HUMANS of the future could have enormous lungs to live in underwater kingdoms, or biohacked brains where memories can be bought and sold for a fee. That’s according to two experts in pushing the human body to its limits discussing what “humans 2.0” will look like. Speaking at Lisbon’s Web Summit on Tuesday, Kernel founder […]

While US President Donald Trump praises Vietnam as a friend at the APEC summit in Da Nang, videos from the time of the Vietnam War show gruesome pictures of the US air assaults more than half a century ago. On Thursday, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) published a series of videos relating to […]

Teenage thugs in Britain must be handed harsher prison sentences, quicker, says Britain’s top police officer. Cressida Dick CBE says some youngsters have committed dozens of crimes, ranging from violence to theft, but have never spent a day in prison. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner used the example of a 16-year-old’s crime spree spanning three years. […]

The U.S. Border Patrol is losing agents faster than it can hire them, according to a new audit released Wednesday that said competition with other federal law enforcement and the difficulty of passing a polygraph test have sapped the agency of nearly 2,000 agents it’s supposed to have. More than 900 agents leave each year […]

As scores of public school teachers marched in San Juan Thursday to demand the reopening of their schools, US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited Puerto Rico to further the ongoing project of converting the island’s public schools into for-profit charter schools. The billionaire heiress who has long funded schemes to privatize public education met with […]

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, says the company was designed to “consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible” and warns the platform could affect developing minds in negative ways. At an Axios event Wednesday, Parker, 38, the billionaire co-founder of Napster and an early investor in Facebook, confessed that […]

Government ministers who support Palestine have been accused of pushing damaging stories about Priti Patel, which forced her to resign from the Conservative cabinet. The International Development secretary stood down after it emerged she held 12 secret meetings with Israeli politicians during a family summer holiday. It later became apparent she had held yet more […]

ISIS’ self-proclaimed caliphate wreaked destruction over three years in Syria with many of the country’s historic sites completely destroyed.

Today, California is the most populous state in the US. But its history includes the deliberate mass murder of Indigenous people in the 1800s. In this excerpt from An American Genocide, Benjamin Madley argues that this organized catastrophe qualifies as genocide. As the sun rose on July 7, 1846, four US warships rode at anchor […]

The three richest people in the US – Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett – own as much wealth as the bottom half of the US population, or 160 million people. Analysis of the wealth of America’s richest people found that Gates, Bezos and Buffett were sitting on a combined $248.5bn (£190bn) fortune. The […]