Former CIA Director John Brennan fumed about the announcement that the Senate Intelligence Committee found no evidence of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
The Department of Justice on Monday announced the arrest of a former CIA officer on charges of leaking sensitive information to Chinese intelligence officials.
Liberal activists made an overhaul of the federal judiciary, including court-packing, part of the 2020 platform adopted this week at the Democratic National Convention.
Israeli war planes carried out series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late Tuesday night, after Palestinians fired a rocket and sent several arson balloons into Israel, sparking a series a fires, the Israel Defense Forces said.
A group of private religious schools representing different faith traditions have filed a lawsuit against California Gov. Gavin Newsom over a recent school closure order.
United States and Russia concluded two days of arms control talks Tuesday with the two sides still at odds over the US demand to include China in any new treaty, but showing signs of a possible willingness to extend the existing New START deal, which expires next year.
In his second trip to the U.S.-Mexico border in two months, President Trump touted to supporters that his administration has completed nearly 300 miles of border fence since he took office.
The third hurricane this season in the Eastern Pacific rapidly strengthened off Mexico’s western coast on Tuesday, becoming the season’s second major storm as it is forecast to swipe Baja California.
In its ongoing persecution of Chinese Christians, China’s government is inspecting and restricting the publication and distribution of books and other Christian literature produced by churches, CBN News reported Monday.
The Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) charity has announced that another Bible translator in Cameroon has been murdered following an attack in his village, Assist News reported Monday. Pastor Christopher Tanjoh, a Bible translator and literacy teacher with the Moghamo Bible translation and literacy project, was murdered on August 7, WBT said in a statement. Two other translators were killed in Cameroon last year.
A series of earthquakes that struck Mexico on Monday morning were felt across San Diego County in California, Fox News reported. At least four quakes struck the Mexican state of Baja California, around 120 southeast of the US-Mexico border, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Japan’s economy has suffered its strongest contraction, shrinking an annualized 27.8% in April-June amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported Monday. This was steeper than the worse decline suffered in the 2008 financial crisis.
Milwaukee’s Democratic National Convention is opening to the kind of lackluster reception that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, was entirely predictable.
Well-known local pastor and author Max Lucado prayed for forgiveness for his own and for the church’s sins of racism and inaction during a “park and pray” event in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday, the San Antonio Report said. Practicing social distancing, around 3,000 people attended the Pray San Antonio event, sitting in or on top of their cars parked at least one space apart at Freeman Coliseum. Around 23,000 others watched online.
The Belarusian state-run television staff has joined strikes and spreading protests against long-time authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko. The unrest erupted in earnest following the August 9 disputed re-election of the president for a sixth term.
Calling on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to reintroduce moderate language on its abortion platform, pro-life Democrats are warning their party’s current “extreme” stance on the issue risks alienating voters who would otherwise vote for the Biden-Harris ticket, Fox News reports. A draft platform released by Politico shows that the DNC supports the codification of Roe v Wade and tax-payer funding of abortion.
From Los Angeles to New York City, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the movement to defund police departments across the country is growing. This, as at least 12 other cities also brace for severe budget cuts not seen in more than a decade. The result some say is a spike in violence nationwide.
The Israeli military sees its Ground Forces — tanks, infantry, combat engineering and artillery — as in desperate need for a makeover if it is to be prepared for the types of battles it is likely to encounter in future wars.
The legal battle continues for Pastor John MacArthur and his Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California.
The platform that was approved by the Democratic Party’s platform committee on July 27 calls for health insurance coverage of “all medically necessary care for gender transition.”