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What happened Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, resigned Tuesday amid intense pressure over his handling of a notorious child abuser. A report released last Thursday […]

It is not particularly surprising that Tiffany Trump would see fit to publicly congratulate her father for his sweeping electoral victory this week. “Dad, we are so proud of you,” the president-elect’s youngest daughter wrote on X in a post

What happened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant Tuesday, sidelining a popular rival as Israel fights grinding wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Gallant’s firing brought thousands of Israelis into the streets in protest. Netanyahu named Foreign

What happened The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to adjudicate a long-running fight over Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, which one federal court ordered to be redrawn as a majority-Black district and a second federal court tried to undo. Black people

What happened North Korea launched a new, more advanced intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday, with Kim Jong Un calling the missile test an “appropriate military action” against Pyongyang’s “rivals.” The test flight reached an altitude of more than 4,300 miles, according

Though he rails against “globalists” and insists that his is an “America First” platform, Donald Trump — like the rest of us — very much lives in an interconnected world. Here, the actions of a single nation are inextricably bound

What happened Steve Bannon, a far-right influencer and longtime adviser to Donald Trump, was released from federal prison Tuesday, returning to his “War Room” podcast to agitate for a MAGA victory one week before polls close on Election Day. Bannon,

In 2017, just weeks into Donald Trump’s first term in office, The Washington Post officially announced a new slogan for the storied and celebrated journalistic institution: “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” allegedly a favorite phrase of iconic reporter Bob Woodward. While

What happened Kamala Harris kicked off the weekend discussing reproductive rights before a crowd of 30,000 in Houston and Donald Trump capped it with a rally Sunday night before a capacity crowd of nearly 20,000 fans in New York’s Madison

What happened McDonald’s was sued Thursday by a Colorado customer who became ill with E. coli after eating at the fast food chain, the first such lawsuit stemming from an outbreak that has sickened at least 49 people in 10