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The Midterm Clock Is Now Hanging Over Trump’s Iran War Donald Trump’s war with Iran has acquired another deadline, and this one has nothing to do with Tehran’s nuclear programme or the Strait of Hormuz. It is November 3: the US midterm elections, when Republicans must defend narrow congressional majorities while the president battles weak approval ratings, voter anger over living costs and deep op...

Were sacrifices made specifically to the Sun? One of Succession’s coldest scenes begins not with a corporate threat but with ancient history. Logan Roy tells Kendall that during terrible crises the Inca would sacrifice a child, before recalling Marcia’s question: “What could you possibly kill that you love so much… it would make the sun rise again?” It is a devastating metaphor because Logan is pr...

Who Shot Tupac? On the night of 7 September 1996 , Las Vegas is packed for one of boxing’s biggest events. Mike Tyson is fighting Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Among the celebrities sitting ringside is twenty-five-year-old Tupac Shakur, already one of the biggest rappers in America. The fight itself barely lasts. Tyson wins in the first round. Within minutes, the crowd begins spillin...

The Day Apple Changed Hands For the first time in 15 years, Apple has a new chief executive. John Ternus formally takes over as CEO on 1 September 2026, ending Tim Cook's extraordinary run at the top of one of the most valuable companies ever created and beginning only Apple's second CEO transition since Steve Jobs stepped aside in 2011. This is not a rescue mission. Ternus inherits annual...

Starmer Walks Away: Labour Faces Fight to Keep His London Seat Sir Keir Starmer is walking away from Parliament, bringing his 11-year career as MP for Holborn and St Pancras to an abrupt end and forcing Labour into an awkward by-election in the former prime minister’s own backyard. The resignation comes only weeks after Starmer left Downing Street — and after he had previously indicated that he in...

Why the EU Just Put ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox in Its Highest-Risk Digital Tier The European Union has brought ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox into the toughest tier of its Digital Services Act, dramatically increasing the regulatory scrutiny facing three of the internet’s fastest-growing services. ChatGPT has been designated a Very Large Online Search Engine, while Reddit and Roblox have been classifi...

Keffe D Found Guilty of Tupac Shakur’s Murder For almost 30 years, Tupac Shakur’s murder lived somewhere between a criminal investigation and an American myth. There were suspects, rivalries, confessions, denials, documentaries, books and theories, but nobody had ever been convicted. That changed in Las Vegas. A jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder for his role in the...

1,000 Years of Power, Unions, War and Survival Norway has just entered a new royal age. King Harald V died on 28 August 2026 after more than 35 years on the throne, and his son immediately succeeded him as King Haakon VIII. Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra, just 22, is now the heir to a monarchy whose origins stretch back more than a thousand years. Yet the remarkable thing about the Norwegian mona...

Which Country Wins on Money, Work and Happiness? Norway and the United Kingdom are both wealthy European countries with universal healthcare, developed welfare states, high wages and some of the strongest institutions in the world. Yet the experience of actually living and working in them can feel remarkably different. For someone choosing between the two in 2026, the decision comes down to a fund...

Are Norway’s Controversial New Royals Still Popular? Norway has entered a new royal era. Following the death of King Harald V on 28 August 2026, his son immediately succeeded him as King Haakon VIII , while Haakon’s wife became Queen Mette-Marit . The transition places one of Europe’s most respected royal heirs on the throne — but it also elevates one of its most controversial future queens at per...

How The Victors Turned The Norman Conquest Into A Story Nearly a thousand years after the Norman Conquest, one of the most famous surviving objects from medieval Europe is about to return to the country whose defeat it records. From September 2026 until July 2027, the Bayeux Tapestry is due to be displayed at the British Museum, the first time it has been exhibited in Britain since its creation al...

How The System Separated Mothers And Babies For decades, one of the most consequential moments in a young woman's life could begin with a simple social fact: she was pregnant, and she was not married. In post-war Britain, that could be enough to change where she lived, how her family treated her, what help she received and, ultimately, whether she was permitted any realistic chance of raising...

The Lighthouse Evidence Examined On a December afternoon in nineteen hundred, three men are working inside one of the most isolated lighthouses in Britain. Around them is the Atlantic Ocean. Their station stands on Eilean Mòr, the largest of the remote Flannan Isles west of Lewis, a place where there is no village, no harbour in the ordinary sense and, at the time, no radio connection with the mai...

Why The Arctic Could Become The Next Great-Power Battleground For most of modern history, the Arctic protected itself. Extreme cold, months of darkness, thick sea ice and enormous distances made the top of the world one of the hardest places on Earth to operate. Now that barrier is weakening at exactly the moment relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated and China is seeking influenc...

The First Western Pop Group To Break Into Communist China In April 1985, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley stepped into a country where their brand of brightly coloured, unapologetically Western pop culture had barely existed in public. Wham! were already international stars, but China was something else entirely: a vast Communist state only beginning to reopen itself to the outside world after d...

Inside The Charity Investigation A charity built around fairytales, celebrity generosity and desperately ill children became one of the most trusted small organisations in its world. At its centre is Megan Bhari, a teenager whose own experience of serious illness appears to give her an instinctive understanding of what other young patients need: excitement, attention, presents, trips and moments i...

Who Was Jake’s Imaginary Friend? Netflix’s The Whisper Man spends most of its running time asking whether an old nightmare has somehow returned. Frank Carter, the child murderer once known as the Whisper Man, is still imprisoned, yet children are disappearing again, the old rituals are resurfacing and Tom Kennedy’s son Jake becomes the latest child to vanish. The answer leads to something more dis...

The False-Flag Plans Hidden For Decades There are historical documents that sound more extraordinary after you discover they are genuine. Operation Northwoods belongs near the top of that list. In March 1962, senior US military leaders formally submitted proposals for manufacturing incidents that could be blamed on Fidel Castro's Cuba and used to justify American military intervention. The doc...

The Radiation Machine That Changed Software Safety Forever A cancer patient lies alone inside a radiation treatment room. Outside, an operator enters a prescription into a computer, checks the screen and starts the machine. The console says that almost no radiation has been delivered. The patient, however, has just received an enormous overdose. Between June 1985 and January 1987, six known patien...

How A New Aircraft Became A Global Crisis Two new Boeing passenger aircraft crashed less than five months apart. All 346 people aboard them died. At the centre of both disasters was a flight-control system most passengers had never heard of and many pilots had received little or no training about: MCAS. But reducing the Boeing 737 MAX disaster to a software malfunction misses what made the episode...

The Nuclear Protest That Triggered A Secret Operation Shortly before midnight on 10 July 1985, two explosions tore through a Greenpeace ship moored in Auckland Harbour. The Rainbow Warrior sank at the wharf, photographer Fernando Pereira was killed, and what initially appeared to be an extraordinary act of sabotage soon became something far more serious: an operation carried out by the intelligenc...

What Is Really Happening At America’s Most Mysterious Ranch? For more than three decades, a remote cattle ranch in northeastern Utah has been associated with claims of unidentified flying objects, mutilated livestock, electromagnetic disturbances, strange creatures, radiation spikes and equipment apparently behaving in ways its operators struggle to explain. What separates Skinwalker Ranch from co...

What Happens If Machines Become Too Powerful? Artificial intelligence does not need to become conscious, angry or evil to become dangerous. The more serious fear is much simpler: humanity could eventually build systems that are extraordinarily capable, give them increasingly important objectives and access to the real world, then discover that controlling exactly how those objectives are pursued i...

The Black Pad Mystery On Saturday, December fourteenth, nineteen ninety-one, the distance separating two homes in Coventry is almost absurdly small. Eighteen-year-old Nicola Payne is at her boyfriend Jason Cooke’s address in Winston Avenue. Her parents, John and Marilyn Payne, live nearby in Woodway Close. Depending on the route and the later account being used, the walk between them is described...

Every Major Clue Examined On Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, the Borden household runs according to routines that are familiar to everyone inside it. Andrew Borden is a wealthy businessman with a reputation for thrift. His second wife, Abby, manages the home. His adult daughter Lizzie lives there with them, as does the family’s domestic servant, Bridget Sullivan. The house itself is un...