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For years, Germany’s established parties, backed by nearly all of its major media, maintained a “firewall” (Brandmauer) between themselves and the anti-mass-migration party Alternative for Germany (AfD). “The firewall is probably the most important and the most powerful tool of the left parties in Germany,” Pauline Voss, a politics reporter for the German news outlet NIUS, told Public in an interview on Monday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (R) meets with U.S. President Donald Trump (L) at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States on May 7, 2026. (Photo by Brazilian Government / Ricardo Stuckert / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) Last December, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva struck a sweeping deal with President Donald Trump that included lifting sanctions on Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

Ashley St. Clair; Alex Gibney; Elon Musk (GETTY IMAGES) Elon Musk may have used his Starlink satellites to steal the 2024 election for Donald Trump, according to a new Alex Gibney documentary seen by The Hollywood Reporter (THR). “Two revelations, or at least intimations, especially stand out,” writes Steven Zeitchik.

Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist and IPCC lead author; Marcia McNutt, geophysicist and former president of the National Academies of Science; Gavin Schmidt, climate scientist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Climate policies saved the world from catastrophic warming, say leading climate scientists. On September 1, a consortium that produces analyses for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released new scenarios.

UN Director General Antonio Guterres in Nepal in 2023; Al Gore and then-IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri; Glacier National Park sign falsely claiming glaciers would disappear by 2020. (GETTY IMAGES) Anthropogenic climate change caused a glacier to melt, triggering the flooding in Nepal, said scientists and journalists immediately following the disaster.

People gather to support Lindsay Clancy during her trial (left and right); Lindsay Clancy (center) (GETTY IMAGES) The basic story of the Lindsay Clancy case presented on social media is one about women’s mental health and inadequate postpartum care. Lindsay was suffering from postpartum psychosis and heard a commanding voice that told her to strangle her three children, Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months), in January 2023, many believe.

A damaged section of a highway in Nuwakot, central Nepal, is seen on August 27, 2026, following an outburst of a glacial lake in Tibet. Rescue teams collect dead bodies, while residents displaced by the disaster shelter in elevated areas. The flooding has caused damage to roads and disrupted transportation in the affected region. (Photo by Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Many are blaming climate change for the flood in Nepal that killed at least 903 and up to 5,000.

Nikki momentarily awakens to horror in “Obsession” Yesterday, I described the now-overwhelming body of evidence that the Left, and not the Right, radicalized. Researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Political Psychology Lab found that the Left had grown over ten times more extreme than the Right on core issues from 1988 to 2024. That data is backed up by Gallup and Pew data showing a similarly dramatic asymmetric shift on the issues.

CNN and other legacy media downplayed BLM-related violence; President Joe Biden says "MAGA Republicans" threaten democracy, September 1, 2022; Rep. Nancy Pelosi kneels to recognize death of George Floyd, June 8, 2020. (GETTY IMAGES/CNN) Since 2016, mainstream news media, university professors, and Democratic politicians have argued that Trump and the Republicans grew extreme and that their extremism drove America’s polarization.

Matt Brittin, Chair of the BBC; Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR; Daisy Veerasingham, CEO of AP (GETTY IMAGES) News media organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom believe it is factually accurate and ethical to refer to people by the pronouns they prefer.