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Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel hate speech.

The change coincides with the company's shock announcement on Tuesday that it was ending its third-party fact-checking program in the United States and adopting a crowd-sourced model to police misinformation similar to the Elon Musk-owned X.

A member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal, US authorities said Wednesday.

Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa and co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri had previously been charged in April 2022 with drug trafficking and firearms offenses, and both were remanded.

Donald Trump’s ambitious demand that the United States regain control of the Panama Canal would be “a mess” for the country, according to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, which added that it is just the latest example of the incoming president’s “bully tactic diplomacy.”

Trump’s “America First” agenda was on full display during a disjointed news conference Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort, where he turned heads for again repeating his desire for the U.S. to acquire Canada, Panama and Greenland.

Giovana Serrao was not home when a fire lit in a neighboring agricultural field got out of control and destroyed her acai palms on the island of Marajo in the Brazilian Amazon.

Paulinho dos Santos remembers the dark nights in November when he would leap out of bed to use buckets of water to douse flames threatening his farm.

Fears of North Korea, online conspiracies and unproven claims of electoral fraud -- conservative South Korean men told AFP why they had descended on impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's residence to protect him from arrest.

Those rallying outside his Seoul residence have mainly been elderly, right-leaning voters -- but AFP reporters identified a growing number of younger, men in attendance.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Thursday refused to condemn president-elect Donald Trump's Greenland ambitions while insisting that the US acquiring the self-governing Danish territory is "not going to happen".

"I'm not in the business of condemning our closest ally," Lammy told Sky News, adding that he was "in the business of interpreting what sits behind this and there are some very serious national economic security issues".

Two U.S. astronauts who have been stuck for months on the International Space Station (ISS) said Wednesday they have plenty of food, are not facing a laundry crisis, and don't yet feel like castaways.

Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, and were due to spend only eight days on the orbiting laboratory.

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions barely decreased in 2024, leaving the world's largest economy off track to achieve its climate goals, according to an analysis released Thursday, as the incoming Trump administration looks set to double down on fossil fuels.

The preliminary estimate by the Rhodium Group, an independent research organization, found a net fall of just 0.2 percent in economy-wide emissions.

The mayor of Los Angeles is facing intense backlash as internet critics question her glaring absence as raging infernos have killed at least five people and forced tens of thousands to evacuate.

Several fires scorched more than 25,000 acres late Wednesday and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings.

State Rep. Lisa Demuth, who leads Minnesota House Republicans, strongly suggested that her caucus will refuse to seat Rep.-elect Brad Tabke, DFL-Shakopee, who won a contested election by 14 votes after 20 votes were improperly discarded.

The election case is before a judge, but Demuth told Al Travis, a conservative podcast host, that Republicans will ignore a judge’s ruling and refuse to seat Tabke, forcing Gov. Tim Walz to call a special election in district 54A.

Less than two weeks before Donald Trump officially takes the White House, The New York Times reports that top donors — some in the seven-figure range — can no longer purchase tickets for the ceremony, or for private events hosted by the inaugural committee.

According to five people who spoke with the Times and asked to remain anonymous, some of the megadonors "have been placed on waitlists" and have likely missed the opportunity to snag VIP tickets.

A senior advisor and co-campaign manager for Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign took a swipe Wednesday night at an outgoing Virginia Republican who found himself at odds with the president-elect — and was the recipient of a primary loss by a Trump-backed candidate.

Former Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) lost his seat in Congress when he was defeated in a June primary by state senator John McGuire, who eeked out a victory by just 370 votes. After his defeat, Good stepped down as Freedom Caucus chair in September.