The US Supreme Court has reshaped birthright citizenship – and the judiciary itself. US President Donald Trump is claiming victory after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that federal judges cannot issue nationwide injunctions. Has the ruling reshaped the power of the presidency?

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Did you know that women’s clothing and personal care products are often priced higher than men's? It’s been that way for years and there’s even a name for it. Pink Tax. Now with Trump implementing widespread tariffs, how will this impact women’s goods and jobs?  

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The World Food Programme has sounded the alarm, saying it may have to reduce its aid operations for Sudanese refugees … because of cutbacks in its funding. Four million refugees are in countries neighbouring Sudan after fleeing from the ongoing civil war, and most of them rely on aid. But that was put in jeopardy after the Trump administration slashed overseas aid budgets earlier this year. The European Union, the UK and Germany have also cut funding for foreign aid as some nations switch funding to invest in defence. So, who else can step in to fill the gap? And what will happen to the people who depend on aid to survive?

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Shajarat al Durr was born in the golden age of Islam. Despite her beginnings as a child slave, she went on to become the first woman to sit on the throne of Egypt since Cleopatra nearly 13-hundred years before.  But in hindsight, Shajarat al Durr’s life is a Cinderella story without the fairy tale ending.

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Fugutive and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina has officially been charged with crimes against humanity. Prosecutors in Dhaka accuse the 77-year-old of orchestrating a "systematic attack" on demonstrators during protests last year that ended her 15-year rule. Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus has promised to ensure Sheikh Hasina and other key figures face justice. But his caretaker government is facing discord over when it will hold elections. So will Sheikh Hasina face punishment and will Bangladeshis forgive Muhammad Yunus if she does not?

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Israel’s war on Gaza has turbocharged its already booming military-tech industry, with weapons and surveillance systems tested on Palestinians continuing to be sold around the world. Israel’s role as a global arms innovator has only deepened since October 7, 2023, and some governments and corporations are profiting.

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As Sudan’s war effects spill into Chad, the country faces the world’s most underfunded refugee crisis. Nearly a million Sudanese, mostly women and children, have fled, but aid is vanishing, disease is looming, and the system is on the verge of collapse. In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Ahmed Idris speaks to a United Nations lead official in Chad and to a Sudanese refugee activist who fled the same forces now threatening his people. As the world looks away, they warn that the cost of inaction may soon be counted in lives.

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Years of fighting between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda may be at an end - thanks to a peace deal signed in the United States. Rwanda has agreed to remove thousands of troops from eastern Congo that were supporting the Rwandan-backed armed group M23, as it took control of major cities and mining areas. That was widely seen as a major escalation and stoked fears of a regional conflict. So can this agreement succeed where many others have failed? And is this deal really about US interest in Congolese minerals?

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United States President Donald Trump can force Israel to end the war on Gaza if he shows the same gumption as he did with Iran, argues Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

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A battle over land, natural resources and wind energy in the occupied Golan Heights – a microcosm of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict. This documentary is about a group of Syrian fruit farmers taking on an Israeli energy company over the right to build wind turbines on land they’ve been farming for several centuries. The farmers are Syrian Druze from the northern Golan, which has been illegally occupied by Israel since the June 1967 War. The Druze object to what they see as a social and environmental threat to their community – and what they also see as an Israeli attempt to build permanent infrastructure on illegally occupied land, in violation of international law. This is a powerful story in which global politics and a simple farming way of life collide, creating a standoff that resonates beyond the fruit orchards of the Golan Heights.

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