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Moon King is gearing up to release his third full-length album. It's called The Audition and arrives Arbutus Records on July 16. Today, thou...

May 05, 2021 by Bill Platt New director comes from the Stimson Center, a public policy and diplomacy think tank. Photo by Robert Gill PreviousNext Victoria K. Holt, vice president of the Stimson Center, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy research institute focused on international affairs, has been named the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. She is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international security in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs in the Obama Administration. Victoria K. Holt beg...

U.S. assesses post-bin Laden al-Qaida (0) Graffiti reading 'Bin Laden Town' is seen on a wall near the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 6, 2011. UPI/Sajjad Ali Qureshi | License Photo WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- While Osama bin Laden's death put al-Qaida's core on the decline, the activity of its affiliate organizations continues to spread, an analyst said. Bin laden was killed in May at a compound in Pakistan by U.S. Navy SEALs, roughly 10 years after he helped plan the Sept. 11, 2011, attacks on the United States. Advertisem...

There's a clear, scientific path to safely reopening schools. The real barrier now is politics. insider@insider.com (Aria Bendix) © LM Otero/AP Imagse Elementary-school students walk to classes in Godley, Texas, on August 5. LM Otero/AP Images Studies suggest schools can safely resume in-person learning if they rely on masks and distancing. But a few big political obstacles have made this difficult. Some districts don't enforce mask policies. Others lack funding to ensure a safe environment for teachers and staff. By now, research clearly supports the idea that schools can ...

By Peter Sullivan - 01/28/21 06:00 AM EST   The Biden administration is coming under pressure from Republicans to support the reopening of schools after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published new research that says that schools can operate safely despite COVID-19. The CDC researchers on Tuesday wrote that there is “little evidence” of widespread coronavirus transmission in schools when proper precautions are followed. Teachers unions in several places across the country, however, are resisting the push to return to in-person instruction, arguing it is not safe...