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We’ve Got the List of the 5 Best Sig Sauer Handguns

The Sig P210 is the original handgun that started the company’s entire line of P2XX pistols.The Swiss-German company Sig Sauer has been in the arms business for a long time. Swiss SIG (Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft) a company founded in 1853, p…

The biologist in a race against time to save the Great Barrier Reef

Could pioneering research by a young marine biologist from Essex save the embattled Great Barrier Reef?  Guy Kelly meets her to find out. I’ve never considered what the collective noun might be for a group of explorers – a compass? A khaki? A smug? – b…

How North Korea Could Launch a Nuclear War from the Sea

North Korea’s Kim dynasty has long practiced an unsubtle form of political signaling which can be summed up: when things aren’t going its way, launch some missiles.Thus after National Security Advisor John Bolton, who has long advocated forceful “regim…

Irish PM says no-deal Brexit could lead to united Ireland

A no-deal Brexit could lead to a united Ireland as more people in Northern Ireland would “come to question the union” with Britain, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said. Tension around the withdrawal deal centres on the so-called Irish backstop …

Sorry, AOC: Socialism is the Zombie Ideology of Our Time

Socialism is the zombie ideology of our era: It fails everywhere, and yet it keeps rising back from the dead.Despite embarrassing socialist failures in China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and now Venezuela, the true believers march onward. Good intention…

‘Wrong person to mess with’: Woman chases down male flasher

A runner captured on video chasing down a man who exposed himself to her says she turned the tables on him to make him feel afraid. Aia Polansky says she didn’t hesitate to run the man down after he pulled down his pants as she ran along the Charles R…

Russian opposition plans election protest despite arrests

Thousands of Russians say they will take to the streets of Moscow on Saturday to demand fair local elections, despite a police crackdown on the opposition that has seen top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny jailed. The planned rally is the latest in a ser…

Rand Paul Fights Sanctions on Russian Pipeline

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Nord Stream 2/GettyAdvocates for a massive Russian natural gas pipeline project have a powerful, quiet ally in Congress: Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and close friend of President Donald Trump. He has quie…

UK PM to set out domestic agenda amid election talk

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out his domestic agenda in a speech in Manchester on Saturday, after trying to dampen speculation he could call an early election. Johnson will focus on health, education and infrastructure, after EU l…

Nazi Salute in Dresden Shows Cracks With Merkel and Germany’s Establishment

(Bloomberg) — Angela Merkel was expecting a friendly chat with business women when she visited Dresden earlier this month. Instead, far-right protesters jeered the German Chancellor’s arrival.Hundreds of demonstrators from the Patriotic Europeans Agai…

Trump Signs Deal With Guatemala to Limit Asylum Claims in U.S.

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. reached a deal with Guatemala to stop migrants from other parts of Central America from claiming asylum in the U.S., President Donald Trump said, and will instead force them to file a claim in Guatemala, a nation that one refuge…

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