The United States has formally withdrawn from the Treaty on Open Skies, an agreement that sought to foster trust by allowing the 34 participating nations to observe one another’s militaries through unarmed flyovers. On Sunday, a US Department of State spokesman said that six months had passed since the US in May had notified countries party to the agreement that it was withdrawing. As of Sunday, “The United States is no longer a State Party to the Treaty on Open Skies,” the statement said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on Twitter, said “America is more secure” because of the withdrawal, while adding “Russia remains in non-compliance with its obligations”.

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State employee spotted mysterious metal structure amid red rocks while counting bighorn sheep

The matchup between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Rams on Monday Night Football will make history, but it has nothing to do with the two teams vying for playoff seeding. For the first time ever, the league has assembled an all-Black officiating crew, led by Jerome Boger, a 17-year NFL official.

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The 87-year-old was criticized for not being aggressive enough in Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings.

Physicals professor Thomas Brennan allegedly tweeted racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs, according to Ferris State University.

Four people, including top brass in the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, have been indicted in bribery schemes for donations to Sheriff Laurie Smith's reelection campaign in exchange for highly coveted gun permits.

President Donald Trump is sweating over his campaign lawyers’ dismal and often outlandish efforts to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected electoral victory. Trump is worried that his campaign’s legal team, which is being led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, is composed of “fools that are making him look bad,” NBC News reported Monday.

“I’m aware that what we are doing is pretty stupid because we’re putting mad people at risk. For some reason, we still kept doing it.”

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For nearly two decades, Tony Blinken has served as President-elect Joe Biden’s closest foreign-policy adviser, from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the Obama White House. That Biden would choose him for a high-ranking position in his administration was never in doubt. On Sunday, we learned what that position would be: secretary of state. Blinken is already being greeted by soft profiles focusing on his diplomatic career, his youthful days spent in Europe, and his love of guitar. But for a better sense of how he might actually craft foreign policy, it is essential to look at his recent work as a strategic consultant, a brand of Washington influence-peddling that has gotten little scrutiny. Strategic consultants draw upon their contacts and knowledge of Washington to advise powerful corporations; they do everything but lobby. This summer, I interviewed 60 Washington insiders as I investigated how Blinken’s firm parlays connections into profit. The Biden transition team would like you to overlook Blinken’s corporate career, but it’s crucial to understand the most recent résumé item of America’s next top diplomat.

Leaked documents reveal Amazon's reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on workers and its extensive monitoring of labor unions and social movements.

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Last week, 30 chief executives of America’s top 100 largest companies hastily came together in an online dawn meeting to discuss President Donald Trump’s unsupported claims that the US election had been “stolen” from him. The executives were trying to figure out how to best leverage their personal and organisational influence to ensure a peaceful transition of power, a hallmark of the US political system. Some participants felt that worries of a potential coup were overblown. Others thought they weren’t. Most just wanted an end to election turmoil. Within days, other groups, like the US Chamber of Commerce, were calling for Mr Trump to stop delaying the transition. Business, as always, hates uncertainty. Reading the news, I had conflicting feelings. On the one hand, I was glad that business leaders were thinking about the importance of liberal democracy in America and how to defend it. I also couldn’t help but feel that some of the corporate concern was a bit “too little, too late”. Most big business trade groups had been supportive of the Trump administration when it was getting ready to pass what turned out to be the largest corporate tax cuts since the George W Bush era... Anyone with a pulse knows that in the US today the system is rigged in favour of the wealthy and powerful. One particularly illuminating paper published this month by the Institute for New Economic Thinking quantifies the problem. Building on a persuasive 2014 data set, it shows that when opinion shifts among the wealthiest top 10 per cent of the US population, changes in policy become far more likely. Using AI and machine learning, INET academics Shawn McGuire and Charles Delahunt delved deep into the data. They found that considering the opinions of anyone outside that top 10 per cent was a far less accurate predictor of what happened to government policy. The numbers showed that: “not only do ordinary citizens not have uniquely substantial power over policy decisions; they have little or no independent influence on policy at all”.

Thousands of people in France’s capital and other cities have protested against a new bill by the government that would make it a crime to circulate an image of a police officer’s face. Under the draft law, tabled in Parliament by President Emmanuel Macron’s governing La Republique En Marche party, sharing images of on-duty police “with the aim of harming their physical or psychological integrity” will be punishable with up to a year in prison and a maximum 45,000-euro ($53,360) fine. Other proposed measures include allowing police to use camera-equipped drones and easier access to CCTV footage. Opponents to the draft law say the measure would infringe journalists’ freedom to report, while supporters say police officers and their families need protection from harassment, both online and in person when off duty. On the Trocadero Square in western Paris, rights activists, trade unionists and journalists on Saturday chanted “Everybody wants to film the police!” and “Freedom!”, as police wearing riot gear stood by. In addition to representatives of the media, others included members of the “Yellow Vest” and “Extinction Rebellion” movements, along with individuals waving unions’ flags and those of the Communist and Green parties.

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WWE fans were left emotional last night when The Undertaker brought back his late manager Paul Bearer as a hologram. Paul Bearer, aka William Alvin Moody, passed away in 2013 and is beloved in World Wrestling Entertainment canon. He returned to the ring as The Undertaker closed off his highly decorated 30-year career at WWE's Survivor Series Sunday night.

Drawing alarm at the D.C. Circuit, a lawyer for the United States argued Monday that the government has the power to kill its citizens without judicial oversight when state secrets are involved.

The Tokyo-based start-up ispace Inc. is taking further steps in an attempt to realize its vision of beginning the human colonization of the Moon within just a few years.