Skip to content
Search

Latest Stories

News

The Graphic Truth: Piling sanctions on Russia

Piling sanctions on Russia | Russian sanctions by type and country (infographic)
Make us preferred on Google

Western powers have tightened the screws on the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine. But so far sanctions have done little to sway Moscow. Still, the economic pain now inflicted on Russia is far more intense and widespread than what the US and its allies are doing to other regimes hostile to them. Here's a snapshot of current economic sanctions against Russia.

More For You

Political campaigning goes vertical
Political campaigns are turning 90 degrees. As voters spend more time scrolling through social media on their phones, politicians are following them. Long reliant on horizontal TV ads, candidates are increasingly embracing short, vertical videos to grab voters' attention and get their message out. [...]
Mississippi blue(s)
Will Fitzpatrick
The last time the Deep South state started a Black senator was in 1875, during “Reconstruction,” a roughly twenty-year period when the US federal government sought to support the integration and equality of Southern Black people after the Civil War. Mississippi actually sent two Black men to the Senate during that time: Hiram Revels and Blanche [...]
U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang delivers a speech at an event on artificial intelligence in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024.

U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang delivers a speech at an event on artificial intelligence in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024.

Kyodo via Reuters Connect
Jensen Huang resigns as CEO of NvidiaThe co-founder of the chipmaking colossus resigned on Thursday, just days after admitting to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Huang’s exit sends shockwaves through the tech industry and the wider geopolitics attached to it. He was, personally, the force that made Nvidia a dominant player in AI, both as [...]
Court overturns Trinidad and Tobago's anti-gay laws
Natalie Johnson
That list got shorter on Tuesday after a UK court overturned laws criminalizing homosexuality in Trinidad and Tobago, ending an 11-year-long legal battle. The Caribbean is home to several Commonwealth countries – mostly former British colonies that still recognize the British monarch as their head of state – that still have laws around [...]