Biden Orders Admin to Share Evidence of Alleged Russian War Crimes with ICC

Biden Orders Admin to Share Evidence of Alleged Russian War Crimes with ICC

President Joe Biden has ordered his administration to begin sharing evidence of alleged Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in the Hague, a US official said on Wednesday. According to the New York Times, the White House began notifying lawmakers of this change in policy on Tuesday. In contrast to the National Security Council and the State Department, the Pentagon had long opposed cooperation with the ICC. After the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in March, the Defense Department blocked Washington from...

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FBI’s Unapproved Snooping on US Lawmakers Fuels Debate Over Surveillance Powers

FBI’s Unapproved Snooping on US Lawmakers Fuels Debate Over Surveillance Powers

A newly declassified court document has revealed the FBI improperly searched a surveillance database seeking information about a US senator, a state senator, and a state judge. The disclosure comes during a heated Congressional debate over intelligence agencies’ ability to conduct warrantless spying on American citizens and their communications. Released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday, the revelations were included in an order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued in April. The document shows that in June 2022, an FBI analyst conducted...

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Study: Trinity Nuclear Test Fallout Impacted 46 States, Canada, and Mexico

Study: Trinity Nuclear Test Fallout Impacted 46 States, Canada, and Mexico

A recently released study exposes the “widespread dispersion” of radioactive fallout and devastation caused by the US government’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon. The “Trinity” atomic bomb test which caused  “environmental contamination and population exposures” was carried out in New Mexico on July 16th, 1945. This new research shows within 10 days of the explosion, which saw a mushroom cloud as high as 50,000 - 70,000 feet, radioactive deposits were dispersed across 46 states, and even parts of Canada as well as Mexico. The study covers the Trinity test as well as dozens more,...

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Biden Expresses Concern Over Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul, Warns of Risk to the ‘Special Relationship’

Biden Expresses Concern Over Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul, Warns of Risk to the ‘Special Relationship’

President Joe Biden has admonished Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cease his attempts to ram through his coalition’s controversial juridical overhaul amid mass opposition protests. He recommends instead that the Israeli leader seek a broad consensus. Following a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Biden told New York Times columnist Tom Friedman that if a more “democratic” path is not taken Washington’s “special relationship” with Tel Aviv could be affected. While still facing a corruption trial, since coming to power last December, Netanyahu’s coalition – made up of...

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Kissinger Meets With Chinese Defense Minister, Amid Soaring Tensions

Kissinger Meets With Chinese Defense Minister, Amid Soaring Tensions

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited Beijing and met with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu on Tuesday. This comes as tensions between the world’s two largest economies have been heightened substantially as a result of the White House’s bellicose military strategy aimed at China. Li said in a statement that the US-China relationship has reached its “lowest point since the establishment of diplomatic relations.” He added, this is because “some people in the United States did not meet China halfway.” Li warned against the rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, stressing...

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Biden Invites Netanyahu to ‘Meet Soon’ in the US, as Israel Has Killed Nearly 200 Palestinians in 2023

Biden Invites Netanyahu to ‘Meet Soon’ in the US, as Israel Has Killed Nearly 200 Palestinians in 2023

President Joe Biden invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “meet soon” in the United States during a phone call on Monday. This comes as Tel Aviv is escalating its military attacks and bombings against neighboring countries, the blockaded Gaza Strip, as well as Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank. Relations between the White House and the Israelis appeared strained as a result of controversies related to the Netanyahu coalition’s planned judicial overhaul which caused political chaos. Biden and Netanyahu had not spoken for seven months, since his coalition took power...

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US, South Korea, and Japan Hold Joint Military Exercises After North Korea’s ICBM Launch

US, South Korea, and Japan Hold Joint Military Exercises After North Korea’s ICBM Launch

Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo held joint naval drills testing missile defense in international waters between Japan and South Korea on Sunday. Following Pyongyang’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch, an envoy from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) spoke before the UN Security Council days earlier. He defended his government’s actions as a response to various military provocations by Washington and its allies. South Korea’s Navy portrayed Sunday’s drills as an opportunity to “improve security cooperation” with Japan as well as the United States in the face...

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North Korea Warns It May Shoot Down US Spy Planes

North Korea Warns It May Shoot Down US Spy Planes

Pyongyang accused the US military of conducting provocative surveillance flights which infringe on its airspace and trespass in its exclusive economic zone on Monday. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) admonished Washington that if such provocations persist, American reconnaissance planes may be shot down. This comes amid soaring tensions on the Korean peninsula largely as a result of massive joint US-South Korean war games which have seen the White House deploy aircraft carriers, nuclear capable bombers, and Reaper drones. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of DPRK leader Kim Jong Un as...

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