WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The millions of American parents who trusted TikTok to keep their young children off the platform received no compensation this week. The $400 million that ByteDance agreed to p... Read More
ROME, Aug. 22 -- The arithmetic of air defence has been running the wrong way for years. A one-way attack drone costs a few tens of thousands of dollars. The missile fired to stop it costs a million. ... Read More
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 22 -- The United States is preparing to pay the United Nations $725 million, which is a large sum, a welcome one for an organisation that spent this year rationing cash, and less ... Read More
HAVANA, Aug. 22 -- Miguel Diaz-Canel reached for the word executioners on Friday, and the first name on Washington's new list is a former Cuban intelligence officer who spent thirteen years in an Amer... Read More
NEW DELHI, Aug. 22 -- Saima Wazed has warned the World Health Organization through her lawyers that she may go to court unless it opens an independent investigation into the decision that removed her ... Read More
TOKYO, Aug. 22 -- When parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system were shipped out of South Korea last month for use against Iran, the move did not make the front pages in Seoul or Tokyo.... Read More
NYT Strands today, Aug. 22 -- the spangram for puzzle #902 is MOUNTAINRANGE, and the theme is "Peak Americana". Six theme words sit under it, and every one of them is an American mountain range. If y... Read More
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- When Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs added Conor Kennedy's name to its international wanted list last week, it did more than open a criminal file on a 32-year-old American... Read More
On Wednesday evening, Aug. 21 -- The concession lasted less than twenty-four hours. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister and the voice his government uses to communicate its most consequential si... Read More
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 21 -- Vassily Nebenzia's account of the Iran war has one author and one victim, and what makes it effective is that the opening move is a matter of record. The United States did s... Read More