Rotterdam's Koningshaven Bridge. If Jeff Bezos is hellbent on having a superyacht, at least he should at least pay for its carbon emissions (Photo: Wikimedia) Last week we found out that Jeff Bezos, chairman of Amazon and the richest person…
Conservatives have homed in on a specific provision in an overdose prevention grant program to make a misleading claim about crack pipes. The grant program provides funding for “safe smoking kits,” but it makes no specific mention of glass pipes.…
The president has said that he wants the advice and consent of the Senate as he deliberates, despite the reality that his nominee may draw few votes from the other side of the aisle. President Biden said on Thursday that…
A partly declassified letter from two senators, Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, does not say what the data is. The Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. Two senators wrote in a newly declassified letter that the agency “has secretly conducted…
The decision means that a majority of detainees at the wartime prison are cleared for transfer if U.S. diplomats can forge security deals with countries to receive them The case of Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi illustrated the challenges to successive U.S. administrations of…
Republicans once attacked Hillary Clinton for her handling of government records. But few showed outrage over news about former President Donald J. Trump’s White House records. President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office. Mr. Trump faces accusations of improperly…
The White House has been slow to recognize the political potency of rising prices. But Republicans had a plan, and they think the issue can help realign the American electorate. Republicans have made inflation the centerpiece of their re-election pitch…
The explosion that killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in Syria was most likely caused by a bomb he had rigged, U.S. military officials said. The damaged house where Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi died during a raid by U.S. commandos in…
President Biden came into office vowing to respect science, but openings in crucial jobs could hamper progress on medical and technological research. Some critics say President Biden brought some of the problems on himself with the people he chose to…
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has issued a formal protest over Russian plans to partially block the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the coming days under the guise of naval military exercises. According to the Ukrainian protest, the…