UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – When President Trump first addressed the UN General Assembly back in September 2017—just after he ...

There is ample evidence that a handshake is no guarantee of love or friendship. Or that it can be used as a distraction, a signal, a tool to disguise bad intentions. Consider the well-chronicled ...

Private prison companies, including GEO Group, are expected to make billions of dollars from reopening jails for ICE.

Saddam Hussein is hiding in Iraq with his sons and issuing orders to supporters as he plots a return to power, according to former Iraqi army commanders. The generals, who were in exile for years ...

A bunker under Saddam Hussein's presidential palace was built to be nuclear-proof and was likely to withstand conventional bombing, a man who says he helped design it has revealed. "I don't ...

When I learned about former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson’s death last Friday at age 93, my encounters with one of the most colorful and influential Wyoming politicians in the state’s ...

Talking with the Durham writer about his new memoir, which takes him around the world and back to a Durham wine bar.

On October 15, 2023, a week after Hamas’s attack on Israel and in the early days of an indiscriminate Israeli response, New ...