Former Biden official makes stunning claim about president’s border policy – Part 1 of 2
Financial trove details records of 130 people listed as billionaires by Forbes magazine and more than 330 public officials in more than 90 countries and territories, twice the number found in the Panama documents. A massive trove of private financial records shared with The Washington Post exposes vast reaches of the secretive offshore system used…
Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant. Photo by Hossein Ostovar, Wikimedia Commons. The US is alarmed by Iran’s progress toward obtaining an atomic weapon and hopes to resume talks soon to curb Tehran’s nuclear program, a top official in Washington said on Tuesday. Iran’s nuclear activity was also at the center of talks in Washington between US and…
The major headlines coming out of Germany’s recent federal election were about the Social Democrats’ win and the stunning defeat of the Christian Democrats after Angela Merkel’s 16-year leadership run. But there’s another major story. Many feared that Germany might shift to the right, following countries like Austria or Switzerland, where xenophobic parties have long been powerful. Instead, Germany’s…
Getty Images In 2010, the UK general election ended in a hung parliament. The news sparked a frenzy. For the first time since the 1970s, no party had enough seats to form a majority government. After a week of media speculation and intense talks between the major parties, Prime Minister Gordon Brown stepped down and…
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Whistleblower Frances Haugen called for transparency about how Facebook entices users to keep scrolling, creating ample opportunity for advertisers to reach them. Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled ‘Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower’ on Capitol Hill October 5, 2021 in Washington,…
TAIPEI/WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Military tensions with China are at their worst in more than 40 years, Taiwan’s defence minister said on Wednesday (Oct 6), days after record numbers of Chinese aircraft flew into the island’s air defence zone. Tensions have hit a new high between Taipei and Beijing, which claims the democratic island as its own…