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  • Every American could feel the pain of Washington’s next showdow

      Every American could get hurt if the new hardline Republican House’s dangerous game of roulette with a still vulnerable economy backfires.   The nation reaches a first, critical threshold Thursday in the brewing Washington showdown over the national debt that could define th...
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  • Taiwan to allow women into military reserve force training as C

    Taiwan’s military on Tuesday rolled out plans to allow women to volunteer for reserve force training for the first time, as China continues to ramp up military pressure on the democratic self-ruled island.   The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said it will allow 220 discharged female soldier...
  • The British government wants to hand police unprecedented power

      The British government wants to hand new powers to police that would allow officers to take stronger action against people engaging in peaceful, political protest.    Human rights activists have accused the government of trying to suppress freedom of speech, while opposition po...
  • Russian missile strike on apartment building in Dnipro kills 35

    The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment block in Dnipro rose to 35, Ukrainian officials said on Monday, after missiles and explosions were heard across the country.   Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said 39 people, includ...
  • 2 Earth-size worlds revealed beyond our solar system

    There are more than 5,000 known worlds beyond our solar system.   Since the 1990s, astronomers have used ground and space-based telescopes to search for signs of planets beyond our tiny corner of the universe.   Exoplanets are notoriously difficult to directly image because they&rsqu...