Skip to content
Search

Latest Stories

popular

Microsoft launches 2021 Council for Digital Good

Make us preferred on Google

Starting this week, Microsoft is inviting applications for its newest Council for Digital Good, an 18-month engagement program for U.S. teens focused on understanding, recognizing and reducing digital risks and promoting safer, healthier and more respectful online interactions.

The council experience offers teens and Microsoft a way to discuss online safety topics of interest and concern, while providing council members with a platform to share their views on 21st-century issues affecting them. The program is designed so that both the youth and the company hear, understand and learn from each other, as we all seek to create a safer, kinder and more empathetic digital world. To read more about the program and apply, visit Microsoft on the Issues.

More For You

Global views of Israel are souring: Graphic Truth
Natalie Johnson and Eileen Zhang
Israel struck military targets and a petrochemical plant in Iran on Monday, defying pressure from US President Donald Trump not to respond to a wave of ballistic missile attacks by the Islamic Republic on Sunday night. The exchange marked the first direct confrontation between Israel and Iran since a ceasefire took effect in April. Iran and Israel [...]
You vs. the News collage
Think you know what's going on around the world? Here's your chance to prove it. [...]
You vs. the News collage
Think you know what's going on around the world? Here's your chance to prove it. [...]
​Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony commemorating Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2026.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony commemorating Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers, or Yom HaZikaron, at the Military Cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2026.

ILIA YEFIMOVICH/Pool via REUTERS
The United States and Iran seem to be moving closer to a deal to end the war, recent skirmishing and mixed signals notwithstanding. If concluded – still a big if – this agreement would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, lift the US blockade, unfreeze Iran’s frozen assets (via Qatar), and extend the ceasefire – while kicking nuclear negotiations down the [...]