Opinion: Colorado can protect critical lifelines before the next major flood

Roads, bridges, utilities and communications systems belong at the center of flood planning

India’s rate hike a loud warning shot for Modinomics

It’s not often that events in Mumbai reverberate through global markets. But the Reserve Bank of India’s first interest rate hike in almost four years…

Andrew Charlton flags requiring AI companies to run tough ‘risk management’ systems

The process would require companies to find, test, report and manage the risks of their systems

Polish president shows off his boxing skills to boxing legend Manny Pacquiao

10-8-2026 Thursday News List

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Grattan on Friday: Unless you’re Pauline Hanson, the migration debate can be a dangerous sinkhole

When opposition started talking about cutting immigration it would have thought, on the basis of polling, that it was tapping into a vein of political…

Labour Dept. investigates fatal accident at Tung Chung gov’t housing construction site

Hong Kong’s Labour Department has opened an investigation into a fatal accident in which a construction worker died after falling from a height. Police received…

Indonesia should count the real cost of its mineral incentives

Every year, the Indonesian government forgoes taxes it could collect. Through tax holidays, rate cuts and exemptions, it courts investment while easing the burden on…

This Is a Total Disaster!

🚨 Trump DOJ’s Midterm Operation Just GOT SCARY…

Hong Kong police arrest parents of 11-year-old girl filmed carrying dozens of beer cans

Hong Kong police have arrested the parents of an 11-year-old girl who was filmed carrying dozens of beer cans through Tuen Mun while her father…

Many are shocked by the domestic violence charges against Sam Wood, but we shouldn’t be

The allegations against the fitness guru have sparked a discussion about our perceptions of who might be capable of violence and why.

Trump’s Texas gerrymander scheme not working as planned

Malcolm Gladwell on Policing in America, Assault Rifle Bans & New Book The American Way of Killing

Jessica Chastain Teaches Jimmy Kimmel How to Do the Other Mommy Creepy Smile

Bit by bit, the Taliban is losing control of Afghanistan

Five years after seizing Kabul, the Taliban’s strongest argument for international acceptance rests on control. The Taliban governs every provincial capital and faces no conventional…

Border agents pepper-spray Arizona border ‘tree sit’ protesters, arrest activist who locked self to truck

Protesters engaged in a months-long 'tree sit' to halt border wall construction were pepper-sprayed by Border Patrol agents Wednesday, with one of the demonstrators locking…

Some small businesses are paying tax bills with credit cards. What will happen when they can’t?

A looming ban on using credit cards to pay tax bills will mean one less option for juggling tight cash flow. But the government is…

Key Trump campaign advisers make bizarre detour to Putin-aligned country

Amish Shah hammers Trump ties as Jay Feely warns of ‘big government socialism’ in CD1

Former Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely and emergency room doctor Amish Shah faced off in a tense debate Wednesday evening over who is best suited…