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A former ICE director says the count is not the problem.Newsweek asked ICE under freedom of information law what its age...
05/09/2026

A former ICE director says the count is not the problem.

Newsweek asked ICE under freedom of information law what its agents were being investigated for. The agency handed over a log of what it calls open allegations: 148 of them, across the 2023, 2024 and 2025 fiscal years. Eighteen date from 2023, sixty-nine from 2024, sixty-one from 2025. The window runs from October 2022 to last September, which puts it under two presidents.

About thirty percent, forty-four cases, are coded internally as criminal. The rest are misconduct, administrative matters or logged information. The specific counts are smaller than the headline: ten drunk driving investigations, six over misuse of government vehicles, five bribery, three domestic violence, two sexual assault, two drug smuggling. Separately, ten agents discharged a service weapon in circumstances requiring a report, and five of those involved a death or a serious injury.

Open means unresolved, not proven. John Sandweg, who ran ICE under Obama, told Newsweek the raw count does not by itself show misconduct rising — what troubles him is how many remain unresolved.

He walked 76.9 miles backwards across Dorset. He spent a week on a life raft. He rattled tins outside a supermarket.Stef...
05/09/2026

He walked 76.9 miles backwards across Dorset. He spent a week on a life raft. He rattled tins outside a supermarket.

Stefan Savic was four when a British soldier on patrol in Bosnia met him in 2003. He had been born with a Tessier facial cleft: his eyes sat 4.5 centimeters too far apart and he had no proper nose. Left untreated, the condition could have cost him his sight and closed his airway. His family could not afford the surgery. Staff Sergeant Wayne Ingram from Weymouth promised them he would find the money.

He organized football matches in Bosnia, rattled collection tins outside supermarkets, walked 76.9 miles backwards across Dorset and spent a week on a life raft in Portland Harbour. The first operation came in July 2003: twelve hours at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in which surgeon David Dunaway divided Stefan's face, moved his eyes closer together and built him a nose. Four more followed over thirteen years, the last in October 2016. Dunaway's team never charged for any of them, so the money went on travel, hospital stays and everything around the operating table.

The total passed £160,000. Ingram became an ambulance paramedic, was named an MBE in 2021, and in 2017 became the first British citizen to receive a humanitarian award in Serbia, nominated by a Serbian newspaper. He has since raised money for an orphanage in Mauritania and flew as a helicopter medic during the pandemic. Stefan is now an adult and married, and the two remain in touch.

Russia's crackdown is not aimed at the platforms or the buyers. It is aimed at the women who post.A Moscow court has giv...
05/09/2026

Russia's crackdown is not aimed at the platforms or the buyers. It is aimed at the women who post.

A Moscow court has given a 21-year-old blogger a suspended sentence, a fine of around 60,000 dollars and a three-year internet ban for selling explicit videos to subscribers. Prosecutors had demanded three and a half years in a penal colony. She admitted guilt.

She is one of at least three Russian women charged this year under a law on making and sharing po*******hy, which allows up to six years. The state says it is defending traditional values. Rights groups say it is a way to control what women do and earn online.

The village captain calls the mud evacuation nothing more than work.A photograph of Tian Ruliang covered head to foot in...
05/09/2026

The village captain calls the mud evacuation nothing more than work.

A photograph of Tian Ruliang covered head to foot in yellow sludge went around China, and the nickname stuck within hours.

His own account is flatter than that. He was the village director, the rain was rising, and getting people out was his job.

Both descriptions cover the same night, in which every resident of the village was evacuated safely in time.

J.K. Rowling, the 60-year-old author of the Harry Potter series, reiterated in a recent post on X that transgender women...
05/09/2026

J.K. Rowling, the 60-year-old author of the Harry Potter series, reiterated in a recent post on X that transgender women are not women, writing that “trans women aren’t women, and if that hurts your feelings, be grateful you live in a society where you are just as free to espouse gender ideology as I am to speak the truth.” Rowling’s post also addressed the backlash she has faced over her stance, writing that she has received “thousands of threats of d*ath, r*pe and t*rture” from critics, while maintaining that she has “never wished violence or any other kind of harm on a trans-identified person.” She said she believes people are free to present themselves however they choose, but rejected the idea that this obligates others to accept a change in legal or biological s*x. The comments extend a yearslong dispute between Rowling and transgender rights advocates that began in 2020, when she first drew criticism for social media posts defending the use of the word “woman” over gender-neutral terms. The debate has since drawn in her own Harry Potter film cast. Actor Rupert Grint has said, “I firmly stand with the trans community... Trans women are women. Trans men are men,” while Daniel Radcliffe has said statements to the contrary “erase the identity and dignity of transgender people” and go against the guidance of health care associations with more expertise on the subject. Rowling’s position gained legal backing in the United Kingdom, where the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a woman is defined as a person born biologically female, meaning transgender women are not included in the legal definition of a woman under the country’s Equality Act. Advocacy group For Women Scotland, which brought the case, celebrated the ruling, with its director, Trina Budge, saying it provided “legal clarity on what ‘woman’ means.” Rights groups including the Human Rights Campaign have continued to reject that framing, maintaining publicly that transgender women are women.

Eltz Castle sits deep in the hills above the Moselle River, hidden in a forested valley that kept it safe through centur...
04/09/2026

Eltz Castle sits deep in the hills above the Moselle River, hidden in a forested valley that kept it safe through centuries of conflict. First recorded in the 12th century, it began as a small Romanesque fortress guarding a trade route. Over time, as Germany fractured into dozens of principalities, the castle grew into a fortified residence, not a royal palace, but a noble family stronghold built to withstand medieval feuds, regional wars, and shifting borders. Its location, tucked away rather than perched on a cliff, is precisely why it survived when so many others fell to cannons, fires, or political collapse.

What makes Eltz extraordinary is its uninterrupted lineage. Since the 1200s, the same family, the Eltz family, has owned and lived in the castle for 33 generations, an unbroken chain stretching across more than 800 years. During the Middle Ages, the castle was divided among three branches of the family, each building its own section like a vertical townhouse within the same fortress. These wings still stand today, creating the castle’s distinctive, almost storybook silhouette. Even during the Thirty Years’ War, when armies ravaged central Europe, Eltz Castle negotiated neutrality and avoided destruction, a rare feat in one of history’s most devastating conflicts.

By the 19th century, as Germany unified and medieval fortresses lost their military purpose, Eltz Castle transformed from a defensive residence into a cultural treasure. The family restored it carefully, preserving its timbered upper floors, Gothic halls, and armory. Today, it remains partly private and partly open to visitors, one of the best-preserved castles in Europe and a symbol of continuity in a region shaped by upheaval. Its survival, its architecture, and its family history make it a living time capsule of the German Middle Ages.

In June 1990, British Airways Flight 5390 took off from Birmingham bound for Málaga with Captain Tim Lancaster at the co...
04/09/2026

In June 1990, British Airways Flight 5390 took off from Birmingham bound for Málaga with Captain Tim Lancaster at the controls. Just 13 minutes into the flight, as the BAC One-Eleven climbed through 17,000 feet, a recently replaced windscreen panel blew off with explosive force.

The sudden decompression ripped Lancaster from his seat and sucked him halfway out of the cockpit, leaving his torso flailing outside the aircraft at 400 mph. Only his legs remained inside, pinned against the controls. The cockpit door blew off, alarms screamed, and freezing air roared through the cabin. First Officer Alastair Atchison took control while cabin crew rushed forward to help.

Flight attendant Nigel Ogden grabbed Lancaster’s belt and held on as the captain’s body slammed against the fuselage, his face battered by wind and debris. Two more crew members joined, physically anchoring him for nearly 20 minutes while Atchison executed an emergency descent and diverted to Southampton.

Everyone believed Lancaster was dead, his skin was turning blue, his eyes were open and unblinking, and his body was stiff from the cold. But when the aircraft landed and rescuers pulled him back inside, he was alive. He suffered frostbite, fractures, and shock, yet recovered fully and returned to flying within months. It remains one of aviation’s most astonishing survival stories.

In the early 1990s, Ukraine suddenly found itself in possession of the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world, about...
04/09/2026

In the early 1990s, Ukraine suddenly found itself in possession of the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world, about 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These weapons were Soviet-built, Soviet-controlled, and stationed on Ukrainian territory, but Ukraine legally inherited them. The young state faced a dilemma: keep nuclear weapons and risk isolation, or give them up and integrate with Western institutions. The United States pushed strongly for global non-proliferation, while Russia insisted the weapons belonged to Moscow. Ukraine, meanwhile, wanted ironclad guarantees for its sovereignty, especially given centuries of Russian domination.

Negotiations led to the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in 1994, signed by Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Under this agreement, Ukraine agreed to transfer its nuclear warheads to Russia for dismantling and join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear state. In return, the signatories pledged to respect Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and existing borders; refrain from economic coercion; and never use force or threats against Ukraine. These were security assurances, not legally binding defense commitments, but at the time, they were presented as a major diplomatic achievement and a cornerstone of post-Cold War stability.

By 1996, Ukraine had fully relinquished its nuclear arsenal. The guarantees it received, however, proved fragile. Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its full-scale invasion in 2022 are widely viewed as direct breaches of the Budapest Memorandum, sparking global debate about the value of security assurances versus actual defense treaties. The episode has become one of the most consequential case studies in modern geopolitics: a nation traded nuclear weapons for promises of safety, only to face a serious challenge from the very state that had pledged to respect its sovereignty.

Jacob Miller was a Union soldier in the 9th Indiana Infantry who fought at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. During the...
04/09/2026

Jacob Miller was a Union soldier in the 9th Indiana Infantry who fought at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. During the chaos of the fighting, he was shot directly in the forehead, the bullet entering above his left eye. The impact knocked him unconscious, and he was left on the battlefield assumed dead, one of thousands lying among the fallen. When he eventually regained consciousness, he found himself surrounded by bodies and had to crawl toward help, bleeding heavily and barely able to see.

Amazingly, Miller survived long enough to reach a field hospital, but even there surgeons believed he wouldn’t make it. The wound was so severe that they didn’t attempt to remove the bullet; they simply cleaned the area and bandaged him. Miller endured weeks of agony, infection, and partial blindness, yet he continued to cling to life. Eventually he recovered enough to return home, though the bullet remained lodged in his skull. The wound never fully closed, leaving a permanent hole in his forehead that became his most recognizable feature.

For the next 31 years, Miller lived with the bullet still inside his head. He suffered chronic pain, headaches, and vision problems, but he also became a living symbol of Civil War resilience. In 1894, three decades after Chickamauga, surgeons finally removed the bullet, which had slowly migrated and caused worsening symptoms. Miller lived into old age, proudly wearing his veteran’s medal and often photographed to show the extraordinary injury he had survived.

In 1960, David Latimer decided to run a simple experiment: he placed compost and a small spiderwort plant inside a large...
04/09/2026

In 1960, David Latimer decided to run a simple experiment: he placed compost and a small spiderwort plant inside a large glass bottle, watered it, and sealed it shut. What began as a curiosity quickly turned into a long-term biological marvel. The bottle created a closed environment where sunlight powered photosynthesis, the plant released oxygen and moisture, and the moisture condensed and fell back as “rain,” creating a miniature water cycle. Latimer left it untouched for more than a decade, watching it thrive without intervention.

In 1972, he opened the bottle once to add a small amount of water, then sealed it permanently. From that point on, the ecosystem became entirely self-sustaining. The plant recycled its own nutrients as leaves died and decomposed, bacteria broke down organic matter, and the cycle continued uninterrupted. Scientists later noted that the bottle essentially became a tiny model of Earth’s own ecological balance, a closed loop powered only by light.

Today, more than 60 years later, Latimer’s sealed garden remains alive and healthy, making it one of the longest-running, self-contained ecosystems ever created. It’s often cited as a striking example of how resilient and efficient natural systems can be when left undisturbed. What started as a casual experiment has become a living demonstration of ecological harmony, still thriving decades after its last drop of added water. The tiny garden shows how sunlight and natural cycles can sustain life inside an enclosed environment for generations.

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