China’s H-6K strategic bombers can target US military facilities and those of its allies in the Western Pacific. China’s new nuclear bomber can launch strategic missile attacks against US military facilities and those of its allies in the Western Pacific, according to Chinese state media. H-6K strategic bombers have already been deployed with the 8th and 10th air divisions of the People’s... 

While US lawmakers spar over extending unemployment benefits, out-of-work Americans could wake up on December 28 to find themselves unable to afford life’s basic necessities. Barring last-minute action by Congress, the long-term unemployment insurance program will expire on Saturday, leaving 1.3 million Americans to fend for themselves as they continue to look for jobs in an economy that’s still... 

The US Air Force is testing a large, top secret drone at Area 51, which outdoes the currently used unmanned aircrafts in terms of stealth and aerodynamic efficiency, US media report. The new superior drone is scheduled to enter production and may be operational for the US Air Force as early as 2015, an exclusive report by Aviation Week magazine said. According to unnamed defense and intelligence officials,... 

Egypt military-installed government declares the Muslim Brotherhood movement a “terrorist” group banning all its activities amid raging tensions in the North African country. Egypt interim government officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group on Wednesday, saying that its findings show the movement launched a bomb attack, killing 16 people and leaving some 140 wounded,... 

Reason TV’s Kennedy throws lumps of coal at the most un-libertarian Christmas movies and specials of all time, a list that includes A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Memory, Love Actually, White Christmas, and Miracle on 34th Street[*]. On the flip side, she explains why Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, It’s a Wonderfu Life, and The Sound of Music are her favorite fare when snuggling up to... 

Israeli protesters hold posters of Jonathan Pollard who was convicted for spying on the US. The White House has said that there is “no change” in its position regarding Jonathan Pollard, a former American intelligence analyst who has been imprisoned for nearly three decades over spying for Israel. “There’s no change in our position on Pollard,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin... 

Hundreds of thousands of people could soon get off the transplant waiting list as French doctors are celebrating the installation of a revolutionary artificial heart into a 75-year-old patient, paving the way for long-lasting robotic substitutes. The heart, which spent 25 years in the making and was produced by the French company Carmat, is somewhat of a technological marvel. The key differences with... 

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered his ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ via a British TV channel. The whistleblower called for an end to mass spying by governments, stating that a child born today will have “no conception of privacy.” Snowden’s address aired by the UK’s Channel 4 comes as an alternative to the Queen’s traditional Christmas speech, which is shown by... 

Russia has filed its first complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), accusing the European Union of violating global free trade measures, an official statement reads. The procedure has been sent to the EU representative at the WTO on Monday, the economy ministry said on Tuesday, marking its first complaint since Russia joined the global trade body in August 2012. The complaint has to do... 

Fired: Dreonna Breton, pictured, was fired after she refused a mandatory flu shot to protect her unborn baby A pregnant nurse in Pennsylvania has been fired after she refused a mandatory flu shot to protect her unborn baby. Dreonna Breton, 29, learned she was pregnant with her second child in October, a month before all staff at her Lancaster employer, Horizon Healthcare Services, were required to... 

The house is submerged by floodwater in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on December 23, 2013. Brazilian authorities say floods and mudslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least 20 people and forced 40,000 others from their homes in southeastern parts of the country. The civil defense department of the Minas Gerais state said on its Monday website that 14 people were killed in... 

Obama’s Director for National Intelligence, James Clapper, has declassified new documents that reveal how the NSA was first given the green light to start collecting bulk communication data in the hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorists after 9/11. President Barack Obama’s administration has for the first time publicly confirmed “the existence of collection activities authorized by President George... 

American scientists have developed a robotic muscle 1,000 times more powerful than a human’s – using a revolutionary material that fluidly changes its properties. The invention gives vanadium dioxide amazing, superhero-style powers. Its most striking property is to change shape and structure whenever differing amounts of heat are applied to it. This made it perfectly suited for creating a torsional... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko (R) and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev walk before a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the Kremlin in Moscow, December 24, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin says the new post-Soviet alliance with Belarus and Kazakhstan is set to launch in 2015, with hopes that Ukraine will join the union. The... 

What is being done to Phil Robertson shows just how far America has fallen. The thought police are waging an all-out campaign to take down one of the biggest names in the United States, and if they are successful none of us will ever be safe again. We are becoming a nation that is governed by bullying, intimidation and unwritten speech codes, and if you happen to say the “wrong thing” you could...