The German city of Munich was rocked early Wednesday by explosions, gunfire, and a deadly fire in its northern quarter, prompting fears of a link to Oktoberfest, the world’s largest beer festival.
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern ultimatum Tuesday, warning Hamas it has only “three or four days” to accept his new 20-point Gaza peace plan or face destruction at the hands of Israel.
The federal government will officially enter a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday after both Senate Republicans and Democrats blocked competing short-term funding bills, failing to prevent the first lapse in federal funding since President Donald Trump’s first term. The standoff capped days of failed negotiations between the White House and congressional leaders, with neither side willing to concede on core demands.
Evangelist Franklin Graham said Tuesday he was “encouraged” to learn that American actor, comedian, and bestselling writer Tim Allen has forgiven the man responsible for his father’s death in 1964.
Surveys suggest that the Czech Republic may soon join Hungary and Slovakia in forming a bloc of Central and Eastern European nations challenging Brussels as voters head to the polls October 3–4 in a crucial parliamentary election.
Witnesses told Worthy News that a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.7 shook the central Philippines late Tuesday, sending people fleeing into the streets, damaging a historic stone church, a mall, and knocking out power in some areas.
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping transformation of the U.S. military, rebranding the Pentagon as the “Department of War” and rolling out a raft of directives aimed at reversing what they called years of “woke” policies.
Serbia’s authorities say they detained 11 citizens suspected of carrying out a campaign of hate crimes targeting Jewish and Muslim sites in Paris and Berlin, including vandalizing Holocaust memorials and synagogues, under the direction of a “foreign” intelligence service.
The bromance between U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán appeared strained on Monday: Bulgaria announced it plans to end Russian natural gas exports to the European Union after Trump called for Europe to end its Russian energy purchases.
Hungary’s prime minister has defended the possibility that Hungarian drones violated Ukrainian airspace, saying he doesn’t consider Ukraine an independent, sovereign country.