Like every American disease, the obsession with “nepo babies” has infected Britain. If 2022 was, as New York magazine claimed, the year nepotism went mainstream in Hollywood, 2023 has been the year the Brits lumberingly caught up.

When SARS swept across Asia in 2003, it knew no borders. Taiwan sought to attend a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting charting a strategy to combat the disease, but Beijing vetoed its participation. China likewise impeded WHO-Taiwan cooperation against the backdrop of the 2004 bird flu epidemic. In a compromise the following year, China and WHO signed a memorandum agreeing that WHO would communicate any health-related matters first to Beijing, which then would convey the information to Taiwan. The arrangement undercut health. In one case, China informed Taiwan only after a ten-day delay that corn it imported may have been contaminated with a bacterial infection. Over the past decade, WHO has excluded Taiwan from over 70% of its technical meetings.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his generals continue to write checks that mobilized reservists and conscripts cannot cash.

The U.S. on Monday issued a top-level advisory telling American citizens to leave Russia immediately and cease travel to the country as Russia’s war against neighboring Ukraine continues, citing risks of harassment and wrongful detention for Americans specifically. “Do not travel to Russia due to the unpredictable consequences of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine...

A former North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) official on Monday said that adversaries might be testing U.S. systems with aerial objects crossing into American airspace. Retired Major General Scott Clancy, the former NORAD director of operations and former deputy commander Alaskan NORAD region suggested during an appearance on CNN “This Morning” that the four...

Before the president, Congress and the public draw any conclusions, all the facts surrounding these three events must be established.

China on Monday said that more than 10 high-altitude balloons from the United States flew into its airspace since the start of last year, an allegation that comes after the U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon and argued Beijing has operated more of the aircraft throughout the world. "It is also common for U.S....

Every 10 years, Republican and Democratic administrations, with the support of Congress, sign a memorandum of understanding to assist Israel’s ability to defend itself and, at the same time, they financially strengthen the American defense industry by requiring that all money spent stays in the United States. Even President Obama’s animosity toward Prime Minister Benjamin...

The Biden administration recently published its final definition of “navigable waters” — establishing the scope of federal power to regulate private property under the Clean Water Act. This is the relevant agencies’ — Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — fourth attempt at crafting such a definition in the past...

Authorities had to cut a hole in the tank to rescue the two workers.