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On the day of closing arguments in a hearing on whether the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk will face a charge that could mean the death penalty, reporters described starkly different images of its principal figures. Erika Kirk, the widow of the conservative activist and organizer, briefly cradled her head in her hands as the…
The battle over SNAP benefits might be being waged from state to state, but federal courts are part of the action, too. Two states that had planned restrictions on the foods that can be purchased by those using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cards have put the moves on hold after a federal court ruled in…
President Trump on Tuesday issued a warning to Tehran amid new military strikes near the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier Tuesday, CENTCOM announced the US Military began striking IRGC targets in Iran. Full statement from CENTCOM: Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran. The strikes follow…
The towers are gone in all but memory, but the death brought to New York City 25 years ago on 9/11 continues to impact the city, leaving a trail of victims. As the nation prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, cancer deaths linked to the attack on New York City’s World…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. California has seen a mass exodus of companies from their state in recent years due to ridiculously high taxes, burdensome regulations, and the draconian lock down policies of Gavin Newsom during Covid-19. Are they trying to fix any of this in order to retain the businesses that haven’t fled? Nope. In…
This story first appeared as the cover story in Issue 4 of The Atlas, a new global publication by Coda Story and The Continent. Sign up to the newspaper here. In late July, at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Philadelphia, the mathematician Jacob Tsimerman was awarded one of four Fields Medals – the…
Partial presidential election results are displayed on a screen at the Zambian Elections results center in Lusaka on 17 August 2026. Credit: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP By Andrew FirminLONDON, Aug 31 2026 (IPS) On 24 August, police sealed off access to Zambia’s courts, closed the day before the deadline for petitions to challenge the results of the…
Closing plenary at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Credit: Anastasia Rodopoulou/ENB-IISD By Kizito MakoyeDAR ES SALAAM, Aug 31 2026 (IPS) When the rains fail across Tanzania’s northern Maasai Steppe, herders drive their cattle farther in search of pasture and water. Boreholes run low. Cattle lose weight, milk yields fall and families begin selling cows, often…
Char residents crossing the Jamuna River by boat (Stock photo, 2016). By Mohammad ZamanDHAKA, Bangladesh, Aug 31 2026 (IPS) Bangladesh’s riverine and coastal chars have always been landscapes of movement, but climate change is making that movement more violent, frequent, and unequal. The shifting islands of the Jamuna, Brahmaputra, Padma, and other rivers now reveal…
Kazakhstan marks the 35th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, recalling the Nevada–Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement and highlighting continued cooperation between government and civil society for nuclear disarmament. Credit: INPS Japan By Katsuhiro AsagiriTOKYO / ASTANA, Aug 31 2026 (IPS) Across the vast steppe of northeastern Kazakhstan, the scars of the Cold…
