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“There aren’t even that many Russian diplomats in Washington,” the Foreign Ministry stated. “Those who propose such steps are apparently pushing for the closure of American offices in Russia. They should understand that the responsibility for this will be theirs.” On Tuesday, Senators Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio, Mark Warner and …

Kids returning to Geiger Montessori School in Tacoma, just outside Seattle, this fall were greeted with a bizarre Covid-19 protocol. In an email to parents, the school advised that children would be spaced out in a ventilated cafeteria, and could remove their face masks “only to take a bite or …

Biden phoned Macron on Wednesday to discuss last week’s announcement of a new security pact between the US, UK and Australia – which resulted in France losing a multi-billion-dollar shipbuilding contract, among other things – and “agreed that the situation would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters …

Speaking to RT, Khan expressed his anger towards American officials who have pointed fingers at Islamabad when apportioning blame for the US failure in Afghanistan. He highlighted the recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings as an example of this frustrating rhetoric. “As a Pakistani, I felt deeply hurt by some …

Under a deal outlined by the Department of Justice, the trio – at least two of whom formerly worked at the National Security Agency (NSA) – will pay a $1.7 million fine, and be stripped of their security clearances evermore. Their crimes were committed under the auspices of Project Raven, an operation …

There are two perspectives regarding the case for turning Washington, DC into the 51st state. One is obvious, explicit, above-board, mentioned by adherents of this proposal. The other is hidden and only implicit. The first is not unreasonable. Citizens of this great US metropolis are disenfranchised. Every other member of …

Invited onto the Washington Post’s ‘Please Go On’ podcast on Friday to expand on his proposed “solutions” to the “problem” of Afghan withdrawal as set out in an op-ed for the paper earlier this week, Bolton began by sneeringly dismissing the idea that the US could ever truly leave Afghanistan …

Fu Cong, Director-General of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ arms control department, demanded on Wednesday that the US investigate its own laboratories as China and the world await the findings of the US intelligence report on the origins of the virus. Fu warned the US that blaming China would not …

Eatonville High School will require both student athletes and staff to wear the monitors during the upcoming school year, according to local media reports. The school argues the devices are needed to track potential coronavirus outbreaks on campus, insisting they do not actually transmit wearers’ locations, instead only tracking players’ …

While attempting to brush off the ongoing catastrophe in Afghanistan, US Vice President Kamala Harris is pursuing her long-awaited tour of Southeast Asia, with stops in Singapore and Vietnam. Here, she has accused Beijing of “intimidation” and “coercion” in the South China Sea, a key strategic waterway which Beijing has …