A Flydubai flight carrying 174 people from Dubai to Tel Aviv was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after the copilot stabbed the captain and attempted to take control of the aircraft. The wounded captain managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and other crew members to restrain the […]
Singapore is launching a government-run online matchmaking program to address its declining birth rate. The service, called FirstDate, is launching as a pilot program, accepting applications from single public employees aged 21 to 35 years old. The matchmaking system uses the Gale-Shapley algorithm, a Nobel Prize-winning method in economic sciences that matches people based on […]
The Trump administration has spent millions over the past 12 months on food costs for National Guard troops stationed in Washington, D.C. Thousands of military members have been deployed to D.C. since August 2025 as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative targeting crime and public disorder. Roughly 3,000 troops were quartered in the city as […]
The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will take up a challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of mandatory detention for illegal immigrants, setting up one of the biggest tests yet for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda at the high court. The justices approved the petition to hear oral arguments in Rhoney v. Barbosa da […]
Democrats are spending $7 million on television ads focused on tying Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) to data centers, the latest effort by the party to hurt Republicans by linking them to the controversial issue. After data centers emerged as an increasingly unpopular issue at the beginning of the year, Democrats were first to pin the […]
Washington Secrets is on a road trip through Kansas, investigating the issues that will decide whether Democrats can claim their first Senate seat there in almost a century. We start close to the border with Oklahoma, in the far southeast, with ranchers who are increasingly frustrated with President Donald Trump. COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS – Chuck Madron […]
Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed by Tennessee in more than 200 years on Wednesday, but she survived the execution attempt, which was delayed by nine hours, even after officials administered two doses of pentobarbital. Pike was alive as of Thursday morning and was transported to an off-site medical facility, according […]
EXCLUSIVE — Federal agencies sold off used or excess laboratory equipment flagged as high-risk exports that could be used in biological warfare to apparent resellers, according to an undercover investigation conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The GAO found that from fiscal 2022 through 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services and the […]
The two Republicans vying to take over from House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) are pushing hard for a bipartisan fiscal commission to close federal deficits, with both of them saying that all options, including revenue raisers, are on the table. Their positioning represents a break with the stance of many Republicans in years […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) may be in the twilight of his career, but his political power is arguably at its zenith. Sanders’s political influence previously peaked during what became a one-on-one 2016 Democratic presidential primary campaign against eventual nominee Hillary Clinton and his 2020 do-over when he was the last candidate standing against eventual nominee […]
