/ TODAY — SEP 5
The White House Ships a Tetris Clone. Tetris Would Like It Deleted.
A taxpayer-funded arcade of Trump-branded browser games rips the mechanics straight from Tetris, and the company says nobody asked its permission. Property rights, it turns out, apply to government websites too.
/ AUG 4
UEFA Wants Heads to Roll After FIFA's Secret World Cup Sale Collapses
/ AUG 3
Homemade bomb kills three at Moscow restaurant, investigation underway
10:00 PM EDTNetherlands sweeps both EuroHockey U-21 titles in Valencia, Spain takes silver and bronze
Two Gunmen Open Fire Outside Idaho In-N-Out, Triggering Lockdowns and Mass Panic
Cellphone footage captured the shooting near Twin Falls' Blue Lakes Boulevard on Saturday; police shut down the Perrine Bridge and placed surrounding businesses on lockdown.
Dogs Shred Waves at Pacifica and Nobody Is Mad About It
Uganda contained Ebola in 20 cases. Next door, DR Congo just crossed 1,500 deaths.
Arizona Man Detained in Nancy Guthrie Case Sues Sheriff's Office for $3.25M, Says He Was Never Cleared
Carlos Palazuelos was held for seven to eight hours, released without charges, and — according to his attorney — left to face public harassment while the sheriff's office stayed silent.
Spain Deploys Floating Barrier at Ceuta After 67 Deaths and 50,000 Crossings
This Story Is Not About Technology and We Both Know It
12:54 PM EDTSwalwell's dead campaign keeps paying lawyers with donor money — $150K more since May
Canada Tops CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Group C on Goal Difference After 2-2 Draw With Jamaica
A late Jamaican penalty in the 90+12 minute denied Canada a clean finish, but the Canadians held the tiebreaker that mattered. Both sides advance to the quarterfinals of the U-20 tournament.
Maduro's Government Calls the Opposition — A First Meeting Is Set for Next Week in Caracas
Wisconsin Democrat Francesca Hong Can't Say Yes or No on Defunding the Police — CNN Notices
Colo Colo's coach has no idea if their announced goalkeeper is actually coming
Fernando Ortiz just shrugged off the Vozinha question with four words. The club president already made the announcement. The player still isn't here.
Divers Pull Second Body From New Jersey's Passaic River After Two Children Drown in Two Days
Socialist NY Assemblyman-Elect Runs a GoFundMe While a $142K Salary Waits in Albany
Federal Judge Blocks Somalia TPS Termination Again, One Day After Appeals Court Reversed Her Colleagues
Bomb Kills Three at Moscow Restaurant in Suspected Suicide Attack
A homemade explosive device detonated at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square Saturday evening, killing the woman who carried it in, a security guard, and a patron.
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Italy Wants to Freeze Spain Out of Schengen. It Legally Cannot.
Minnesota Assisted Living Facility Served a Mentally Ill Resident 18 Shots Before His Doctor's Appointment
Mamdani Buys Time on NYC's Pied-à-Terre Tax After 17,000 Letters Went to the Wrong People
The socialist mayor extended the appeal deadline to September 18 after his own Department of Finance mailed tax notices to far more residents than the city ever said would be affected.
Sophie Cunningham gives a kid her game shoe and Portland still boos her
Argentina's drug smugglers are hiding cocaine inside fuel tanker trucks — and Gendarmería keeps finding it
3:28 PM EDTU.S. Raises Travel Alert for Ceuta as Morocco Migration Crisis Turns Dangerous
ICE Picks Up Guatemalan Man Charged With Rape After Massachusetts Jail Releases Him
Rocael Ordonez-Cruz, 23, walked out of Middlesex County House of Correction before federal agents were waiting. The charges — rape, assault to rape, indecent assault, indecent exposure — were already filed.
AeroDiana Small Plane Crashes Near Nazca Lines, Killing All 13 on Board
Iran Is Reading Your Troops' Instagram. The Pentagon Is Finally Doing Something About It.
UN Special Rapporteur warns Chile's Supreme Court mass judge removals threaten judicial independence
Fifty-six Chilean judges face removal proceedings over medical-leave travel. A top UN expert says the process lacks due process guarantees and may violate international standards.
Panama Re-Bids a $139M Wastewater Plant After the First Contract Came Back Unsigned
Venezuelan Red Cross Maps a Two-Year Tech-Assisted Relief Operation After the June Earthquakes
Chilean gang used a fake mechanic gig on social media to kidnap a family — five arrested, three of them minors
Medicare's GLP-1 Bridge Program Ships — With a $50 Co-Pay, a Hard Cutoff Date, and Rules That Don't Quite Add Up
The Trump administration found a workaround to a 2006 statutory ban on Medicare obesity drug coverage. The workaround has its own fine print.
Ecuador Seizes 627 Kilos of Cocaine from Peru-Origin Container Bound for Germany
Colombia's Lottery Apps Still Can't Publish the Actual Numbers
ICE Arrests Man for Third Deportation After He Killed a U.S. Marine and Kept Coming Back
Martin Martinez-Ballinas has now been deported twice, arrested five times before the fatal crash, and reentered the country undetected after each removal. The system failed at every checkpoint.
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Minnesota Assisted Living Gave a Resident 18 Shots Before His Doctor's Appointment
Iran Executes 20-Year-Old Protester for 'Waging War Against God'
10:37 PM EDTVenezuela's Last Opposition Mayor Begs Maduro's Government for a Backhoe
Argentina's Government Sends Inspectors to Schools to Enforce Its New 'Essential Service' Strike Rules
The Ministry of Human Capital will conduct spot checks nationwide to verify that Monday's teachers' strike doesn't drop below the 75% service threshold mandated by law — and promises sanctions if it does.
Chicago Teachers Union Boss Will Collect Petition Signatures for Mayor Johnson If He Won't Do It Himself
Michigan Pastor Collected $75,000 From Senate Candidate While Endorsing Him on Air
State Department Plans to Spend $175 Million on Undersea Cables to Keep China Out of Central America
A congressional notification obtained by the AP reveals the Trump administration wants to replace aging submarine telecom infrastructure in the Caribbean — and deny Beijing a foothold it has been quietly building for years.
Trump's $14.7M Reflecting Pool Reno Was the Vandal
Sánchez Calls Meloni's Border Controls 'Selfish and Unlawful' After 60,000 Migrants Breach Ceuta
7:21 PM EDTTrump Overrules His Own DOJ on the Reflecting Pool — In Public, on Truth Social
Trump posts the '51st State' Venezuela map again — and this time there are talks to back it up
The president recycled his Truth Social annexation troll as Venezuelan opposition and parliament factions prepare to open Washington-backed democracy talks. Coincidence? Probably not.