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Illustration: Jim Cooke (Gizmodo)Hate forums and social media platforms have likely made it easier for atomized white supremacists and neo-Nazis to find like-minded individuals, laying the base for a resurgence in far-right organizing and violence. But that’s come with a price: a lengthy online trail that makes it difficult to…

Joe Biden’s campaign bounced back after he won most of the 14 states that voted on Super Tuesday. Barack Obama’s vice-president racked up big victories in southern states, where black voters are a large part of the Democratic electorate. Mr Biden earlier scored a huge win in the South Carolina…

When future historians analyze U.S. security policies during the early decades of the 21st century, they may be hard-pressed to explain what policymakers were thinking. Between 2001 and 2019, Washington spent a trillion dollars defending Afghanistan from the Taliban. During the same period it spent 5% of that amount, $50…

North Korea's state media on Tuesday released photos of the country's leader, Kim Jong Un watching a drill by the army's long-range artillery sub-unit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised an earlier live-fire rocket artillery exercise to confirm his military’s combat readiness and “further kindle the flames of training…

VIENNA/PARIS (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog policing Iran’s nuclear deal with major powers plans to issue an imminent rebuke to Tehran for failing to provide access to one or more sites that are of interest to it, several diplomats who follow the agency said on Monday. An Iranian flag…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Monday reiterated a call for dialogue in response to North Korea’s latest missile launch and said all sides involved in efforts to rid the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons should reconcile conflicts through discussion. Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a daily…

South Korea has reported the North fired two projectiles which flew at a height of 35 kilometres North Korea has fired two unidentified projectiles, South Korea's military said, weeks after Pyongyang declared its moratorium on long-range missile tests over. The two devices were fired on Monday eastwards over the sea from…

On July 19, 1957 five Air Force officers assembled in the open desert basin of the Yucca Flats of Nevada and glanced with nervous smiles up at a jet fighter flying high overhead.  They were accompanied by a civilian defense photographer wearing a baseball hat named George Yoshitake. The object…

Senior White House official says US wants China at the table in any talks with Russia aimed at controlling nuclear weapons Donald Trump has told Moscow that the US is prepared to holding a summit with other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in hopes of pushing for three-way arms control…

Q&ABy Thomas LinMarch 26, 2014A conversation with the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson on quantum electrodynamics, climate change and his latest pet project.Freeman Dyson — the world-renowned mathematical physicist who helped found quantum electrodynamics with the bongo-playing, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and others, devised numerous mathematical techniques, led the team…