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Russell Brand arrives at Southwark Crown Court on Friday in London. Jeff Spicer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeff Spicer/Getty Images LONDON — Clutching a Puritan prayer book, actor and comedian Russell Brand walked into a London courtroom Friday wearing an unbuttoned black shirt with multiple crucifixes around his neck and repeated the words "not

Valerie the mini dachshund, at home in mid-May. Georgia Gardner hide caption toggle caption Georgia Gardner Bundled in a little blanket on a plush couch, Valerie doesn't quite look like a dog who recently survived more than 17 months in the Australian wilderness. She's nestled between her two owners, 24-year-old Georgia Gardner and 25-year-old Josh

Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears before the Senate Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday in Washington. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images News that the U.S. will "aggressively" begin revoking visas held by Chinese students reverberated through China as well as U.S. education

Enlarge this image The Reichstag building, which houses the German Bundestag on May 4, 2025. Hauke Schröder/picture alliance via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hauke Schröder/picture alliance via Getty Images The Reichstag building, which houses the German Bundestag on May 4, 2025. Hauke Schröder/picture alliance via Getty Images Germany's biggest opposition political party, the

Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a champion of local African languages. Shawn Miller/Library of Congress hide caption toggle caption Shawn Miller/Library of Congress Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Kenyan writer and novelist who critiqued colonial rule as well as the post-colonial Kenyan government, died Wednesday in a hospital in Buford, Georgia. He was 87 years

The village of Blatten, in a valley below the Bietschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps, was destroyed Wednesday by a landslide after part of the huge Birch Glacier collapsed. A local river is now blocked and forming a lake that is flooding buildings that remain, authorities said. ALEXANDRE AGRUSTI/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle

British performers, writers and activists protest Israel's actions in Gaza outside the gates of Downing Street on May 21, 2025. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Leon Neal/Getty Images More than 300 cultural figures across the United Kingdom and Ireland have signed a letter demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and unrestricted aid to

Conservative Political Action Conference chairman Matt Schlapp spoke with NPR at the Kempinski Hotel in Budapest, Hungary. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR American and European populists, nationalists and conservatives are gathering today in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán praised President Trump. "The Trump tsunami swept through the world and changed the