Retired admiral Michael Smith called Trump's Iran threats 'likely war crimes.' The harder question — whether active-duty commanders will follow or refuse an unlawful order — is one the military's civilian leadership has spent months making more dangerous to answer.
The UN reports that drone strikes in Sudan have killed more than 200 people in just over a week, marking a deadly escalation in a conflict that has displaced 10 million people while receiving minimal international attention.
A broken federal database was supposed to tell families where detained immigrants are held. Thirty-six lawmakers say it has become a mechanism for making people disappear — and they want to know if that's by design.
The WHO suspended all medical evacuations from Gaza after Israeli troops killed a Palestinian contractor driving an approved evacuation route. With an estimated 20,000 patients awaiting transfer, the suspension is not a pause — it is a collapse of the last medical lifeline out of the territory.
The UN Security Council voted 11-2 on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. China and Russia vetoed. While Trump threatens to destroy a civilization, China offers itself as the stable alternative.
Community organizations in Oakland's Latino neighborhoods built hospital-based violence intervention programs with documented results. Federal funding cuts are now forcing them to scale back — a policy choice whose consequences are not speculative.
Florida's new domestic terror designation law gives the governor unilateral power to label organizations and remove university students who support them — no federal oversight, no judicial review, no defined evidentiary standard.
Internal agency data reviewed by Reuters shows the TSA shared 31,000 traveler records with ICE, producing 800+ arrests — with no public disclosure, no congressional mandate, and no notification to the people whose data was shared.
JD Vance flew to Budapest three days before Hungary's election to endorse Viktor Orbán and attack the EU. The Trump administration just told the world it will intervene in allied democracies — openly, on camera — and it will back the authoritarians.
The 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law. A Supreme Court case could eliminate citizenship for millions of Americans born to undocumented parents.
How gold extracted from RSF-controlled mines in Darfur flows through Dubai's refineries and into global markets — its violent origins erased at the molecular level. Part 2 of a six-part investigation.
Keir Starmer's push for closer EU ties is being sold as pragmatic statecraft. It is also the most direct public rejection of American war leadership from a major US ally since the conflict began.
More than 100 Baidu robotaxis stopped working simultaneously on public roads, and the company said nothing. The malfunction is less alarming than the accountability gap it exposed.
Inside the intersection of Sudan's humanitarian catastrophe, global mineral supply chains, and the systems that sustain them. Part 1 of a six-part investigation.
Every June, the logos go rainbow. Every other month, queer creators are demonetized, trans users are harassed off platforms, and LGBTQ+ content is quietly buried. This is not a contradiction — it is a business model.
As federal social spending shrinks and war budgets grow, residents in at least 10 states are organizing ballot campaigns and legislative pushes to tax billionaire wealth for schools, hospitals, and food programs. They're routing around Congress because Congress won't act.