Two hundred miles from LA, an off-grid community with roots in Burning Man offers an unorthodox educational experience – is Mars College the future? A dozen writing students perched around a collection of weather-beaten couches, laptops balancing on their knees, ready to discuss their work. Next up to read was Ira Birch, a poet sporting black boots and a shag haircut. “I told myself I was gonna share today,” Birch said nervously, looking around the circle. “But there are a lot more people here.”
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on March 29, 2026.
Israeli military says primary target, killed in a missile strike far from the frontlines, was a Hezbollah ‘terrorist’ Middle East crisis – live updates Israel killed three journalists in south Lebanon on Saturday, their TV channels and authorities said, prompting condemnation from the Lebanese government who called the killings a “blatant war crime”. Ali Shoeib, from the Hezbollah-owned al-Manar television station, Fatima Ftouni and her brother and cameraman Mohammed Ftouni from the pro-Hezbolla
Acting Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads a Christmas Midnight Mass at Saint Catherine's Church in the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, in Dec. 2025.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on March 29, 2026.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Shift seen away from from traveling to states with legal abortion in favor of telehealth and mail-order pills The abortion rate is holding steady in the US despite total and partial bans in some states – largely because of travel across state lines and a significant increase in telehealth appointments, a new report says. US regulatory officials are weighing changes to the ways mifepristone, an abortion medication, may be dispensed, but they have reportedly pushed their review until after the mid
Guardian - World · Oct 8
State and federal leaders due to discuss assistance for business sectors but petrol rationing not expected to find backing Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Farmers say the federal government must help them with tax breaks and underwriting fertiliser purchases to survive the fuel crisis, with Monday’s national cabinet expected to discuss more assistance to businesses amid ballooning petrol prices. Federal and state
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Anti-authoritarian rallies, taking place in all 50 states plus 16 countries, are expected to be biggest in US history Millions of Americans are expected to take to the streets on Saturday for the No Kings protests against the Trump administration . More than 3,000 events are planned in all 50 states, plus in 16 countries, according to a coalition of organizers that includes “anti-authoritarian” groups Indivisible and 50501, labor unions and other grassroots organizations. “I would expect March 2
