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Empty hotels, idle boats: What happens when a Pacific island upsets China

August 19, 2018 | Featured, Top Stories, World | 0 Comments

Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is caught in an …

328 NSA DOCUMENTS REVEAL “VAST NETWORK” OF IRANIAN AGENTS, DETAILS OF A KEY INTELLIGENCE COUP, AND A FERVOR FOR VOICE MATCHING TECHNOLOGY

August 19, 2018 | Featured, U.S. | 0 Comments

Highlights from the seventh release of the internal NSA newsletter SIDtoday.

The Chicago Police Files Part 2: INSTITUTE RELAUNCHES THE CITIZENS POLICE DATA PROJECT

August 19, 2018 | Featured, U.S. | 0 Comments

The long effort by the Invisible Institute to gain access to internal police files is an important chapter in the struggle for civil rights in …

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Empty hotels, idle boats: What happens when a Pacific island upsets China

Aug 19, 2018 | Featured, Top Stories, World

Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is caught in an …

U.S. forces to stay in Iraq as long as needed: spokesman

Aug 19, 2018 | Top Stories, World

U.S. forces will stay in Iraq “as long as needed” to help stabilize regions previously controlled by Islamic State, a spokesman for the U.S.-led international …

TRUMP ADMIN FILES FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST FACEBOOK FOR ‘DISCRIMINATORY POLICY’

Aug 19, 2018 | Politics, Top Stories

The Trump administration announced a fair housing discrimination complaint against social media giant Facebook on Friday

Britain’s May could face trouble over Brexit deal, Conservative lawmaker warns

Aug 19, 2018 | Top Stories, World

Prime Minister Theresa May could face trouble getting her Brexit deal approved by the British parliament before exit day unless she changes her proposals, the …

Iran says U.S. ‘action group’ will fail to overthrow Iranian state

Aug 19, 2018 | Top Stories, World

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Sunday that a new Iran Action Group in the U.S. State Department aimed to overthrow the Islamic …

U.S. missionary thrust to the center of Turkey-U.S. crisis

Aug 19, 2018 | Top Stories, World

When Andrew Brunson saw a police summons on his door in late summer 2016, the U.S. evangelical pastor thought it was a routine appointment to …

FBI DEALT BLOW BY DC JUDGE, MUST ADDRESS VERIFICATION PROCESS OF STEELE DOSSIER

Aug 19, 2018 | Politics, Top Stories, U.S.

The FBI has been dealt a major blow after a Washington DC judge ruled that the agency must respond to a FOIA request for documents …

White House counsel interviewed for 30 hours in Russia probe: New York Times

Aug 18, 2018 | Politics, Top Stories

The White House’s top lawyer has cooperated extensively with the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, sharing detailed accounts about the …

U.S. court orders Trump administration to enforce chemical safety rule

Aug 18, 2018 | Top Stories, U.S.

A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately implement an Obama-era chemical safety rule introduced in response to a 2013 explosion …

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Iran says no OPEC member can take over its share of oil exports

Aug 19, 2018 | Business

Iran told OPEC on Sunday no member country should be allowed to take over another member’s share of oil exports, expressing Tehran’s concern about Saudi …

Okra is a gut-friendly vegetable you need to be eating more often

Aug 19, 2018 | Health

Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) is a vegetable that can easily polarize a dinner table.

Trump says ‘nothing to hide’ from Special Counsel Mueller

Aug 19, 2018 | Politics

U.S. President Donald Trump declared Sunday he had “nothing to hide” from the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, and denied …