Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is on a mission to boost Malaysia's democracy

ANWAR IBRAHIM'S POLITICAL JOURNEY IS the stuff of legend. As an Islamist student leader, he was plucked out of his relative youth in the early 1980s to join Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's government.

Dianne Feinstein The lioness of the Senate

IN HER PRIME, NO ONE RIVALED DIANNE Feinstein, the veteran lawmaker who defied both label and party orthodoxy during decades at the heart of some of the nation's defining moments.

What can we expect from Sam Bankman-Fried's trial?

LAST SEPTEMBER, SAM BANKMAN-FRIED WAS DESCRIBED on CNBC as the \"Michael Jordan of crypto.\" Just over a year later, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is on trial in a federal court in Manhattan in one of the most anticipated criminal proceedings of the year.

WAR COMES TO ISRAEL

A shocking raid by Hamas kills hundreds and challenges a strategy

The Control Key

Inside Elon Musk's fight-and-fears for the future of Artificial Intelligence

Fight at the Museum

Political pressure led the new Latino-history museum to scrap an exhibit on youth movements

Investigating the white savior-industrial complex

IN 2019, A DEVASTATING NEWS STORY RICOCHETED around the digital-media echo chamber.

Success, revenge, and Jessica Knoll

SUCCESS DOESN'T LOOK THE SAME FOR NOVELIST Jessica Knoll as it did five years ago.

THE KING OF CURIOSITY

Martin Scorsese's new movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, continues his quest for radical truth

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How Russia is recruiting Cubans to fight in Ukraine

ALEX VEGAS DÍAZ WAS SURPRISED to find himself sleeping next to Russian soldiers in a trench in Ukraine, more than 6,000 miles from home. In his telling, the 19-year-old Cuban accepted an offer posted on WhatsApp to make good money doing \"construction work\" for the Russian military.

How NASA got a 'UFO czar' and why it matters

THE REAL CZARS MAY BE LONG GONE, BUT FOR DECADES, the White House has been keeping the honorific alive, appointing a director to oversee a task or issue, and bestowing the title along with it.

More than 2,900 in Morocco Victims of a devastating earthquake

FOR MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER A 6.8-MAGNITUDE EARTH-quake brought down houses and killed over 2,900 people on Sept. 8 in Morocco, people in Marrakech and across the country's High Atlas Mountains were still sleeping outside. While some are afraid to return to their homes in case of aftershocks, others have nowhere else to go.

Impeachment probe - Aiming for Biden

Under pressure from hard-right members, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opened an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Sept. 12 over his family's business dealings, despite an absence of evidence that Biden profited from them.

What's behind the spike in child poverty in the U.S.?

THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY IN the U.S. more than doubled in 2022, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12, the biggest increase since it began using its current method to count them. In 2021, 5.2% of children were living in poverty.

India tried to reintroduce cheetahs-then it all went wrong

LAST SEPTEMBER, EIGHT RADIO-collared cheetahs made the 5,000-mile-long journey from Namibia to Kuno National Park in India.

She Just Had a Baby. Soon, She'll Start Seventh Grade

In post-dobbs America, some girls can go out of state to get an abortion. This is the story of one who couldn't

Girls just want to have fun, yet this feels like work

There's always some way to reinvigorate an old genre, and anybody with the energy and imagination to do so should try.

The D.C. Brief

To hear his rivals tell it, he's a charlatan unfit for the job. But if you listen closely enough, you also hear fear about the prospects of Vivek Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old tech bro who was the surprising bull's-eye of Aug. 23's first Republican presidential debate.

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Outsiders are shaking up Latin America's politics

GUATEMALA AND Ecuador held elections on Aug. 20; two small countries, but revealing some key trends in Latin American politics.

What is Florida's 'hurricane tax'?

IN FLORIDA, IT WON'T BE JUST THOSE with homes and businesses hit by Hurricane Idalia who might be stuck picking up the pieces.

The staggering economic impact of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SWIFTIE TO have been touched by Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, which kicked off in March and ended its first U.S. leg on Aug. 9.

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