The U.S. Department of Justice is launching an investigation into the leak of top-secret documents from various U.S. agencies and social media sites. Earlier, the Pentagon launched its own investigation, French daily Le Figaro reported.more
The war in Ukraine has led to geopolitical shifts in Europe, shifting NATO's center of gravity eastward, Washington Post columnist Ishan Tharoor writes on Friday in an analysis following Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Poland.more
Finland's accession to NATO is Putin's nightmare, showing what a terrible strategist he is, said Adm. James Stavridis, former Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Finland brings serious assets to the Alliance in every domain, he added.more
Donald Trump yesterday became the first-ever former US president to be formally detained and hear criminal charges. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 charges against him related to the case of paying actress Stormy Daniels for her silence.more
The U.S. space agency NASA on Monday announced the lineup for the Artemis II mission, the first manned mission to the vicinity of the moon in 50 years. The flight around the silver globe will include the first woman, the first African-American and the first Canadian in the history of lunar missions.more
A Chinese spy balloon shot down in February was able to gather intelligence from several US military bases despite efforts by the US administration to prevent it, NBC reported, citing unnamed sources.more
Samantha Markle has accused her half-sister of libel against the Duchess of Sussex in the famous interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021. However, the trial will not take place, because the famous American 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting e.g. restricting freedom of speech.more
Former US President Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts of business fraud in an indictment filed by a Manhattan grand jury investigating silent payments to a porn star, CNN reported yesterday, citing sources and giving no further details.more
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed that Donald Trump's first wife was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation into her ties to communist Czechoslovakia, where she was born. A small portion of the hitherto secret files on Ivana Trump have been released. The rest will see the light of day in April.more
Hundreds of businessmen, investors and artificial intelligence experts, including Elon Musk among others, have called in a joint letter for at least a six-month pause in the development of AI systems more capable than the GPT-4 published in March. The signatories warn of the unpredictable consequences of the race to create ever more powerful models.more
Police in Nashville reported that yesterday's attack by an armed woman on a Presbyterian school killed three 9-year-old students and three adults aged about 60. One of them was the school principal. The police shot the killer.more
Twenty-six people were killed in the US states of Mississippi and Alabama as a result of a powerful storm that triggered a devastating tornado on Friday evening. Hundreds of homes were razed to the ground, and the swath of destruction is 274 kilometers long.more
The results of the so-called The number of intelligence tests among Americans has been steadily increasing since 1932, but in the years 2006-2018 this trend was reversed in almost all cognitive categories.more
Information about the problems of banks in the United States made customers lose confidence in the Swiss Credit Suisse. However, the risk of a crisis of the banking system in Europe is unlikely, according to the analysts of the Polish Economic Institute.more
The coming weeks will be critical for the course of the war; we expect President Putin to try to launch another offensive, perhaps on multiple fronts simultaneously, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby announced in an interview with CNN.more
US President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that requires declassification of information related to the origin of the coronavirus, Reuters reported. The White House said it will continue to review all classified information regarding the origin of the disease, with potential ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology listed.more
Prezydent USA Joe Biden i premier Irlandii Leo Varadkar rozmawiali w Białym Domu m.in. o pomoc Ukrainy oraz porozumieniu między UE i Wielką Brytanią w sprawie pomocy północnej Północnej po Brexicie - przekazanie Białego Domu. Varadkar, w ten sposób, charakterystyczny dla irlandzkich szefów rządów w dzień św. Patryka.more
Donald Trump asserted today on his Truth Social network that he will be "arrested" on Tuesday and called for demonstrations ahead of a possible indictment of him for paying a porn star to keep quiet about their sexual liaisons.more
US authorities have so far shown no evidence that the Chinese-owned TikTok platform poses a threat to national security, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said. He accused Washington of "unwarranted attacks" on the app.more
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs this year, making it the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs as the industry braces for a deep economic downturn.more
The United States, Great Britain and Australia are ignoring the concerns of the international community and are following a "dangerous path," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, commenting on the submarine cooperation agreement announced by these countries.more
US President Joe Biden announced that he intends to pay a visit to Ireland and Northern Ireland. He was invited to Belfast by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The prime minister also stated that he had accepted Biden's invitation to visit Washington in June.more
President Joe Biden said Sunday that at his direction US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and his top economic adviser Lael Brainard worked with financial regulators to ensure households and businesses affected by the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures could access their deposits, and he promised to hold those responsible accountable.more
