White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt threw Gen Z under the bus, saying younger Americans have a certain "laziness" that is preventing them from making it in the working world. Leavitt joined Thursday's edition of Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News, where the host noted recent Democratic primary victories by leftist candidates in New York and their popularity with younger voters.

Three sons of the former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of ⁠four other family members ⁠on Sunday, but Mojtaba, ​the son who has succeeded him as Iran's supreme leader, did not make an appearance. State TV showed Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud Khamenei praying behind the coffins laid out in the ⁠vast courtyard of Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla, a sprawling religious complex. In a show of public devotion to the theocratic state and revolutionary zeal, the country is staging a week of mass funeral processions ⁠for Khamenei, including taking his remains to Shia religious sites in neighbouring Iraq.

The European Parliament is set to trigger a procedure against the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, home of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and other far-right political forces across Europe. If ESN is found to have failed to uphold the core values of the European Union, it could be stripped of its right to be registered as a European political party and lose its funding.

The U.S. death rate fell to a record low in 2025, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday. According to the Vital Statistics Rapid Release report, the death rate in 2025 was 689.2 per 100,000 people, representing a 4.6 percent drop from 2024 as well as the lowest recorded death rate in the country's history.

New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as death rates have continued to fall since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. There were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in the US in 2025, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the lowest rate recorded in more than a century of tracking. The age-adjusted rate has fallen 22% since 2021, landing about 4% lower than it was just before the pandemic in 2019.