Pentagon asks for major budget increase amid threats from Russia, China and North Korea
Washington (CNN)Citing increasing threats from China and Russia, the Pentagon is asking for a major boost in military spending for 2019, requesting Congress approve a budget of $686 billion -- one of the largest in US history.
Trump budget would privatize US space station operations
The Trump administration wants to let the private sector run U.S. operations on the International Space Station. Under the administration's budget proposal, released Monday, NASA would stop paying for the space station by 2025.
Funding al-Shabaab: How aid money ends up in terror group's hands
Baidoa, Somalia (CNN)The murderous al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab is making millions of dollars each year by exploiting foreign aid money sent to Somalia by the very western nations who are trying to eliminate the terror group
Obama admin discussed how much to share about Russia with incoming Trump team
(CNN)President Barack Obama met in January 2017 with then-FBI Director James Comey and other top national security officials to discuss sharing information related to Russia with the incoming Trump administration
Satellite observations show sea levels rising, and climate change is accelerating it
(CNN)Sea level rise is happening now, and the rate at which it is rising is increasing every year, according to a study released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
North Korea's Olympics delegation leaves thorny questions behind
(CNN)North Korea's delegation to the Winter Olympics returned to Pyongyang on Sunday, ending a three-day visit that amounted to a remarkable diplomatic breakthrough for the South Korean government but left big questions about whether it could lead to a solution to the decades-long military standoff between the two nations.
Cape Town rejoices as rain falls on drought-striken city
(CNN)When it finally came, restaurant diners rushed outside mid-meal to see the deluge for themselves. Others grabbed buckets to collect precious water from gutters to be used for washing clothes.
US Navy investigating Japan-based sailors for drug use, sales
(CNN)A number of US Navy sailors based in Japan are being investigated for alleged use and distribution of drugs, a spokesman for the US Seventh Fleet confirmed to CNN.
Chinese stealth fighters are combat-ready, Beijing says
(CNN)China says its newest stealth fighter is combat-ready.Posts on both the website of the People's Liberation Army and the official Xinhua news agency said the J-20 fourth-generation fighter had been armed and officially commissioned into China's air force.
A Palestinian high school threatened by Trump funding cuts
Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)At Beirut's Galilee Secondary School, around 50 Palestinian teenagers are crammed into a single classroom in a haphazard arrangement of desks. The paint comes off walls scrawled with notes from generations of kids who studied here
