WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 21, 2016 - To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway: How did you lose your Republic? Two ways, gradually and suddenly. The Romans experienced this when their Republic was extinguished by Empire.

The erosion of the Republic was gradual: slowly but surely, the lower classes' representation in governance was curtailed; the Oligarchy of the wealthy and powerful cemented their privileges at the expense of the many; Oligarchs rose above the laws that were supposed to apply to all, and executive power was consolidated in top administrators and the wealthy at the expense of the Senate.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (PNN) - March 21, 2016 - Rumors are swirling about a secretive Chinese space station built deep in Argentina’s Patagonia region.

In 2012, leaders in Beijing and Buenos Aires inked a deal to build the so-called “Deep Space Station,” and the facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2016.

BRASILIA, Brazil (PNN) - March 17, 2016 - Protests have erupted in Brazil's capital after a recorded phone call between President Dilma Rousseff and her once-popular predecessor was released, suggesting that she appointed him to her Cabinet to spare him from arrest for corruption.

NEW YORK (PNN) - March 17, 2016 - Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that his supporters could riot at the Republican convention in Cleveland if he is not “automatically” made the Party’s nominee if he arrives with the most votes but fails to secure a majority of convention delegates.

Speaking to Chris Cuomo on CNN, Trump said that he hoped to win the nomination outright before the convention in July, but said that if he goes to Cleveland with more delegates than any of his rivals and the nomination goes to anyone else, “I think you’d have riots.”

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 16, 2016 - Illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama will announce his supreme court nominee on Wednesday morning, setting the stage for a showdown with the Republican-controlled Senate.

A vacancy opened on the bench of the nation’s highest court when conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died on February 13.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - March 15, 2016 - Russian President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war.

VATICAN CITY (PNN) - March 14, 2016 - A controversial Vatican trial of journalists and alleged whistleblowers resumes Monday, in the latest installment of an image-bruising legal saga.

The spicy courtroom drama has already served up claims of sexually charged scheming, blackmail, and computer hacking behind the fortified walls of the secretive city-state.