8+ hour, 14+ min ago   (425+ words) Bill Gates thinks the world just flunked a basic test of progress. In his annual letter, the Microsoft co-founder notes that global child mortality rose in 2025 for the first time this century, and he links that reversal directly to reduced…...

8+ hour, 58+ min ago   (337+ words) A surprise dinner meant to showcase President Trump's security in Washington instead helped blow up one of his highest-profile political alliances, according to a new report. Two people on Trump's team tell Axios that the White House privately flagged former…...

10+ hour, 7+ min ago   (477+ words) In his most substantial critique of US, Russian, and other military incursions in sovereign countries, Pope Leo XIV on Friday denounced how nations were using force to assert their dominion worldwide, "completely undermining" peace and the post-World War II international…...

11+ hour, 47+ min ago   (478+ words) Attorneys general in five Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Trump's administration after it said it would freeze money for several public benefit programs, citing concerns about fraud in the programs designed to help low-income families. The states'California,…...

13+ hour, 32+ min ago   (444+ words) Mortgage rates just booked their sharpest one-day slide in months, triggered by a social media post from the president. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dipped to 5.99% on Friday, slipping below 6% for the first time since February 2023, according to Mortgage…...

15+ hour, 21+ min ago   (310+ words) Minnesota's top prosecutors are now asking the public to help fill an information gap created by the FBI in the investigation of a deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis. State Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on…...

23+ hour, 53+ min ago   (483+ words) President Trump says the US and Venezuela are working so well together that he has called off a second wave of attacks. In a Truth Social post early Friday, the president praised cooperation on oil infrastructure and Venezuela's release of…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (617+ words) California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state must stand up to Republican President Donald Trump's "assault on our values," using his final State of the State address Thursday to contrast his state as a bulwark against what he called a…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (583+ words) The Senate advanced a resolution Thursday that would limit President Trump's ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere. Democrats and five Republicans voted to advance the war…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (537+ words) The push to build more data centers to rapidly boost America's AI capacity is meeting opposition in cities across the country. In Sand Springs, Oklahoma, residents packed meetings and built a Christmas parade float casting a proposed data center as…...