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The Department of Homeland Security has warned that Canadian-style truck protesters are heading to the capital The US Capitol Police have ramped up security in Washington, DC in preparation for a series of truck convoys during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, which are set to protest Covid-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates in […]
Putin was right, Stoltenberg was wrong: NATO “brazenly deceived” Russia about expansion and a British document proves it A newly discovered document from March 1991 shows US, UK, French, and German officials discussing a pledge made to Russia that NATO will not expand to Poland and beyond. Its publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel […]
Justice Department creates new FBI unit to prosecute crypto crimes The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday the creation of the FBI’s ‘Virtual Asset Exploitation Unit’. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who also named prosecutor Eun Young Choi as the first director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), said that the new […]
The chancellor of California State endorsed a colleague for an award despite multiple complaints against him The chancellor of the California State University (CSU), the largest public higher education system in the US, resigned on Thursday following allegations that he had repeatedly refused to discipline a colleague accused of sexual harassment. Joseph Castro described the […]
Trump hailed his 2020 deal with Beijing as “transformative” for the US. He was right – it’s made ordinary US citizens much poorer At the end of January, the US-China ‘phase one’ trade deal made under Donald Trump expired. The agreement, struck in January 2020 at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and before […]
Joe Biden’s likely request for a record-breaking defense budget shows America’s priorities remain all wrong President Biden is expected to ask Congress for a record-shattering military budget for the fiscal year 2023 that will exceed $770 billion and could reach $800 billion, according to a Reuters report on Wednesday, which cited anonymous sources. While the […]
More American military assets moved to Europe amid ‘Russian invasion’ fears Several F-35A Lightning II fighter jets were deployed to Germany’s Spangdahlem Air Base on Wednesday to “deter aggression” and “defend allies should deterrence fail” as the US continues to wait for an “imminent” Russian invasion of Ukraine. The US Air Force Reserve Command announced […]
President of El Salvador tells US to ‘stay out’ of his country’s affairs after senators voice worries over bitcoin El Salvador is a sovereign country and not a colony of Washington, which has no right to meddle in its decision to adopt bitcoin, President Nayib Bukele said on Wednesday in response to a bill proposed […]
The US visa program has yet to review thousands of applications from Afghanistan allies, a New York Times report has revealed Fewer than 2,000 of the 43,000 applications submitted through the US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ humanitarian parole program have received approval, according to a report from the New York Times, leaving thousands of Afghanistan […]
Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former leader of Honduras, was taken into custody on drugs charges Law enforcement in Honduras on Monday arrested the country’s ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is wanted in the US over his alleged involvement in drug trafficking and other crimes. Hernandez said he was willing to surrender himself. The former leader, […]
The CIA essentially sets its own rules over what data it collects, and politicians know it. Here’s how it is allowed to do so The recent efforts by two US Senators to get more transparency over intelligence harvesting by the Central Intelligence Agency, which involves the “incidental” collection of US citizens’ personal information, opens the […]
The 43-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to communicate restricted data A former US Navy engineer pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to pass classified information about America’s nuclear-powered warships to an individual he believed was representing a foreign government. Jonathan Toebbe, 43, appeared in federal court in Martinsburg, West Virginia, where he […]
Ex-Honduran leader Juan Orlando Hernandez was holed up at his home on Monday following Washington’s demands for extradition Dozens of Honduran police officers surrounded the home of former president Juan Orlando Hernandez on Monday after Washington requested that he be arrested and extradited. Hernandez has already been placed on a US blacklist, and Secretary of […]
The US’ status as the global financial hub is under threat due to brazen corporate greed and self-harming government policy Holdings of Chinese government bonds rose in January, according to a February 12 report by Reuters citing official data, despite the fact that yield premiums have substantially narrowed between US and Chinese government debt. These […]
Federal agency asks people to report former lovers for gun crimes so it can give them ‘a Valentine’s Day to remember’ A federal law enforcement agency has suggested a novel way for Americans to get back at their ex-lovers on Valentine’s Day: turn them in for illegal gun activity. The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, […]