In 1655, British Admiral William Penn, the father of Pennsylvania's founder, captured Jamaica from the Spanish.
As Jamaica was too far from England be defended, inhabitants turned to privateers, freebooters, buccaneers and pirates...
USA Today ran the headlines, April 11, 2024: "Voters, fearful of World War III as Iran strikes Israel."
President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8,...
The organization Empower Oversight, a group supporting whistleblowers, is urging the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General to conduct an investigation into Federal Air Marshals Service surveillance programs.
The House of Representatives passed an amendment for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 that automatically registers U.S. males for a potential draft.
It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
Former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield warned that gain-of-function research into the bird flu virus may cause a "great pandemic."
Vice President Kamala Harris faced questions from New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger last year over President Biden's avoidance of interviews with major newspapers,...
Representative Nick Langworthy (R-NY) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, condemning taxpayer-funded research that could "potentially generate dangerous new lab-created virus strains that threaten our national security and public health.”
