(Headline USA) American and Filipino forces on Tuesday launched their largest combat exercises in decades in the Philippines and its waters across the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, where Washington has repeatedly warned China over its increasingly aggressive actions.
The annual drills by the longtime treaty allies called Balikatan—Tagalog...
(Headline USA) The online leaks of scores of highly classified documents about the Ukraine war present a “very serious" risk to national security, and senior leaders are quickly taking steps to mitigate the damage, a top Pentagon spokesman said Monday.
As the public airing of the data sends shockwaves across...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Highly sensitive Pentagon documents that were leaked in recent weeks revealed that the Biden administration has been spying on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even while sending tens of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's war effort.
U.S. officials feared that the leaks could jeopardize numerous foreign...
(Headline USA) The chairman of the House Select Committee on China said Saturday the Biden administration must take seriously the threat posed to Taiwan, as Beijing launched military drills around the island in the aftermath of the Taiwanese president's meetings with American lawmakers.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., who attended the...
(Headline USA) China sent warships and dozens of fighter jets toward Taiwan on Saturday, the Taiwanese government said, in retaliation for a meeting between the U.S. House of Representatives speaker and the president of the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory.
The Chinese military announced...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) As an international investigation unfolds into the culprits who exploded Russia’s Nord Stream natural gas pipelines last September, the New York Times published an article Friday calling for the probe to remain secret.
Questions about who committed one of the most destructive acts of ecoterrorism in world...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the early days of the Ukraine war last year, President Joe Biden promised not to put U.S. troops on the ground because doing so could spark a “world war.”
However, leaked classified war documents show that the U.S. and NATO are apparently doing just that.
The documents,...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday sought to lay the blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of a Biden presidency that has seen many low points.
The...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation last month that would ban social media app TikTok from the country, but critics of all ideological stripes have criticized the bill as an ill-advised effort that would end the remaining internet freedom and privacy that still exists.
When...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) , House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., went after China's most-favored nation trade status, and said the House will move to revoke that position in an interview Wednesday with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
The policy, first enacted in 2000 by then-President Bill Clinton after China entered the...
(Headline USA) Risking China's ire, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy welcomed Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to a high-level meeting on U.S. soil as a “great friend of America” on Wednesday in a fraught show of U.S. support.
More than a dozen Democrat and Republican lawmakers, including the House's third-ranking Democrat, joined...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Some 70 years after the CIA conducted secret brainwashing experiments on unsuspecting, innocent civilians---including some that involved the use of dangerous, psychotropic drugs like LSD---victims are still attempting to hold the U.S. government responsible for its actions.
Victims who were experimented on in Canada appear to be...