The US gun ownership rate is the highest in the world.

On gun deaths, Americans knew what needed doing half a century ago.

John Boehner’s resignation foreshadows the United States’ turn towards completely dysfunctional politics at home, à la Turkey.

China’s 2007 test of an anti-satellite missile added nearly 3,000 fragments to the number of deadly or destructive items orbiting earth.

Much of the French debris can be traced to an accident in 1996, when a military satellite collided with a spent French rocket.