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The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) identified “about $2.4 billion in assets that were unused or abandoned, had not been used for their intended purposes, had deteriorated, or were destroyed” out of nearly $7.8 billion the US has spent on capital assets in the country. Only $1.2 billion …

Psychologist Tomas Stahl found that both the religious and atheists share a great deal of common morality, but added that while non-believers do indeed have a moral compass, “…it is calibrated somewhat differently than that of religious believers in some respects, but not in others.” Stahl’s research involved four online …

“If you fail to hold him accountable, it can happen again,” the Times’ editorial board wrote on Friday, in a plea to Republican senators to convict the former president. “To excuse Mr. Trump’s attack on American democracy would invite more such attempts, by him and by other aspiring autocrats,” they …

Klobuchar proposed a competition and antitrust law enforcement reform act that would make major changes to antitrust law, granting enforcement agencies more powers to impose larger fines, and shifting the burden of proof over mergers onto companies. RT’s Boom Bust host Brent Jabbour discusses the new legislation with his co-host, …

Russia’s state quality control watchdog, Roskachestvo, issued a warning on Thursday after a survey of black sturgeon caviar on sale revealed a number of safety concerns. Out of 14 Russian brands, and one each from Armenia and Belarus, only one tin of the luxury fish roe was found to pass …

High-ranking FBI officials accused of sexual harassment and even assault have systematically avoided prosecution or any discipline at all, Associated Press has claimed in a report published Thursday. The outlet found at least six senior officials, among them an assistant director and heads of entire field offices, who had been …

Earlier this month, Portuguese judges upheld a decision from a lower court that found the forced quarantine of four holidaymakers to be unlawful. The case centred on the reliability (or lack thereof) of Covid-19 PCR tests. The verdict, delivered on November 11, followed an appeal against a writ of habeas …

Seventy-three percent of Americans say that elected officials do not face “serious consequences” for misconduct, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. A closer look reveals that a mere 21 percent of those leaning Democrat and 32 percent of Republicans believe there is some basic justice for delinquent politicians. …

Pompeo is currently on a tour of the Middle East. He left Israel for Sudan on Tuesday morning, but not before he recorded a message from Jerusalem that is scheduled to be shown at the Republican party convention later in the day. The message is supposed to be in his …

Vladimir Putin in Israel defends the Kremlin’s version of history of the twentieth century, which has become a cause for the succession of quarrels with neighboring countries. Year 2019 ended historical “war” between the Kremlin and the Czech mayor of Prague district of Reporyje, who was going to install a …