CIA terminates its World Factbook, overthrowing reference regime

After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on ...

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030

It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination ...

The US says Venezuela is changing. But one month since Maduro’s capture, its people aren’t so sure

One month after the US carried out an attack in Venezuela to capture its president, Nicolas Maduro, civilians in the South American country remain caught between uncertainty and expectations of ...

As a parade of US allies rattled by Trump visit China, Beijing claims a win for its new world order

As US President Donald Trump takes a sledgehammer to longstanding alliances with a volatile foreign policy that’s included threats to take control of Greenland and a spiraling feud with Canada, he’s ...

The US wants these critical minerals, but militants with American weapons stand in the way

In the sienna-colored curves of Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountains, one of the most rugged and lawless regions in the world, a cavernous, grooved crater gouged out from a hillside shines in the winter ...