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The US Defense Department's special-operations forces are well known for their accomplishments on battlefields overseas. But to meet security needs at home, numerous US government agencies and departments have set up specially trained units that have some unique missions. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The Defense Department isn't…

All North Korea storiesHow new tech raises the risk of nuclear warIllustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some experts believe the risk of the use of a nuclear weapon is as high now as it has been since the Cuban missile crisis.The big picture: Nuclear war remains the…

Nobody was expecting Donald Trump to take his election loss gracefully, but scoping out Iranian nuclear facilities for military action is probably a more extreme reaction than most of us anticipated.Citing four current and former US officials, The New York Times (NYT) reports that the outgoing president last week asked several top…

US President Donald Trump asked for options on attacking Iranian nuclear sites last week, according to an official, before ultimately deciding against it. Mr Trump, who has yet refused to concede that he lost the presidential election, apparently made the request during an Oval Office meeting last week, which included…

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida’s second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials have confirmed.Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down on the…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The crew of the Bristol Leader was laying out its long cod-catching line well within U.S. fishing territory in the Bering Sea when a voice crackled over the VHF radio and began issuing commands: The ship was in danger, it said, and needed to move.The warnings, coming…

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I never expected how researching the US government’s doomsday plans would thoroughly prepare me for the threat of Donald Trump. I’d spent the five years before Trump’s election researching and writing what I saw as a fun—even lighthearted—history of the Cold War and the nation’s secret plans for Armageddon. Trump’s…

Donald Trump may be the last loser to win through the electoral college. Two of the last three presidencies, Trump's included, have gone to the candidate who lost the popular vote. In 2000, the Supreme Court halted the Florida recount, handing the election to George W. Bush. It was later…

Elderly were denied intensive care during Covid peak Over-80s were denied intensive care treatment at the peak of the Covid-19 crisis, according to The Sunday Times. The paper says new guidelines were also used to prevent many elderly coronavirus patients from receiving ventilation. Hospitals in Manchester, Liverpool, London, the Midlands…