PENTAGON – Iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles into at least two Iraqi airbases that house U.S. troops, the Pentagon says. VOA correspondent Carla Babb broke the story late Tuesday when she was told the al-Asad airbase was hit by rocket fire. The Pentagon later said the Irbil airbase was also […]
The New York Times published the first piece in its “One Nation, Tracked” investigation based on a data set with over 50 billion location pings. The New York Times‘ on Thursday sparked calls for congressional action by publishing the first article in its “One Nation, Tracked” series, an investigation into smartphone tracking based on a data […]
A diverse coalition of more than 30 progressive advocacy groups on Tuesday condemned the bipartisan, $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act as a “blank check” to the military-industrial complex that does nothing to restrain President Donald Trump’s reckless foreign policy. “Further inflating the Pentagon’s overstuffed coffers does not make us safer—it perpetuates a system that treats military […]
Americans paused Wednesday to mark the 18th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walked outside the White House to observe a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the time when hijackers flew the first […]