Author: Diana Magnay

Tehran offers a $60,000 reward for the missing US pilot as an airstrike hits near a nuclear plant. In Israel, a projectile detonated in Kiryat Shmona without warning sirens. And Iraq has closed a border crossing with Iran after airstrikes killed an Iraqi citizen on the Iranian side.Read More

The Huskies have a very famous fan, thanks to one of their assistant coaches.Read More

Met police say 19-year-old man held at Westminster magistrates court, where three other men charged over attackRead More

US and Iranian forces are searching for a missing American crew member after a US warplane was shot down.Read More

The next steps in the US military campaign against Iran will commit nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, drawing them from stockpiles devoted to other regions.Read More

Markets appear stable on the surface, but underlying stress is building across interconnected commodity chains—oil, gas, petrochemicals, fertilizers, helium, and logistics—raising the risk of a systemic breakdown.Read More

Global approval of China surpassed the U.S. in 2025, the widest favorability gap between the two countries in almost 20 years, according to a new Gallup poll released Friday. Gallup found that Chin…Read More

These countries’ preferences “reflect deep negativity toward the U.S. more than strong enthusiasm for China,” according to Gallup.Read More

The study analyzed 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks and found that Bitcoin posted stronger returns than gold and the S&P 500 in each period.Read More

As the U.S. pulls out of providing billions of dollars of aid for programs globally, NPR’s reporters find out what that looks like on the ground – and how China is moving in to take America’s place.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.This episode was produced by Linah Mohammad. It was edited by Adam Raney and Gisele Grayson. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.Read More