She’s Serious Middle

Badenoch says she may need a softer approach

The Tory leadership frontrunner admits she may need to "calibrate" her approach, see by some as combative.

Giorgia Meloni Knows Exactly What She’s Doing

In a country where cabinets and positive approval ratings are infamously short-lived, Italy’s prime minister is becoming a rare paragon of stability.

Top stories - The New York Times - 6 days ago

Badenoch is favourite, but will she clinch Tory leadership?

BBC political editor Chris Mason gives the run down on how the Tory Party leadership result could play out.

Harris camp thinks she’s regained edge on Trump

Vice President Harris and her supporters believe they have the edge in the final hours of the presidential campaign, after several weeks when the campaign felt it was on shaky ground as former ...

Politics - The Hill - Yesterday

A South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them — just not the ones she wanted

Rebecca Kimmel sat in a small room, staring at the baby photo she had just unearthed from her adoption file

World - ABC News - October 15

If Kamala Harris is trying to show she can meet the needs of Black America, she has gaps to fill | Shamira Ibrahim

The Democratic nominee talked to Charlamagne tha God about turning her attention to Black men – but her vision is undercut by reality. As we enter the final 21 days of the 2024 presidential ...

World - The Guardian - October 16

Gisèle Pelicot ‘determined to change society’ as she tells trial that shame of rape lies with the accused – live

Woman at centre of France’s mass rape trial says ‘will and determination to change society’ is what keeps her going in face of evidence heard. Who are the men accused over rape and assault of ...

World - The Guardian - October 23

She had her dream job. Now she's facing death threats, a cyberstalker and growing legal bills

Misinformation researchers say they are facing a more treacherous landscape this election season than in the past, fueled by online trolls and lawsuits.

Business - CNBC - October 23

Harris says she feels 'optimistic' in Philadelphia as she pushes for votes in swing state

Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters as she campaigned in Philadelphia that she felt "optimistic" about voter enthusiasm in the city and reacted to Elon Musk's campaigning efforts in ...

Heidi Klum's Halloween costumes are always epic. See how she's dressed up over the years

NEW YORK (AP) — Halloween has plenty of traditions, from candy to jack-o'-lanterns — and the annual spectacle of Heidi Klum's costume. The supermodel-turned-TV personality is fond of surprising ...

Entertainment - ABC News - 6 days ago

She Was the First Nicaraguan to Be Crowned Miss Universe. Can She Ever Go Home?

After Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe title, her country’s government arrested the family members of the Miss Nicaragua contest director, and she hasn’t returned home since.

World - The New York Times - 4 days ago

Crude oil tumbles as Middle East fears recede

Demand from China weaker than expected, says International Energy Agency

Business - Financial Times - October 15

UK charities launch Middle East Humanitarian Appeal

The Disasters Emergency Committee says the government will match the first £10m raised in donations.

Frank Gardner on what Sinwar's death means for the Middle East

The Israel Defense Forces say it has killed the Hamas leader, the man seen as responsible for 7 October.

Morning Report — What’s next for the Middle East?

In today’s issue: The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza has raised big questions for the future of Israel’s wars in the Middle East and whether cease-fire negotiations can get back on ...

Politics - The Hill - October 18

Israel, Lebanon and the mirage of a new Middle East

Lebanese academic and diplomat Ghassan Salamé on how conflict engulfed his country — and why it is folly to try to reshape the region by force

World - Financial Times - October 19

Over 30,000 at demo in Brussels for ceasefire in Middle East

World - Yahoo News - October 20

Blinken heads to Middle East in wake of Sinwar's killing

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is going to the Middle East in the wake of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. “On my way to Israel and other stops in the Middle East for intensive ...

Politics - The Hill - October 22

Axelrod: Harris in a 'terrible place' on Middle East conflict

Veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod says Vice President Harris is caught in a “terrible place” on the growing conflict in the Middle East, which threatens to turn off Lebanese and ...

Politics - The Hill - October 23

Harris says there must be de-escalation in Middle East

Vice President Kamala Harris said the U.S. is prepared to defend Israel again, but stressed that "there must be a de-escalation in the region" when asked by CBS News' Norah O'Donnell what her ...

How the US election could impact the Middle East

Harris or Trump? The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Jerusalem assesses who Israelis and Palestinians want to win.

Rapidly rising rents squeeze millions in the middle class

Four in 10 middle-class renters pay 30% or more of their incomes toward housing each month, NBC News analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data shows.

These Maps Show How the Middle East Conflict Is Spiraling

In the past year the fighting has sprawled from Israel and Gaza to draw in militaries and militias from across the region.

World - The Wall Street Journal - 2 days ago

Israel unbound: the campaign to reshape the Middle East

Buoyed by military gains, Benjamin Netanyahu now wants to dismantle Iran’s forces across the region

World - Financial Times - Yesterday

Woman donates kidney to a stranger she met hiking on a Utah trail

When Krissy Miller met Pastor Shiller Joseph on a Utah hiking trail, they say it was the answer to both of their prayers. Shiller was sick and needed a new kidney. Krissy had been hoping to save a ...

Novichok inquiry: Who was Dawn Sturgess and how was she poisoned?

An independent inquiry will explore links between Dawn Sturgess' death and the Salisbury poisonings.

Harris rallies in a Pennsylvania bellwether county, calling Trump too 'unstable and unhinged' to be president

Vice President Kamala Harris rallied a packed crowd Monday night in Erie County, a bellwether that has a knack for predicting who carries Pennsylvania, having mirrored the outcome of this crucial ...

Politics - NBC News - October 15

Harris says she's the underdog, Trump compares U.S. to occupied country

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continued to make their cases to voters on the campaign trail over the weekend, with Harris telling supporters in North Carolina that she's the underdog candidate ...

Olivia Rodrigo says she's OK after falling through hole on stage

The Vampire singer was performing her final gig in Melbourne, Australia, when she fell into a hole.

Daughter of Wiltshire novichok victim says she ‘never got to say goodbye’

Girl’s grandmother, Caroline Sturgess, reads statement to inquiry into death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018. The daughter of a woman killed in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings has told an inquiry into ...

World - The Guardian - October 15

‘She preyed upon that empathy’: the TV writer who faked having cancer

Docuseries details stranger-than-fiction truth behind Grey’s Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finch’s extensive deceptions. Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction – even when the fiction is the ...