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In my mid-20s, I was flailing. Then I memorized a baffling poem and learned to stop looking so hard.

This week, Donald Trump approved the military’s first execution by firing squad since 1945. The Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced, will livestream it. The execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who opened fire on dozens of people at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, is now scheduled for December 3. Hasan, at the time an active-duty major in the Army, was shot in the back by police during the massacre and now, paralyzed from the waist down, u

Last year, Rep. Mike Collins, a second-term Georgia Republican who is challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff this fall, posted a meme that appears to have gone largely unnoticed. On the left was a photo of Donald Trump in the Oval Office, pointing to someone just out of the frame. The photo was accompanied by a quote from the president: “Can you turn the lights down? I want to show you something.” Next to it Collins had attached an image and a snippet of dialogue from the 2006 film Blood Diam

The ruling comes in the case of a Mi'kmaw man with severe mental health challenges who was sentenced in Nova Scotia to five years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault against his partner, a Mi'kmaw woman.

“Russia,” Steven Seagal declared, not long ago, “is not interested in conquering the world. We’re not interested in conquering anybody. We’re just interested in protecting our borders and our people.”  Seagal, the American-born actor and ardent supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, often appears at Russian political events, like a parade with an ultranationalist biker gang last year celebrating Putin’s reelection. In this case, though, he wasn’t exactly speaking to the home team

Oktoberfest’s closing party in Munich, rally racing in Italy, traditional handheld fireworks in Japan, a pet-blessing ceremony in Chile, and much more

A short story

I thought my father’s philandering was somehow unique. Then I met the children of other men like him.

When I began the publicity push for How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America, a friend who until recently worked for a major national news outlet offered me advice: Try to get on Fox News or Joe Rogan’s podcast. You’re not likely to change the mind of anyone in their audiences, she said, but you might gin up controversy that would draw attention to the book. And don’t you think, she added, they would welcome the chance to take the Trump–Russia story head-on? She

Equinor says it will retain a 70 per cent operating interest in the project, which would be the first deepwater oil development in Canada if it goes ahead.

I know why they ask, but I still wish they didn’t need my phone number.

The so-called lame duck session of Congress after November’s midterm elections could be momentous for clean energy, as lawmakers are set to consider a long-sought bipartisan deal to speed permitting of large energy and infrastructure projects. Clean energy advocates and policy experts view the bill as a rare opportunity to deal with a major clean energy roadblock—long queues for interconnection to the grid. But division emerged immediately among environmental advocates, with some ar

And what it got right

Albertans are being asked to pick whether to stay in Canada or hold an eventual vote on whether or not the province should leave the country.

A velvety butterfly called the coastal green hairstreak once peppered the fog-capped hills of San Francisco. But then the city began to build out, and new structures fractured the jewel-toned insect’s native range. The butterflies were scattered into isolated populations, some only a few blocks apart—an astronomical distance for a creature that, over its lifetime, can venture only a few hundred feet or so from the native shrubs it depends on. In 2007, when the species was nearly gone from San

State and local election officials are trying to keep up with AI ahead of the midterms.

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most likely because of the climate crisis, a study has revealed. Scientists said the rapid demise of chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski, the northernmost of the […]

Good morning. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navanethem Pillay, a South Africa-born judge on the International Court of Justice, at an announcement in Oslo this morning. More on that below, along with Ottawa’s courtship of Angola and a Quebec village’s zeal for rodeo.