Appearing on CNN early Saturday morning, Philip Mudd, the former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, was skeptical of President Donald Trump’s late Friday boast that there North Korea would “stop nuclear tests...

It has been 50 years since British shadow defence secretary Enoch Powell gave his “rivers of blood” speech on April 20, 1968. To mark the half-centenary, the BBC broadcast his speech for the first time in full, on the radio. The...

Elliott Broidy explored plans to get Chinese dissident Guo Wengui expelled from the US in hopes of receiving payoffs from China and the UAE, documents obtained by the New York Times reportedly show. According to a report by the US newspaper...

On The Listening Post this week: We map the politics and the aesthetics of news coverage on Syria. Plus, the enduring sexism in Italian media? Red lines and military strikes: Covering the Syrian war When footage of an alleged chemical weapons...

Responding to a rash of incidents involving animals on planes, Alaska Airlines plans to impose new requirements for passengers flying with emotional support animals. Starting May 1, the Seattle-based carrier will require passengers who want to...

Gaza Strip – On one side of the fence, dozens of Israeli soldiers lay positioned behind sand dunes, tracking the Palestinian demonstrators through the crosshairs of their snipers. On the other side, young women, with Keffiyeh scarves...

The town of Santa María del Mar, Mexico, hasn’t had electricity for more than three years. At night a generator hums in the town plaza, powering a few pale streetlights. Santa María, population 800, rests at the end of a skinny peninsula...

Danny Diaz-Delgado was lured into an alley, ambushed by two men, tied up with tape and forced into the trunk of a car before being executed on the bank of a creek outside Trenton – all while begging for his life. The grim details of the...

Happy birthday to the best space telescope ever! Love, PopSci. A visible light image of the Lagoon Nebula (aka Messier 8 or M8) with the bright star Herschel 36 at the center. NASA, ESA, and STScI On a clear summer night in the northern...

Nguyen was nine when he boarded a boat alone to escape the communist regime in Vietnam for the United States. Some 40 years later, he returned in shackles, deported from the only country he really knows to one he can scarcely remember.​ With...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared an end to the nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests that sent tensions soaring on the peninsula, in the region, and beyond. The move, enshrined in a decision by the ruling...

Hollywood actress Natalie Portman said she was backing out of a Jerusalem ceremony where she was to receive a $2 million prize to protest against the policies of Israel’s prime minister. “I chose not to attend because I did not want...

A study published Thursday confirmed that the cracks identified on Mars’ surface last year by the Curiosity rover are indeed evidence of ancient lakes that likely dried up about 3.5 billion years ago. The new study provides further...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced a multistate E.coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce after 53 cases were reported in 16 states since April 9. All contaminated lettuce was traced back to Yuma, Arizona, and the public is...

What is a gang, anyway? … to this broader question about surveillance and data,” said Andy Clarno, the coordinator of a research group at the University of Illinois-Chicago that issued a February report on the gang database. “When there’s...