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The sign outside the Harry S Truman Building, the State Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., in December 2025.

Brazilians are among the 43,000 immigrant visa refusals the United States now has to reopen

The north front of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2013. The current advertising campaign is being paid for out of federal funds.

Government advertising

A 2024 Trump campaign ad is back on air, and this time the disclaimer says "Paid for by the U.S. Government"

RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, western England, pictured in 2003.

Five men arrested over suspected plot against RAF Fairford, the US Air Force's bomber base in Britain

A South African Police Service (SAPS) patrol van, photographed in South Africa in 2016.

Two mass shootings kill 27 people in South Africa in under five hours

Brazilian judoka Alana Maldonado on the Para judo podium at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games in 2016; ten years later, in Tbilisi, she became a four-time world champion.

Brazil finishes second at the Para Judo World Championships with 12 podiums and takes bronze in the triathlon relay

The port of Punta Arenas, on the Strait of Magellan, in 2012. The announced plan includes a study of upgrades to that port infrastructure.

Chile spares defence from budget cuts and nearly doubles military investment in the far south

Maracaibo without electricity in the early hours of 31 January 2026, during one of the blackouts that keep recurring in Zulia state.

Blackouts of up to 16 hours spark protests in four Venezuelan states

The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Washington Monument on the National Mall, in September 2016, the month the museum opened.

The Smithsonian's African American museum turns 10 and says it has not changed a single exhibition

Minute Maid Park, the Houston Astros' ballpark, in 2012.

The AL West will crown the first division champion in MLB history with a losing record

A GOES-16 satellite image of a nor'easter over the Northeastern United States in February 2021.

Nor'easter stalls off the East Coast, killing a man in Brooklyn and cutting power to about 100,000

Official portrait of Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the European Commission, taken in November 2024.

EU unlocks €6.6 billion for Ukraine's defence, frozen by a Hungarian veto since 2023

An aerial view of the Nagyerdei Stadion in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2014. The ground hosts Israel's home fixtures.

Ireland will play Israel in the Nations League after squad vote; goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu steps away

A satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran (north) and the Arabian Peninsula (south), captured by NASA's MODIS sensor in December 2020.

Trump rejects Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in seven days

A soybean field in Brasnorte, north-western Mato Grosso, in 2016.

Brazil's weather service forecasts October up to 2°C above average in the Centre-West and Southeast, with erratic rain

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, opened in December 2011.

Brazil's 2026 election

Almost a million Brazilians will vote abroad on October 4, and one in four of them lives in the United States

Alana Maldonado in the under-70 kg judo final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, against Georgia's Ina Kaldani.

Brazil wins three golds in a single day at the World Para Judo Championships, and Alana Maldonado takes a fourth title

The Gatún Locks, in Panama's Colón province, in 2014.

September rains let the Panama Canal hold 32 daily transits through December

A GOES satellite image of Hurricane Polo off Mexico's southwest coast on 23 September 2026.

Hurricane Polo weakens to Category 4 off Baja California Sur as Mexico braces for two landfalls

Chase Center in San Francisco, home of the Golden State Valkyries, in 2019.

The WNBA playoffs open Sunday, with the Valkyries seeded second in only their second season

The globe at the entrance to Universal Studios Hollywood, in 2009.

Universal becomes the first studio to pass $5 billion at the 2026 global box office