Elena Petrova
It was supposed to be a picture-perfect moment for the Oz family inside the Oval Office, until things took a frightening turn. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity surgeon-turned-political appointee, had ju… [+4005 chars]
Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, left, has expressed confidence in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images <ul><li>Jerome Powell has drawn the ire of Trump… [+3090 chars]
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Four days before Donald Trumps inauguration, financi… [+11309 chars]
The Trump administration pledged this week to substantially reduce the high prices Americans commonly pay for their prescription drugs. It’s a promise that will undoubtedly come up short. On Tuesday… [+5200 chars]
VATICAN CITY (AP) U.S. Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration's migrant… [+2478 chars]
BUDAPEST, Hungary Atop a cobblestone hill overlooking the Danube River and the medieval lanes of Budapest, tour groups surround a changing of the guard ceremony in front of a 13th century baroque cas… [+12066 chars]
The White House Easter Egg Roll is an annual event first hosted in 1878.Kent Nishimura/Getty Images <ul><li>The 2025 White House Easter Egg Roll will take place on Monday.</li><li>The event secured … [+4240 chars]
For the better part of A's life, she never suspected anything was wrong. She breezed through getting her driver's license. She applied to college and filed her taxes year after year without any hicc… [+10636 chars]
Pope Francis did not attend the Vaticans official meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Saturday, instead having his No. 2 deliver a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement. P… [+2806 chars]
ROME Iran and the United States will begin having experts meet to discuss details of a possible deal over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program, the top Iranian diplomat said Saturday after a se… [+5417 chars]
Republican lawmakers associated with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce are probing the 23andMe bankruptcy out of concern for Americans’ DNA information. The troubled genomics company has be… [+2501 chars]
President Trumps unprovoked attack on higher education was a call to action which has been answered by Harvard and leaders from over 100 other schools. It has also taught an important lesson: giving … [+4665 chars]
Reform UK leader on campaign trail as poll predicts rightwing party could be on course to win in a general electionNigel Farage has defended allowing labelled chlorinated chicken from the US as part of a trade deal, as a new poll suggested his Reform party could be on course to take the highest number of seats at a general election.Speaking ahead of the local elections in England, the Reform leader said British consumers already eat chicken from places such as Thailand reared in poor conditions, and accept chlorine-washed lettuce. Continue reading...
In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at technology conference Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years agoTo walk into the lion’s den once might be considered foolhardy. To do so again after being mauled by the lion? It’s what … ill-advised? Reckless? Suicidal? Six years ago I gave a talk at Ted, the world’s leading technology and ideas conference. It led to a gruelling lawsuit and a series of consequences that reverberate through my life to this day.And last week I returned. To give another talk that would incorporate some of my experience: a Ted Talk about being sued for giving a Ted Talk, and how the lessons I’d learned from surviving all that were a model for surviving “broligarchy” – a concept I first wrote about in the Observer in July last year: the alignment of Silicon Valley and autocracy, and a kind of power the world has never seen before. The key point I wanted to get across to this powerful and important audience is that politics is technology now. And technology is politics. Continue reading...
More large-scale protests, rallies and other actions against the Trump administration are set to take place in cities across the U.S. this weekend, with organizers hoping to seize on what they say is… [+2622 chars]
A court in Tunisia has sentenced a group of senior politicians, businessmen and lawyers to long prison sentences on conspiracy and terrorism charges. The defendants received sentences of up to 66 ye… [+1714 chars]
The opposition is fighting among themselves a week before elections
Move by Doge comes as Trump administration is seeking changes to America’s cultural institutions