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President Donald Trump threatened to end all aid to Nigeria Saturday and ordered the Pentagon to prepare for possible military action. The warning comes as Trump accuses the country of failing to protect its Christian population.
Since 2009, Islamist insurgency group Boko Haram has killed more than 35,000 civilians, largely in the country’s Muslim-majority north (see maps and data). An ISIS-affiliated breakaway group has killed thousands more. While it is not publicly known what percentage of the groups’ victims are Christian, a 2012 estimate put the figure at one-third. In 2020, the Trump administration designated Nigeria a country of concern over religious freedom violations, a decision the Biden administration reversed. Trump redesignated Nigeria last week as the group continues to carry out attacks from its base in the Lake Chad region.
The US historically gives roughly $1B annually to Nigeria. Explore more here (w/graphs). |
Yesterday marked 25 years of a continuous human presence in space—including at least one US citizen.
President Ronald Reagan commissioned the project that would become the International Space Station in 1984. (The idea of living in space dates back further, with author Edward Everett Hale imagining a fictional ISS in his 1869 tale, “The Brick Moon.”) Canada, Japan, Europe, and ultimately Russia joined the project. On Nov. 2, 2000, the Expedition 1 crew became the first group to reside on the ISS. Today, the station is the largest space vehicle ever built—as large as a football field, including solar arrays—with a habitable volume larger than a six-bedroom house.
More than 280 people from 27 countries have visited the station, typically to conduct scientific experiments in six-month rotations (see breakthroughs). The ISS will be deorbited in early 2031 and driven into the Pacific Ocean. |
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series Saturday night, topping the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in a come-from-behind Game 7 victory that went extra innings. The title is the second in a row for the Dodgers—the first repeat champions since 2000.
Two outs from their first title since 1993, the ninth inning was a heartbreaker for Toronto. The Blue Jays gave up the game-tying home run, and then failed to score with the bases loaded—including a force out at home plate and a deep ball caught by Dodgers center fielder Andy Pages despite colliding with a teammate. See highlights from the ninth here.
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was named World Series Most Valuable Player, holding Toronto scoreless over the last eight outs Saturday night after throwing almost 100 pitches in Friday’s Game 6.
Los Angeles immediately opened as the favorite to win the 2026 championship. See celebration photos here. |
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> College basketball returns today, with women's reigning NCAA champion UConn Huskies favored to win again, Florida Gators aiming for a back-to-back men's title; see live updates (More) | See men's schedule (More) | See women's schedule (More) |
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> US stock markets close up Friday (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.6%); Amazon shares jump 9.6% after company reports 20% increase in quarterly cloud computing revenue (More) |
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> Tens of thousands of people feared killed by UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces over the past week in el-Fasher, capital city of Sudan's North Darfur state (More) |
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Historybook: American sharpshooter Annie Oakley dies (1926); Journalist and fashion icon Dame Anna Wintour born (1949); The Soviet Union launches first animal into space (1957); US arms sale to Iran revealed (1986); One World Trade Center officially opens on former site of Twin Towers (2014). |
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