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Kenneth Feinberg spent three years distributing compensation to victims of the September 11th attacks — a program he calls unique in American history, and one no administration has repeated.

A woman writes to advice columnist Abigail Shrier asking how to explain her divorce to the two sons who will one day ask why their parents split. The record shows there is no tidy answer — only the discipline of living with that.

For more than 40 years, King Cove, Alaska has sought a gravel road to an all-weather airport 18 miles away. Environmental activists have kept it blocked, and residents keep dying.

A UNICEF-led nutrition survey published July 22, 2026 found acute child malnutrition in Gaza at 0.5 percent — one of the lowest rates in the region, and a stark reversal from declarations made almost exactly a year earlier.

A new essay argues that the U.S.-Israel alliance has hit the hard limits of American political will — and that a greater separation may, in fact, serve Israel's long-term interests.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 181 people and injured more than 2,500 in Colombia, according to President Abelardo de la Espriella, as authorities continue searching for survivors trapped under debris.

July's employment data handed Ottawa an unexpected split-screen moment — private-sector growth, a shrinking public payroll, and a two-year low in unemployment, all while Washington revised its own numbers downward.

According to investment bank Stifel Institutional, almost 70 percent of dollars spent on global pharma deals in 2025 — $137.7 billion — are going to start-ups based in China. The slope of that curve should alarm anyone who cares about where tomorrow's medicines come from.

A false social media claim about a Supreme Court asylum ruling triggered a rush on Spain's North African exclave. Aidan Stretch reports from the fence.

Washington's diplomatic posts across the region issued a coordinated alert Saturday citing the possibility of 'unforeseen escalation' — and pointing directly at Tehran's unpredictability.

On the morning of Saturday, August 1, two men on a motorcycle shot Jhon Luis Flores Guerrero four times at a red light on Avenida 9 de Octubre in Lima's Rímac district — within meters of a National Police division.

A woman carrying a homemade explosive device was stopped at the door of an Italian restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening. The device detonated anyway, killing her, the guard who blocked her path, and a restaurant patron.

A flagship education project of the Petro government is days away from its announced opening with no utility connections, no construction timeline, and a disputed student count. The incoming Espriella administration inherits the mess.

A cross-party bloc of local officials says the government's property-tax compensation formula rewards Chile's wealthiest municipalities and bypasses the solidarity fund designed to help the rest.

A recording aired by Revista Semana shows a CHEC director receiving cash in five-million-peso bundles from a subcontractor — and the city council is now demanding his immediate suspension.

The U.S. Embassy in Lima has announced funding for an elite Peruvian police unit, with FBI oversight and a full investment agenda attached — a signal of where the bilateral relationship is heading.

The Peruvian midfielder capped a 4-1 win over Novi Pazar with a chest-and-volley goal in the 67th minute — his first statement in Serbian football and a signal to coach Mano Menezes.

Thirteen deaths tied to respiratory syncytial virus — twelve of them children under five — and the government's answer is to wait until 2027. Panama's leading medical societies say that is a decision, not a delay.

With less than a week before leaving office, the Petro government named Energy Minister Edwin Palma as ad-hoc minister of both Labor and Housing — a concentration of authority that raises procedural questions and lands in the middle of a contested labor intervention.

Preliminary hearings in Cali have reconstructed, minute by minute, the killing of María Camila Potosí — a 22-year-old whose trust was weaponized against her. Five suspects are now in custody; the record is chilling.