by Our Correspondent in Colombo In an age where diplomacy is as much about optics as it is about policy, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has taken ‘attachment’ to a
When three strangers dressed in black arrived at the edge of a private property in Frostburg, Maryland, the landowner grew uneasy. Their request to camp on the property for a month, coupled
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, could meet by the end of February, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced. While he expressed optimism about the timing, Peskov cautioned that
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In a blistering series of remarks, U.S. President Donald Trump launched an unprecedented attack on Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him “a modestly successful comedian” and “a dictator without elections.” Trump’s comments,
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Next week, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will hold crucial talks with US President Donald Trump regarding a controversial agreement over the Chagos Islands. The deal, which involves the UK ceding
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In a bold move to reduce the size of the US federal government, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have turned their focus to
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is set to significantly expand its involvement in the U.S. government’s battle against Mexican drug cartels under President Donald Trump’s administration. As outlined in a detailed report
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In a significant step toward reducing the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, a contingent of 105 U.S. Marines that would have been deployed to the Japanese island before Christmas was instead redirected
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Both the Russian and the US side say that the high level diplomatic meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the morning of February 17th was successful. Steve Witkoff, who is Trump’s
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Phenix Lumber Co. in Phenix City, Alabama, earned the grim title of the deadliest workplace in America, with the highest rate of fatal workplace incidents per worker from 2019 to 2023, according
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The South is blamed for slavery. One encounters this false association, the product of decades of demonization of the South, everywhere, even in books about the assassination of President McKinley in 1901 in
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