Peter Weber, Senior Editor – THE WEEK You may not remember who former President Donald Trump picked to lead the World Bank when its director unexpectedly stepped down in January 2019 —... Read more

business aid scheme and faked his own death to evade authorities has been sentenced to 56 months in prison. David Staveley falsely claimed to co-own four large businesses in need of nearly $... Read more

Sierra Leone president on Friday signed a bill abolishing the death penalty, declaring the West African country had “exorcised horrors of a cruel past” after a long campaign to end capital p... Read more

Joel Gehrke – Washington Examiner Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned China to stop flying warplanes toward Taiwan, citing the risk of an accidental conflict that could bring glob... Read more

Nine months since leaving the Oval Office, former President Donald Trump remains a popular figure among Republicans, a new poll has found. About two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-lean... Read more

THE WEEK Staff Chinese President Xi Jinping continues to upend China’s “decades-long evolution toward Western-style capitalism,” said Lingling Wei at The Wall Street J... Read more

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea Tuesday at nearly the same moment its U.N. diplomat was decrying the U.S.’s “hostile policy” against it,... Read more

Donald Trump could be charged with crimes over Georgia election interference, a new report says. The report says Trump and his allies pressured Georgia officials to overturn his loss in the... Read more

Tim O’Donnell, Contributing Writer – THE WEEK For a long time, analysts chalked Chinese President Xi Jinping’s homages to Mao Zedong to “political stagecraft,”... Read more

Jon Fingas – Engadget Countries have assassinated people with drones, but those attacks now appear to include robotic weapons on the ground. The New York Times sources... Read more