Bucharest is seeking to justify higher defense spending by parroting the purported “threat from the East,” Moscow’s embassy has stated. Romanian officials presented pieces of foam plastic as supposed evidence that drones recently shot down over Romania were Russian, according to the mission. The embassy responded to Romania’s accusations that Russian UAVs have on numerous…
A federal grand jury has charged 11 individuals with operating an international marriage fraud scheme that set up more than 1,000 fake ceremonies to obtain fraudulent immigration credentials for foreign nationals, primarily citizens of the People’s Republic of China. The indictment alleges the ring collected up to $100,000 per victim through a network operating from…
A supposed Iranian threat prompted President Donald Trump to depart a NATO summit in Turkey last month via military aircraft instead of Air Force One. However, two cabinet secretaries and journalists who routinely fly with the president were left aboard the threatened plane. According to a U.S. official familiar with the operation, Trump boarded an…
Two people, including a child, have been killed and at least a dozen others wounded in another large-scale Ukrainian drone raid on Russia’s Krasnodar Region, local governor Veniamin Kondratyev has said. The region was targeted by hundreds of UAVs overnight, Kondratyev wrote in a post on Telegram Wednesday. Civilian facilities and private homes in Novorossiysk,…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday titled “Delivering gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for Americans,” aiming to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 70-plus to just 11 core shots and space out their administration. The order also seeks to remove the Covid-19, hepatitis B, and influenza vaccines from children’s schedules,…
America has minted its last circulating penny. Congress is now finalizing what comes next for cash transactions after the Senate passed the Common Cents Act on Friday. The legislation would officially end penny production for general circulation and establish rules for rounding cash transactions when exact change cannot be provided. It also authorizes the Treasury…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering withdrawing the United States from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the primary UN agency overseeing refugee-related matters. According to a July 20 Reuters report, the administration “has in recent weeks weighed cutting ties with the U.N. refugee agency, prompting a campaign by diplomats and U.N….
A 2023 study published in Frontiers in Endocrinology found that women using combined oral contraceptives exhibited reduced cortical thickness in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a brain region involved in fear processing and emotional regulation, compared to men and non-users. The study used MRI imaging and suggested potential deficits in emotion regulation during use, though effects…
Mark Levin, a prominent neoconservative commentator, attempted to deny that he and his ideological allies had advocated for American troops on the ground in Iran. However, evidence from Twitter users reveals that Levin himself has consistently called for such deployments. In an online post, Levin asked followers to name specific neoconservatives who support boots-on-the-ground operations…
The University of Alberta has won a court decision to terminate an endowment fund named after Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian SS veteran who served in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS Galicia Division during World War II. This controversy erupted during Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky’s 2023 visit to Ottawa when Canadian lawmakers—including then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and House…