American democracy in action is as perturbing and frustrating to watch for a US citizen as it is confounding to outsiders. It’s become especially true in this age of extreme partisan politics, where legislation is prepared, debated, stalled, passed, or killed through parliamentary procedures and processes that are opaque even …
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Kiev has recently hinted that it may try to get its own nuclear weapons amid tensions with Russia. However, not even Ukraine’s allies in the West would support this move, Ilya Kramnik, a researcher at the Moscow-based Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences …
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On Monday, local cops arrested the group of tourists after a fire was reported in an area of dense forest in the country’s Antalya province. The incident occurred on Saturday in the area of Çağlarca, and authorities claim the fire may have been started by a campfire set up by …
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America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced a new group that will focus solely on China and the strategic challenges posed by it. In a statement released on Thursday, the agency said the new China Mission Center has been formed “to address the global challenge posed by the People’s Republic …
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“The current program for power supply agreements [under which the development of renewable energy sources is supported by the authorities] has been planned already, whereas, for the program for power-supply agreements 2.0, we are considering all possible territories of the country,” the source said. The list of regions for wind-power …
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Batsarashkina set a record of 240.3 points, with a 0.9 lead over Kostadinova, winning her first Olympic gold in Tokyo – five years after taking silver at the Rio Games. While China’s Jiang bested the qualifying rounds (with an Olympic record of her own of 587 points), she was eventually …
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Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Thursday, Pence dove into his role at the end of the 2020 presidential election, which included certifying the results in Biden’s favor. Trump supporters had called on the former vice president to refuse certification, claiming the election was rigged against Trump. Some …
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No one is saying that Robert Schuman was a bad man, but Pope Francis’s decision to launch him on the path to sainthood will have the effect of conferring a legitimacy on the European Union that seems to bestow the Higher Power’s seal of approval upon this creaking political project. …
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The 15-year-old tweet, which reads “just setting up my twttr,” was bought by a platform called Valuables, owned by US company Cent, after it was put up for sale earlier this month. Dorsey’s post, uploaded to Twitter on March 21, 2006, was sold as an NFT – a new online …
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Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Fox News, Beck was discussing the recent actions of Big Tech. In the wake of the storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters, Apple and Google removed Parler, a social network popular with conservatives, from its app stores, and Amazon …
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