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North Korea Flaunts Ballistic Missiles As Japan And South Korea Meet

US President Barack Obama brought together the sparring leaders of Japan and South Korea last night – but it was North Korea, thousands of miles away, that may have played the biggest role in helping...

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Here's How The Koch Brothers Are Undermining American Democracy

Charles and David Koch should not be blamed for having more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans put together. Nor should they be condemned for their petrochemical empire. As far as I know,...

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Ted Cruz Landed A $1.5 Million Book Deal — But Is He Worth That Much?

Ted Cruz has landed a big book deal. According to Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner, the freshman US senator and possible (OK, probable) 2016 presidential candidate has inked a $1.5 million...

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Could Arming Soldiers On Base Prevent Another Mass Shooting?

To some Americans, it’s a troubling irony in the wake of another shooting at the Fort Hood Army base: America’s largest repositories of soldiers and weapons are essentially gun-free zones where the...

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Security Researchers Warn Military Satellites Could Be Hacked

Satellite communication terminals, relied upon by US military aircraft, ships, and land vehicles to move in harmony with one another, are susceptible to cyber-attack through digital backdoors and other...

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Christians Are Paying For Hundreds Of Ukrainian Jews To Move To Israel

As Ukraine's political turmoil spreads, the number of Ukrainian Jews immigrating to Israel has doubled this year, mostly from restless eastern regions. The uptick comes amid reports ofan attack on a...

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There's A Compelling Reason Why Hillary Clinton's State Department Didn't...

Criticism is building like a summer thunderstorm that Hillary Clinton dropped the ball on addressing a growing terrorist threat in Africa during her time as secretary of state.But this is not another...

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Why Edward Snowden Is No Spy

Edward Snowden says he's a spy. True?Not really.If a spy is anyone who has worked at a spy agency then, sure, he's a spy, having worked at both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central...

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Here's Why Republicans Are Mad About Obama's Deal To Release A 28-Year-Old POW

Republicans are criticizing President Obama for the May 31 release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who served in Afghanistan before he was captured and held for five years by the Taliban.Among the complaints:...

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Here Are Some Of The Most Bizarre Ideas From The CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency secretly developed an Osama bin Laden action figure whose face peeled off to reveal a scary devil beneath, according to an account first published this week in The...

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Former CIA Director: 'Two Thirds Of The US' Could Die From An Attack On The...

Washington — It is an unsettling doomsday scenario: A ballistic missile is launched from a freighter near America’s shores, setting off a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere. The blast generates...

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Oscar Pistorius Might Write A Book After He Gets Sentenced

Will Oscar Pistorius write a book about the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp?Rumors suggesting as much have already created a controversial firestorm around the Paralympic athlete, with...

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Thousands Join Expanded Ferguson Protests Dubbed The 'Weekend Of Resistance'

Protests over the Aug. 9 killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, continue to grow as thousands of people from all over the United States descended on greater St. Louis to take part in a...

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Hillary Clinton has a Keystone XL problem

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton announced Sunday that she will run for president in 2016, and environmental groups are welcoming her to the race with the first of what could be many Keystone XL...

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How to tell if the Tesla home battery will save you money

Tesla's Powerwall home batteries comprise a high-profile entry by the electric-car maker into a new segment of the energy industry that's expected to grow rapidly.Energy storage potentially allows...

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Russia and NATO are edging toward a high-risk military standoff

MOSCOW — For more than a year, antagonistic rhetoric and actions have ticked upward as the West seeks to restrain and punish Russia for its actions in Ukraine.Moscow and NATO have broken off ties and...

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Bernie Sanders is fighting a near-blackout in the media despite his surging...

If you’re still a little confused about who Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is, that makes sense – network TV news has largely ignored the Democratic presidential candidate from Vermont.With 23 candidates...

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An Israeli space company just made a major announcement that puts them in the...

An Israeli spacecraft aboard an American rocket will take off for the moon in late 2017, becoming the leader in a space-race competition run by Google.Officials from the $30 million Google Lunar X...

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One statistic helps explain Donald Trump's support

There’s never been a US presidential candidate like Donald Trump. Just how unusual has his candidacy been? In poring over some poll data Monday morning, we noticed one number that to us symbolizes the...

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One step closer to Mars as NASA commissions 5 new orbiter designs

Putting a person on Mars has long been a dream of science fiction writers, but that vision took a step closer to reality Monday when NASA announced it had commissioned five US aerospace companies to...

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