Drone strikes kill over 1,000 civilians in Sudan in the first 5 months of 2026, UN rights chief says
CAIRO (AP) — Drone strikes killed more than 1,000 civilians in war-torn Sudan in the first five months of 2026, a senior United Nations official said Monday as the unmanned aerial vehicles turn the conflict deadlier for civilians. U.N. High Commissioner for Human...
Justices to consider rights for green card holders stuck in immigration detention
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court on Monday took up an appeal from the Trump administration concerning the rights of green card holders stuck for months in immigration detention. In a pair of cases involving two longtime residents with permanent legal status, the...
Fox to buy streaming pioneer Roku in a $22 billion deal
(AP) — Fox Corp. has agreed to buy the streaming pioneer Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion, including debt. Roku will continue to be run as an open, partner-friendly platform, the companies said Monday, and there appears to be no...
UK court upholds terrorism ban on pro-Palestinian group
LONDON (AFP) — London’s Appeals Court on Monday upheld a U.K. government ban on activist group Palestine Action that has seen thousands of people — from students to an 83-year-old retired vicar — arrested and carried away from protests by police. The ban, which...
Prominent Cambodian opposition politician seeks Supreme Court reversal of incitement conviction
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A prominent Cambodian opposition politician emerged Monday from his Supreme Court appeal to a crowd of cheering supporters, telling them he was anxious for judges to overturn his incitement conviction so that he could get back...
Supreme Court snubs anti-abortion flyer case, leaving school political speech off docket
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court refused on Monday to review whether an Indiana high school violated a student’s speech rights by prohibiting political messaging in an ad for an anti-abortion club. A freshman identified as E.D. sought to hang flyers for a local...
Underground bees could be better armed for global warming
(CN) — Australia’s slender-stem-nesting native bees face the greatest near-term risk from rising temperatures, even though they have evolved the highest heat tolerances among their peers, according to the authors of a comprehensive new study. Researchers tested the...
Son of Norway’s crown princess guilty of rape, sentenced to four years in prison
(CN) — Marius Borg Høiby, son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, was sentenced to four years in prison Monday after Norway’s Oslo District Court found him guilty of all but four of 40 charges, including two counts of rape, along with domestic abuse, violating...
Venn and the art of political maintenance
Since pardons are now for sale at the White House, it’s time for an innovation that streamlines the criminal process. Discworld provides a sensible model that not only makes crime more efficient but could easily balance the national budget: The Guild of Thieves,...