The Trump administration wants airport screening to revert to the way it was before 9/11, when private security companies were in charge.
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US President Donald Trump abruptly called off a new round of planned strikes on Iran on Saturday after some of Washington’s Gulf allies pushed for deescalation.
OPEC+ agreed on Sunday to raise oil production by 188,000 barrels a day in September, marking its sixth consecutive monthly increase as the group seeks to restore supply to a market strained by global conflicts.
Jeremy Busby & Isabella Lucia Maitino Truthout/TheAppeal Congress is grappling with the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the controversial program that allows the U.S. government to surveil foreigners and the individuals that correspond with them, including Americans. Its proponents say it’s vital to national security, but civil liberties advocates say it’s […]
Robert Inlakesh Mint Press News While another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the region in a much broader conflict. In the latest episode of The Target, Robert Inlakesh examines the ever expanding battlefield, its impacts on oil […]
Jessica Corbett Common Dreams Trita Parsi, an expert on US-Iranian relations, cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s Saturday claims that he halted planned strikes on Iran due to progress in negotiations to end the illegal conflict, launched by the Republican and Israel in February. “The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against […]
The Pakistani military has imposed a communications blackout as it conducts a violent siege aimed at crushing a movement for electoral reform in Azad Kashmir.