White House Panel Recommends Declaring National Emergency on Opioids

By ABBY GOODNOUGH July 31, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis asked him Monday to declare a national emergency to deal with the epidemic. The members of the bipartisan panel called the request their “first...

Former UN missile inspector says North Korea’s latest ICBM failed an important phase

“You see small bright radiant objects that are shedding off the reentry vehicle — and then it suddenly begins to turn very dim,” Michael Elleman, a 38 North think-tank analyst and consulting senior fellow for missile defense at the International...

Venezuela’s ‘sham’ election just made a very bad economy that much harder to fix

The Venezuelan government just made it a lot harder for the country to dig itself out of the giant economic, political and social hole it’s in. Venezuela held a highly contentious vote Sunday to create a new legislative body that supersedes others, including the...