Who controls the Northwest Passage? It’s up for debate.

The Northwest Passage has an identity crisis. The US thinks it’s international waters. Canada claims it as their internal waters. And as traffic through the arctic sea route increases, experts worry its disputed legal status is leaving the northern Arctic vulnerable to catastrophe. Compromise has kept territorial dispute at bay for nearly 30 years The […]

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Nikki Haley Says Kim Jong Un Is ‘Begging For War’

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has claimed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “begging for war” following Pyongyang’s announcement that it had carried out a successful nuclear test over the weekend. North Korea said on Sunday that it had tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb that could be fitted to an intercontinental

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Hurricane Irma strengthens to Category 4; South Florida in projected storm path

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Irma reached Category 4 status Sunday with winds reaching 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Additional strengthening is expected during the next 48 hours. South Florida was added to the five-day forecast cone and could start to feel tropical storm force winds as soon as Friday evening, the center

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In the muck and mold, Houston neighborhood tackles a Texas-size cleanup

HOUSTON — In Kashmere Gardens, a historically black neighborhood and one of Houston’s poorest, the floodwaters have receded, but sorrow is on full display in the piles that line the street. Heaps of soggy carpet padding. Chunks of drywall. Splintered boards, broken dressers and moldering mattresses. A television. A teddy bear. Family photographs and a

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Bibi courts right-wing friends

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “On one side, you have the universalists, armed with their globalism, liberalism, and concerns for human rights. On the other, you have the nationalists, wielding their exceptionalism, isolationism, and often conservative religious values.” The above is taken from an article by Hanna Kozlowska that appeared on the Quartz website.

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Iran Confirms 4 Americans’ 10-Year Prison Sentences

An American student and three other people linked to the U.S. – either citizens or permanent residents – have lost appeals against 10-year prison sentences they are serving for alleged espionage, Iranian authorities said Sunday. Princeton student Xiyue Wang was imprisoned last summer while conducting dissertation research in Iran. He was subsequently convicted of “collaborating

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All the “H-bomb” and “A-bomb” differences you need to know as North Korea ups the threat

Editor’s note: North Korea announced Sunday that it detonated a miniaturized thermonuclear device – a device that would make it easier to launch a nuclear weapon against the United States, it territories and its allies along the Pacific Rim. Below is a story that explains the difference between a hydrogen bomb and a thermonuclear or

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