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The U.S. Energy Department reportedly newly assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China.  The Energy Department, which was previously undecided on the origin of the pandemic, now joins the FBI’s stance that the coronavirus likely spread due to a mishap at a Chinese …

Search and rescue efforts continued Sunday after a makeshift wooden boat carrying more than a hundred migrants crashed into the rocky reefs off the coast of southern Italy before dawn.  The death toll climbed to at least 60 people, the Italian outlet Tgr Rai Calabria reported.  The Italian Coast Guard …

How is Vladimir Putin hanging on to power, having dragged his people into such a disastrous war? I ask one of Russia’s most well-known political scientists. “That a good, straightforward American-style question,” Ekaterina Schulmann, currently a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, replies, delving into explanation. Beyond pointing out …

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime will fall to an uprising from his own people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy predicted this week. Zelenskyy made the comments in a new documentary filmed to mark the one-year anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which passed on Thursday. In it, Zelenskyy predicts that the …

Fighting between top Russian military officials and the chief of mercenary group Wagner threatens to undermine the mission in Ukraine and other conflicts.  “Prigozhin basically forgot who was the top assassin in Russia,” Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former DIA intelligence officer, told Fox News …

President Biden’s speech rallying NATO members was all show since those nations don’t provide enough military funding to defend each other, according to a national security adviser to former President Trump. “If you’re not putting 2% of your GDP into defense, then some of your systems may not be able …

Warning: Details in this story are disturbing.  Police in Hong Kong arrested four people in relation to the dismemberment and murder of 28-year-old model Abby Choi. Choi was reported missing on Tuesday, and authorities believe that her body was dismembered, according to the New York Daily News. Police allege that …

A body was found amid the search for missing British woman Laurel Aldridge on Friday. Aldridge, the sister-in-law of actor Mackenzie Crook, was last photographed leaving her home in Walberton, West Sussex on February 14.  The 62-year-old woman was last seen near Slindon Cricket Club, which is 2.5 miles away …

El Salvador has started to fill its mega-prison with a transfer of 2,000 gang members and criminals, including members of MS-13 and Barrio-18.   “Today at dawn, in a single operation, we transferred the first 2,000 gang members to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT),” El Salvador’s President Nayib …

Iran has unveiled its latest long-range cruise missile, stating that it will be able to strike U.S. ships within 1,000 miles.  The missile and its long-range capabilities were displayed via state media Saturday. “Our cruise missile with a range of 1,650 km has been added to the missile arsenal of …