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The Goals can improve life for all of us. Cleaner air. Safer cities. Equality. Better jobs. These issues matter to everyone. But progress is too slow. We have to act, urgently, to accelerate changes that add up to better…

Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus: challenges and priorities for epidemic preparedness and response Affiliations & Notes aBiomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch Unive…

The forgotten art of Bengali advertising I have never seen someone at a rustic village market, anklets jingling, shouting slogans for "Khol Company’s Ringworm Ointment." No smooth-talker has ever leaned in, fanning out t…

Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the “First Opinion Podcast” interview with Sarah Mupo. Be sure to sign up for the weekly “First Opinion Podcast” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your …

In recognition of Juneteenth, this is an abridged edition of SCOTUStoday. Reminder: If you’d like to attend our July 8 term-in-review event at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, register your interest here. The e…

The Political Education of Mark Carney On the world stage, Canada's prime minister is a statesman. In Ottawa, he is a ward boss. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, in Toronto, October 2025. | Markian Lozowchuk/Redux …

June 15, 2026 Following Socrates’ funeral ceremony, two attendees gather around the trays of food and refreshments in the reception hall. Crito: I can tell how upset you are at the passing of our teacher, dear Phaedo. Bu…

Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute. When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 with a direct assault on Kyiv, the conven…

Strait of Hormuz won't reopen 'until Lebanon ceasefire holds and oil waivers issued' Iran's Tasnim news agency, citing a source close to Tehran's negotiating team, reported on Sunday that the Strait of Hormuz would not b…

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and senior Iranian representatives arrived in Switzerland on Sunday to officially begin negotiations aimed at addressing Tehran’s nuclear program and advancing the fragile interim agreement d…

Gaeltacht Loch Garman: When was Irish spoken in Wexford? Is dúiche Éireannach a chaith beagnach trí chéad bliana faoi thionchar na Lochlannach é Loch Garman. Sa bhliain 1170 tháinig na hAngla-Normannaigh chuig an chontae…

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StitcherAI, backed by $3 million in pre-seed funding, launched today with an unusual approach to help companies get a handle on AI and cloud spending before the bills get out of control. Founded by a pair of Seattle ente…

Speech by Emad Aladhal, director of retail banking at the Later Life Lending Summit. Speaker: Emad Aladhal, director of retail banking Event: Later Life Lending Summit Delivered: 16 June 2026 Note: This is a drafted spee…

CISA Announces Winners of the 2026 President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the winners of the seventh annual President’s Cup cybersecur…

Private consumption continued its drop rate in May, falling 0.3% month-on-month and 2.2% year-on-year, marking its sixth consecutive annual decline, according to a report by the University of Palermo (UP). In the first f…

Super-Potent Synthetic Opioids Spread Across US Amid Fentanyl Crackdown This article was co-published with Signal Ohio and STAT. In high school, Ashley Delgado dreamed of becoming a doctor and one day buying her father a…

Marmoush aims to emerge from Salah's shadow as Egypt's hero Omar Marmoush once rejected the chance to play for Canada, but in Vancouver on Sunday will aim to become a national hero back home in Egypt by making World Cup …

Join War on the Rocks and gain access to content trusted by policymakers, military leaders, and strategic thinkers worldwide. The Trump administration has not been kind to India. Nevertheless, India has responded with fa…

MAGA Merch Tells Us Who Dad Is There are few lists more confounding than a Father’s Day gift guide. This is largely by design. The not-so-subtle commentary embedded into the formula of these lists is that dads are inscru…

America Spent a Fortune Shooting Down Cheap Drones. Now the Missile Stores Are Bare. After burning through interceptors in the Iran war, the U.S. faces a dire math problem: Enemies can build drones faster than America ca…

Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a Tyrannosaurus rex, Louis Pope Gratacap’s The New Northland (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exh…