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Here’s what we can say about the Trump administration’s just-released National Defense Strategy: it’s not a strategy and its subject is not defense. Bearing the imprimatur of Pentagon chief James Mattis, the NDS—at least the unclassified summary that we citizens…
The federal spending bill, which Congress passed to end the three-day government shutdown two weeks ago, runs out again this Thursday, and Congress hasn’t made any progress toward reaching a permanent funding deal or dealing with the immigration issue —…
Senate Democrats agreed to reopen the federal government last month because they had reached an understanding with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on how to move forward with an immigration debate. In the eyes of the activist base, that was…
India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), is prepping for its second mission to the moon, which is scheduled for blast off around April 2018. The objective for the venture is to explore the lunar south pole. Dubbed Chandrayaan-2, the…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Bitcoin dropped in value by more than 15 percent on Monday after some banks decided to ban customers from buying cryptocurrencies using credit cards. Earlier in the day, respective statements were made by Lloyds Banking Group and Virgin Money.…
The Iranian government vowed to take legal action against the Pakistani government on Sunday over Islamabad’s failure to keep up their end of a bargain to build an oil pipeline bridging the two nations, Pakistan Today reports. Iranian Petroleum Minister…
