1968—Sirhan Sirhan assassinates Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy just after midnight during the celebration of Kennedy’s victory in the California primary. Sirhan’s death sentence for...
A foreign surveillance law could expire next Friday as Democrats block a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the key spy authority over their concerns about President Trump's pick to temporarily lead the U.S. intelligence community.
The Senate early Friday passed a $70 billion package to fund immigration enforcement agencies through the remainder of President Trump's term, after pulling an all-nighter.
Iranian Americans despise the Islamic Republic more than almost any group on earth. They fled it. They lost family to it. They protest against it every weekend in cities across America. They showed up to CPAC in numbers I have never seen at any political event, because Reza Pahlavi, the man who represents everything the […]
From May to July 1776, delegates from 13 disparate colonies sat in a stuffy room in Philadelphia, windows sealed against eavesdroppers, sweating through coarse wool coats in the summer heat. They disagreed about nearly everything. Thomas Jefferson’s elegant and inspired draft was sliced by a quarter in debate. Delegates from the South threatened to walk […]
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped in Armenia on May 26 (on his way back from an official visit to India) to meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan to sign the “Charter on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Republic of Armenia and the United States.” Rubio’s visit — the first by a U.S. […]
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was created in March 1978 by Security Council Resolutions 425 and 426 after Israel’s Operation Litani. Its mandate required confirming Israeli withdrawal, restoring peace and security, and helping Beirut reassert sovereignty in the south. What began 47 years ago as a temporary buffer has mutated into an institutional […]
Emergency exits are not built after smoke fills a building. They are built while the hallways are still clear, the doors remain open, and the choice to leave is still a matter of free will — not panic. That lesson has stayed with me throughout my life. And today, watching the United States from the […]
