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Taking a break from politics, economics and military conflicts for a moment; here’s a discovery that recently surfaced – a map depicting Antarctica. Nothing special, except that the map was believed to have been created in the early 16th century, some 200 years before Captain James officially discovered the continent. …

In late March U.S. intelligence sources announced that terrorist organizations have found a novel and deadly way to smuggle explosives onto airplanes utilizing everyday laptops. Though officials declined to provide additional details, some believe that the intelligence highlighting the new threat was the result of President Trump’s raid on an Al …

York Regional Police in Aurora, Canada has announced that 104 men have been arrested in a child sex sting named Project Raphael that lasted four years. CBC reports: Det.-Sgt. Thai Truong, spokesperson for York Regional Police, said undercover officers put ads online to find men looking for escorts. The sting …

How does a man live with himself doing such things?  Ross Kemp, a British investigative journalist, interviewed a self-professed child trafficker from India in 2013.  If confessing to child trafficking were not enough, the man in the interview claims to have killed somewhere between 4-500 little girls. The man in the …

As tensions heat up with North Korea and the potential for a nuclear exchange becomes all the more real, residents of Japan are panic buying everything from nuclear shelters to air purifiers in preparation: Sales of nuclear shelters and radiation-blocking air purifiers have surged in Japan in recent weeks as …

The U.S. military killed Taliban “shadow governor” Quari Tayib in an airstrike, further destabilizing the group’s activities in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced in a press release Saturday. The airstrike hit the Archi district of Kunduz province April 17 and killed Tayib, a high-level Taliban operative, whom the U.S. has been trying …

The Taliban slaughtered at least 160 Afghan troops Friday in what appears to be the worst defeat for the Afghan army in the entire war since 2001. As many as 10 Taliban fighters launched an attack against an Afghan military base using two army vehicles in the Balkh province, and while initial …

We can all pretend like there is nothing going on around the Korean Peninsula and hope that cooler heads will prevail, but if history is any guide, when the militaries of multiple nations begin to mass troops at borders, it takes only a single, often seemingly inconsequential, catalyst to plunge …

Ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting, National Front leader Marine Le Pen said she wanted to stop “a mad, uncontrolled situation,” which has been immigration in her country. Le Pen’s opponents are Emmanuel Macron, with whom she is running neck and neck, Francois Fillon and Jean-Luc Melenchon, as well …

It has been called “the long extinction.”  Our planet is in the process of dying, and as you will see below, this process of death and destruction appears to be accelerating.  According to a report that was put out by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, …