(The Center Square) Foreign investment in U.S. farmland has tripled in the past 10 years, reporters at a non-profit investigative journalism group found.
Investigate Midwest used U.S. Department of Agriculture data to call attention to this trend. Farmer Joe Maxwell, co-founder of the group Farm Action, told The Center Square...
(Headline USA) The British government said Russia must take responsibility for the “sham trial” of two Britons and a Moroccan who were sentenced to death for fighting against Russian forces in Ukraine.
Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun were convicted by a court run by pro-Moscow separatist authorities...
(Headline USA) Battling rampant inflation, Zimbabweans are counting their toes as they struggle to buy food for their families.
An internet rumor blazed through the country that desperate people were selling their toes for cash. The false report became so widespread that the country's Deputy Minister of Information Kindness Paradza...
(Headline USA) China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is needed into whether a lab accident...
(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) If you thought the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco couldn't get any worse, you were wrong.
The Biden administration is now "indirectly" paying the Taliban to help get refugees out of the "graveyard of empires," a whistleblower told NBC.
From @dandeluce + @ckubeNBC With help from Qatar, the U.S....
(Headline USA) An American woman is set to plead guilty Tuesday to leading an all-female battalion of Islamic State militants in Syria, court records show.
A plea hearing for Allison Fluke--Ekren is to take place in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, according to a court notation. Her lawyer did not...
(Headline USA) The United States and its Asian allies flew dozens of fighter jets over waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday in a show of force as their diplomats discussed a coordinated response to a possibly imminent North Korean nuclear test.
The flights came as U.S. Deputy Secretary of...
(Headline USA) Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Monday that he will skip the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, dealing a blow to the U.S.′ efforts to rally governments to work together to address surging migration in the hemisphere.
As usual with the Biden administration, its own failing...
(Headline USA) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei acknowledged Saturday that Iran took two Greek oil tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf.
Iran claims the theft was retaliation.
“They steal Iranian oil off the Greek coast, then our brave men who don’t fear death respond and seized...
(Headline USA) China’s most advanced aircraft carrier to date appears to be nearing completion, satellite photos showed Friday, as experts suggested the vessel could be launched soon.
The newly developed Type 003 carrier has been under construction at the Jiangnan Shipyard northeast of Shanghai since 2018. Satellite images taken by Planet...
(Headline USA) As President Joe Biden's domestic policies continue to lead the country on a crash course of soaring gas prices and inflation, the president is leaning towards making a visit to Saudi Arabia — a trip that would likely bring him face-to-face with the Saudi crown prince he...
(Gregg Pupecki, Headline USA) Back in February the world witnessed one of the strictest government crackdowns on peaceful protesters in North American history.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enacted the Emergencies Act, bequeathing himself limitless powers to crush his political opposition. Trudeau used military-style force along with financial powers, having...