TodayWhy Editorial 
On Monday, Andy Burnham moves into 10 Downing Street as Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade. On the same weekend, a report landed calling on him to do something no UK government has seriously attempted: let regional mayors keep a slice of the income tax raised in their own patch. Burnham was confirmed as … Read more
At 7:48 a.m. on Friday, July 17, the ground shifted off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Within seconds, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake was rattling buildings as far away as Mexico City and Guatemala City. A tsunami advisory went up for the Pacific coasts of Mexico and Guatemala. Two hours later, it was lifted. No deaths … Read more
President Donald Trump says China stole 220 million US voter files, calling it the largest election-data breach in American history. He made the China voter files claim in a primetime address from the White House on July 16, 2026. The president says the theft started in the 2020 election cycle. He also says intelligence officials … Read more
Update, July 30, 2026: FIFA has moved from investigating to formally charging Argentina. The federation now faces disciplinary proceedings covering the Malvinas banner, discriminatory chants, security failures across multiple matches, and a separate assault case against three team members from the brawl after the final. The original pre-final reporting is preserved below; the “What Has … Read more
Why did senators introduce the Stop Transnational Repression Act? Because U.S. law has never actually defined the crime it targets. Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) introduced the bipartisan bill (S.4967) on July 14, 2026, to create the first federal definition of “transnational repression” and add up to 10 years to prison sentences … Read more
Why is Volkswagen cutting so many jobs? The surface answer is the one in every headline: Chinese electric-vehicle rivals are eating Volkswagen’s market share, tariffs are squeezing margins, and Europe is stuck with roughly 500,000 vehicles a year of unused factory capacity. The deeper answer is less comfortable for Germany: for two decades, German automakers … Read more
Update, 5 September 2026: President Javier Milei has sharply escalated the dispute, threatening sanctions against oil companies operating near the islands and citing new comments from President Trump. Full details are covered in the updated section below. The Falkland Islands (known in Spanish as Islas Malvinas, in French as Îles Malouines, and in German as … Read more
Updated October 2026. The physics is the same everywhere. The current yellow haze over parts of Indonesia is wildfire smoke. Most other yellow skies are not. Why is the sky yellow today? Because something between you and the sun is scattering blue light away. Clean air does that a little, which is why a normal … Read more
🔔 Updated August 9, 2026: A fifth tranche has since been released on August 7, 2026. See our breakdown of Pentagon UFO Files Tranche 5 for what’s new. The short version: On July 10, 2026, the Department of War published Pentagon UFO Files Tranche 4 — the fourth batch of declassified records in the government’s … Read more
Daylight Saving Time (DST) was introduced to make better use of natural daylight and reduce energy consumption during wartime. It was first seriously proposed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it only became widespread during World War I. Contrary to popular belief, it was not created to help farmers. Many farmers opposed … Read more