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Russia announces nuclear weapon drills after angry exchange with senior Western officials 2024-05-06
San Francisco Chronicle

Russia's Defense Ministry says it plans to hold drills simulating the use of tactical nuclear weapons....

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As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to ... 2024-05-06
Wtop

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a student leader of the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate’s...

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Prosecutors move deeper into Trump’s orbit as testimony in hush money trial enters a third week 2024-05-06
Wtop

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are moving deeper into his orbit following an inside-the-room account about the former president’s reaction to a politically damaging recording that surfaced in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. Hope Hicks, a former White...

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Confidence in Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low 2024-05-06
Gallup

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With Americans less optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy than they have been in recent months and concern about inflation persisting, their confidence in President Joe Biden to recommend or do the right thing for the economy is among the lowest Gallup has measured for...

photo: White House

IQ Scores In The US Have Recently Dropped For First Time This Century 2024-05-06
IFL Science

New research indicates that the average intelligence quotient (IQ) in the US has declined for the first time in nearly 100 years. But does this mean that the population of the US is actually getting dumber? Not necessarily. Advertisement Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of...

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Protests continue as Biden calls for order 2024-05-03
China Daily

As pro-Palestinian protest encampments remain at dozens of US colleges and universities, and more than 2,000 protesters have been arrested, US President Joe Biden said Thursday that "order most prevail'', as "Americans have the right to protest but not the right to cause chaos''. "There should be no...

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Abortion is still consuming US politics and courts 2 years after a Supreme Court draft ... 2024-05-02
Wtop

Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation’s abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation’s courts, legislatures and political campaigns — and changing the course of lives. On Wednesday, a ban on...

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How do United States universities make their money? 2024-05-02
Al Jazeera

From Columbia Univeristy in New York to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, protests against Israel’s war on Gaza have spread across major United States...

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OECD lifts global growth outlook as US, China outperform expectations 2024-05-02
Al Jazeera

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has upgraded its outlook for the global economy on the back of stronger-than-expected growth in the United States and China. The global economy is forecast to grow 3.1 percent this year and 3.2 percent in 2025, the Paris-based...

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Tensions high at UCLA as police order pro-Palestinian protesters to leave 2024-05-02
Al Jazeera

Tensions are high at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus where hundreds of police in riot gear have deployed in force, ordering peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters to leave or face arrest, less than 24 hours after their encampment was attacked by a violent pro-Israel mob. But...

photo: AP / Jae C. Hong