The residents of Delhi have woken up to find their city under a blanket of toxic smog, after revelers defied a ban on the use of fireworks as millions celebrated the Hindu festival of lights on Thursday night. Read Full Article at RT.co...

New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced plans to take his first three paychecks in bitcoin, saying that he would make his city the “center of the cryptocurrency industry.” Read Full Article at RT.com

US Republican Party politician Lauren Boebert went to a social event in a “Let’s Go Brandon” dress, apparently mocking the Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s look at the Met Gala. Read Full Article at RT.com

An academic invited on MSNBC to discuss the election of Winsome Sears – an immigrant who became the first black woman to hold statewide office in Virginia – bashed the Republican as a purveyor of “white supremacy.” Read Full Art...

Richie McGinniss, who witnessed the Kyle Rittenshouse shooting first-hand, has told the jury that one of the men killed was attempting to get hold of Rittenhouse's rifle at the very moment the teen pulled the trigger. Read Full Article ...

A group of activists mobbed the car of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin over his opposition to a proposed spending package, claiming the lawmaker attempted to run them down. Videos of the standoff have made the rounds online. Read Full Ar...

Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas saw intense violence as local National Guard officers faced off with a migrant caravan moving north to Mexico City. Scuffles reportedly resulted in injuries on both sides. Read Full Article at RT.com...

An aide to US President Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus after traveling overseas with the commander in chief, the White House confirmed to media outlets, noting that Biden’s own test came back negative. Read Full Art...

Top White House Covid adviser Anthony Fauci insists he carries no blame for the coronavirus outbreak, shooting back after GOP Senator Rand Paul demanded he own up to funding potentially dangerous viral research in Wuhan, China. Read Ful...

The White House said that President Joe Biden is still in favor of cash payouts to migrant families separated under the previous administration. The clarification came after he denied reports they could receive $450,000 each. Read Full ...

Microsoft’s virtual conference Ignite 2021 was all about hybrid work, metaverse and the cloud, but it opened with “land acknowledgments” to local native tribes and featured speakers describing their race and preferred pronouns. Re...

Cellular providers Verizon and AT&T have been forced to delay their full 5G rollout as the Federal Aviation Administration warns that expanding into a certain bandwidth will seriously interfere with bands used for aircraft safety. Read ...

Activist-philanthropist Bill Gates has raised alarms with critics by suggesting that billions of dollars be invested into a global pandemic task force running “germ games” to prepare for future outbreaks or biological attacks. Read ...

The US Navy has relieved the captain, executive officer and chief sonar technician of USS 'Connecticut', the nuclear-powered attack submarine that struck an undersea mountain in the South China Sea last month. Read Full Article at RT.co...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says her state has joined a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its latest “unconstitutional” vaccine mandate. However, Noem herself is facing a mandates-related lawsuit. Read Full Article...

The English town of Whitehaven may soon have a brand-new coal mine for the first time in decades – and the locals told RT they're looking forward to seeing the project reversing an economic decline. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

At least two suspected gang members were killed after gunfire erupted at the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun Resort in Mexico, local offiicals confirmed. Guests and employees were rushed into hiding by staff amid reports of a shootout. Read F...

At least 60 people are reported to have been killed in what appears to have been an attack by jihadists affiliated with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in a remote area in the southwest of the country. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The State Department has approved Saudi Arabia’s request to buy up to $650 million worth of air-to-air missiles and related equipment from Raytheon, the former employer of US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Read Full Article at RT.com...

The lawsuit filed by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin against rival billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX firm – and the US government, which picked SpaceX over Blue Origin – has been dismissed. Read Full Arti...

With details of President Biden’s private-sector vaccine mandate revealed, commercial pilot Jason Kunisch told RT that such mandates already risk cratering the aviation industry, which is dealing with “severe” staffing shortages. ...

Newly-elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams will be taking his first three checks in his position in bitcoin, to make good on his promise to make the city the “center of the cryptocurrency industry.” Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Former Bill Clinton strategist James Carville has split the Democrats with a warning that the party’s move towards “stupid wokeness” was behind its election losses in Virginia. Read Full Article at RT.com

A 28-year-old woman has been sent to prison for life by a court in Germany, after she killed five of her six children in an extreme and shocking act of revenge against her ex-husband. Read Full Article at RT.com

Serious questions are expected to be asked of Zimbabwean boxing authorities after the death of highly-rated Taurai Zimunya, 24, shortly after he collapsed during a professional bout in the capital, Harare. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A Maryland school board has come under fire for giving kids a “psychoeducational lesson” about what it called the US’ “dual pandemic” of Covid-19 and “systemic racism.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Introducing an HPV vaccine as part of the NHS effort to prevent cervical cancer has saved hundreds of British women from developing the disease, a fresh study says, citing 13 years of observations. Read Full Article at RT.com

President Joe Biden’s controversial workplace vaccine mandate has been revealed, and could soon be made permanent and expanded to small businesses. The Biden administration has already been sued for overreach. Read Full Article at RT....

A juror in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial has been excused after joking to a sheriff’s deputy about the 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse is on trial for killing two men at protests sparked by Blake’s shooting. Rea...

The Russian and Belarusian presidents have signed a revised Union State military doctrine, as well as a package of other integration documents, paving the way for bringing the two nations closer together. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Vladimir Putin has been using a state-of-the-art Russian-made presidential limousine since 2018, and a new RT documentary now tells the story of how the unique vehicle was conceptualized and built from scratch in just five years. Read F...

Children as young as five in San Francisco, California will soon be required to present proof of Covid-19 vaccination for access to certain indoor venues such as restaurants, public health officials have revealed. Read Full Article at R...

A figure skating coach has caused controversy by claiming that the points scoring system could be changed for the likes of ice legend Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, with one former champion branding his ideas a joke. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Conservative Owen Paterson has resigned as the MP for North Shropshire amid an ongoing lobbying scandal that forced the government into an embarrassing U-turn. Paterson has vowed to remain a “public servant.” Read Full Article at RT...

An undercover video released by Project Veritas has shown a poll worker allowing a man claiming to be a non-citizen to fill out a ballot for the New Jersey gubernatorial race that was called for Democrat incumbent Phil Murphy. Read Full...

Heroin is almost impossible to get in North America, where it has been virtually replaced by fentanyl, Vice News says – leading some sarcastic commenters to wonder if this means the CIA will ask Congress for more money for coups. Read...

A group of Democrat lawmakers wants the Justice Department to crack down on “unruly” airline passengers, amid a spate of “confrontational behavior” triggered by mask requirements. Read Full Article at RT.com

Retired UFC icon Khabib Nurmagomedov has called on his pal Kamaru Usman to put a beating on his arch-rival Colby Covington in the UFC 268 headliner this weekend in Madison Square Garden. Read Full Article at RT.com

US agents have arrested the Russian analyst who served as the primary source for Christopher Steele’s dossier of salacious gossip about Donald Trump. The dossier was used to justify FBI wiretapping on Trump’s campaign. Read Full Art...

Russia saw its crude oil and condensate production rise in October for a second consecutive month as it increased output under the OPEC+ agreement to ease the collective production cuts. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Chinese foreign ministry has hit back at the US, demanding Washington refrain from interfering in Taiwan, after American General Mark Milley said his forces were capable of defending the island nation against Beijing. Read Full Arti...

Environmental activists from Insulate Britain have blocked roads around Parliament Square in Westminster to draw attention to their cause, after weeks of disrupting traffic on London's M25 orbital road and and other key arteries. Read F...

A classified dossier which Israel used to brand six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist outfits reportedly contains no concrete evidence to prove their involvement in violent activities or to otherwise justify the designation. Read Full Artic...

A scrap between the two smallest UFC fighters in history has moved a step closer after promotion president Dana White confirmed he had held productive talks and a camp insider claimed a bid of $1.5 million has been made. Read Full Artic...

The European Commission is ready to support EU nations opting to develop nuclear energy, according to European Commissioner for Climate Action Frans Timmermans. Read Full Article at RT.com

Iran’s state media has published footage of a major incident in the Gulf of Oman, in which Tehran’s forces said they “foiled” the seizure of an oil tanker by the US as Washington looked to enforce its ban on Iranian oil exports....

President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for businesses will be enforced after the New Year, the White House has announced. Failure to comply will incur heavy penalties, with a fine of around $14,000 per violation. Read Full Art...

Canelo Alvarez has no shortage of potential opponents in his own field – but that won't include Kamaru Usman after the pound-for-pound great balked at the challenge of the UFC champion as nothing more than a cash grab. Read Full Artic...

In a major vote that saw Israel pass a budget for the first time in over three years, former premier and now leader of the opposition Benjamin Netanyahu accidentally raised his hand in favor of a clause and voted with his rivals. Read F...

Boxing bouts do not come much bigger – literally – than a scrap between 390-pound giant Sajad Gharibi and 'scariest man on the planet' Martyn Ford. Now that fight is set to take place at London's 20,000-capacity O2 Arena. Read Full ...

The UK has become the first country to approve the “ground-breaking” oral drug molnupiravir for the treatment of vulnerable Covid-19 patients. Read Full Article at RT.com

Europe is back at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic and could see another half a million Covid-19 deaths by February, the World Health Organization’s top official in the region, has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

At the landmark 2015 UN climate change summit in Paris, Russian President Vladimir Putin stunned observers with a dramatic tone-shift on global warming. Read Full Article at RT.com

The British Ministry of Defence has wasted billions in taxpayers’ money time and time again, a parliamentary committee report says, noting that some 13 of the 20 current largest projects were behind schedule. Read Full Article at RT.c...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been criticized for using a private jet for a flight that lasted less than 20 minutes as countries grow increasingly concerned about climate change. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The Lebanese presidency has said that, amid a diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states over the war in Yemen, Prime Minister Najib Mikati has settled on a plan to lead the country out of its current crisis. Read Full Artic...

Three children have been treated for serious burns at a pediatric hospital in Sydney, Australia after they attempted to make the Dalgona candy as part of a challenge featured in the hit Netflix 'Squid Game' series. Read Full Article at ...

Ruthless, foul-mouthed media mogul Logan Roy in the TV hit 'Succession' is in a way a sympathetic character, Scottish theater and movie actor Brian Cox, who's become an international celebrity thanks to the role, told RT. Read Full Arti...

MMA fighter Ulysses Diaz, who also dabbles in bare knuckle boxing, has been charged with battery after he allegedly hunted down an online critic and punched him in the mouth, causing what media reports say was a "big laceration". Read F...

A Scottish primary school has drawn criticism over its “virtue signalling” for encouraging male students and teachers to attend classes wearing skirts on Thursday in order to “break down” gender stereotypes and “promote equali...

Six volunteers from Russia, the US, and UAE are going to spend eight months in close quarters, simulating a mission to the Moon, as part of the SIRIUS-21 international isolation experiment launched in Moscow on Thursday. Read Full Artic...

PSG star Mauro Icardi's relationship travails with wife Wanda appear to have taken a dramatic new turn, including new allegations surfacing that his reported mistress sent sexual content to other Argentinean players. Read Full Article a...

Political commenter Tim Pool had a "most excruciatingly painful experience" with Covid-19, he said. After an online absence, he also said he's recovering with a regimen of prescription drugs and, reluctantly, is taking ivermectin. Read ...

The severe labor shortage that has hit the UK in the past few months has reportedly forced local meat processors to export carcasses for butchering and then transport them back to Britain for sale. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has insisted that vegetable and grain supplies are at normal levels amid reports of panic buying after people were told to ensure they had adequate food stocks at home. Read Full Art...

Israel is getting ready to launch a giant balloon equipped with a state-of-the-art missile and aircraft detection system to further increase the Jewish state’s air-defense capabilities, the Israeli Defense Ministry has said. Read Full...

A court in France has fined several people for posting hateful comments directed at a French beauty queen with Israeli roots. Some defendants reportedly said they were motivated by their support for Palestinians. Read Full Article at RT...

China is beefing up its nuclear arsenal a lot faster than Washington thought just a year ago, a new Pentagon report says, predicting that Beijing will own at least 1,000 nuclear warheads by the end of the decade. Read Full Article at RT...

Exports of Russian agricultural machinery grew by some 50% in the first nine months of 2021, smashing last year’s record. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ford Motor is set to become the first major US-based carmaker to require employees to be vaccinated, the company told staff in a message, though the mandate must still be negotiated with unionized workers at the firm. Read Full Article ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged madam of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is subject to “unrelenting” round-the-clock surveillance that “rivals scenes” from ‘Silence of the Lambs’, her lawyer has said in a fresh bail ...

British royal and former American actress Meghan Markle has called multiple Republican senators to garner support for a paid leave plan in a massive social spending bill, the lawmakers said, after Democrats revived the measure. Read Ful...

US President Joe Biden has acknowledged that Democrats’ less-than-stellar performance at the polls – particularly in Virginia – showed that Americans are dissatisfied on a range of issues, but insisted his agenda is a way forward....

The ex-president of the Democratic Black Caucus in one of Florida’s largest counties has pleaded guilty to fraud, admitting she bilked the government for $300,000 in Covid-19 relief funds using a bogus front company. Read Full Article...

Doctors have been unable to save a hockey player who suddenly collapsed on the ice during a game in Slovakia. Read Full Article at RT.com

Nearly 8,500 Air Force personnel failed to meet a November 2 deadline to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, the military said, noting that around 5,000 continue to seek exemptions on religious grounds, while 800 “refused” outright. Read Fu...

Google’s parent company Alphabet has reportedly been courting the Pentagon in the hope of winning a major cloud-computing contract known as the “Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability” – the successor to the axed ‘war cloud’ proj...

The Associated Press has called a nail-biting race for New Jersey governor for the incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy, over protests from Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli. Official results of the election are still pending. Read Full...

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis described the current White House in a speech as the “Brandon administration,” causing the crowd to break out in a popular chant used to mock President Joe Biden, a Democrat. Read Full Ar...

US President Joe Biden has denied that his administration was negotiating the payment of $450,000 or more to illegal migrant families who were detained separately under his predecessor, calling media reports about it “garbage.” Read...

Leaders of New Zealand’s underworld have teamed up with the government to urge their followers to get vaccinated against Covid-19, in the latest bid to reach out to communities on the margins of society. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

New Jersey has corrected a mysterious error which saw early votes from one of the state’s most heavily Democratic counties counted twice. Revised numbers gave Republican Jack Ciattarelli a slight lead over incumbent Phil Murphy. Read ...

Talks on the Iranian nuclear deal are set to resume by the end of the month, Tehran and other signatories to the original agreement have confirmed. Efforts to revive the comatose deal have been on hold over the past few months. Read Ful...

Tap water across the US is riddled with chemical contaminants and even radioactive material, a new study has shown, with the situation complicated by outdated safety standards. Read Full Article at RT.com

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said it still has "full confidence" in the data used to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine, after an explosive report alleged poor practices in the jab's Phase 3 trial. Read Full Arti...

With Khabib Nurmagomedov now retired and Fedor Emelianenko soon to join him, space remains at the summit of Russian MMA for some new champions - but who among them is best placed to carve out legendary status in MMA? Read Full Article a...

The world is reshaping into a tri-polar configuration, with the US, Russia and China being the "great powers," a top American general has said. He then explained why he thinks the US must "put a premium" on keeping its influence. Read F...

The US airstrike that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, in August was not caused by misconduct or negligence, the Pentagon has found after an “independent review.” No disciplinary action has been recommended. Rea...

The US has added NSO Group, the Israeli spyware giant behind the infamous Pegasus software used to spy on journalists and human rights activists, to a trade blacklist, along with three firms charged with similar acts. Read Full Article ...

Reigning NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers has ignited a firestorm in the US after the Green Bay Packers star was ruled out of action after contracting Covid-19 amid claims from NFL insiders that he misled people about being vaccinated. Read Full A...

The Biden administration is reportedly considering a revision to US nuclear doctrine, with national security officials said to be debating whether to declare that the “sole purpose” of its atomic stockpile is deterrence. Read Full A...

You might think Colby Covington has his hands full enough with a rematch against dominant UFC welterweight destroyer Kamaru Usman this weekend, but the brash American is already looking ahead to his own potential title reign. Read Full ...

An Israeli court has suspended the auction of tattoo tools said to have been used to brand inmates at Auschwitz following condemnation from Holocaust survivors. The items had been expected to sell for thousands of dollars. Read Full Art...

A top US general has claimed that his country's analysts have spotted a major movement of troops on Russian territory, in the proximity of Ukraine, while adding that the purported deployments are not necessarily a show of force. Read Fu...

A portrait of Welsh general Sir Thomas Picton has been removed from the Faces of Wales gallery at the National Museum Wales. The war hero’s life as governor of Trinidad was deemed an issue by the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel. Read Full A...

Russian combat sports fighter Artur ‘Acab’ Kalinsky has been accused of a brutal assault on a former lover while police officers called to investigate reportedly took pictures with the bare-knuckle brawler. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Downing Street has said the UK is not considering lowering the evidence threshold for granting fishing permits to French trawlers, as the two countries continue to spar over post-Brexit fisheries access. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

France’s senior diplomat in Canberra has suggested that Australia is an untrustworthy partner that can “weaponize” confidential talks, after Macron’s text on the ill-fated submarine contract was leaked to the media. Read Full Ar...

The price of natural gas in Europe surpassed $900 per thousand cubic meters on Wednesday, for the first time since late October, according to data released by the ICE exchange. Read Full Article at RT.com

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 jab, Covaxin, for emergency use after determining that the Indian vaccine meets the body’s standards for protecting against the virus. Read Full Article at R...