The U.S. Justice Department came up with a classified brief to approve the administration’s unlawful strikes on alleged drug boats out of Venezuela by claiming that fentanyl could be weaponized and could be seen as a potential chemical weapon, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper, citing the document, noted that the weaponization claim is......
U.S. President Donald Trump is having a hard time getting past the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, and matters were just made even worse for the embattled president after more than 20,000 pages of emails sent from the deceased pedophile had been released last week, which included one that said Trump “spent hours at my house” with an individual identified as a victim of sex trafficking.
Iran’s top diplomat last week called on the UN to hold the U.S. accountable for the destruction and casualties that resulted from its June war with Israel, and Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump came out and said he played a leading role in that effort.
The U.S. labor market might appear healthy, with a jobless rate near historic lows. However, once statistical overcounting is adjusted out of the data, “job creation is pretty close to zero,” U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said in a 15 November press briefing.
Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, penned an op-ed last week that highlighted the growing trend of the richest people in the U.S. buying up major media outlets and, in the process, giving them more control than ever to use their power to suppress democracy.
Katie Wilson, the newly elected self-described socialist mayor of Seattle who campaigned on taxing the wealthy in the city, has been compared to New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who also focused his campaign on the economic hardship faced by everyday people in his city.
The financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald is having its best year ever, raising new questions about grift in the Trump administration since Howard Lutnick’s sons are running the company.
Gen Z protesters played a central role on Saturday in protests that broke out across Mexico to reject the government’s lackluster effort to crack down on crime and corruption inside the country.
Russia carried out its biggest attack on Kyiv since the start of the war, launching 430 drones and 18 missiles into the capital, which prompted the Ukrainians to launch missiles into Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was forced on the defensive last week after the announcement of a corruption investigation focused on his inner circle that involves a $100 million kickback scandal.