ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation As Air Leak Worsens

Group To Sue New York Over Union-Backed "Hit-Job" Law Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, A national worker-rights group plans to go to federal court Monday to block a New York law it says was written to silence outreach to public employees about their right to leave their unions. The group argues the new law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech because it allows state government officials to shut down speech before a single word is conveyed. The Freedom Foundation is set to file its motion in U.S. District Court in...

Israeli incursions into southwest Syria continued today, with some reports of incursions into the Quneitra Governorate but substantially more reported in and around western Daraa, where multiple detentions were reported. A young man who was reported captured in Quneitra near the border with the occupied Golan Heights on Monday. After more than 24 hours in […]

"Buffers Running Down Quickly": HSBC Warns Next Global Food Shock Brewing Warnings on Wall Street about a confluence of stressors building deep within global agricultural supply chains are growing louder by the week, raising the risk of a food crisis next year. JPMorgan analysts warned last week that the next global food crisis "won't be short-lived." HSBC analysts sounded a similar alarm, pointing to tightening grain supplies, El Niño, disruptions at maritime chokepoints, and a supply "squeeze" sending grain prices soaring. HSBC economist Jamie Culling, who covers Australia, New Zealand, and global commodities,...