FOIA Request Reveals Pentagon Reports of ‘Radiation Burns’ and ‘Unaccounted for Pregnancies’ After Contact
According to a massive dump of over 1,500 pages of documents, made public through a Freedom of Information...
NATO Sets Its Gaze on Xi Jinping
News Analysis While for North Americans, today’s world still appears stable, geopolitical tensions...
Mysterious Cases of Spontaneous Savants
The human mind is full of mysteries, and the mind of the savant is no exception. Some of the greatest...
Over 2,000 Chinese Military Personnel Deploy to Shanghai Amid Worsening COVID Situation
Shanghai has been experiencing its worst outbreak of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. In a desperate...
‘Zero-COVID’ Lockdown in Shanghai Compounds Xi’s Political Dilemma
News analysis Over the past two years, cities and entirely provinces in China implemented economically and socially destructive “zero-COVID” lockdowns and other control measures to squash the virus. Shanghai, however, stuck to a milder “precise...
UK Government ‘Quietly’ Permits Chinese Takeover of Britain’s Largest Semiconductor Plant
The government of the United Kingdom declined to exercise newly-appointed national security powers to intervene in a case involving a hostile takeover of the country’s largest semiconductor manufacturer by a Chinese Communist Party-owned company. On...
China’s Foreign Minister Meets With Ukrainian Counterpart as Russian Offensive Continues
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, in a phone call on April 4, as reported by Reuters. The meeting, which Beijing said was made at Ukraine's request, was the...
Twitter Users Hopeful After Musk Joins the Company’s Board of Directors, But Change Is Far From Certain
A day after revealing a multi-billion dollar investment in Twitter, Elon Musk has been appointed to a role on the social media platform's board of directors. The announcement has users of the popular platform clamoring...
Hong Kong to Appoint New Leader in May After Carrie Lam Announces Her Departure
Hong Kong will appoint a new chief executive in May after Carrie Lam announced she will not run for a second term. Lam revealed her decision to the public during a regularly-scheduled Coronavirus Disease 2019...
Early Man’s Most Important Invention: The Handle
A research team at the University of Liverpool is convinced that the simple handle, which early man began utilizing 500,000 years ago in tool construction, may have been even more instrumental in the development of...
Leaked Call With CDC Official Viewed 140 Million Times on Chinese Media as ‘Zero-COVID’ Policies Throttle Shanghai
Shanghai authorities announced Monday, April 4, that they would double down on the “zero-COVID” measures implemented in China’s largest city a few days ago as personnel review the results of mass-testing. Home to 26 million,...
German Retailers Announce Food Prices to Soar Amidst Inflation not Seen in a Generation
Mere days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generations — 7.6 percent in March — the German Retail Federation (HDE) told consumers to prepare for another wave of massive price hikes for everyday goods...