Yen Crashes Past 160 to Dollar as Oil Shock Stretches Japan's Defenses
Japan's currency hit its weakest level since July 2024, but this time Tokyo's usual playbook may not work. The culprit isn't speculators — it's oil.
Japan's currency hit its weakest level since July 2024, but this time Tokyo's usual playbook may not work. The culprit isn't speculators — it's oil.
Noelia Castillo spent 20 months fighting through Spain's courts for the right to end her life. Her case exposes the tension between patient autonomy and questions about whether psychiatric illness should qualify for assisted dying.
The IOC's new SRY gene test effectively bars transgender women from female Olympic events. France calls it a 'step backwards.' Trump calls it a victory.
The head of America's top law enforcement agency was using personal Gmail. Iranian hackers found it. Now they're publishing what they found — and it's part of a much bigger digital offensive.
Two verdicts. Two states. $381 million in penalties. The legal shield that protected social media companies for decades just cracked — and investors are pricing in what comes next.
Eleven river basins hold less than a quarter of their normal snow water. Lake Powell could fall below minimum power pool by December. The data tell a story the West cannot ignore.
A US military probe has concluded that outdated intelligence caused a Tomahawk strike on an Iranian school, killing at least 168 people. The finding threatens to unravel claims of precision warfare.
A misconfigured CMS exposed details of Anthropic's 'most powerful model ever' — one the company warns could supercharge cyberattacks. Cybersecurity stocks tanked. The irony writes itself.
A ventilation pipe on the Komsomolets wreck is belching radioactive strontium and caesium at levels 800,000 times higher than the surrounding sea. The good news: dilution is working. The bad news: corrosion has only just begun.
Austria's vice-chancellor says social media platforms are designed to make children 'deliberately dependent.' His government's solution: ban anyone under 14 from using them.
The day before taking office, Nepal's new prime minister released a rap song. Now the 35-year-old former rapper must satisfy a generation that toppled a government.
After 42 days without pay, TSA workers will finally receive their wages. ICE agents won't—and the political fight over immigration enforcement has only just begun.
The US spent years trying to prevent this moment. Now ByteDance and Alibaba are ordering Huawei's AI chips—a milestone Washington's sanctions were designed to make impossible.
Three container ships were turned back at the Strait of Hormuz on Friday morning — the first confirmed interdictions since Iran declared the waterway closed to 'enemy' shipping. With oil at $110 a barrel and Macquarie warning of $200 crude by June, the chokepoint the world feared has become reality.
Four astronauts arrived in Florida on Friday to prepare for humanity's first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since 1972. Victor Glover will be the first Black astronaut near the Moon; Christina Koch, the first woman.
Nearly 500 TSA officers have quit during the five-week shutdown. Workers are selling plasma to survive. Now Trump says he'll pay them unilaterally — but nobody knows if it's legal.
Eleven whales spent three hours keeping a newborn calf afloat—and roughly half weren't even related to the mother.
The only screen-used C-3PO head ever to reach the collector market just fetched $1.05 million — and Wilson the volleyball also exceeded expectations.
The spill is still ongoing. Mexican authorities say three sources are leaking — including a vessel they haven't identified yet. Environmental groups report dolphins, manatees, and sea turtles among the dead.
By age two, 98% of British children watch screens daily. The UK government's new guidance: under-2s shouldn't watch alone, and 2-5 year olds should max out at one hour.