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Abelardo De La Espriella was sworn in as president of Colombia on August 7, 2026, after defeating Senator Iván Cepeda in the June 21 presidential runoff election. De La Espriella succeeded President Gustavo Petro and entered national office without having p...

U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) has faced scrutiny in 2026 following financial disclosures showing investments in defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, and Honeywell International. These companies supply equip...

On March 3, 2026, the administration of United States President Donald Trump appointed a 22-year-old political staff member to a role connected to terrorism prevention within the Department of Homeland Security. The individual was selected to serve in a ...

Randy Fine under fire for saying dogs are more civilized than Muslims Florida State Representative Randy Fine faced public backlash following remarks in which he reportedly stated that “dogs are more civilized than Muslims.” The comments were made during a...

On February 11, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice, under the Trump administration, abruptly fired Donald T. Kinsella as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York just hours after he was appointed by a panel of federal judges. The decision highl...

European Parliament raises concerns over NATO military transparency In early February 2026, members of the European Parliament raised concerns during committee discussions regarding the level of transparency surrounding NATO military planning and...

A public relations campaign backed by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was disclosed through filings under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act. The campaign was conducted by Show Faith by Works LLC, a San Diego-based marketing firm led by Chad Schn...

On January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the United States Capitol as Congress was certifying the 2020 presidential election results. Marjorie Taylor Greene, then a private citizen and Republican candidate for Georgia’s 14th congressional district, publicl...

On July 10, 2020, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under intense scrutiny regarding the federal government’s decision to award a $912 million student volunteer grant program to WE Charity, a non-profit organization with ties to Trudeau’s family. ...

Casey Wasserman appointed chair of LA 2028 Olympic organizing committee On January 14, 2015, sports executive Casey Wasserman was named chairman of the Los Angeles bid committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a campaign that later secured the 2...

In July 2009, federal authorities in New Jersey arrested 44 individuals, including five rabbis, in a large-scale corruption and money laundering investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service. The operation i...

Media coverage and public recognition of serial homicide have been examined by criminologists and researchers studying race, victim demographics, offender characteristics, and news reporting. Research has identified differences in how serial killers and the...

In 1993, Burundi experienced a brutal ethnic conflict that resulted in a genocide primarily targeting the Hutu population. The violence erupted after the assassination of the first democratically elected Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, in October 1993. Th...

The Zebra murders were a series of killings and shootings committed in San Francisco between October 1973 and April 1974. The attacks resulted in 14 deaths and seven or eight nonfatal injuries, depending on the historical account. The victims were white, wh...

Charlie Chaplin married actress Lita Grey on November 25, 1924, in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico. Chaplin was 35 years old and Grey was 16. Their marriage followed a relationship that had developed while Grey was working in the film industry and was associated wi...

Theodor Herzl (May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904) was an Austro‑Hungarian journalist, playwright, and writer who is considered a founder of modern political Zionism. Herzl promoted the idea of a Jewish state as a solution to antisemitism and Jewish statelessness i...