WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is weighing proposals to create an independent “Mission Centre for China” in an escalation of its efforts to gain greater insight into the US’ top strategic rival, according to people familiar with the deliberations. The proposal, part of a broader review of the agency’s China capabilities by […]
The Delta variant is driving a new wave of cases nationwide, pushing the daily total to the highest level since February, as the virus spreads among the unvaccinated. In Texas, the number of new cases has more than doubled in the past two week. Hospitals are swamped, and there is a new, troubling uptick of […]
The US is sending 3,000 troops back to Afghanistan to help evacuate staff from its embassy in Kabul. Over the next two days, one Army and two Marine infantry battalions will go to Kabul airport to help with the partial embassy evacuation, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday. ‘We believe this is it the […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – New US census data released on Thursday (Aug 12) shows the white population declined for the first time in history last decade, with significant increases among people who identify as multi-racial, Hispanic and Asian driving much of the population growth between 2010 and 2020. The release from the US Census Bureau also […]
John Rizzo, the reflective but resolute Central Intelligence Agency lawyer who sanctioned the secret detention and torture of suspected Islamic militants after the attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, and who approved drone strikes that targeted terrorists abroad but that were also blamed for killing and wounding countless civilians, died on […]
Delta variant worries notwithstanding, many people report they are already back at their workplace or will be soon. By Quoctrung Bui Even as many tech companies announce delays to their return-to-office dates in the face of the contagious Delta variant, it appears that most companies’ plans have not yet changed, according to several weeks of […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs will require nearly every worker, volunteer and contractor within its vast health care system to be vaccinated against the coronavirus over the next eight weeks, in stark contrast to the Pentagon which has resisted immediate mandates for the country’s 1.3 million active-duty troops. Last month, the department began requiring shots […]
A California surfing instructor confessed to killing his two children with a spearfishing gun after abducting them, telling investigators that his belief in the conspiracy theories known as QAnon made him do it, the authorities said on Wednesday. The father, Matthew Taylor Coleman, of Santa Barbara, drove his 2-year-old-son and 10-month-old daughter to Mexico over […]
Whole parts of British Columbia are shrouded in opaque clouds of billowing smoke sent churning by the hundreds of wildfires that have been raging in the province’s interior region. With more fires burning this season than any since 2018, British Columbia is scorching, trapped in a record-breaking heat wave driven in part by climate change. […]
SAN ANTONIO — At least two hospitals in Houston have been so overwhelmed with coronavirus patients this week that officials erected overflow tents outside. In Austin, hospitals were nearly out of beds in their intensive care units. And in San Antonio, a spike in virus cases reached alarming levels not seen in months, with children […]