Reuters It is difficult to try to predict the decisions that US President-elect Donald Trump will make when he returns to the White House. But one thing seems unlikely to…

Jack Teixeira, a US Air National Guardsman who leaked Pentagon documents last year in one of the highest-profile intelligence cases in recent years, has been sentenced to 15 years in…

A Louisiana law that mandated every public school classroom in the state display a poster of the Ten Commandments has been halted by a federal judge following legal challenges. A…

A US jury has awarded $42m (£33m) to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based defence contractor responsible for contributing to their abuse two decades…

Democrat Ruben Gallego has beaten Republican Kari Lake in their closely watched US Senate race in Arizona, the BBC’s US partner CBS News projects. Gallego, a 44-year-old Iraq War veteran…

Yves here. This is an elegant and persuasive analysis that shows how foreign aid donations reflect donor state self-interest. It would be nice, but also a lot to ask, to…

Yves here. Hopefully readers can look past the author John Ruehl feeling the need to praise Western “democracies” or here, republics, and work in digs about China, Russia, and other…

Yves here. This article intriguingly suggests that Ukraine might be well served to be far more selective about rebuilding than its government and backers see as desirable. Mind you, this…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Fountain Creek–S Circle Dr to S Academy Blvd, El Paso, Colorado, United States. With barking dog. At least…

The mother of a 7-year-old boy accused the Moscow pediatrician, Nadezhda Buyanova, of telling him that his father’s death while fighting in Ukraine was justified.