July 1, 2025

How US airstrike intel reports became a tool for partisan media: Bias Breakdown

After the U.S. airstrikes on Iran on June 21, the media’s portrayal of the attack quickly diverged. Left-leaning outlets described the bombing as a dangerous escalation of a Middle East conflict, with some suggesting the United States had entered Israel’s war with Iran. Coverage largely questioned the legality of President Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to […]

July 1, 2025

Inside the North Korean scheme to funnel US wages into weapons funding

Federal prosecutors have charged multiple people in a nationwide scheme to secretly funnel U.S. wages to North Korea’s government, allegedly to support its nuclear weapons program. The Department of Justice announced the charges Monday, June 30, describing a growing effort by North Korean operatives to bypass U.S. sanctions by posing as remote tech workers for […]

July 1, 2025

Mexican navy ship went backwards before Brooklyn Bridge crash: NTSB

The Mexican naval ship Cuauhtémoc crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on May 17, and now the National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report providing some insight into what led to the crash. The Brooklyn Bridge collision killed two crew members and injured 19 others. The NTSB is now offering the most detailed assessment […]

June 30, 2025

Trump finds TikTok buyers, keeps September sale deadline

President Donald Trump claims he has found a group of wealthy buyers for TikTok, the popular video-sharing platform owned by China-based ByteDance. In a Sunday Fox News interview, Trump said the buyers are “very, very wealthy people” but declined to name them, saying he would share details “in about two weeks.” What’s behind the sale? […]

June 30, 2025

Canada drops 3% digital tax on Amazon, Apple, Google to restart US trade talks

Canada has backed off a planned digital services tax targeting major U.S. technology companies, just hours before it was set to take effect, in an effort to revive stalled trade talks with the United States. Initially scheduled for collection starting Monday, June 30, the tax would have imposed a 3% levy on revenue from Canadian users […]

June 30, 2025

Study finds ‘regional differences’ in dementia rates among veterans

A study published in June found that veterans seemed to have higher incidences of dementia depending on where they live. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of California San Francisco, found that dementia rates per every 1,000 person-years were highest in the Southeast and lowest in the Mid-Atlantic. According to researchers, in the […]