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On a chilly Thursday night in Dublin last month, the government and police were caught entirely off guard when violent riots broke out hours after a stabbing attack near a busy transit route in the city. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The riots

The lobby of Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry contains just 13 flags—one for each of the self-ruling island’s diplomatic allies. Since 1990, the building’s janitors have hauled away 15 more belonging to nations that have been persuaded to jettison Taipei and instead

YG Entertainment shares surged after the label behind K-pop girl group Blackpink renewed exclusive contracts with all four members of the band.

White House interns demand Middle East cease-fire in letter to Biden  NBC News

White House: Johnson ‘throwing red meat’ to Greene by pushing House vote on Biden impeachment inquiry  The Hill

Javier Milei, who pledged to kill the central bank, cut ties with China and slash public spending has taken a softer tone ahead of his inauguration,

Pepper…and Salt

The Supreme Court signaled it was unlikely to impose strict limits on Congress’s power to tax income, as it heard arguments in a case challenging principles of the tax code.

The NCAA unveiled a proposal that would allow Division I schools to pay their athletes for the first time.

Republican lawmakers chastised the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn at a hearing about antisemitism on college campuses.