Politics & Current Affairs

After conducting a year-long investigation into a campaign against Rohingya Muslims, a United Nations panel found evidence that Myanmar security forces committed “the gravest crimes under international law.”

A historical look into the tipple that toppled the British Empire and kick-started America.

This eccentric Spanish spy received medals of honor from both the Nazis and the Allies. How did he do it, and why?

The Justice Department has long held the view that a sitting president cannot be indicted. However there is a fail-safe mechanism in the law reserved for special circumstances.

As of October 1, the U.K. will make it illegal to sell puppies and kittens from third-party sources in a bid to end puppy mills and commercial breeding catteries, eliminate pet-shop sales, and rein in unscrupulous breeders.

Some Democrats and political analysts are calling Trump an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ after his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight felonies.

Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has died at the age of 80. Who was he?

Two men formerly close to President Donald Trump are now facing prison in a development that could prove consequential for Trump’s longevity in office and the U.S. political system in general.

Maryland officials want lawmakers to support language that would require vendors of elections services to disclose when a foreign actor takes control of one of their companies.

Do you wear hats? Or own a lamp? Well, say goodbye (or perhaps more accurately: 再见) to them, as in late September there will be a 25% increase in prices thanks to President Trump’s peculiar fixation on tariffs.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has accused Facebook of violating the Fair Housing Act, an accusation that was also made by the National Fair Housing Alliance in March.

The Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement has a major problem: nobody really knows how much it would cost to implement it.

After speaking with the world’s “top business leaders”, President Donald Trump has asked the SEC to study the potential impacts of removing rules that require companies to file reports with the agency every three months.

A theory of history says America is in the grips of a crisis called “The Fourth Turning” that will change it forever.

Many school districts are switching over to a four day week. Is this a good idea?

The Union of Concerned Scientists recently surveyed more than 63,000 scientists from 16 federal agencies, revealing a range of attitudes toward the current administration.

A publication from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says that the Great Recession that happened 10 years ago will cost us all $70K over a lifetime because of lost GDP.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former senior aide to President Donald Trump, says she’s recorded multiple secret audio tapes at the White House, including one of her firing by Chief of Staff John Kelly.

Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.

China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it’s leaving many in the global community concerned as to why.

A new approach to fighting the opioid crisis involves sending letters to doctors after their patients overdose on prescription drugs.

The time has come for Space Force, Vice President Pence told an audience at the Pentagon on Thursday.

In Egypt, comedy can be a matter of life and death. But life in America’s no cakewalk either. Political satirist Bassem Youssef on reinventing yourself, crossing cultural lines, and the future of space exploration.

Being an American president is a powerful but dangerous job, a fact shown by many assassination attempts.

New York City passed legislation that caps new licenses for drivers with companies like Uber and Lyft in an effort to stop the erosion of the taxi industry and to study the effects the ride-sharing industry has on the city’s economy and traffic congestion.

With the tegu’s successful occupation of Florida’s ecosystems, a new study predicts that this invasive species could potentially spread across the southern U.S. and into Mexico. But these voracious lizards are just another incident in our devastating history of invasive species.

“To promote the development of a commercial asteroid resources industry for outer space in the United States and to increase the exploration and utilization of asteroid resources in outer space.”

Biodiversity refers to genetic diversity within species, diversity between species, and diversity of ecosystems. We take a look at all three.

This would be the end of one of the longest economic booms since the 1990 Dot Com bubble.

About 3 million tweets from Russian trolls have been published in an effort to illuminate how foreign agents have been disrupting political discourse in the U.S.