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Month: September 2026

‘F**k you..hurry up and die’: Swing-seat Democratic House candidate’s deleted tweets show far-left record

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — William Lawrence, the Democratic nominee in one of the country’s most competitive House races in Michigan, deleted hundreds of old social media posts in which he embraced police and prison abolition, called for nationalizing fossil-fuel companies to end their production, attacked moderate Democrats and argued for a “fundamental overhaul”

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Microscope images of microalgae from the bloom that formed along the Israeli coast.

‘Extremely rare event:’ Miles-long microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel’s desalination plants

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A miles-long microalgae bloom in the Mediterranean Sea has been blamed for temporarily knocking offline many of Israel’s major desalination plants this week, threatening its main source of drinking water. Five of the country’s six coastal desalination plants — which convert seawater into drinkable water — shut down on

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Mount Tumbledown stands tall behind Stanley on the Falkland Islands

Argentina ratchets up Falklands tensions after Trump casts doubt on support for Britain

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Argentine President Javier Milei has announced plans to sanction oil companies working near the Falkland Islands, escalating a long-running dispute with Britain days after President Donald Trump said the US position on the archipelago was “under review.” In an address late Thursday, Milei reasserted Argentina’s claim to the islands

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A man was pulled alive from a tunnel at Nepal’s Trishuli 3A Hydropower project

‘Don’t panic’: How two men were rescued from a flood-stricken Nepali power plant

By Bhadra Sharma, Kara Fox, Lex Harvey, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Ross Adkin, Hanako Montgomery, CNN Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — Nine days after flash flooding washed away valleys and buried entire villages, rescue workers in Nepal had started to shift their operations from finding survivors to recovering bodies. But then on Friday morning, at the Trishuli 3A

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ICE is trading warehouses for old prisons

ICE is trading warehouses for old prisons

  According to recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement data, the agency made more than 43,000 arrests in June, the highest number since President Donald Trump returned to office, The Marshall Project reports. For many of the people arrested, the first stop is in an ICE temporary holding center. In July, The Washington Post reported that

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NYC public health system braces for federal grant cuts under proposed OMB revision

NYC public health system braces for federal grant cuts under proposed OMB revision

  New York City’s public health system is bracing for possible funding cuts from a federal budget rule change the Trump administration is considering, Healthbeat reports. A proposed revision from the Office of Management and Budget would give the Trump administration broad discretion over how federal grants are awarded, managed, and terminated. Currently, such grants

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