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President Donald Trump at bottom of escalators of the UN’s General Assembly  on September 23, 2025 in New York City.
SABOTAGE, REALLY?

CNN Mocks MAGA Meltdown Over ‘Escalatorgate 2025’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is one of those who has overblown the entire incident.

Ewan Palmer

Secret Service members secure the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 9, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
SPY GAMES?

Secret Service Busts Network Used to Threaten Trump Aides

Officials dismantled a network of electronic devices that was also capable of surveillance and cyberattacks.

Janna Brancolini

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‘Look at Iraq’

Russia Warns of ‘Negative Consequences’

As the UN Security Council debated how to address the chemical-weapons attack in Syria, Russia’s deputy ambassador gave an ominous warning about military action—before Trump struck.

Benny Avni

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REIGN OF TERROR

U.S. Kept Quiet After Americans Attacked

Soldiers in South Sudan singled out American aid workers amid an orgy of theft and gang rapes last month. The UN didn’t stop them, and the U.S. said nothing.

Christopher Dickey

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LAWLESS ROAD

Gang-Raped Under UN ‘Protection’

The United Nations is supposed to be sheltering civilians in South Sudan. But with the civil war set to resume, government soldiers victimize women every day.

Justin Lynch

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Friends Like These

Catholic Fundamentalists’ New BFF: Iran?

Citing an international plot to defeat "truth and goodness," a far-right consortium together with Muslim theocracies, Russia, and China is urging the United Nations not to investigate anti-LGBT violence.

Jay Michaelson

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Hunger Games

The Syrian Humanitarian Food Farce

Wednesday’s UN aid delivery to a besieged Damascus suburb was pitiful, and shows how much the Assad regime, infamous for siege and starve tactics, still runs the show.

Emma Beals

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BLUE HELMET BLUES

UN Troops Accused of Forced Bestiality

In the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and around the world, United Nations peacekeepers on a noble mission have shown ignoble behavior.

Justin Lynch

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EYEWITNESS

United Nations Camp Burned to Ground

After two years of civil war, even amid talk of restored peace, a brutal attack on a Protection of Civilians site shows how hard it will be to make that permanent.

Justin Lynch

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Read my Lips

The World Congress of Families Decoded

The world’s largest extremist network uses touchy-feely language, but it’s all made up of code words.

Cole Parke

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The Secret of Srebrenica

The United Nations did not defend the men in the “safe haven” of Srebrenica and more than 8,000 were slaughtered. Then it called the mass murder “a rumor”

Peter W. Galbraith

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