Israel Ramps Up Forced Evacuation Orders, Strikes on Buildings Across Gaza

The US and South Korea announced they will hold the annual Freedom Shield war games in March.  Freedom Shield is a large-scale military drill held in South Korea each Spring. The war games will run for 10 days in mid-March, with 18,000 troops participating. Army Col. Ryan Donald said the war games will be accompanied […]

A Social Media Ban For Minors Requires Data From Everyone Authored by Luke Nelson and Mike Campbell via The Epoch Times, In debating a social media ban for minors, it appears we face a choice between two perceived harms. One is the reported damage that social media is doing to the mental health of children and adolescents. The other is the normalization of mass age verification systems—most likely involving biometrics—that would apply to everyone, not just minors. This carries real risks of privacy invasion, data breaches, and future mission creep. There is little...

French Counterterror Police Arrest 'Ultra-Left' Activist Over Limoges City Hall Fire French police on Tuesday arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of taking part in the October 17 arson of Limoges city hall, three days after the riots that gutted the 1883 building. The elite RAID unit's Bordeaux branch took him at 6:15 a.m. in a small, isolated house at Val d'Issoire, in the Haute-Vienne department, according to the Limoges prosecutor's office. The prosecutor called him a "person suspected in the fire." He is presumed innocent and has not been charged. The...