US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces: the Human Rights Reporting Gateway (HRG) acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government (LINK) 23 October 2025


Pete Hegseth imposes new restrictions on Pentagon communications with Congress: first coordinate with a centralized office that reports to him (LINK) 22 October 2025


Argentina's Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein resigns, Presidential Office confirms (LINK) — ground.news: 11 media reports (LINK) 22 October 2025


Swiss government rejects ban on children’s headscarves in schools (LINK) 22 October 2025

— The government believes that the state, and therefore also public schools, should remain neutral with regard to religious symbols. It argues that the current law sufficiently ensures that all girls can take part in school, sports and swimming lessons. In individual cases, cantonal authorities had issued headscarf bans for schoolgirls. In a landmark ruling in 2015, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that a general ban on children wearing headscarves in public schools would not be in line with the constitution.

U.S. First Ladies made history in the East Wing razed for Trump's ballroom (LINK) 22 October 2025

— The Office of the First Lady was first professionalized by Eleanor Roosevelt during her husband's administration. Roosevelt used the East Wing for official functions, as a base of operations for her activism and as a space for interacting with groups representing the American people, from the Girl Scouts to the Women's Trade Union League. Betty Ford argued to increase pay for her staff in the East Wing. Rosalynn Carter became the first first lady to keep her own office there, in 1977. It was also in the East Wing that Laura Bush launched her literacy efforts, and where Michelle Obama oversaw her "Let's Move" campaign.


AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, 45% of the time, regardless of language or territory, new research shows (LINK) — ground.news: 42 media reports (LINK) 22 October 2025

— One out of every five answers contained major accuracy issues, such as hallucinated details and outdated information. The report highlighted that Gemini had significant issues in 76% of its responses, largely due to poor sourcing.


Author Michael Wolff sues Melania Trump over Jeffrey Epstein threat: accuses the first lady of trying to muzzle him by threatening a $1 billion lawsuit (LINK) 21 October 2025


Sea levels rising faster than they have in 4,000 years, Rutgers University study warns (LINK) 20 October 2025