A major influx of Syrian refugees has begun to hit US shores. President Obama wants to radically increase the numbers coming in over the next year. Refugees must be calculated in as part of the costs of an interventionist foreign policy. But how high are these costs?

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations on government mass surveillance have apparently scared a significant number of people away from searching for terrorism-related information on Wikipedia, as a new study shows readers are afraid of being investigated. To give his take, RT America’s Simone Del Rosario is joined by legal and media analyst Lionel of LionelMedia.

Sputnik reports, The US administration can confirm that a naval officer has been arrested on espionage charges, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a briefing on Monday.

RT reports North Korea is preparing for its fifth nuclear test, the South’s intelligence services have said, as cited by Yonhap agency. The news come hours after Pyongyang claimed it had successfully put an earth observation satellite into orbit. Earlier the agency reported that the South Korean military found suspected fragments of the North’s rocket.