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Icon wigo world alt tilted.svg Keep up to date with all the interesting world news and current events that relate to RationalWiki's mission here. The most popular entries are found at Best of the world and the older entries are found in the archives.

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March 2025

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13United StatesRegulators have recalled nearly all Cybertrucks.
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12United StatesTesla stock fell after the US Secretary of Commerce, in what was definitely not a conflict of interest, officially recommended people to buy Tesla stock.
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24FranceUnited States A French space researcher has had his electronic devices confiscated, ESTA visa refused and been expelled; after CBP officers found anti-Trump remarks on his phone. Authorities told him they had found messages "that express hatred towards Trump and can be qualified as terrorism.”
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18United StatesCanadaICE detained a white Canadian citizen for 2 weeks for no apparent legal reason.
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24United StatesNorth Dakota. Environmental charity Greenpeace says it may have to go into bankruptcy after a North Dakotan court ordered the charity to pay $650 million in defamation damages to a Texan oil firm over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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25 United StatesDonald Trump (who previously called criticisms of judges that made rulings in his favor "totally illegal"), along with several other Republicans, call for the impeachment of judge James Boasberg after he issued a (largely ignored) temporary restraining order regarding Trump's deportation of 250 Venezuelans from America to an El Salvador prison without any due process whatsoever. This led John Roberts to issue a rare statement rebuking the calls for impeachment. Predictably, fascist commentators like Mike Cernovich, Catturd, and The Federalist respond with calls to impeach Roberts, or even do away with the Supreme Court altogether.
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20United StatesTrump to declare "illicit" fentanyl a "weapon of mass destruction," per draft executive order.
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27United StatesTrans flag.svg Federal judge has ruled Trump's transgender military ban to be unconstitutional.
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31IsraelEuropean UnionResearch has discovered that for the first time more Israelis are emigrating from Israel to Europe, than Jews are moving to Israel from Europe. One expert says the main reason for the emigration is increasing authoritarianism of the Israeli government.
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24IsraelPalestineIsraeli strikes kill over 400 in Gaza, say Palestinians, threatening total truce collapse
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32United StatesYoung scientists are seeing their futures vanish before their eyes because of Trump and Musk's unconstitutional funding cuts.
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29United StatesColorado. Denver ICE raids targeting 100 gang members only yielded them a grand total of one gang member.
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19United StatesPrivate equity is swooping into Social Security on the back of Musk's soft coup.
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21United StatesThe NIH told scientists to scrub references to mRNA vaccines in their grant applications.
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15United StatesChinaChinese nationalists cheer as Trump dismantles the Voice of America media agency.
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17United StatesNew Mexico. ICE has disappeared 48 New Mexico residents.
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19United StatesMahmoud Khalil's arrest has caused a chilling effect on free speech at American campuses.
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25United States Thanks to Donald Trump's bellicose rhetoric and trade policies, international travel to the United States is expected to slide by 5 percent this year, depriving the country of billions of dollars
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26Serbia Serbia: Protesters flood Belgrade with Vucic under pressure A massive peaceful protest took place in Belgrade, Serbia. The police allegedly used an illegal sonic weapon against protesters. Later, the organization Kreni-Promeni opened a petition for an international investigation.
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36RussiaUnited KingdomUnited States "I consider this a good reason for Britain to cease to exist". As Trump thaws ties, Russia has a new public enemy number one.
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15United States Ten Democrats have voted for cloture on the government funding bill, basically allowing Trump and Musk to cut all the programs they want
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33FranceRussiaThe lower chamber of the French parliament, the Assemblée Nationale has voted 288-54, majority of which were far left, to expropriate seized Russian assets held in the country. The money would be used to support Ukraine.
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21United States America's largest poppers [amyl nitrate] manufacturer Double Scorpio has been raided and shut down by the FDA. Speculation is pointing to RFK Jr’s view that poppers cause AIDS, citing known AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg.
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21United StatesTexas. Trans flag.svg A Texas bill would make being transgender a felony.
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24United StatesMexicoICE has deported an American citizen child recovering from brain cancer to Mexico with her undocumented parents.
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25United States Measles outbreak expands across more US states. National health secretary seen hawking some french fries.
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21United StatesWest Virginia. Trans flag.svg Republicans in West Virginia have passed a bill allowing for "child genital exams" without parental consent. Update: A further amendment nullified J.B. Akers's amendment that allowed this.
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14United StatesTrans flag.svg Trump makes workers in organizations providing services for trans people ineligible for student loan forgiveness.
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31United Statesthe WorldThe US has been added to a global human rights watchlist because of Trump's fascist bullshit.
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19United StatesThe USDA has cut one billion dollars in funding for schools and food banks to buy food from local suppliers.
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19United StatesPanamaTrump has ordered the US military to begin planning an invasion to seize the Panama Canal.
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19United StatesTrump and Musk are trying to make it harder for parents to register kids for Social Security Numbers.
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26United StatesMeta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee: Social media company wins emergency arbitration ruling on book, Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
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34United StatesOklahoma. Robert Morris, the former Dallas megachurch pastor who resigned last year amid sexual abuse allegations, and former Donald Trump spiritual advisor, has been formally indicted in Oklahoma for five counts of child sex crimes that date back to the 1980s.
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20United StatesWashington. ICE agents in Spokane have violently arrested two immigrant men without warrants.
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29United StatesNew York. ICE is trying to deport a legal American resident for engaging in speech critical of Israel.
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22United KingdomUnited States According to the Home Office in 2024 over 6000 Americans applied for British nationality, a rise of over a quarter compared to the previous year.
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31United StatesPalestineIsrael60% of Democratic voters sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis.
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31United StatesMichigan. Four people from Michigan alternative medicine provider Oxford Center are charged with second degree murder and other crimes after an explosion in a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber kills a 5-year old child
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35United StatesUkraine Democratic Senator Mark Kelly visits Ukraine, posting on X "Everyone wants this war to end, but any agreement has to protect Ukraine's security and can't be a giveaway to Putin." Elon Musk, who as a reminder has apparently been having regular calls with Putin since late 2022 as reported by The Wall Street Journal, responds by calling him a traitor.
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24United Statesthe District of Columbia. Crews have begun tearing up Washington DC's Black Lives Matter Plaza after the city was threatened with losing federal funding unless the words "BLACK LIVES MATTER" were painted over and the area renamed Liberty Plaza.
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38United StatesTesla stock dropped 15% on March 10, vaporizing $29 billion of Elon Musk's net worth in one day. Since December 2024, Tesla stock has lost 55% of its value.
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30PhilippinesPhilippines police have arrested former president Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant from the International Criminal Court charging him with crimes against humanity. He is the first Asian leader to be arrested on an ICC warrant.
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30United StatesThe National Cancer Institute has been censored from using a list of 23 words and phrases, including vaccines, autism, marijuana, abortion, autism, fluoride, measles, diversity, "gender ideology", and environmental justice
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43FranceUkraine French newspaper Le Figaro has revealed that JD Vance’s estranged cousin Nate Vance has been fighting on the frontline for the Ukrainian Da Vinci Wolves volunteer battalion for the last three years. Not surprisingly, he is very critical of JD’s position and behaviour on Ukraine.
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21IsraelPalestineAfter blocking aid shipments last week, Israel has now cut off electricity to Gaza, shutting down a desalination plant that was producing desperately-needed drinking water.
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26United StatesUS butterfly populations drop by 20% in two decades.
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17Canada The Liberal Party have chosen former Governor of the central bank, the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, Mark Carney as its next leader, replacing Justin Trudeau. He would be asked by the Governor General, Mary Simon to be the next prime minister, despite not being a MP.
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42United StatesMontana. Trans flag.svg Powerful speeches from trans Democrats in Montana cause 29 Republicans to cross the aisle and vote against anti-trans bills.
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18United StatesSam Bankman-Fried is lobbying Trump to get a pardon.
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21United StatesGay Pride Flag.svg The DHS has quietly removed protections against surveillance based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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21United StatesTens of thousands of online posts and images that are deemed to have anything to do with the dreaded DEI have been marked for deletion by the Pentagon. They include references to achievements in the US military by African Americans and women. They also include photos of people whose surname happened to be Gay and of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Enola Gay.
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19United StatesTrans flag.svg The Trump administration has transferred transgender women to male prisons in defiance of court orders. Some of the women have described being sexually assaulted by prison guards.
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16United StatesParapsychologist Charles Tart dies at the age of eighty-seven, let us know if you hear from him.
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26United StatesSouth Africa Donald Trump signs an executive order suspending all aid to South Africa (apart from the Pepfar HIV/AIDS program). Trump's motivation, as specifically cited in the order, is alleged "unjust racial discrimination" against white Afrikaners.
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22United StatesMexicoCanadaAfter the stock market sank in response to Trump's tariff announcement, he paused the tariffs for many Mexican and Canadian imports for one month.
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13United StatesSkeptical investigator Joe Nickell dies at the age of eighty.
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31IsraelPalestineUnited NationsOnly 4 days after Israel halted all humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza, the World Food Program says its dwindling supply will force it to reduce rations to keep feeding people. Rights groups call this a "starvation policy," while Netanyahu claims he's trying to pressure Hamas to agree to a more favorable ceasefire deal.
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44United StatesFlorida. Florida has opened a criminal inquiry into the Tate brothers.
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43United StatesMexicoCanadaChinaBegun, the trade wars have. Trump's long-threatened 25% blanket tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports have gone into effect. Tariffs on Chinese imports have also gone up to 20%; China is retaliating with tariffs on US farm imports. Canada has pledged retaliatory tariffs as well.
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38United StatesUkraineRussia The White House, which is definitely not led by a Russian-asset, looks to give sanction relief to Russia while suspending offensive cybersecurity operations, the latter of which was later denied by the Department of Defense to have occured. This comes at the same time as pausing military aid to Ukraine.
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41ArgentinaUkraine Once an ardent Ukraine supporter, Javier Milei decides to follow Donald Trump's steps and turns his back on Zelenskyy.
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25United KingdomThe Royal Society has decided not to expel Elon Musk from its fellowship in spite of calls from over 3,400 scientists for it to do so. Two eminent scientists have resigned from their Royal Society fellowships in protest.
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20France French broadcasting regulator ARCOM has withdrawn the renewal of the broadcasting license of TV channel C8 over repeated breaches of the license in question. Such breaches included platforming homophobic and ableist hate speech on its daily talk show and showcasing an anti-abortion film.
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33United StatesEuropean Unionthe WorldElon Musk's embrace of Nazi shit is causing Tesla stock to plummet and sales in Europe to crash.
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18United StatesTexas. US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists in Austin, Texas
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26United StatesNATOUnited NationsElon Musk publicly supports call for the United States to leave NATO and the United Nations
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28United StatesVoice of America, which is overseen by the US Agency for Global Media, has placed a chief national correspondent on paid absence for suspected "bias against the Trump administration" while his social media posts are reviewed. This is in accordance with an executive order by Trump directing the network that, "Failure to faithfully implement the President's policy is grounds for professional discipline, including separation."
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30United StatesRussiaChinaRussia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, according to US intelligence.