WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Nearly two out of three likely voters in the United States believe that the country is facing an invasion by migrants at the southern border, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll published Monday.
The Pentagon announced the creation of a grand naval coalition last month to ensure maritime security in the Red Sea amid a spate of attacks targeting Israeli and Israeli-bound commercial vessels by Yemen’s Houthi militia. The coalition flopped after several major US allies pulled out, while others sent just a handful of shipless seamen.
European Council President Charles Michel is due to step down in July — with Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban possibly taking the job temporarily if EU leaders are unable to find a successor by then.
WASHINGTON, January 8 (Sputnik) - US President Joe Biden's speech in Charleston, South Carolina on the situation in the Gaza Strip was interrupted by pro-ceasefire demonstrators.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US House Oversight Committee on Monday released a resolution recommending contempt of Congress charges against Hunter Biden for defying a subpoena to provide closed-door testimony to lawmakers, as part of their probe into alleged criminal conduct by the Biden family.
According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, by the early 2030s US expenditure on entitlements, mandatory initiatives and debt obligations could surpass its total revenue, pushing it closer to a financial cliff-edge.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A bipartisan deal negotiated in the US Congress to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year is a total failure with a cost higher than announced by congressional leadership, the House Freedom Caucus said in a statement in opposition to the agreement.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Mission engineers are struggling to correct an anomaly in the orientation of NASA's unmanned robotic commercial Peregrine Moon lander after it separated from its booster, Astrobiotic announced in a press release on Monday.
European investigators probing the September 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipeline network have told US business media that Polish officials have refused to cooperate with an international investigation into the incident. But the report is just another attempt to divert attention from Washington’s role in the blasts, a Russian observer says.
Progress in vaccine roll-out last fall contrasts with waning public trust, largely due to challenges in accessing RSV vaccines. However, COVID-19-related hospitalizations have surged since November. By mid-December 2023, the CDC reported a nationwide increase in flu cases, despite vaccination falling short of 2022's total by 8 million.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - China's export restrictions are significantly different from those imposed by the United States as they do not target any particular country or company, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Monday.
Despite their longevity, humans still have to deal with their bodies changing for the worse as they grow older. Many reptiles and other species experience a considerably slower aging process, showing few signs of deterioration through their lives. Why is this?
TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Russian and Iranian exporters are able to handle transactions in national currencies after the two countries integrated their financial message transfer systems, allowing banks to make direct payments without using the SWIFT payment system, Deputy Head of Iranian Central Bank Mohsen Karimi said.
The T-80BVM, an enhanced version of the T-80BV main battle tank, has recently made its presence felt in the Zaporozhye direction, garnering praise from the military. Unveiled to the public in 2017, this modern iteration is part of Russia's impressive fleet of approximately 4,500 T-80 main battle tanks.
Militants dramatically ramped up attacks on US bases in Iraq and northeastern Syria last fall, in response to America’s unshakable support for Israel in the conflict in Gaza. Drone, rocket artillery and missile attacks have targeted US forces over 115 times to date, killing at least one contractor and injuring dozens of troops.
TUNIS (Sputnik) - A field commander of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has been killed during an Israeli air attack on southern Lebanon, various media reported on Monday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Polish officials have been slow to provide key information about movement of suspects behind the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions on Polish soil and withheld evidence about this development, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing European investigators.
Lots of top-level Democrats are seriously concerned about Team Biden's unusual calmness ahead of the 2024 election amid plummeting approval numbers and emerging challenges from the GOP and Donald Trump.
Amid a budget crisis, the German government announced in December the Cabinet’s plans to abolish subsidies for diesel fuel, cancel tax breaks for farm and forestry vehicles and raise road tolls. Farmers, lorry drivers and railway staff all threatened strike action in response.
TOKYO (Sputnik) - The Noto Peninsula in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture has recorded 1,214 tremors rated at least 1 on the seven-point seismic intensity scale in the week that followed a powerful earthquake that jolted the region on New Year's Day, the NHK broadcaster reported on Monday.
Team Biden is doing damage control ahead of the election by hastily refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Alas, it is coming at a cost for American taxpayers as the administration is purchasing crude at twice the historic average, Just the News says.
The situation allegedly involving MI6 conducting espionage in China underscores the continued tense exchanges between the two nations regarding allegations of spying that pose potential threats to their respective national security.
As the Palestine-Israel conflict risks spilling over, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s previous shuttle diplomacy efforts in the region left him empty-handed. As for Israel, which the US pledged full support for in the wake of Hamas’ attack, it was not at all receptive to calls from the US to take more care to shield civilians.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The World Health Organization (WHO) does not have any information on the whereabouts of medical staff and over 600 evacuated patients of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the only hospital in the central part of the Gaza Strip, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
Private companies are planning to send human remains to the lunar surface, but a Native American group rejects the idea.