April 20, 2026 Can Groton Reclaim Its Title as the ‘Submarine Capital of the World’? For much of the 20th century, Groton, Conn., was more than a shoreline town with a naval base and a shipyard. It was one of the places where...
April 20, 2026 Chinese Robot Beats Human Best Time in Half-Marathon After Early Stumble A year ago, the idea of a humanoid robot outrunning the best human half-marathon time would have sounded more like a stunt than a serious mi...
April 18, 2026 Trump and Pope Leo Head Toward a High-Stakes Clash Over Faith, Power and War A remarkable confrontation is taking shape between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, one that is less a formal diplomatic crisis than...
April 18, 2026 Lutnick’s USMCA Broadside Opens a New Front in the North American Trade Fight Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has thrown fresh uncertainty into the future of North American trade, declaring that the current trade pac...
April 18, 2026 Cuba Tried to Deliver Secret Letter Directly to Trump Via Businessman In one of the more unusual diplomatic episodes of 2026, Cuba reportedly attempted to get a sealed message directly into President Donald Tru...
March 31, 2026 A Russian Tanker Exposes the Contradictions in Trump’s Cuba Pressure Campaign A Russian oil tanker’s arrival in Cuba this week has laid bare the central contradiction in President Trump’s hard-line campaign against Hav...
March 31, 2026 The Invisible Gas Squeeze: How the Iran War Threatens AI’s Next Big Buildout The Iran war is no longer just an oil and shipping story. It is rapidly becoming a technology-supply story, too, because the conflict has di...
March 29, 2026 Inside the Venezuelan First Lady’s Alleged Family Crime Empire For years, Cilia Flores was known publicly as one of the most powerful women in Venezuela: a veteran political operator, a former attorney, ...
March 29, 2026 Israel Blocks Catholic Cardinal From Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, Drawing Church Protest Israeli police blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on...
March 27, 2026 Iranian Strike on Saudi Air Base Injures U.S. Troops, Underscoring Regional Risks An Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia has injured U.S. troops and renewed concerns about how quickly the conflict in t...
March 26, 2026 Second Sphinx Claim in Egypt Fuels New Debate Over Alleged Underground “Megastructure” A fresh wave of speculation is sweeping across the archaeology world after researchers claimed new scans near Egypt’s Giza Plateau may point...
March 22, 2026 Cuba Suffers Second Nationwide Blackout in Less Than a Week as Energy Crisis Deepens Cuba has suffered its second nationwide blackout in less than a week, a fresh sign of how badly the island’s power system has deteriorated u...