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Credit to Author: Patrick Malone| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000

The US is quietly ramping up its plutonium experiments even as Washington raises concerns about Russian testing.

Credit to Author: Isobel Cockerell| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000

In Xinjiang, northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of repression are fighting a digital resistance.

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:21:17 +0000

Mueller is done and Rosenstein is on his way out the door, but federal and state authorities around the country are still investigating the president and those in his orbit.

Credit to Author: Alex W. Palmer| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He’s won a battle, but the struggle continues.

Credit to Author: Robert Wright| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

OK, so it was never great in the first place. But the rise of rank nationalists could finally—perversely—spark an era of progress and cooperation for all humanity.

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Known as the Lockerbie bombing, in December 1988 a bomb downed a Pan Am jet, leaving 270 dead. It was the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists. As the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, Robert Mueller oversaw the case. And for him, it was personal.