Good morning—there's notable momentum on the international front: Iran is contending with wide protests sparked by a plunging currency and broader unrest, challenging the authorities, while Venezuela says it’s begun exploratory talks with the United States aimed at restoring diplomatic ties.
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On January 10, 49 BCE Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, effectively declaring war on the Roman Senate.
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In a serious challenge to Iran’s authoritarian government, angry protests have spread from the markets and universities of major cities to the impoverished towns in the hinterland.
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CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event.
'We don't want to be Americans,' the leaders of five parties in Greenland's parliament said in a joint statement, after Humpty Dumpty once again threatened to 'do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not.'
The fighting presents yet another challenge for a country struggling to forge a new path since the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad a year ago.
At Jordan Bardella's November book launch in the southern town of Moissac, a retired farmer stood in line and broke an egg on Bardella's head when he reached him. The same man was also sentenced in 2022 after throwing an egg at another far-right candidate, Eric Zemmour, during the presidential elections.
The government of the South American country's interim President Delcy Rodriguez 'has decided to initiate an exploratory diplomatic process with the government of the United States of America, aimed at re-establishing diplomatic missions in both countries,' Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said in a statement.
The US's exit from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its equivalent for biodiversity threatens to further slow and hinder the fight against environmental crises.
Clever canines that have a talent for learning vocabulary can pick up new words by simply overhearing their handlers’ conversations, say scientists. Parents and dog owners know that some words should not be spoken, but only spelled, to prevent small ears from eavesdropping on the conversation, and previous research has shown that, at the age […]
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Remains of an early human ancestor from a critically important period in our evolutionary history have been found in Morocco. Dated back 700,000 years using precise geo-magnetic methods, the assemblage of jawbones and teeth may come from the epoch during which African and Eurasian hominins diverged from their common ancestor.
A Los Angeles woman recently celebrated the first Christmas with her baby boy, Ryu, born to truly remarkable circumstances. Ryu developed outside his mother’s womb, and remained hidden for months behind an ovarian cyst that grew to be the size of a basketball.
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