General Assembly

The UN General Assembly has endorsed the Equal Earth projection, a map that displays countries' sizes proportionally to one another. The new projection differs from the centuries-old Mercator map, which critics argue distorts Africa's actual size.

The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation, Celeste Saulo, has warned that El Niño conditions are 'almost certain' to intensify into a very strong event in the coming months and persist until February 2027, in an interview with Sky News.

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has continued cross-border attacks that Pakistani military chief General Asim Munir attributes to insurgents operating from Afghanistan, according to WION. Munir has publicly characterized Pakistan's counterinsurgency operations as peacekeeping efforts, a framing WION disputes, reporting that Pakistani military operations have resulted in...

Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, stated in an interview with France 24 that decades of what she terms "carbon procrastination" have made exceeding the 1.5°C climate warming threshold inevitable. The focus has shifted from whether the world...

President Trump criticized Democratic Senate candidate Rep. James Talarico during an Oval Office appearance on Wednesday, using the nickname 'Talafreako' and describing him as 'one of the worst candidates I've ever seen.' Trump simultaneously endorsed Republican Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, calling him 'the...

Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate after what she describes as a 17-to-1 fundraising disadvantage. In an interview with Vox's Astead Herndon, Nixon attributes her victory to community organizing rather than paid media, outlines her progressive policy positions, and...

The Trump administration announced a partnership with North American Blue Energy Partners to operate Venezuelan oilfields previously controlled by Chinese and Russian companies, according to the White House on Monday. The deal grants the Pentagon a stake in roughly one-fifth of Venezuela's proven oil reserves....

According to NPR, Meta has reached a settlement with state attorneys general over allegations that its products, including Instagram, are addictive and harmful to children. The deal is among the largest ever struck by a U.S. company against a tech platform, NPR reports, and follows...