The Globalist, April 14, 2023: Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, visits China amid tensions over Taiwan. Meanwhile, South Korea announces that it will test North Korean defectors for radiation exposure and the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, heads to Vietnam. Plus: we’re joined by Sony’s Photographer of the Year.
Authorities say Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, posted sensitive materials in an online chat group.
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The group liked online war games. But then Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old National Guard airman, began showing them classified documents, members say.
The justices are poised to consider whether the most common method of ending pregnancies can be sharply curtailed in states where abortion remains legal.
The young Black Democrats expelled from the legislature bring an activist approach, and model themselves after civil rights leaders of the past.
The Globalist, April 13, 2023: The US intelligence leak continues to cause a stir as documents suggest that Serbia might have provided lethal aid to Ukraine.
Plus: Myanmar’s junta accepts responsibility for a deadly airstrike, Erdogan launches his re-election campaign and a famous statue from the British Museum returns to Tahiti.
The Biden administration is proposing rules to ensure that two-thirds of new cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States by 2032 are all-electric.
Pushed into a shrinking corner of the devastated city, the Ukrainian military is determined to hold out for strategic reasons, even as allies question the cost.
China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the development of batteries that use sodium, which are starting to compete with ubiquitous lithium power cells.
Fed officials are debating how to set policy after bank blowups. Fresh inflation data are unlikely to make such decisions easier.
The Globalist, April 12, 2023: Emmanuel Macron confronts hecklers on a state visit to the Netherlands to present his vision for Europe’s future, as his comments on Taiwan spark international outrage.
Plus: unrest in Ethiopia, the cities introducing tourism taxes and the Spanish restaurant set to reopen as a museum.
As recession fears persist, the troubles in major industries have hurt tax revenues, turning the state’s $100 billion surplus into a deficit.
Some in the party are urging compromise, warning of dire electoral consequences for 2024, while other stances, on guns and gay rights, also risk turning off moderates.
Youth culture and national defense collided in a community known for edgy jokes. The YouTube celebrity it was dedicated to seemed as surprised as anyone.
As the river shrinks, the Biden administration is getting ready to impose, for the first time, reductions in water supplies to states.
Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.
More than 400 executives said that the decision ignored both scientific and legal precedent and that, if the ruling stood, it would create uncertainty for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Economists are watching for the aftereffects of recent bank collapses across many industries. How bad could it get?
The Florida governor is pushing an aggressive proposal to penalize those who aid undocumented immigrants and to track costs for providing them with health care.
A huge influx of munitions is needed to keep Russia’s air force from changing the course of the war, according to U.S. officials and newly leaked Pentagon documents.
The freshness of the documents — some appear to be barely 40 days old — and the hints they hold for operations to come make them particularly damaging, officials say.
Intense patient advocacy, shifting politics, a determined Democratic governor and a handful of maverick Republicans led the state to join 39 others that have expanded Medicaid.
In the year since El Salvador declared a state of emergency, the government has delivered a stunning blow to the gangs that were once the ultimate authority in much of the country.
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