Britain’s left-wing government announced on Thursday to surrender sovereignty of a British Overseas Territory in the Indian Ocean back to Mauritius. The territory had hosted an important joint U.S.-UK military base and listening post for the past 50 years. Mauritius is a participant in China’s “Belt and Road” debt-trap diplomacy programme and Chinese state media celebrates the nations’ cultural and economic links.
President Donald Trump during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday said he would not support a federal abortion ban, adding he would even veto such a bill if it were put on his desk to sign if he were president.
The U.S. is deploying an additional “few thousand troops” and aircraft to the Middle East amid escalating tensions between Israel, Hezbollah and the Houthis.
Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall said on Monday that there could be as many as 600 deaths due to Hurricane Helene, which slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday night and then moved north.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sworn in its first police officer who is not a U.S. citizen. Minnesota is not the only state working to allow non-citizens to become police officers. California, Colorado, and Illinois are also crafting legislation to give non-citizens police powers.
Democrat John Kerry, who served as President Joe Biden’s U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, said last week that the First Amendment was in the way of Democrats’ desire to fight “disinformation.”
In a groundbreaking study, a 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells derived from her own body.
Congress is set to pass a bill that blocks mortgage financing companies from sharing with consumers information on the best interest rates available. Congress wants to go out of its way to make sure the middle class is paying possibly the highest interest rates because they don’t want them to have other options.
The Environmental Protection Agency must address concerns about potential health risks posed by the recommended levels of fluoride in the country’s drinking water.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China was unusually public on Wednesday about its successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The storm system currently hovering around the Yucatán Peninsula has officially strengthened into a hurricane, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is warning Floridians the impacts of the storm will be widespread, far outside the cone of uncertainty.