USA - Evil octopus strangling the world becomes latest US intelligence seal. Billions of dollars annually are being used to fund operations conducted by the United States intelligence community, the likes of which allow the government to eavesdrop on emails, listen to world leaders’ phone calls and about everything in-between.
JAPAN - Tepco is planning on dumping all of the radioactive water stored at Fukushima into the ocean. The industry-controlled nuclear regulators are pushing for dumping the radiation, as well.
USA - Crop breeders increasingly are using radiation and gene-altering chemicals to mutate seeds, creating new plant varieties with better yields - all without regulation.
USA - A baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony must serve gay couples despite his religious beliefs or face fines, a judge said Friday.
VATICAN - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Monday as part of his visit to Rome.
VATICAN - Today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Pope Francis at the Vatican. According to the DPA news agency, Netanyahu brought with him a slightly unusual gift: A book about the Spanish inquisition.
GERMANY - Despite escalating tensions in East Asia, German companies have announced new arms exports to Western allies in China's vicinity.
ISRAEL - A Palestinian Authority (PA) official involved in talks between the PA and Israel said Thursday that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has rejected every offer put forth by United States Secretary of State John Kerry regarding security in the Jordan Valley.
USA - An academic was the first to cross the invisible line. “The ultimate check on presidential lawlessness is elections and, in extreme cases, impeachment,” Georgetown law professor Nicholas Rosenkranz told Representative Darrell Issa at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on the president’s duty to uphold the law.
USA - Representative Bob Goodlatte (Republican for Virginia): Professor Turley, the constitution, the system of separated powers is not simply about stopping one branch of government from usurping another. It's about protecting the liberty of Americans from the dangers of concentrated government power. How does the president's unilateral modification of act of Congress affect both the balance of power between the political branches and the liberty interests of the American people?
NORWAY - Pastor Terje Ligerod, head of the Norwegian delegation of roughly 40 Christian leaders visiting Israel this week, told Arutz Sheva that his group came to ask forgiveness for Norway's antagonism towards Jews, and to pledge support for the Jewish state.
UK - Now with each new scientific breakthrough or technological innovation we're getting further from "natural" selection and closer to commercial eugenics, and a frightening future of humanity in which Gattaca is science fiction no more.
USA - The too big to fail banks have a larger share of the US banking industry than they have ever had before. So if having banks that were too big to fail was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today?
CHINA - Amidst tensions with the United States over the disputed Senkaku Islands, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is bragging that its aircraft carrier combat task force, led by the inaugural Liaoning warship, is now close to rivaling the US Navy.
UK - Thousands of people are being evacuated from their homes as a severe storm batters large parts of the UK.