The Taliban are carrying out a door-to-door hunt for people who collaborated with the US and Western allies. / BBC News High-profile sportswomen in Afghanistan have been urged to wipe their social media and burn their uniforms. / The Guardian Sarah Zhang: The coronavirus is here forever. Here is how we live
New material shows Trump’s team offering yet another quid pro quo in Ukraine, as well as surveilling the US ambassador there. Lessons from a former Obama speechwriter who recently conducted focus groups in Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Miami. What political reporters forget: Twitter stories and micro-scandals don't
Gordon Sondland, US Ambassador to the European Union, says there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine and “everyone was in the loop.” Fiona Hill, Trump's former Russia aide, plans to warn Republican lawmakers to not push politically driven falsehoods “that so clearly advance Russian interests.” In the
Russia says its units are patrolling between Turkish and Syrian forces following Trump’s pullout of US troops. An investigation by the New York Times finds Russia has repeatedly bombed hospitals in Syria “to crush the last pockets of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad.” Kurdish forces hold out in a
The United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands all broke high-temperature records yesterday.Europe's hottest summers for the last 500 years have come in the past 17. There's a strong likelihood that July will end up being the warmest month ever measured on Earth. Forget the
From Chicago to Australia, more greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere increase the chances of abnormal temperatures. See also: “Yes, fire is used to keep Chicago trains running in the cold.” Pictures of Australia's January heat wave, which follows the warmest December on record. Equipment owned by California’
The US Army concludes that Iran was the only winner of our eight-year war in Iraq. Official photos of the president are retouched occasionally for social media to make his face thinner, his fingers longer. See also: Photographs of balloons on the verge of popping. A record 1,500 individual
Trump is considering using funds set aside for disaster relief projects in Puerto Rico, California, and Texas to pay for his border wall. “Siphoning funding from real disasters to pay for a crisis manufactured by the president is wholly unacceptable and the American people won’t fall for it.” Trump’
US prosecutors inadvertently reveal in a recently unsealed court filing that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged. A new food truck in Washington, sponsored by MoveOn, is serving free ice cream with Mueller-related themes. A growing number of Conservative MPs submit letters expressing no confidence in Theresa May amid
