Democratic states and voter advocacy groups challenging the recently released USPS rules were granted a temporary restraining order for two weeks late Thursday night.
There are moments in history when a political system changes because an institution fails, a war is lost, an economy collapses or a revolution overturns the old order. And then there are moments when something stranger happens: The system continues to exist, but the assumptions that made it intelligible begin to disappear. That is the feeling I have watching the United States in 2026.
The number of Canadians missing in Nepal and the Tibet region after a series of catastrophic flash floods has climbed to 30 from 25 on Wednesday, according to the latest update from the federal government.
The floods occurred in a border area of Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China, killing at least 353 and leaving more than 1,300 people missing as of Thursday. Many were foreigners in the area for trekking, guided tours or a pilgrimage to a sacred Hindu site.
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There are presidents who can change the world, leaders like FDR who dictated policy, commanded a World War, and transformed his country into a superpower; and then there is Donald Trump, who has apparently decided that if reality refuses to cooperate, the next sensible step is to rename the furniture.
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal is racing to find survivors of a catastrophic flash flood that has already killed hundreds of people while preparing for the possibility of another surge of water that could strike communities still buried under mud and debris.
Authorities have warned residents, travelers and even rescue teams to move away from dangerous riverbanks as newly formed lakes created by debris blockages on both sides of the Nepal-China border threaten to burst, potentially sending another wall of water downstream just as thousands of people remain missing and damaged roads, bridges and communications systems are making the first rescue effort extraordinarily difficult. Nepal’s disaster authority has warned that a lake formed when debris blocked a river is continuing to rise, while Chinese authorities said another barrier lake could receive about 3 million cubic meters of water over the next three days, creating a high risk of a breach.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others kidnapped when armed men attacked a once-peaceful community near Haiti's capital earlier this week, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that could place privately owned businesses under state management if the government judges they have failed to protect themselves against Ukrainian drone attacks — a move legal experts described on Wednesday as a potential tool for seizing assets from Russian companies under the pretext of security failures.
Published on Aug. 26, 2026
By Steve Kopack
Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, on Wednesday agreed to settle a wide-ranging social media addiction lawsuit with the state of California and a number of other states.
