Checkpoint

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WASHINGTON, DC -- The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the final remaining bilateral agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, closing a chapter that began in the Cold War and survived its end. With no successor treaty in place, the world’s two largest nuclear…

As the threat of nuclear conflict loomed during the Cold War, the U.S. Army hatched a top secret plan to conceal hundreds of missile launchers on rail lines hidden beneath the thick ice sheets of Greenland. In case of a Soviet attack, nukes dispersed in thousands of miles of cut-and-cover…

For more than two decades, Nollywood has carried a story that has never fully disappeared, the story that Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Genevieve Nnaji were locked in a cold war. The kind of “beef” people whisper about in comment sections. The kind of rivalry that gets dressed up as industry lore…

1 of 2 | A bereaved family member places a name tag on the remains of a family member who was killed during the Jeju Massacre. Photo courtesy of Jeju Provincial Office JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Seven sets of remains belonging to victims of an early…

Key takeaways New START, a 15-year-old nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia, is about to expire. It’s the last remaining treaty of its kind between the worlds’ two main nuclear powers. US-Russia tensions, particularly over the war in Ukraine, have made it difficult to negotiate a…

D eep in the forests of Algonquin Provincial Park, a few hours north of Toronto, sits a metal monster. Like the iron giant of British poet Ted Hughes’s fable, it, too, has come back to life, reassembled. Hughes’s creation saves the planet. What’s this one’s mission? Our iron giant is…

In the latest NDB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and US intelligence analyst, retired Colonel Chris Wyatt talk about former president Jacob Zuma's name popping up in the Epstein Files; the mysterious death of Goolam whose posts on X had made him the target of many a politician; African National Congress…

The U.S. government revealed details of a secret satellite program it used to spy on the Soviet Union at the height of geopolitical tension between the two nations. The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) recently declassified its JUMPSEAT spy satellite, eight of which launched to a highly elliptical orbit from 1971…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 30, 2026 10:39 am 1 min read Environment Canada warns of dangerous wind chills across southern Ontario, with temperatures feeling as cold as -40 C in some areas and frostbite possible within minutes. Doug Ives/ The Canadian Press Environment Canada is warning people…