A US Army master sergeant helped plan the classified raid to capture Nicolás Maduro, then bet $33,000 on Polymarket that it would succeed. He walked away with $409,881 — and now faces decades in federal prison.
France dropped climate change from this week's G7 environment meeting to avoid antagonizing the United States. Six nations that accept the science on warming will now discuss everything except the crisis that defines them.
Italy didn't qualify for the 2026 World Cup. A Trump envoy wants to hand them Iran's spot — not for any soccer reason, but to smooth things over with Italy's prime minister after a dispute about the Pope.
The European Commission says its age verification app is ready. The hard part — making a ban actually work across 27 countries, dozens of platforms, and millions of determined teenagers — is just beginning.
A three-point margin in Virginia could shift four seats in the US House — and with them, control of the chamber that approves American defense spending and foreign aid.
Federal prosecutors say the SPLC secretly funneled over $3 million to members of the very hate groups it promised donors it would dismantle. The civil rights group says the program saved lives — and the charges are politically motivated.
The $1.5 trillion request does not include the war in Iran. It does include a space-based missile shield, the largest shipbuilding push since 1962, and a drone warfare office whose budget now exceeds the entire Marine Corps.
All 27 judges concurred — the first time a member state has been found in violation of the EU's fundamental rights charter. Nine days ago, Hungary voted Orbán out. Now the law he built to mobilise conservative voters has to go.
The text messages did what earlier complaints couldn't — force out Trump's third cabinet secretary in eight weeks. Lori Chavez-DeRemer's departure exposes a vetting problem at the highest levels of the administration.
Rumen Radev's 44.7 percent landslide is the strongest mandate any single Bulgarian party has won in nearly 30 years. He opposes arming Ukraine and wants to talk to Moscow. His country sits on NATO's southeastern flank.
$760 million in oil futures changed hands in a single minute, 20 minutes before Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz. Regulators are now investigating the fifth such spike ahead of a Trump announcement.
Billions in tariff collections just became illegal retroactively. Starting Monday, businesses can line up to get their money back — and every trade negotiation built on those tariffs just lost its foundation.
A federal judge found probable cause that the Trump administration committed a crime by defying his order on deportation flights. A higher court just told him to stop investigating.
Facebook approved the group. Apple approved the app. Then the DOJ called, and both vanished. A federal judge says the government violated the First Amendment.
Next week, Japan's cabinet will vote to let defense firms sell destroyers and missiles to the world. The cause isn't Beijing — it's doubt in Washington.
Four polling institutes now rank the far-right AfD as Germany's strongest party. Chancellor Merz's personal approval has fallen to his lowest ever. Coalition satisfaction: 27 percent.
Two proposals failed after midnight. Congress bought itself 10 days to argue about a surveillance law that lets US agencies read the world's communications without a warrant.
The UK's security vetting service said no. The Foreign Office said yes anyway. Keir Starmer's defense is that nobody told him — and members of his own party want him gone.
The House rejected an Iran war powers resolution by a single vote. The Senate did the same a day earlier. Both chambers just surrendered the Constitution's most consequential check on executive power.
Children as young as 12 can now receive life sentences for gang membership — even as accomplices. The law passed with 58 of 60 votes. Four years of emergency rule show no sign of ending.
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