“This threat is emerging the day before a vote on reauthorizing vast domestic spying capabilities?” wrote one journalist. “What are the chances!” The House Republican leadership on Wednesday abruptly canceled planned floor votes on mass surveillance reforms shortly after unnamed U.S. intelligence officials told multiple news outlets that Russia has made alarming progress on a space-based nuclear […]
Gruesome new data shows that kids make up around 43% of the death toll from Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces have killed more than 12,300 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip in just over four months, a staggering toll that’s likely to grow as the Netanyahu government ramps up its assault on and prepares […]
A Republican Party that years ago would push back when Donald Trump denigrated NATO has been more ambivalent in the days since the former president said he would encourage Russia to attack alliance members who he felt were not contributing enough to the common defense. While some in the party distanced themselves from Trump’s comments, […]
A Chinese official implored Japan to “face up to the concerns of its neighboring countries and the international community.” Thousands of liters of radioactive wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan leaked from the outdoor vent of a filtering device, the company that operates the facility said Wednesday. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said about […]