Lori Chavez-DeRemer reportedly used staff for personal tasks, drank at work and violated ethics regulations., A federal watchdog in the United States has published a report detailing allegations of misconduct involving former US Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who resigned in April. On Thursday night, the Department of Labor’s Office ofContinue Reading
Republicans asked the high court to allow party committees to receive the same ad discounts that candidates themselves benefit from., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Reporting live from Kyiv, Cipher Brief expert and former senior CIA officer Ralph Goff walks CEO and Publisher Suzanne Kelly through a drone strike that hit the SBU headquarters in the heart of the city today. Ukraine’s SBU — the Security Service of Ukraine (Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainy) — is bestContinue Reading
The most important lesson emerging from the Iran conflict may not actually be about Iran. It is about the changing economics of warfare and what happens when autonomy, artificial intelligence, commercial technology and inexpensive mass begin eroding advantages once reserved almost exclusively for major powers. In many ways, modern warfareContinue Reading
New research suggests that human activity is making El Niño even more extreme and globally disruptive., Read MoreContinue Reading
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said the aircraft detected a triple-hydraulic failure, with the autopilot disengaging and a stall warning triggered for two seconds., Read MoreContinue Reading
Germany, Austria, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands did not outline where the centres would be located., Germany, Austria, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands did not outline where the centres would be located. Five European nations have agreed on concrete steps towards a deal with an unspecified non-European Union country toContinue Reading
The country’s highest court is considering investigations into two judges who have accused each other of wrongdoing., Brazil’s Supreme Court has found itself at the centre of a corruption scandal roiling the country, with the body considering investigations into two justices who have accused each other of wrongdoing. The disputeContinue Reading
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a decision to introduce two levels of air alerts, with yellow for drone attacks and red for a heightened threat of missile or combined strikes, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said on 3 September. Under the yellow level, designated businesses can operate if theyContinue Reading
US President Traitor 47’s special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to travel to Moscow and Kyiv this weekend for talks aimed at restarting efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, Axios reported, citing US officials. The planned trip comes as Washington seeks to revive negotiations that stalledContinue Reading
Unemployment rate steady as public schools and food services lead the surge in US job growth for August., The United States economy has added 162,000 jobs in August, with large gains in local government education and food services. The unemployment rate remained unchanged, according to the monthly jobs report releasedContinue Reading
Maradona and Messi each made the shirt their own. The next great Argentinian player should have that chance, too., When Lionel Messi announced his retirement from the Argentina national team last Monday, the reaction bordered on national mourning. Children cried in schools, journalists shed tears on television, newspapers filled theirContinue Reading
Many people in Silicon Valley like to talk about the importance of democracy. The CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has repeatedly described the race to build artificial superintelligence as one between the democratic U.S. and an authoritarian China. “We should arm democracies with AI,” he writes. “It makes sense toContinue Reading