Private prison company sues California over civil rights law for immigrant detainees
SACRAMENTO — A private prison company is challenging a new California law requiring detention centers to provide medical care, privacy and other civil rights to people detained…
French PM tries to defuse anger over schools, fuel and agriculture in sweeping speech
On Tuesday, between 256,000 people, according to police, and 450,000, according to organizers, joined demonstrations across France. Unions, teachers and left-wing political parties took to…
EU Parliament defends secret ballots that kept far right out of top committee jobs
Specifically, the Patriots are contesting elections in which the chairs and vice-chairs of parliamentary committees were selected after the 2024 EU election. Those jobs were…
Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike’s botched lethal injections
Getty ImagesGrace Eliza Goodwin and Sareen Habeshian8 October 2026, 03:17 BSTUpdated 2 hours agoA death row inmate…
Velur Enterprises Reads the Scoreboard: California Outgrows Texas and Florida as Costs Push Growth Inland
California’s economy grew at a 3.7 percent annualized pace in the first quarter of 2026,…
Canada suspends plans to expand assisted dying to people with mental illness
Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNadine YousifSenior Canada reporter7 October 2026, 17:14 BSTUpdated 11 minutes agoCanada says…
Israelis demand accountability over 7 October failures three years after attacks
ReutersLucy WilliamsonMiddle East correspondent, Jerusalem and Kfar Aza1 hour agoAs the sky began to lighten over…
France halts use of stun grenades after boy’s hand blown off in student protests
ReutersMaia Davies7 October 2026, 10:56 BSTUpdated 58 minutes agoFrance has suspended the use of stun…
EU-Länder wollen erst nach Prüfung durch die IEA neue Ölvorräte freigeben
Bei einem Treffen am Mittwochnachmittag bezogen auch EU-Vertreter diese Position und kündigten an, künftige Entnahmen „bis zu einer klareren Einschätzung der Marktbedingungen und der Risiken für die Versorgungssicherheit durch die…
EU countries will release fresh oil stocks only after top agency assessment
In a meeting Wednesday afternoon, EU officials endorsed the position, pledging to defer any future drawdowns "pending a clearer IEA assessment of market conditions and security-of-supply risks," said one of…
ZEC Gets a WINK as Winklevoss Files for Nasdaq ETF
Part of the Team Since Mar 2024 About Author Ahmed Barakat is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital…
Bitcoin Price Set for a Boost: Arthur Hayes Bets on an AI Boom Bust
Part of the Team Since Mar 2024 About Author Ahmed Barakat is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital…
Arellano: What Steve Hilton doesn’t get about Xavier Becerra’s parents
My maternal grandmother, Marcela Miranda, was born in Arizona’s copper country in 1914 and lived in the United States until she was about 7. She was part of a generation…
What is pneumonic plague and how does it spread?
Getty ImagesDominic HughesHealth correspondent6 October 2026The World Health Organization has asked Russia for more information on the death of a worker at a Siberian plague research laboratory. It is still…
Residents of kibbutz destroyed in 7 October Hamas-led attacks grapple with how to rebuild
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedYolande KnellMiddle East Correspondent, Kibbutz Nir Oz7 October 2026, 06:01 BSTUpdated 47 minutes agoRoosting birds…
US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedSareen Habeshian and Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu6 October 2026Updated 4 hours agoUS death row inmate Christa Pike…
