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New York Times - World News

2026-06-26 05:01:04 (4 days ago)

How Three Months of War Changed the Gulf Forever

Facing an emerging U.S.-Iran deal that leaves them vulnerable, Gulf Arab countries are reshaping their defense strategies, economies and trade routes.

Fox News - Politics

2026-06-26 05:00:56 (4 days ago)

Socialism vs capitalism: House Dems clash over what NY election results mean for party

House Democrats are divided after far-left socialist candidates swept key New York primary races, sparking debate over the party's ideological future.

Fox News - Opinion

2026-06-26 05:00:41 (4 days ago)

China is building an AI war machine. Washington must wake up before it’s too late

OpenAI's new Jalapeño inference chip signals a deeper U.S.-China competition for control of computing infrastructure, chips, energy and supply chains.

Fox News - Opinion

2026-06-26 05:00:22 (4 days ago)

California’s wealthy are trading the Golden State for the Golden Nugget

California's 13.3% top income tax rate drives residents to Nevada, where zero state income tax and lower costs offer a compelling financial alternative.

Fox News - Opinion

2026-06-26 05:00:18 (4 days ago)

I was lucky enough to escape Cuban socialism. America’s 250th reminds me why

A Cuban immigrant reflects on fleeing socialism and finding freedom in America as the nation prepares to celebrate its semiquincentennial birthday.

The Guardian - World News

2026-06-26 05:00:16 (4 days ago)

‘A beauty pageant in athletic form’: how cheerleading show America’s Sweethearts became a Netflix megahit

The film-makers and stars of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders docu-series explain the sisterhood and fights for fair pay behind the pompoms

It’s been 30 years since the Dallas Cowboys – who have long billed themselves as America’s Team – won the Super Bowl. But now, thanks to Greg Whiteley’s Netflix docu-series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the most reliable and globally recognizable arm of the Cowboys brand may no longer be the men playing football, but the women dancing on the sidelines.

“The footballers are gonna break your heart,” one fan says in the Season 3 finale. “But the cheerleaders are gonna leave you with a smile.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-06-26 05:00:16 (4 days ago)

Claire Fuller: ‘Dylan Thomas showed me that writing could make me feel everything’

The novelist on being inspired by Shirley Jackson, discovering the brilliance of Denis Johnson, and finding comfort in Elizabeth Strout

My earliest reading memory
When I was five and starting school, I would catch a coach from the Oxfordshire village where I lived. Twice a day I read the little metal plaque screwed to the upholstery, which gave the warning “Mind your head when leaving your seat”.

My favourite book growing up
In the late 1970s my dad had a copy of Phenomena by John Michell. Each page covers something strange, which might or might not be true: showers of fish, stigmata, spontaneous human combustion. I would lie on the carpet flicking through the pages and loving the chills it gave me that (maybe) there could be such weirdness in the world.

The Guardian - World News

2026-06-26 05:00:15 (4 days ago)

‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime

The director and activist on her fictional drama Roya, drawing on her experience of imprisonment and torture, and why even in Europe she feels unsafe

Mahnaz Mohammadi is a survivor. The Iranian film-maker and women’s rights activist has been arrested on many occasions and imprisoned several times. In 2011, she was held for months in solitary confinement and tortured. In 2014, she was sentenced to five years and spent several months in prison. A few years ago, she met one of her first interrogators, from an early arrest.

“Do you know what he said to me?” she says. “He said he told his colleagues that after doing all those things, if I were going back behind the camera, it meant they couldn’t do anything with me. When I heard this from his mouth, I thought: ‘He’s right! Nobody can hurt me.’”

The Guardian - World News

2026-06-26 05:00:15 (4 days ago)

From cheap transport to football geekery: how Zohran Mamdani won the World Cup

The New York City mayor has made his mark on the tournament to cap an extraordinary run of sporting success over the last few months

A stunning evening sun was setting behind Union City on Wednesday. It made it slightly harder to see the giant screen that had been set up for the Brazil v Scotland watch party in Hudson River Park, but not enough to ruin the vibe of a New York City World Cup evening. Partly it didn’t matter because the clutch of Brazilians watching the game, kitted out in canary yellow and “100% Jesus” headbands, were already in full samba mode, given how comfortable their 3-0 win was. But mainly it was because this was a beautiful World Cup moment.

This is my eighth World Cup. The outdoor screening, combined with the gentle breeze off the Hudson – I had already navigated the hubbub in Times Square, colonised by chanting Germans and flag-waving Ecuadorians – was as captivating as anything I’ve experienced in Marseille, Seoul, Cape Town or Rio de Janeiro. New York City is perhaps the only place in the world where a World Cup may go unnoticed but the tournament genuinely feels like an intrinsic part of life in large parts of the city, certainly since the Knicks’ victory parade finished. In fact, the feelgood endorphins seem to have segued seamlessly into World Cup fever for many in the city.

The Guardian - World News

2026-06-26 05:00:14 (4 days ago)

As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’

Ultrarich face backlash as billionaire tax in California makes it to the ballot and Americans organize for higher wages

The day that Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, Gilberto Rubio, a security officer in the San Francisco area, said he was thinking about how to cut back on meals to save money.

Jessica Ordeñana, a bartender in midtown Manhattan, was worrying about air conditioning ahead of a heatwave because she can’t afford her soaring electricity bills.

The Guardian - World News

2026-06-26 05:00:13 (4 days ago)

Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better | Polly Toynbee

He’s the only person who can keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street, so let’s embrace his unique blend of optimism and realism

As Keir Starmer bid a brief and emotional farewell at that pillory of a lectern, there was a moment for some to ask: what have we done, and why? He’s not a bad man, not a Boris Johnson or Liz Truss rogue prime minister. How decadent, if lack of charisma has become a sacking offence.

But the reason why isn’t written in Westminster. It’s there in councils up and down the country where the hard-right Reform UK troopers swept through last month, from Barnsley to East Sussex. Look north, where Sunderland has 58 Reform councillors to Labour’s five. Look next door at South Tyneside, where Labour was nearly wiped out, left with only one councillor. Many Labour MPs now find themselves all but alone, their local parties hollowed out in an alien sea of Reform. Here’s why it matters beyond the green benches, beyond MPs’ personal careers, out in the very real world where services are (or aren’t) delivered locally.

ABC News - International News

2026-06-26 05:00:10 (4 days ago)

Driver in 2024 Magdeburg Christmas market attack convicted of murder and given life

A Saudi doctor has been convicted of charges including murder over the car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg in 2024 that left six people dead