The first witness called by Hunter Biden's defense attorneys was openly hostile to them, giving terse answers and saying his interaction with them was "a mess."
Rep. Byron Donalds slammed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries again Friday for claiming the Florida Republican made remarks that Blacks in the U.S. were better off during the days of Jim Crow.
Tensions between Russia and the United States are growing amid Vladimir Putin’s fury over Western support for Ukraine and President Joe Biden’s distinctly hesitant response to Russian escalations. Signaling a growing interest in leveraging its military power to foster American fears of escalation in advance of the U.S. elections, Russian warships are about to make […]
After a nearly decade-long hiatus from the Mad Max franchise and filmmaking more broadly, George Miller, at a staggering 79 years old, returns with youthful vigor to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia to tell the origin story of its heroine. Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a Shakespearean revenge story, suffused with many of the same stunts that […]
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is the State Department‘s largest and most expensive overseas facility. Size, however, is not proportional to effectiveness. The embassy campus is sprawling and fortified, but it is more a prison than an effective representation. For an American diplomat to leave the embassy can require providing the regional security officer 48 hours advance notice, […]
The White House said Friday that Russia's offensive in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region has stalled and is unlikely to advance any further. John Kirby, the White House national security spokesperson, said the arrival of U.S. weapons has helped change the trajectory of the battle around Kharkiv, which Russian forces mounted a major attack on around...
The judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money criminal case informed the parties Friday that a person on Facebook claimed to have advance knowledge of the verdict in the case. Judge Juan Merchan wrote Trump’s attorneys and the Manhattan district attorney’s office that on May 29 – the day 12 New Yorkers began deliberating Trump’s...
The State Department congratulated the U.S. cricket team for their upset victory Thursday against a “formidable” Pakistani team at the Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup. The U.S. men’s national cricket team beat Pakistan, a powerhouse in the sport, on Thursday in a tiebreaker. They kept Pakistan to 13-1 to secure their second victory in the...
President Biden’s reelection campaign is placing ads to run during Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever WNBA game against the Washington Mystics Friday night. The ad buy during the game is part of the campaign’s June media blitz, the campaign told The Hill. The campaign did not say which ads and how many will run. Clark has...