US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned Iran that US President Donald Trump remains determined to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, cautioning that Tehran must choose between relinquishing its nuclear ambitions and facing further American action.
In 48 hours, Mississippi lawmakers heard a packed hearing on maps that critics say could weaken Black political power, police opened a playground graffiti case, and the Justice Department accused UCLA Law of using race in admissions.
Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old Peruvian national, died early Tuesday morning at a hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, after facility personnel found him in medical distress inside Richwood Correctional Center the evening before.
Brazilians are going to the polls in the first round of a highly polarised and high-stakes presidential election that could change not only the direction of Latin America’s largest country but that of the entire region.
Midday update — national averages: regular $4.37, mid-grade $4.88, premium $5.27, diesel $6.34, WTI crude $96.16/bbl — plus what’s actually driving prices and real, cited ways to cut your own fuel costs.
Part 2 of 5: the Big Beautiful Bill cut about $186.7 billion from nutrition spending. What changed in SNAP, what peer-reviewed research shows about work requirements, and what you can do.
Today’s Universal Day Number is 6 — reduced the same transparent way every day’s number is. Here’s the full calculation, the Kemetic goddess of care behind it, the Black feminist scholarship on communal caregiving it echoes, and an honest look at what peer-reviewed psychology says about why numerology readings feel true.
The hearing comes a day after top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigned.