The North Korean government is increasingly executing civilians, including people found to be consuming unapproved foreign media, according to a report from the United Nations Human Rights Office. Pyongyang has continued to exercise significant control over the population and severely restrict the rights and freedoms of its population, and that has only gotten more intense over the last decade. The North Korean government has benefited from evolving surveillance technologies, while...

North Korea has further tightened its grip on its population over the past decade, executing people for activities like sharing foreign TV dramas, according to a major United Nations report. The UN Human Rights Office said on Friday that tech-enabled state repression under the Kim dynasty, which has governed with absolute power for seven decades, had grown over a decade of “suffering, repression, and increased fear”. “No other population is under such restrictions in today’s world,”...

The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found. The dictatorship, which remains largely cut off from the world, is also subjecting its people to more forced labour while further restricting their freedoms, the report added. The UN Human Rights Office found that over the past decade the North Korean state had tightened control over "all aspects of citizens...

The Florida Department of Education plans to investigate any teachers in the state who engage in "vile, sanctionable behavior" related to the Wednesday assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.  "It has been brought to my attention that some Florida educators have posted despicable comments on social media regarding the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk," Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas wrote in a memo sent out to state school superintendents and...

Some public-school districts have refused to say whether they yanked teachers from classrooms for gleefully celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination in sick online posts — while a top House GOPer on Friday demanded the educators be investigated. One school district still employs a New York-based math teacher who spewed offensive remarks, said New York Rep. Elise Stefanik — and higher-ups overseeing two Texas districts would not say whether they were booting their educators who ghoulishly...

A Dallas motel employee accused of beheading his manager with a machete during a workplace dispute is facing a capital murder charge. Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, has been charged with killing 50-year-old Chandra Moul Nagamallaiah on September 10, 2025, at the Downtown Suites Motel, Dallas police told Newsweek. Cobos-Martinez is a Cuban national with prior criminal convictions who had been ordered removed from the United States but was released from federal custody after Cuba refused to...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) on Friday urged people to turn away from social media, calling it a “cancer on our society” after announcing that the suspected gunman in the killing of Charlie Kirk is in custody. At the end of his press conference announcing 22-year-old Tyler Robinson as the suspected gunman in the shooting at Utah Valley University, Cox urged people to log off of social media, citing the violent imagery that proliferates through the medium...

The cosmos has long been a canvas for creatives who imagine a future where people live among the stars. Now, humanity stands at a pivotal juncture as the laborious, expensive and high-stakes process of attempting to convert such grand visions into reality is actually underway...