Yearly Archives: 2020

WASHINGTON - The United States is the world’s leading arms trafficking nation, with $60 billion in arms transfer agreements last year alone. In 2011, U.S. companies and the U.S. government…

Glaciers in the West Antarctic "have passed the point of no return," threatening greater sea level rise impacts than previously thought, scientists at NASA and the University of California, Irvine…

A Democratic elector in Minnesota has become the first "faithless elector" of Monday's nationwide Electoral College vote after refusing to vote for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing 'conspiracy…

A classified Senate Intelligence Committee report charges that the Central Intelligence Agency lied to the U.S. public and government for years about its brutal interrogation techniques by hiding the extent…

Not only did the NSA know about the Heartbleed internet bug—found to have exposed the sensitive information of countless web users—but they exploited it for their own intelligence gathering purposes…

According to a new legal study of sitting and recent justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, conservative members of the court are tied much tighter to their own political and…

A former White House staffer is running to fill the U.S. House seat that will be left by Rep. Xavier BecerraXavier BecerraOVERNIGHT ENERGY: Park Police chief insists tear gas wasn't…

Reintroducing the levy could spur the U.S. administration to retaliate with tariffs on French products | Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images France reinstates digital tax, courting trade war Bruno Le…

In a decision welcomed as "a major crack in Guantanamo's years-long effort to oppress prisoners," a federal judge on Friday ordered the United States to halt the force-feeding and "Forcible…

Backed by five Nobel economists, numerous experts and government leaders, a new comprehensive report presented in London on Wednesday is calling for the end of the international so-called "war on…