The North American monsoon brings much-needed rainfall across the Desert Southwest this week amid a relatively late start to the monsoonal season in many locations across the region. This annual phenomenon is the change in wind direction from the prevalent ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated top officials for failures in coronavirus prevention that caused a “great crisis.” The state media report Wednesday did not specify what “crucial” lapse had prompted Kim to call the Politburo meeting of the ...
In what’s been dubbed the “Great Resignation,” a whopping 95% of workers are now considering changing jobs, and 92% are even willing to switch industries to find the right position, according to a recent report by jobs site Monster.com. Already, ...
The U.S. launched airstrikes Sunday night against three facilities on the Iraq-Syria border, which the Pentagon says Iran-backed militias have been using to carry out drone attacks on U.S. personnel. U.S. officials have been growing increasingly alarmed by the use ...
Big Oil is likely to face an exponential increase in climate lawsuits over the coming years, a trend that analysts say is reminiscent of activists turning to the courts to take on the tobacco industry. Since the turn of the ...
State lawmakers in Oregon have added something major to their political agenda recently: free medicaid for illegal immigrants. Democratic Governor Kate Brown is expected to sign the bill that was just passed by state lawmakers. Representative Maxine Waters, co-sponsor of ...
The United States on Monday strongly defended weekend strikes against Iran-aligned militias but the fighters vowed revenge and both Iraq and Syria condemned the unilateral U.S. air strikes as violations of their sovereignty. The U.S. military said it targeted operational ...
The final edition of Hong Kong’s last remaining pro-democracy paper sold out in hours Thursday, as readers scooped up all 1 million copies of the Apple Daily, whose closure was yet another sign of China’s tightening grip on the semi-autonomous ...
The Vice President’s trip to the border is being called “a dog and pony show” and “a slap in the face,” among other, less charitable things. “She is going to El Paso, which is the one area on the southwest ...
In the next two weeks, most of our troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan after two long decades of war. Depending on your viewpoint, that keyword — “most” — could be a sore point. Instead of the complete withdrawal Biden ...