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"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." — Thomas Jefferson, 1789
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When Trump won, my phone started filling up with the same question from friends back home: "what is the world saying about this?" I’d answer, they’d go quiet for a second, and then: "why aren’t we hearing that?"
That second question I couldn’t quite answer.

Then the war in Iran started. The messages became a flood.
Fifteen thousand people found this in three weeks without me asking them to. I’m still not entirely sure what that means. But I think it means the question my friends were asking — "why aren’t we hearing that?" — isn’t just their question.

This is me answering that second question.
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The Rest of the World Report | August 17, 2026 — Evening Edition

Trump demanded Iran’s surrender today, hours after a 60-day deadline expired with nothing to show for it. Kushner spent the weekend shuttling between Hamas and Netanyahu, and walked away with strikes continuing and no Israeli withdrawal. Ukraine hit a Russian rocket facility and an airbase for nuclear-capable jets, and Russia hit back at a maternity hospital. And nearly 30 years later, the man accused of killing Tupac finally stood trial.

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The Rest of the World Report | August 17, 2026 — Morning Edition

A foreign government and a felon the president pardoned now control the token behind his family’s new federally chartered bank. His own DOJ just backed his private lawyers in court, right after his former personal attorney was confirmed to run the department. Six Black Americans have died this year under circumstances their families are still fighting to have taken seriously. And Kushner is in Egypt trying to save a Gaza plan Israel just rejected.

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The Rest of the World Report | August 16, 2026 — Good News Sunday Edition

A teenager who lost his leg in a car accident is now a four-time world surfing champion. A doughnut shop’s whole community showed up when the owner couldn’t make payroll. A college student pulled three drowning girls out of Lake Washington. Rescued orangutans are raising babies who’ve never known captivity. And scientists just figured out how to make “indestructible” plastic edible to soil microbes.

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The Rest of the World Report | August 15, 2026 — Saturday Edition

A wildfire disaster is sweeping Europe, from a fatal blaze that forced thousands to flee Croatia’s coast to major fires burning in Greece, Spain, and beyond.

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Rudy Martinez is the founder of The Rest of the World Report. He publishes daily international news coverage sourced from the world's press, translated for American readers. ROTWR is free, independent, and sustained entirely by its readers.