Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Tuesday released a statement vowing “accountability” for the families of those killed in the Abbey Gate bombing two years ago during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We owe Gold Star families everything. We owe them transparency, we owe them […]

South Korea’s government plans to raise budget spending to nearly $497 billion for 2024, but the proposed increase is the smallest in two decades as authorities prioritise fiscal discipline amid weakening tax revenue due to slower economic growth. In its annual spending plan released on Tuesday, the finance ministry set […]

A Michigan city has been dismissed from a lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of a Black motorist, but the case will continue against a former officer who killed the man in 2022. U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney said immunity doesn’t apply to Christopher Schurr at this early stage of […]

New images taken Friday show the gravesite of late Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin following his burial at a cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia.  The scenes showing Russian police standing guard at the Porokhovskoye cemetery come as it remains unexplained what caused the aircraft carrying Prigozhin to crash outside […]

EXCLUSIVE – Over 100 former clerks of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an open letter defending him after recent news articles accused him of bending court ethics, saying that his “integrity is unimpeachable” and “his independence is unshakable.”  “As his law clerks, we offer this response. Different paths led us […]

Sitting alone before a grand piano in a stark studio, Ryuichi Sakamoto takes the listener on a journey of his life, playing 20 of his compositions. Shot entirely in black and white, on three 4K cameras, the film “Opus,” directed by Neo Sora, is the Japanese composer’s farewell, poetic yet […]

After a rousing tribute from former first lady Michelle Obama, Billie Jean King on Monday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Open becoming the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male competitors, promising never to stop fighting to maintain that hard-won progress. “While we […]

American citizen and Marine veteran Paul Whelan was seen in a rare video on Russian state media from the prison where he is currently serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges long dismissed by the U.S. government. The video, aired on Monday by Russia Today, a Kremlin-backed television network, shows […]

Ray Stallings Smith III, a former Trump campaign lawyer, has pleaded “not guilty” to the election meddling charges brought against him in Fulton County, Georgia.  Smith’s attorney filed court documents Monday that waived his formal arraignment and entered a “not guilty” plea to each of the 12 counts in District […]

Canadian police said Tuesday they are charging a man with 12 additional counts of counseling and aiding suicide for allegedly selling lethal substances on the internet to people at risk of self harm. An international investigation is underway following the arrest in Canada earlier this year of Kenneth Law, who […]