unredacted US diplomatic cables came into the public domain following the publication of a passcode in a book by Guardian journalists in February 2011 and were published by Cryptome.

Peru's Congress voted against removing President Martín Vizcarra in an impeachment trial on Friday, quelling political tensions in the copper giant in the midst of an economic recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday indicted two Chinese nationals over their role in what the agency called a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted defense contractors, COVID researchers and hundreds of other victims worldwide.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo challenge president’s 25-year rule

Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era.

A former Apple software engineer who worked on the iPod claims that the smartphone giant made a “top secret” music player for the US government. David Shayer, who worked for the company for 18 years, wrote that in 2005 the director of iPod Software told him of a “special assignment” with “two engineers from the US Department of Energy [to] build a special iPod.”

The head of security at TikTok's Beijing-based parent company ByteDance has said it's impossible for the Chinese government to get their hands on user data from the app — contrary to the Trump administration's assertions.

Malaysia is a country that I know well, and whose political system I have studied closely for 15 years. It is also not a democracy. Malaysia has a multiparty parliamentary system of government, but the same coalition of parties has been in power for six decades, and has never lost a general election.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have agreed on a plan to reopen the federal government after two weeks of shutdown.

Obama's Saturday remarks began with the aftermath of the 16-day crisis, vowing that "there were no winners in this" government shutdown. He then moved forward to future priorities, reiterating three key plans from his Thursday speech: crafting a balanced budget, fixing a broken immigration system, and passing a farm bill.

Which politician do you hate? Do you think President Barack Obama wants to destroy America? Or do you believe former President George W. Bush is the one who sent the country into the abyss? What about Ted Cruz, Nancy Pelosi or John Boehner - which one of them do you think is the devil incarnate?

The new Obamacare website Healthcare.gov has had its fair share of problems over the past weeks, and the trouble continues. As it turns out, the Government website uses the open source software DataTables, which is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library.

Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Barack Obama's signature legislation.

Jerky pet treats have been linked to an unknown illness in 3,600 dogs and 10 cats in the U.S.

Corey Thuen was a developer at the Idaho National Laboratory who helped to develop a network-visualization tool called Sophia. Then Battelle Energy, the company that manages the INL, rejected the notion of open-sourcing Sophia, and instead licensed it for commercial use to a company called NexDefense.

A few weeks ago Glenn Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda, was detained at London Heathrow airport under schedule 7 of the UK’s 2000 Terrorism Act.

In the past few years, Social Security paid $133 million to beneficiaries who were deceased. The federal employee retirement system paid more than $400 million to retirees who had passed away. And an aid program spent $3.9 million in federal money to pay heating and air-conditioning bills for more than 11,000 of the dead.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has quietly approved a plan to step up both public and internal government oversight of the use of armed drones to kill suspected militants overseas,

Laurie Penny: Jeremy Hammond is just the the latest to be targeted in a global witchhunt against the brightest minds of a generation