Serving in public office in the U.S. is dangerous. From state and local government to Congress, an unending river of violent threats is washing through the mailboxes, offices, voice mail and texts. Thousands of public servants are working and campaigning in fear www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

At least 12 people have been killed and 309 injured in an attack on the international airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Operations at King Khalid International Airport have been suspended after the attack www.bbc.com/news/article...

CNN’s Harry Enten breaks down new polling data revealing historic low approval numbers for Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections. Enten compared the numbers to past presidents and the severe headwinds facing Republicans heading into the election www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQUh...

In Cairo's Manshiyet Nasser district, nearly 120,000 residents process a third of the megacity's waste every day. These informal recycling specialists are now undergoing a dramatic transformation due to tensions in the Strait of Hormuz www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPku...

Elon Musk is a powerful and controversial figures in business, science, tech and politics. He played a central role in the Trump administration. A new documentary is chronicling Musk's rise to power and embrace of right-wing politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwAQ...

Forest fires from Indonesia's Sumatra and Kalimantan islands are causing severe air pollution in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore has topped global air pollution rankings. In Malaysia, schools in several states have closed due to haze www.youtube.com/watch?v=rup_...

Texas Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton is facing renewed political scrutiny after being photographed traveling to Iceland with Tracy Duhon, who had a longstanding romantic relationship with him while he remains legally married to State Sen. Angela Paxton saobserver.com/who-is-tracy...

Ashley St. Clair was offered $40 million for silence on Elon Musk: My only job after years of propaganda and dishonesty and being involved in MAGA for almost a decade is to be honest and set an example for my kids. My job is not to set a new narrative about myself www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/m...

Emirati investigators said that the co-pilot who attacked the captain of a FlyDubai flight last week had intended to carry out a Sept-11-inspired suicide mission, crashing the airliner into Israel’s biggest airport. He had extreme Islamist views over several years. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/w...

Law enforcement authorities in India took extraordinary measures to prevent protesters from assembling in the capital, ordering the cancellation of trains bound for Delhi. They also effectively put several would-be protesters under house arrest www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/w...

Indonesia produces more nickel than any other country, supplying over 60 percent of the world’s nickel. But women living near or downstream from Indonesia's polluting nickel industry are facing some of the greatest burdens to their health, well-being, and livelihoods cri.org/indonesia-ni...

Near Colorado River, @billyidolfeed.bsky.social had a performance in Hoover water dam. He sang "Eyes Without a Face" with this spectacular background www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLgN...

President Prabowo invited 800 generals to the palace, calling for improvements to the recruitment of military and police personnel, saying future warfare would increasingly rely on drones and require greater intellectual capabilities www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

Former special counsel Jack Smith defended his investigations into Donald Trump, “I stand by my decisions as special counsel,” including to bring charges against Trump, and his actions were based on the facts and law rather than Trump’s 2024 candidacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qm...

In Idaho, traditional Republicans and newer hardline-right politicians are tussling for power. Idaho has become a bellwether for the fight over what a post-Trump Republican Party could become with some of the U.S.’s most conservative legislation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou-Y...

Indonesia's Constitutional Court dismissed a petition challenging Vice President Gibran’s election win over a lack of educational qualifications when he ran for office in 2024, saying the petitioners had no legal standing to pursue the case www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

Indonesia’s forestry ministry has posted a notice saying it will use a controversial internet law to prosecute anyone who downloads geospatial data without its written permission, threatening prison terms of up to nine years news.mongabay.com/2026/10/indo...

Mecca Alliance, which includes Turkiye and Pakistan, agreed to support Saudi Arabia in fighting against the Houthis in Yemen with military deployment www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...

Lecture in Canberra with Marcus Mietzner: Thinking about political elites in Indonesia and beyond bellschool.anu.edu.au/event/thinki...

Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Yemeni government attacked the Iranian-backed Houthi militia on Monday to try to reclaim territory along the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a choke point at the southern tip of the Red Sea www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/w...