US Wars

Australia has announced major investments in its own military capabilities, especially new weapons. Countries in the region are stepping up their armies amid heightened tensions between the United States and China. Australia is seeking “a combination of integration with the United States and greater autonomy,” an expert told Insider. See …

A 98-year-old woman living in County Mayo is to receive a special honor from the United States House of Representatives in Belmullet this evening, for the role she has played in changing the course of world history with her weather reports. Maureen Sweeney, from County Kerry, predicted an impending storm …

With increasing pressure from the United States on China to seek an investigation into the theory of COVID-19 laboratory leaks, the Chinese ambassador to France on Thursday denounced the Biden administration for “a laundry lie in powder that helped him start the war in Iraq “. In an interview with …

Left to right, Brandon Bies, Andrew Bentley, Jim Burgess, and Jason Edwards, all with the National Park Service’s Manassas Battlefield National Park, dismantle two Civil War cannons that were donated to the Manassas Battlefield . (Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post) The two bronze cannons had been given to Army …

PARIS: While US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are due to meet for their first summit on Wednesday, back to previous historic meetings between the two nuclear powers: Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev met at Camp David in September during a Soviet leader’s first visit to …

The United States and Europe are stepping up efforts to reach a pact ending a 17-year-old dispute over aircraft subsidies, but may be satisfied with an extended truce in recent tariff wars, people have said close to the file. A deal to end or suspend the world’s largest business-to-business trade …

The Kansans have learned that culture wars do not end at the state border. They invade almost every aspect of our daily life. Lately, the teaching of American history has been criticized. Whether the battle is political (Republican versus Democrat) or ideological (critical theory of race versus traditional explanations of …

In July 1971, the American national security adviser Henry Kissinger embarked on a secret mission in China, then America’s sworn enemy. This 48-hour ice-breaker journey paved the way for Richard Nixon’s historic handshake with Chairman Mao a year later. Nixon’s visit changed the strategic geometry of the Cold War and …

June 12, 2021 WASHINGTON DC PHONICS, WHO is to pronounce words syllable by syllable, is the best way to teach children to read. But in many classes, ff-on-ics is dirty sound. Kymyona Burk, who implemented the Mississippi statewide literacy program, explains that some teachers had to introduce phonetic teaching materials …

Zoom in iconArrows pointing out Pam Habner, Head of Brand Cards in the United States at Citigroup Source: Citigroup Banks have recently been blown away by themselves to attract new credit card customers, offering big bonuses of 100,000 points and launching new products. Today, Citigroup is tackling one of the …