Bulgaria at risk of being without fighter jets for two years
Bulgaria is at risk of being without combat aviation for the next two years as maintenance of its outdated MiG29 fighters will not be completed before it receives its first…
February 2023
3 Special Elections Will Determine Control of the Pennsylvania House
Democrats have a good chance of winning a majority in the chamber after a month in which three vacancies have paralyzed it. Send any friend a story As a subscriber,…
Greece, Albania, Kosovo send rescue teams to earthquake-shaken Turkey
The governments of Greece, Albania, and Kosovo have reacted with shock to the series of powerful earthquakes that shook Turkey on Sunday and Monday, pledging on-the-ground assistance and aid. A…
‘Not an exercise’: Sweden deploys Patriots in strategic port
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Ukraine withdraws 19 million Russian, Soviet-era books from libraries
Ukraine had withdrawn from its libraries about 19 million copies of books by last November that came either from the Soviet era or were in Russian, a senior lawmaker said…
Club for Growth Distances Itself Further From Trump
The anti-tax group has invited six possible presidential candidates to its donor retreat in Florida, and a notable name was left off the guest list. Send any friend a story…
Russia must stop being an empire if it wishes to prosper as a nation
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the Russian Federation embraced more or less exactly the same imperial identity that the Bolsheviks had inherited from their Czarist predecessors generations earlier. Until…
Biden’s State of the Union Prep: No Acronyms and Tricks to Conquer a Stutter
Aides describe a process in which the president spends weeks reading drafts aloud, rejecting anything that smacks of Washington-speak. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Trump-Era Chinese Spy Balloon Incursions Initially Went Undetected
Some earlier incidents had been classified as unexplained phenomena and handed over to a Pentagon task force charged with investigating U.F.O.s. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…
Hero Ukrainian medic: “Russia will not stop until it is stopped”
Ukrainian military medic Yulia Paievska has a simple message for anyone who still believes in the possibility of a compromise peace with Putin’s Russia. “They will not stop until they…