalism was "consolidated as the only legitimate form of doing politics." But in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and with the entrenchment of far-right
New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal
Also: A majority of artists struggle with debt, LACMA workers vote overwhelmingly for a union, and a word about the hilarity of evil.
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It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns out that talent during childhood is no guide to later success
The White House is trying to rein in President Trump, using a primetime address to keep him on script and focused on domestic policy amid slumping poll numbers and campaign-style speeches that tend to veer off-course. Trump touted on Wednesday his administration’s work in its
Republicans in Congress are jumping off the ObamaCare cliff as they leave Washington without a deal to extend enhanced subsidies for millions of Americans. But the door to a bipartisan deal hasn't been completely shut, and it may not be too late to reverse that increase if a
Earlier this month, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill that would, among other things, establish clearer and more severe civil liabilities for immigration agents and their collaborators violating state law by, for example, arresting people at or on their way to state
You’d need a full-screen infographic with live updates to keep track of all the MAGA infighting these days. President Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is trashing him in a new Vanity Fair interview. Stephen Miller wants to get rid of Kristi Noem. Marjorie Taylor Greene has
There are no working artists in Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus . Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), the show’s protagonist, used to be a successful romantasy novelist, but then a virus of unknown origin swept across the globe, killing millions and uniting its infected survivors into a
The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.
Trump gets a lot of things wrong when he talks about cognitive tests. He recently bragged to journalists that he “aced” one, and said the doctors at Walter Reed told him no president had taken a cognitive test before. That would be forgetting at least two other times Trump has
The highly anticipated November inflation report showed prices appearing to grow at a far slower rate, surprising analysts and markets after a year of stubbornly rising costs. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.7 percent annually as of November, far slower than the 3.1
The fresh protests are sparked by the death of one of the leaders of protests that ousted ex-PM Sheikh Hasina.
The Board of Directors of the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) has authorized a landmark US$980 million credit operation for Uruguay. This approval represents one of the largest single financial commitments in the organization's history with the
The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
