World Jan 9, 2022

U.S. details costs of a Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Biden administration and its allies are developing new possible sanctions ahead of a series of meetings to defuse the crisis with Moscow.

Asia Pacific / Politics Oct 23, 2021

Biden said the U.S. would protect Taiwan. But it’s not that clear-cut.

After the president’s remarks at a CNN event, the White House quickly declared that the American policy of “strategic ambiguity” over the island’s defense had not changed.

Asia Pacific Sep 18, 2021

The hidden agenda behind the deal France called a betrayal

The United States and Australia went to extraordinary lengths to keep Paris in the dark as they secretly negotiated a plan to build nuclear submarines.

Asia Pacific Mar 2, 2021

China appears to warn India: Push too hard and the lights could go out

As border skirmishing increased last year, malware began to flow into the Indian electric grid, a new study shows, and a blackout hit Mumbai. It now looks like a warning.

World / Politics Jan 27, 2021

Biden and Putin agree to extend New START nuclear treaty

White House officials said Biden also confronted the Kremlin leader over the poisoning of an opposition activist and a hacking of government and private computer networks in the U.S.

World / Politics Jan 9, 2021

Pelosi pressed Pentagon on checks to prevent Trump from starting conflict

But short of the cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment or impeaching and convicting the president, it would be unconstitutional to defy legal orders from the commander in chief, experts note.

World Dec 4, 2020

IBM says cyberattacks are targeting vaccine distribution operations

The attacks appear intended to steal the credentials of executives and officials at global organizations involved in the refrigeration process necessary to protect vaccine doses.

World Nov 28, 2020

Gunmen assassinate Iran’s top nuclear scientist in ambush, provoking new crisis

For two decades, the scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was the driving force behind what U.S. and Israeli officials describe as Iran’s secretive nuclear weapons program.

World / Politics Nov 23, 2020

Biden picks Blinken, defender of global alliances, as top envoy

Antony J. Blinken, a defender of global alliances and one of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s closest foreign policy advisers, is expected to be nominated for secretary of state, a job in which he will try to coalesce skeptical international partners into a new competition ...

World Nov 17, 2020

Trump sought options for attacking Iran to stop its growing nuclear program

The president was dissuaded from moving ahead with a strike by advisers who warned that it could escalate into a broader conflict in his last weeks in office.