This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. The Hybrid War Another undersea cable was severed in the Baltic Sea, this time between Latvia and Sweden, prompting Swedish authorities to board and seize the vessel that was sailing from Russia amid sabotage fears, as I reported here. This comes…
The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year even as the federal wage floor remains stuck at $7.25 per hour. In many states, the minimum wage is automatically adjusted upward as inflation rises. But voters in several states, including deeply red ones such as Alaska and Missouri, chose in November to…
Feb. 1—A medical transport jet with six people on board plummeted to the ground near Roosevelt Mall in Northeast Philadelphia Friday night, bursting into flames that spread to homes and cars in a heavily trafficked area and killing everyone on board the plane and at least one person on the ground. The Learjet 55 went down shortly after 6 p.m. near Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard just…
A previously unreleased song by Tina Turner, from her blockbuster 1984 album “Private Dancer,” has been rediscovered and was publicly heard for the first time Thursday. “Hot For You Baby,” recorded at Hollywood’s Capitol Studios in the early ’80s, received its first play on BBC Radio 2 as it hit streaming platforms worldwide. Written by…
The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and at the same time making broader the meaning of security in global politics and the studies of international relations (IR). We have to keep in mind that up to…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. U.S. President Donald Trump said Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is “destroying” Russia by refusing to make a deal to end the Ukraine war, adding that he could speak to Putin soon, without stating a time frame. “He should make a…
