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ANALYSIS

Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations Is Growing Even Wider, UN Report Says

The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial institutions, remain unfulfilled promises, a UN report concludes.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY

U.S. Fertility Rates Drop to Record Low in 2025 as Births Fall

Reuters – The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low last year, extending a nearly two-decade decline, provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Thursday.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Who Will Conquer Space?

This year started with a major lunar milestone. A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the moon’s south pole in February. This was the first U.S. touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the private sector.

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ANALYSIS

Gaza Marks 6 Months of a Ceasefire That May Offer Lessons for the Iran War

Friday marked six months since Gaza’s ceasefire deal took effect, a milestone largely lost in the confusion over the new and even more fragile ceasefire in the Iran war.

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POLITICS

Era of Political Violence Means Higher Costs for Candidate Security, a New Report Says

Security spending for congressional and presidential campaigns has jumped fivefold over the past decade as an increasingly hostile political environment has led to escalating threats against public officials, a new report found.

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RELIGION

What Is the Origin of Human Nature?

You can know what is going on in the world and the cause of its troubles. Understanding human nature is the key.

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MEDIA

Why Christians Must Watch the News

Everyone can become sick of the news. Here’s why we should keep watching anyway...

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Artemis II Moon Mission Breaks Record for Distance from Earth

The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew on Monday to the deepest point in space reached by any human.

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SOCIETY & LIFESTYLES

A ‘Missing Piece’: Friendship in a Disconnected Age

Why does losing touch hurt so much? The Bible reveals the answer.

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INTERNATIONAL

Aid Groups Warn Iran War Is Hindering Food and Medicine from Reaching Millions

The United Nations says this is the most significant supply chain disruption since COVID, with up to a 20 percent cost increase on shipments and delays as goods are rerouted.

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MIDDLE EAST

Iran Downs U.S. Fighter Jet, Raising Stakes in War

Iran shot down a U.S. warplane on Friday in the first such known incident of the five-week war, officials from both nations said, with one of the crew members rescued after ejecting and the other still missing.

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AMERICAS

As Freed Prisoners Celebrate in Cuba, Human Rights Groups Demand Clarity and Release of Protesters

The release comes as the Cuban government navigates extreme pressure and a crippling oil blockade by the Trump administration, which has openly expressed the desire for regime change and the release of those arrested for protesting.

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ANALYSIS

‘There Are Things Never to Be Done’—Yet Humanity Does Them Anyway

An overlooked moment at the Winter Olympics revealed a fundamental truth about people.

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ASIA

Food Assistance Slashed for Hundreds of Thousands of Rohingya Refugees Trapped in Bangladesh Camps

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees struggling to survive in Bangladesh’s overcrowded camps have had their food assistance slashed, raising alarm throughout the increasingly desperate community.

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WEATHER & ENVIRONMENT

The War in Iran Sparks a Global Fertilizer Shortage and Threatens Food Prices

“In the worst case, this means lower yields and crop failures next season. In the best case, higher input costs will be included in food prices next year,” said Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program.

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WEATHER & ENVIRONMENT

EPA Watchdog Finds Nation’s Most Contaminated Sites Are Vulnerable to Flooding, Wildfires

About 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires, a potential public health threat to millions of Americans in surrounding communities, the internal watchdog at the EPA has found.

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ANALYSIS

Analysis: War Between Hezbollah and Israel Deepens Fractures in Lebanon

War between Israel and Hezbollah is pushing Lebanon’s fragile state and society towards breaking point, straining sectarian and political faultlines.

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RELIGION

The Real Exodus Story

Exodus has been told as a tale for children, through effects-heavy Hollywood movies, and from the pulpit on Sundays. Yet most everyone misses a central theme of the second book of the Bible.