Employees work at a factory that produces lithium battery for export in Huaibei, China, on June 11, 2024. STR/AFP via Getty Images China monopolizes over 80 percent of critical raw battery minerals used in U.S. military equipment, posing a serious national security threat, new research has found. Beijing’s “brute force economics” utilizes a bevy of
Fresh nuts, bolts and fittings are ready to be added to the east leg of the pipeline near St. Ignace as Enbridge prepares to test the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Mackinaw City, Mich., on June 8, 2017. The Canadian Press/AP/Dale G. Young Pipeline operators want Congress to amend federal law
The year 1950 was perilous for what then, unabashedly, called itself the Free World. In January Britain’s Labour government extended diplomatic recognition to Mao Zedong’s Communist China. The same month a New York jury convicted State Department luminary Alger Hiss of perjury, the statute of limitations for espionage having expired. Days later Wisconsin senator Joseph
A fence set by Israeli authorities, in Sinjil, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on May 5, 2025. Mohammed Torokman/Reuters A group of 29 Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), signed onto a letter on July 24, calling on the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of State to lead an
Zohran Mamdani, New York City's Democratic mayoral nominee, held an elaborate three-day wedding celebration in Uganda complete with military security and cellphone signal jammers.
President Trump played golf Saturday at his course on Scotland’s coast while protesters around the country took to the streets to decry his visit and accuse United Kingdom leaders of pandering to the American. Mr. Trump and his son Eric played with the U.S. ambassador to Britain, Warren Stephens, near Turnberry, a historic course that
The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary this weekend, and you won’t have to check your mailbox for the invite. The agency’s semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, two and a half centuries since its founding. Two newly announced commemorative stamps