California’s long-delayed high-speed rail project is again in financial crisis, with officials now asking the state legislature for an additional $1 billion annually to keep it afloat. The request follows President Donald Trump’s 2024 decision to revoke $4 billion in federal funding, citing a federal report declaring “no way forward” for the embattled project.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry sharply condemned American filmmaker Woody Allen on Monday for participating virtually in the Moscow International Film Week, a film festival held in Russia. Allen’s video appearance drew strong rebuke from Kyiv, which labeled it “a disgrace and an insult” to Ukrainians suffering under Russia’s ongoing invasion.
Sexual offence convictions involving foreign nationals in Britain have surged by over 60% in just four years, significantly outpacing the rise in convictions among British citizens. The Ministry of Justice revealed migrants accounted for 14.1% of rape and sexual offence convictions in 2024—roughly one in seven—according to Police National Computer data.
Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador this week after confirming Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) orchestrated antisemitic arson attacks on Jewish sites in Sydney and Melbourne. This marks the first time since World War II that Australia has expelled an ambassador, signaling a historic escalation in diplomatic consequences for foreign-directed terror.
In August 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared, “Wir schaffen das” ("We can do it")—a phrase that would become the slogan of a migration policy shift that changed Europe. What followed was an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers, primarily from the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia, with Germany absorbing the brunt. A decade later, the social and demographic impacts of that decision continue to unfold across Europe.
