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May 6, 2026 - World

British voters will cast ballots in elections that could hasten the end of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s troubled term

May 6, 2026 - World

Tehran's emergency service department says a fire in a shopping center near the Iranian capital has killed eight people and injured 40

May 6, 2026 - World

Reporters Without Borders says Burkina Faso's authorities secretly detained and abused a prominent journalist and dozens of others in a makeshift facility

May 6, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump's legacy hinges on an issue he has no interest in addressing, according to one of his biographers. Journalist Michael Wolff argued during a new episode of the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast, co-hosted by Nico Hines, the Daily Beast’s global editorial director, that Trump's war in Iran is shaping up to end a lot like the oil crisis that plagued former President Jimmy Carter long after he left office. Wolff noted that Americans have become increasingly sensitive to rising gas prices resulting from the war, similar to the crisis Carter faced when the former Iranian regime fell, he added. At the same time, Trump has failed to pay attention to the changing nature of modern warfare, Wolff argued. Not only could that cost the U.S. a decisive victory in Iran, but it could also make Trump a footnote in history. "So the lesson that everyone should have been learning if they paid attention to Ukraine — which Donald Trump was not doing, was not interested in doing, and rather stubbornly refused to do — is that the nature of warfare was changing," Wolff said. Wolff added that Trump's team inside the White House has no clue how to respond to the crisis that the president has created. "Everybody within the white House and within the Trump political team is aware that they don't know what to do about this," Wolff said. "They literally do not know what to do. They don't know how to get us out of the war, and they don't know how to manage this on a political basis."

May 6, 2026 - World

Police suspend ‘extensive’ six-day air and ground search in Nova Scotia, citing ‘no new information’Teams in eastern Canada have called off an “extensive” six-day air and ground search of a rugged park for a missing Australian hiker.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said this week it had suspended operations after an effort involving dogs, 100 people, aircraft and ground crews yielded “no new information” in the whereabouts of Denise Ann Willams. Continue reading...