The Department of the Interior, under Secretary Doug Burgum, announced on Wednesday a sweeping reform to dramatically accelerate the permitting process for energy and mineral development. Permits that once took years will now be reviewed in as little as 28 days, a move driven by President Donald Trump’s National Emergency Declaration to boost national energy security.
Former Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva leveled serious accusations against President Gustavo Petro in a public letter on April 22, claiming the far-left leader suffers from drug addiction and is being manipulated by his closest advisors. Leyva, who served under Petro from August 2022 to May 2024, said the president’s alleged condition poses a national security threat.
South Korea’s data privacy watchdog has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of unlawfully exporting user data to companies in China and the U.S. without consent. The platform, briefly a global sensation in early 2025, is now at the center of a major international privacy scandal with implications for national security and digital sovereignty.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has blocked President Trump's order protecting the nation's elections by requiring people to provide proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote.
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico announced that his government will stop its procurement of COVID-19 vaccines in light of a recent report highlighting the presence of DNA within them.
The Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court review a lower court ruling that blocked its ban on transgender individuals in the military.
Sales of the United States' founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Federalist Papers, have surged in recent months.
