National Security

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged a ban on “military-grade” semiautomatic rifles in an attempt to redirect his campaign after his blackface controversy.

The Russian government has stepped up its crackdown against Jehovah’s Witnesses, jailing six followers of the Christian denomination on Thursday for “extremism.”

Hong Kong police on Friday rescinded their ban against a protest march scheduled for Saturday afternoon, although they added a restriction that the event — which is somewhat tangential to the main thrust of the protest movement — must conclude sooner than originally scheduled to reduce the risk of violent behavior after dark.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday commanded the U.S. Congress to withdraw the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, denouncing the bill as interfering in China’s internal sovereign affairs.

The U.S. Department of State announced on Thursday it had expelled two diplomats representing Cuba at the United Nations for activities that were harmful to American national security, including “influence operations.”

Josh Campbell, who served as special assistant to disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, has detailed highly unusual steps that Comey took to immediately memorialize private exchanges with Trump at the infamous January 6, 2017 briefing in Trump Tower.

President Donald Trump repeatedly urged Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to look into former vice president Joe Biden’s son — Hunter Biden — and his business dealings in the eastern European country, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Anti-vaccination campaigners have triggered the return of polio in the Philippines, the country’s Health Secretary Francisco Duque III told reporters on Friday.

Twitter has announced that it has suspended another 10,000 accounts from its platform accused of sowing political discord across the globe.

“These are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country,” he said. “We’ve never done it to this level.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s effort to apologize for freshly-discovered photos and videos of himself in blackface was vehemently rejected on Thursday by Rev. Al Sharpton, who the leadership of the U.S. Democrat Party considers an important arbiter of racial affairs.

Since the Democrats have become so fond of impeachment, let’s use their own logic and see who else might qualify for the “political death penalty.”

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro compared President Donald Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in an interview with socialist fugitive ex-Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa on Thursday.

Members of Canada’s Liberal Party largely responded to the revelation Thursday that their leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has worn blackface more times than he can remember by insisting that he is respectful of minorities in private and deserves forgiveness.

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. President Donald Trump should “leverage” pro-democracy Hong Kong protesters’ demands for human rights, democracy, and full autonomy in ongoing trade negotiations with China, an activist declared on Capitol Hill this week.

WASHINGTON, DC — An online activist wearing a mask and using a pseudonym for fear of retaliation indicated that some Hong Kong police officers have raped detained female protestors at an event here this week.

The World Health Organization (WHO) launched a mobile phone app to help contact tracers monitor cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the organization announced this week.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is engulfed in a blackface scandal, a stark contrast to the “woke” persona he spent years crafting.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrived in Washington, DC, Thursday for a week-long U.S. visit, promising to lay the foundations for another 100 years of friendship between the two staunch allies.

A column published in the Toronto Star on Thursday made the case that a recently uncovered photo of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in “brownface” is as “Canadian as hockey.”

Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters Thursday that he was “wary” of giving a definitive number of times that he had worn blackface because he did not remember the occasions that began surfacing late Wednesday.

New Democrat Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh, Canada’s first nonwhite party leader and a serious contender in the October federal elections, said on Thursday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s blackface photos and videos were a “troubling” and “insulting” slap at Canadian minorities.

Chinese media tends to be very astute at picking up and exacerbating hot-button American political issues, doing everything it can to highlight controversies even when China’s authoritarian brutality makes the criticism absurd.

Justin Trudeau said he hopes minorities will still see him as “an ally,” despite recent revelations that he has previously worn “brownface” and “blackface” on at least three separate occasions.

Aaron Klein, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter, fingered Iran for carrying out aerial strikes on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia last weekend, warning the attacks were not a localized issue but a “war on the entire global economy.”

Chinese democracy activists are demanding the release of Lai Rifu, a dissident living in Guangzhou who was snatched off the street on Monday in a bizarre arrest and incarcerated for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” by posting a video that used the unofficial anthem of the Hong Kong protest movement, “Glory to Hong Kong.”

The Venezuelan Penal Forum, an NGO that tracks political prisoners in the country, warned on Wednesday that dictator Nicolás Maduro may sneak common criminals into any agreement to free his political enemies.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is raising money off a controversial remark she made earlier this week, in which she said President Donald Trump was turning the U.S. into “Saudi Arabia’s bitch.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday threatened “all-out war” to the “last American soldier” if the United States retaliates for last weekend’s attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities by Iran and/or its proxies in Yemen, the Houthis.

Outraged South Korean officials demanded answers this week after Japan revealed plans to discharge radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.