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Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year

Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly responds to a question during a news conference on tariffs, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Ottawa. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP

Trump is taking a hammer to traditional pillars of soft power : Consider This from NPR

A sign for the United States Institute of Peace at its headquarters in Washington. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to disband multiple federal advisory committees including the Institute of Peace.

Israel has launched a new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire

Israeli soldiers patrol a street in northern Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli military says it has launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, a day after Israel broke a ceasefire with a punishing series of airstrikes that killed more than 400 p

Zelenskyy and Trump speak after Trump's call with Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with the Finnish president at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on Wednesday. Zelenskyy was on an official visit to Finland.

Users are leaving X

A spectre is haunting the social media platform known as X—a spectre of exodus. But the migration from the platform once known as Twitter to alternatives like Bluesky has also sparked warnings about another spectre—the echo chamber.

Musk, DOGE violated Constitution, judge says. And, when egg prices might drop

Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories Elon Musk and the Department of Gove

The Ball Comes to Rest

Surfing YouTube, I came across an interview of Ezra Klein by Stephen Colbert. He was promoting a new book called Abundance, basically arguing that scarcity is politically-manufactured by “both sides,” and that if we get our political act to

Trump's handling of Ukraine and tariffs has NATO rethinking the U.S.-made F-35 fighter

A U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II multi-role combat airplane flies over Ramstein Air Base during a day of fighter plane exercises on June 6, 2024, in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany. T

Why did Israel resume the war in Gaza?

Children look on as people walk amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza drew global condemnation, as it said it had "no altern

Radio Free Europe CEO expects 'pretty drastic actions' following federal budget slash

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty President Stephen Capus speaks about the status of Alsu Kurmasheva, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist who was temporarily detained in Russia, during a forum at the National Press Club on May 3, 202

Sexual misconduct allegations in UN missions topped 100 in 2024

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.

Mexico City bans violent bullfighting, sparking fury and celebration

A young supporter of bullfighting joins a demonstration in support of bullfighting outside Mexico City's Congress where lawmakers are expected to debate its continuation in Mexico City on Tuesday.

Pakistan: Forced Returns Expose Afghans to Persecution, Destitution

(New York) – Pakistani authorities have intensified abusive tactics and other pressure on Afghan refugees to return to Afghanistan, where they risk persecution by the Taliban and face dire economic conditions, Human Rights Watch said today.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sues Trump administration over canceled contract

The Trump administration has put journalists at government-funded broadcasters, including Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL), on leave on March 15 as it froze funding to them.