Daily or near-daily marijuana use has surpassed daily alcohol consumption in the United States, reaching 20.9 million to 21.4 million daily users compared to roughly 17.2 million daily or frequent alcohol drinkers.
Morale in the United States was lower during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Unfortunately, many Americans were not feeling very festive or positive about the US.
US President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday added humanoid and quadruped robots to a list of products and companies that are banned from being imported into the United States on national security grounds.
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The US government has come dangerously close to doing something sensible that the public wants: removing the dreaded annual clock changes which make the warmer months "Daylight Savings Time."
I'm not predicting WWIII; I am certainly not calling for WWIII; I'm doing everything in my power to prevent WWIII and illuminate the causes, risks, and general results of future war.
The U.S. meat supply is at a crossroads. While one part of the government is investing $500 million to protect and expand processing capacity, another is advancing a bill that could force a massive restructuring of who owns that very same system.
Despite being locked in daily tit-for-tat strikes, the United States has not yet returned to a full-scale war with Iran because it does not have enough missiles to sustain a prolonged campaign, a US official has told The Washington Post.
Who is at risk: Millions from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast face damaging winds, hail, flash flooding and possible tornadoes Tuesday afternoon into night.
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Tehran delivered to Washington via Pakistan in early April, a formalized demand for the withdrawal of US combat forces from military bases across the region.
Dozens of US troops were wounded in three Iranian strikes in Jordan that the Pentagon kept quiet in the week before Friday's attack that killed two American soldiers and left one missing.
The escalation pathway in the renewed tit-for-tat conflict between the US and Iran is becoming increasingly alarming and has been underway for eight days.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned countries hosting US military bases that they could face retaliation if their territory is used for attacks against Iran.
The confrontation between the United States and Iran is becoming harder to contain as both sides move beyond conventional military targets and increasingly strike infrastructure vital to energy supplies, transport and civilian life.
Europe has relied on American military protection since World War II. Hanson discusses NATO, defense spending, and why many European governments expected the United States to continue carrying the burden.
In another sign of war fatigue in the West, and perhaps amid greater realization that 'punishing' the Russian people is having no real effect on the course of the Ukraine war...
America just took three brand-new nuclear reactors critical in thirty days, a first for any country, machines the size of shipping containers, one of them built in 150 days on a single-digit-million budget with a core its founder drove to Idaho in th