It is as if Trump and his inner circle internalized the caricature of the Bush administration and the Iraq War crafted and promulgated by the American left.
Iran's leadership is facing an existential challenge this month, experts said Wednesday, as widespread protests expanded this week across most of Iran's provinces, spurred on by a severe economic downturn in recent months.
President Trump blasted the five Republican senators who voted Thursday to advance a war powers resolution that would prevent him from taking further military action against Venezuela without congressional approval.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz urged his state's residents to tone it down as violent protests have erupted in the wake of Wednesday's ICE-involved shooting, saying that sort of chaos could be used by President Trump to justify more vigorous federal intervention.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is giving New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani an early boost as he tries to make good on one of his boldest promises: expanding free health care services for children across the city.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio believes it is too early to discuss holding elections in Venezuela. “All of that, I think, is premature at this point. There’s a lot of work to be done here,” Rubio told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” After U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced overnight that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would allow airlines to resume flights in the Caribbean after flights were cancelled over U.S. strikes in Venezuela Saturday. "The original restrictions around the Caribbean airspace are expiring at 12:00am ET and flights can resume," Duffy wrote on the social media platform X...
North Korea on Sunday fired a number of ballistic missiles to its east prior to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung heading to China, the South Korean military said, according to The Associated Press. Per the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military identified multiple launches of ballistic missiles in the capital region of...
President Trump's operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday drew a sharp response in the U.S. and abroad, from outright praise to fury, with some expressing gladness over the end of a dictator's regime tempered by concern over how it was handled. The massive covert operation, in the works since late summer, followed...
Surprise U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the capture of that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, are putting the crescendo on a combative first year at the Pentagon for Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth, who with President Trump rechristened the Department of Defense as the Department of War, has sought to restore a “warrior ethos” to the military,...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is escalating the Trump administration's attacks on Minnesota by freezing all federal funding to the state's childcare providers. Day care operators and advocates have few answers about how the sudden stoppage will impact their communities. They said the restriction is putting providers at risk of closure and...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is now on U.S. soil after the Trump administration captured and removed him from power. Late on Saturday, Maduro reportedly arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., after being flown into the city by helicopter, senior law enforcement officials told Jackie Koppell and Andrew Fischer Espitallier of NewsNation, The...
The Trump administration's move to capture and remove from power Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday has sparked a political crisis in the South American country after more than a decade under the strongman's rule. Maduro, whom the U.S. government views as an illegitimate leader, and his wife were taken to New York to face...
