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Moon Phase Today, August 13, 2026: Waxing Crescent and the Perseid Finale

New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- the darkest skies of the entire lunar month, falling on the final night of the Perseid meteor shower's peak window. 36 p.m. UTC when the August New Moon completed its conjunctio... Read More


Ukraine Is Where US Corporations Go to Launder Money, Says Errol Musk in RIA Novosti Interview

MOSCOW, Aug. 13 -- What Errol Musk said about Ukraine in his interview with RIA Novosti was blunt enough that it will travel. What it means, and what it is worth as a claim, depends considerably on wh... Read More


Moon Phase Today, August 12, 2026: New Moon and Total Solar Eclipse

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- which is exactly the point. On August 12, 2026, the moon stands in New Moon phase, its sunlit face turned away from Earth and its gravitational alignment with the Sun precise eno... Read More


US Vice President Tells Zelensky to Stop Attacks on Oil Facilities in Black Sea - Reports

New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- WASHINGTON - The phone call that stopped Ukraine's Black Sea drone campaign came on July 31, when US Vice President JD Vance told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky directly ... Read More


Moon Phase Today, August 12, 2026: Waning Gibbous

On August 12, Aug. 12 -- The moon is working against stargazers again tonight. Four to five days past the Sturgeon Full Moon that peaked on August 7 to 8, the Waning Gibbous is still bright enough to ... Read More


Will Sheikh Hasina Actually Go to Bangladesh?

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- NEW DELHI - Two years to the day after she boarded a military helicopter and fled Bangladesh as student protesters stormed her residence, Sheikh Hasina sat in her New Delhi home ... Read More


Moon Phase Today, August 11, 2026: Waning Gibbous

Tonight, Aug. 11 -- a bright, slightly lopsided disk that astronomers call the Waning Gibbous, and that most people simply notice is too bright to ignore. On August 11, 2026, the moon is in the Wanin... Read More


Mark Meadows Files DOJ Reimbursement Request for $150,000 in Trump-Era Legal Fees

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The bill Mark Meadows wants the federal government to pay is $150,000. The more expensive question is what answering it requires the Justice Department to decide. Meadows, who ... Read More


US Cannot Escalate Conflict With Iran Without Depleting Weapons Stockpiles, Says Mearsheimer

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- John Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago political scientist whose realist framework for understanding great-power competition has shaped international relations theory for fo... Read More


Bangladesh Bans Shakib Al Hasan From Cricket, Petrol-Bombs His Home After Sheikh Hasina Appearance

Shakib, Aug. 9 -- On the morning after Shakib Al Hasan's home in Dhaka was petrol-bombed, Bangladesh's Sports Minister delivered the political verdict: the country's most celebrated cricketer would ne... Read More