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Struggling to navigate the Epstein files? Here is a visual guide
The US Department of Justice has released three million files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Modi to Kevin Rudd: How Epstein files set off a storm far beyond the US
Latest files include emails and messages between Epstein and powerful men in India, UK, Australia and Slovakia.
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How much can a city take?
As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
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Benjamin Netanyahu is struggling to prove he’s not an AI clone
Social media platforms are awash with conspiracy theories claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu has been killed or injured and replaced by AI-generated deepfakes.
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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
Jeffrey Epstein is dead. His ideas aren’t — and he made sure to spread them to a lot of influential people before he died.
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Hard Times Have Come For The PhD Degree
Long considered the pinnacle of academic achievement, the PhD is now facing strong headwinds, including reduced federal support for jobs, research and graduate training.
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Trump says strikes on Iran will continue as Tehran hits US assets in Gulf
Trump says attacks on Iran will continue until all of his objectives are met, as Tehran keeps up raids on US assets.
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A new lawsuit calls for 'immediate' student-loan forgiveness for borrowers enrolled in Biden's affordable repayment plan
After a court declined to approve Trump's settlement to eliminate the SAVE student-loan repayment plan, borrowers filed a lawsuit calling for relief.
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Middle East crisis live: Iran dismisses Trump claim of talks; von der Leyen says global energy situation is ‘critical’
Iranian parliament speaker says ‘no negotiations’ held with US, as Trump postpones energy strikes for five days; European Commission chief says war must come to negotiated end
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Israel bombs Iran, Lebanon; Trump says war to last 4 weeks or longer
Iran strikes energy infrastructure across the Gulf as IRGC announces closure of Strait of Hormuz.
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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum considers legal action after Elon Musk criticism
President Sheinbaum responds to accusations from Musk that she was repeating what ‘cartel bosses tell her to say’.
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Trump says Iran war will be over soon as US-Israeli attacks continue
US-Israeli strikes on Tehran continue as Iranian counterattacks target Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
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A surprise court decision for millions of student-loan borrowers brings debt relief back into the picture
A court declined to approve Trump's move to end the SAVE student-loan repayment plan ahead of schedule. It ignited calls for prompt debt relief.
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Trump says Iranian forces on Kharg Island bombed, warns oil facilities next
Intense strikes target central Tehran as US president says ‘powerful’ bombing raid hit Iranian forces on Kharg Island.
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Trump again says talks with Iran under way, 12 killed in attack on Tehran
US-Israeli strikes on Iran continue despite claim of talks, with at least 12 killed, 28 wounded in one attack on Tehran.
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Iran says civilian areas bombed as Trump demands ‘unconditional surrender’
US-Israeli attacks on Iran continue as Israel’s bombing of Lebanon kills at least 217 people, injures almost 800.
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What we know about the joint US-Israel attack on Iran
Donald Trump has described "major combat operations", with explosions heard across Iran.
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Trump says Iran being ‘demolished’; Tehran warns US against ground invasion
Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says ‘no reason why we should negotiate’, calls Washington untrustworthy.
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Tehran calls Trump’s peace talk claims ‘fake news’, as attacks continue
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard calls Trump a ‘deceitful American president’, accuses him of ‘contradictory behaviour’.
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Trump talks up deal with Tehran as Iranian missile, drone attacks continue
Iranian missiles, drones target Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan as Trump says Iran has ‘chance to make a deal’.
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Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu suggests need for ‘ground component’ in Iran war
Israeli prime minister says you can’t ‘do revolutions from the air’ and that ‘there has to be a ground component as well’ amid growing signs of tensions between Israel and US
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US Senate fails to curb Trump’s war powers on Iran; Israel pounds Lebanon
US and Israel bombard Iran as Israeli forces hammer Lebanon and the widening conflict causes energy prices to spike.
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Trump's latest anti-wind effort: Pay companies to abandon offshore leases
Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.
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Middle East crisis live: Trump gives Iran 48-hour ultimatum to open strait of Hormuz; 100 injured in Israel
Trump tells Iran to reopen strait to shipping or face destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launches its most destructive attack yet on Israel
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Iran war live updates: US temporarily lets India buy Russian oil amid energy fears; Israeli military launches strikes on Beirut
US issues 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to buy Russian oil; IDF says it is striking Dahiya neighborhood in southern suburbs of Beirut
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Khamenei demands closure of US bases as Trump says war going ‘very well’
Israeli strikes kill dozens more in Lebanon, including 5 children among nine people killed in attack on village of Arki.
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Trump says no ceasefire as Khamenei tells of ‘dizzying blow’ to US, Israel
Trump says Strait of Hormuz must be protected from Iranian attacks ‘by other nations who use it’.
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Trump scolds allies over Strait of Hormuz operation; UAE closes airspace
US President Donald Trump criticises allies’ reluctance to commit forces to open the key waterway for Gulf oil exports.
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Trump asks world to keep Strait of Hormuz open; 15 killed in Iran’s Isfahan
US President Donald Trump says allies who rely on Gulf oil must help keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
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Judge: Trump violated Fifth Amendment by ending energy grants in only blue states
Donald Trump’s social media post triggers rare Fifth Amendment ruling.
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Middle East crisis live: Trump considering ‘winding down’ war as US eases sanctions on Iranian oil; Israel launches retaliatory strikes
Move to allow shipments already at sea comes amid a supply crisis and after US president says he does not ‘want to do a ceasefire’; IDF says it is attacking regime targets in Tehran after missiles fired at Israel from Iran
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Trump says wants to take Iran’s oil; Kuwait power and desalination site hit
Kuwait says an Indian worker has been killed in an Iranian raid as attacks across the Gulf continue.
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Iran dismisses Trump’s claim of talks; fire erupts near Dubai airport
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran never sought a ceasefire with the US, and is ready for a long war.
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Trump threatens attacks on Iran power plants over Strait of Hormuz closure
Donald Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants if it fails to open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
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Middle East crisis live: explosions rock Tehran as Iran war enters second week
Donald Trump says he would only accept Tehran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as war continues to expand; Israel launches huge attacks on Iran and Lebanon
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Middle East crisis live: Trump says he wants to ‘take the oil’ in Iran and could seize Kharg Island ‘easily’
US president tells Financial Times his ‘preference would be to take the oil’ but that ‘some stupid people back in the US say: “why are you doing that?”’
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Iran war live updates: Regime issues threat against protesters; US ‘destroyed’ mine-laying ships near strait of Hormuz
Iran’s police chief says protesters will be treated as ‘enemies’ and that security forces remain stationed in the streets
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US-Israel war on Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead by state media – latest reports
US president says Khamenei’s death is ‘justice for the people of Iran’ as he repeats call for regime change
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Middle East crisis live: Strike reportedly injures 12 American soldiers at US base in Saudi; Rubio expects war to end in weeks
Iran has kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf nations, including a strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia that wounded US service members
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Republicans condemn racist Trump video post depicting Obamas as apes
Members of Trump’s political party called for the removal of the reposted clip, which has since been taken down.
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Middle East crisis live: Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader; oil prices soar past $100 a barrel
Iran has named hardliner Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader; Donald Trump says oil price spike ‘a small price to pay’ as markets tumble
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Middle East crisis live: Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ entire South Pars gasfield if Iran strikes Qatar
US president says Israel will not launch another attack on the giant gasfield shared by Iran and Qatar, but promises to destroy it if Tehran retaliates
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Middle East crisis live: oil spill warning after tanker attacked in Dubai; explosions in Tehran and Jerusalem amid wave of attacks
Kuwait says fire broke out after Iranian attack on giant tanker and warns of possible oil spill in surrounding waters
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As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a grave new challenge
With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 order
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Iran war live updates: Mark Carney doesn’t rule out Canada joining war; Israel launches fresh strikes on Tehran
Canadian PM says the US-Israeli strikes on Iran were ‘inconsistent with international law’ but that his country ‘will stand by our allies’. Follow the latest news
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I went to Trump's State of the Union. This was the moment when the room's mood shifted.
Here's what it was like for one reporter to be in the room for the longest State of the Union in American history.
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Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in Treasuries, citing 'poor' U.S. government finances
AkademikerPension's move comes amid increasing tensions with the U.S. over Greenland.
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US military moves Navy, Air Force assets to the Middle East: What to know
Trump says US ‘armada’ is heading towards the Gulf, raising fears of a military escalation in the region.
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Middle East crisis live: Trump insists Iran wants a deal despite initial rejection; China sees ‘glimmer of hope’ for talks
US president claims Iranian negotiators fear being killed by their own side; Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US and Iran ‘signalling a willingness to negotiate’
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Trump’s Board of Peace meets: Who’s in, who’s out, what’s on the agenda?
Asian and Middle Eastern partners line up in Washington, while Europe tries to keep a distance.
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