By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/16/2025 3:00 PM
Israel began its ground offensive in Gaza City, the Israeli Defense Forces have confirmed. So far, 59 people weren killed and 386 wounded in the past 24 hours. ... Read full Story
The deeply documented findings by the three-member team are the latest accusations of genocide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/16/2025 11:43 AM
Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells outlined rules for social media companies to follow as the nation prepares to enforce a ban on social media for children younger than 16 before the end of the year. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/16/2025 11:30 AM
President Javier Milei has outlined in a 15-minute televised speech Argentina's 2026 budget proposal, which Congress will begin debating in the coming days. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/16/2025 10:51 AM
Google on Tuesday announced a $6.8 billion investment into British AI infrastructure and scientific research over the next two years. ... Read full Story
The operation marks yet another escalation in a conflict that has roiled the Middle East for nearly two years and likely pushes any ceasefire farther out of reach. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/16/2025 7:08 AM
An unprecedented second state visit to Britain by U.S. President Donald Trump was due to get underway when he and First Lady Melania Trump arrive later Tuesday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/16/2025 5:11 AM
Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, a United Nations probe by independent rights investigators said Tuesday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/16/2025 5:00 AM
Mexico's government will shift its trade policy next year by raising tariffs on countries without free trade agreements, including China, India and South Korea. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/15/2025 8:32 PM
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction said Monday that the it received a $3 billion order to build a mega-sized seawater treatment plant in Iraq. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/15/2025 7:38 PM
The Zapped military exercise with ally Belarus comes amid heightened tensions with NATO ally Poland after Russian drones violated the country's air space. ... Read full Story
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule out further strikes on Hamas leaders 'wherever they are' while speaking alongside U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/15/2025 5:34 PM
Israel's Ministry of Defense announced Monday the seizure of 187 crypto wallets, believed to have received $1.5 billion and linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/15/2025 5:17 PM
Arab and Islamic leaders expressed solidarity with Qatar on Monday, strongly condemning Israel for its attack last week on the oil-rich Gulf state. ... Read full Story
U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media that three people aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, which came two weeks after a similar strike killed 11. ... Read full Story
Footage shared by the British political protest organization Everyone Hates Elon shows several people unfurling the huge photograph outside Windsor Castle. ... Read full Story
Global Affairs Canada said it was aware of the deaths of two Canadian women in Portugal, with relatives confirming their identities in Facebook posts. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/15/2025 2:23 PM
The government of President Daniel Noboa has terminated a migration statute that made it easier for Venezuelan citizens in Ecuador to obtain visas and residency ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 9/15/2025 2:19 PM
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called for Israeli athletes to be banned from international sports competitions after protestors disrupted the 21st and final leg of the Vuelta Espana cycling race Sunday. ... Read full Story
“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.