Reuters

China releases policy paper on national security in Hong Kong after Jimmy Lai sentencing

HONG KONG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - China on Tuesday released a policy white paper on Hong Kong's practice of safeguarding national security to ensure stability in a volatile world, emphasising Beijing has ...
MarketWatch

The Social Security data breach is a national-security disaster that could hurt Americans for the rest of their lives: whistleblower

Americans’ personal data — including names, Social Security numbers and addresses — are in the middle of a national-security disaster and should be investigated by Congress, says one Social Security ...
The Hill

Beware of the biggest threat to US national Security: Trump

President Trump is the most serious threat to America’s national security. No U.S. president or foreign adversary has done so much to weaken our ability to anticipate, prevent and respond to attacks ...
Fox News

AI raises the stakes for national security. Here’s how to get it right

Regulating advanced AI isn’t a game of checkers. It’s a game of chess. Every move matters. You have to think several steps ahead. And if you focus only on the next play — or worse, react after the ...
AOL

America’s national debt borrowing binge means interest payments will rocket to $2 trillion a year by 2036, CBO says

The White House of 2036 will have a mammoth task on its hands: It will need to rustle up more than $2 trillion a year to pay the interest on its national debt burden, approximately 5% of the nation’s ...
Reuters

Hong Kong activist's father convicted under national security over insurance policy

HONG KONG, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court found the father of a wanted activist guilty of a national security violation on Wednesday after he tried to end her insurance policy and withdraw the ...
JD Supra

Protecting the National Security and Welfare of the United States and its Citizens from Criminal Actors and Other Public Safety Threats (Trump EO Tracker)

Directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with expanded access to criminal history record information and authorizes DHS to share felony conviction ...
National Geographic news

Here’s how even occasional binge drinking can have big health consequences

Americans are drinking less than they have in decades. But a new study on mice shows even one bottomless brunch may shrink the small intestine’s nutrient-absorbing surface and spark inflammation that ...
AOL

Social Security’s trust fund is nearing insolvency, and the borrowing binge that may follow will rip through debt markets, economist warns

The latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show that the Social Security trust will run out of money by fiscal year 2032, which starts in October 2031. That means anyone who wins a ...
CNN

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison after landmark national security trial

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling ...
National Review

A Congressman’s Five Questions for Munich

Congress Had Plenty of Opportunities to Stop the Iran Strikes America Should Still Rely on the Stealth Bomber The Age of Missile Defense This week’s Munich Security Conference comes at a consequential ...