March 15, 2024
Washington now finds itself facing three complex global crises, each demanding its undivided attention.
An American flag above the Washington Monument is seen split nearly in two in June 2018.
(Sarah Silbiger / CQ Roll Call)
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Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of
This article is based on interviews and research by the Reckoning Project, a multinational group of journalists and lawyers collecting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, in the city of Enerhodar, in eastern Ukraine, is Europe’s largest nuclear facility. For decades, it has supplied electricity to millions of households, not just in Ukraine, but in Hungary, Poland, Belarus, Moldova, Slovakia, and Romania as well. Until two years ago, more than 50,000 people lived
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Over the past weeks, several European political parties have circulated draft versions of their manifestos for the upcoming EU elections between 6-9 June. Euractiv walks you through the potential implications for energy and environment policy.
In short, all
Israel’s robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since. The realization that its existence was dependent on a superior military in an unfriendly region also encouraged Israel to pursue a nuclear weapons … Read more
In April, Janet Protasiewicz, a circuit-court judge in Milwaukee, was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, shifting its balance of power to a 4–3 liberal majority. Her victory holds enormous implications for abortion rights, labor unions, voting rights, and, perhaps, the integrity of the 2024 Presidential election. (In 2020, the court ruled, by a single vote, against former President Donald Trump’s demand to throw out more than two hundred thousand ballots from the state’s two most populous Democratic counties; Joe
KYIV — Ukraine’s long-range Beaver drones seem to be making successful kamikaze strikes in the heart of Moscow, but Serhiy Prytula is coy about how much he knows.
“We are not sure whether we are involved in this,” he says with a charming but inscrutable smile, when asked about these mysterious new weapons.
Prytula rose to fame — just like President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — as an actor, TV star and comedian, but is now best known for his contribution to
The Russian Ruble dropped to a 17-month low exchange rate after weeks of continuous slides against the US Dollar, and the Euro experienced a 64 percent drop in its value over the past calendar year.
On Wednesday, the Ruble dropped nearly two percent against the Euro, with the currency now trading at 103 Rubles to the Euro.
The widespread sanctions levelled at Russia since the invasion, coupled with investors’ jitters following weeks of repeated attacks against Russian targets are believed
A major physics journal is retracting a two-year-old scientific paper that described the transformations of a chemical compound as it was squeezed between two pieces of diamond.
Such an esoteric finding — and retraction — would not typically garner much attention.
But one of the leaders of this research is Ranga P. Dias, a professor in the physics and mechanical engineering departments at the University of Rochester in New York who made a much bigger scientific splash earlier this year,
Parents of babies hospitalized with RSV have shared their horror stories amid an aggressive and early outbreak that threatens to overwhelm kids’ hospitals.
Three-quarters of pediatric beds across the US are full with children with respiratory and other illnesses in what has been described as the ‘worst RSV season’ in decades.
Allison Blocker from North Carolina revealed her horror after daughter Ava was put on a ventilator when a ‘mucus plug’ caused her lungs to ‘collapse’.
She said: ‘You can’t
This article is part of a larger series titled “The End Of Roe.” Head here to read more.
Globally, abortion rights and access have broadly expanded in the 50 years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade made the practice legal in the United States. But a small number of countries have moved in the opposite direction, especially in the last decade, seeking to outlaw abortions, harden existing bans, or enacting new restrictions.
These nations ― countries like
