APRIL 3, 2026
French President - Emmanuel Macron.
French President Emmanuel Macron told Donald Trump on Thursday to get 'serious' over Iran as he dismissed the demands to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force as 'unrealistic'.
The French President also took aim at the US President's recent wildly conflicting statements on the war, telling him: 'Perhaps you shouldn't talk every day.'
Mr. Macron insisted that only negotiation...
APRIL 3, 2026
A memorial ceremony for Army Staff Sgt Benjamin N. Pennington, who was killed in an Iranian attack on a US base in Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images
Upon the headstones at the Dayton National Cemetery in south-west Ohio are the names of the numerous wars fallen soldiers buried here have fought in: Korea, Vietnam and Iraq.
At the center of this...
APRIL 3, 2026
Pam Bondi Fired.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies.
But there's no guarantee her successor will have any better success at placating the president.
Over the last year, Bondi's Justice Department has encountered resistance from judges, grand jurors and its own workforce in trying to establish...
APRIL 3, 2026
President Trump arrives at the White House podium to talk about the Iran war, delivering a speech that drove the stock market down. ((Alex Brandon / AP))
Since the end of February, the three major stock market indices — the Standard & Poor's 500, the Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq composite — have fallen by a few...
APRIL 2, 2026
The global population is still rising, but the foot is off the pedal. - Image credit: Khawla Alrehaili/Unsplash - IFL Science
Earth is full. In fact, its sustainable carrying capacity was overshot decades ago. That's the central message from a new scientific study finding that humans have pushed the planet far beyond its long-term limits. If we continue down...
APRIL 2, 2026
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrates after Israel's parliament passed a law on Monday making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. REUTERS/Oren Ben Hakoon
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Eight Muslim-majority countries "strongly condemned" Israel's move to pass a...
APRIL 2, 2026
A heavily mutated variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 appears to be affecting primarily children, scientists say, though it’s not causing more severe disease – in kids or in adults.
Rather, experts say the fact that the virus is breaking with its pattern of being a menace, primarily, of older adults is a telling detail. It’s something...
APRIL 1, 2026
NASA's Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 1, 2026. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - Four astronauts blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on NASA's Artemis II mission, a high‑stakes...
APRIL 1, 2026
The Key Supreme Court Exchanges on Birthright Citizenship. - Tonia Cowa
The Supreme Court left the fate of President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship in doubt after justices on its conservative majority opened with tough questions on the government’s position that the 14th Amendment wasn’t meant to grant citizenship to the children of immigrants in the U.S. illegally or temporarily.
But...
APRIL 1, 2026
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivers remarks during the 'Council for the Development of Quranic Culture' in Tehran, Iran, on February 24, 2026. - Iranian Presidency/Anadolu/Getty Images
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has penned an open letter to the American public, in which he appealed to them to “look beyond” what he characterized as “the machinery of misinformation” amid the U.S.-Israeli war with...
