The future we've feared is already here. In a new report, researchers detail how grim the climate crisis has become in 2026, and how Earth's climate system continues to plunge farther and faster into terrible new territory. "Rapid destabilization is now a diagnosis rather than a warning for the future," says co-lead author William Ripple, an ecologist at the Oregon State University College of Forestry.
Neil Young says President Trump's fundraising committee is breaking a vow that "it would never again use Rockin' in the Free World'" at a campaign rally, and the musician is filing a $10 million copyright infringement lawsuit.
The "Heart of Gold" singer filed the suit against the Trump 47 Committee on Monday. In the filing, Young alleges that his 1989 hit was played just before Trump took the stage at a Youngstown, Ohio, rally on Oct. 12.
The lawsuit described the tune as a "blistering anthem that contrasts the hollow promises of American political rhetoric with the harsh realities faced by the poor, homeless and forgotten."
Brazilian senator Flvio Bolsonaro has left Brazil and is headed to the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election, two sources have confirmed to CNN.
A US official told CNN that Bolsonaro is currently flying to Florida. It is unclear how he left Brazil. Bolsonaro said Monday that police forbade him from leaving the country.
A Brazilian source close to Bolsonaro said that the politician had feared arrest in Brazil, where he is under investigation by the country's highest court for alleged acts of corruption, money laundering and currency evasion. Bolsonaro denies all wrongdoing.
At the nexus of an ongoing affordability crisis and midterm election push, the Trump administration's effort to reduce beef prices appears to be falling short. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation in August to temporarily increase the quantity of beef in the U.S. by importing 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings into the country at a reduced tariff rate.
Even MAGA rally attendees are sick and tired of hearing about Donald Trump's ballroom. The president visited Corinth, Mississippi, on Monday night to support the midterm efforts of Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, an incumbent Republican in an increasingly tight race against Democratic nominee Scott Colom. Trump was in the middle of rambling about the condition of the White House when he was heckled about his $600 million ballroom project. "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!" a man shouted from the crowd.
October has brought more attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz than any month since tracking began, with Reuters counting at least twenty-eight. Traffic is falling again, with only five commodity vessels crossing on Saturday and none on Sunday, and more than thirty supertankers have now been damaged.
Kushner reportedly got former Secretary Rex Tillerson fired after the UAE paid him millions"prompting another nation to also pay Kushner to ensure favors of their own, according to a new book.
All told, Mr. Trump's clemency orders have erased at least $119 million in unpaid restitution since January 2025, a CBS News investigation has found. By contrast, clemency orders by former President Joe Biden erased $14,000 during his four years in office, Justice Department records show. The vast majority of Biden's orders were commutations that left financial penalties intact, rather than pardons.
Donald Trump Jr. enjoyed a hunting trip with the Putin-linked Russian oligarch who paid for his lavish Caribbean wedding, it has been revealed. Umar Kremlev, head of the sanctioned and scandal-ridden International Boxing Association (IBA), joined Trump Jr. for a two-day trip to a remote part of western Mongolia in August, where Trump Jr. shot and killed an Altai argali, an endangered horned sheep, the Financial Times reports.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth apparently wants to take his talents to the U.S. Senate.
The news outlet Puck reported on Sunday that Hegseth wants Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to fill her Senate seat after she wins the gubernatorial election in the state next week"a win that is widely expected to happen"and thus vacates her seat in Congress' upper chamber.
Being a senator would be a launching pad for Hegseth's larger reported ambition: becoming president of the United States.
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage." The Buddha Read more
President Donald Trump's allies have questioned the integrity of the Brazilian election. But if Trump were to intervene, it would threaten a fragile trade detente between the two countries.
During a Democratic Party POTUS debate on 27 June 2019, Kamala Harris (D-CA) tagged former VPOTUS Joe Biden (D-DE) for his abysmal 1970s record on racial desegregation. The attack came after Biden came under harsh criticism for boasting about his ability to form personal relationships with race-baiting former Senators James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA). "It was hurtful," Harris said, to hear Biden speak of his bonds with those racist senators. Senator Harris then related the story of a little girl who was in an early wave of children to integrate schools in California, ending the anecdote with these words: "That little girl was me." To better understand the bigoted white Catholic milieu that Joe Biden grew up with in Scranton, PA (before his family moved to Claymont, DE in 1953), watch That Championship Season (1982) starring Robert Mitchum, Stacy Keach, Bruce Dern, Martin Sheen, and Paul Sorvino (71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes).
During the Algerian 132-year struggle for independence from France (1830-1962), by 1875 the French military, security services, and Foreign Legion had liquidated an estimated 500,000 " 1,000,000 Algerians; 1.5 million people were killed in the 1954 " 1962 independence war. On 7 May 1945, when the guns finally fell silent all over Europe, the French military borrowed British warplanes to bomb Algerian freedom fighters. In 1962 when President Charles DeGaulle decided to grant Algeria independence, the French far-right (OAS) conspired to assassinate him, fictionalized in the novel The Day of the Jackal (Frederick Forsyth, 1971). An important film depicting French police brutality and oppression against the Algerians was The Battle of Algiers (1966), which starred one of the former FLN guerrillas tortured by les condes.
The Battle of Algiers
In 1970, the average American weighed 30 pounds less than today. No diets. No gym culture. No calorie counting. So what exactly happened?
In this video, we explore the real reasons why nobody was fat in 1970s America " from the way families cooked and ate, to the way children played, to the size of a dinner plate, to the moment everything quietly began to change.
This is not a story about willpower. It is a story about a world that made willpower unnecessary.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) pushed back on former first lady Michelle Obama's remarks that the U.S. was not ready to elect a woman president. Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," about Obama's past comments, Whitmer responded, saying, "Listen, I have got a lot of colleagues who I think are probably interested in running for president, and I've heard everyone say you can't have this person' or that person.'"
