Outside Caracas, in the seaside city of La Guaira, Venezuelans on Monday descended on a statue of Hugo Chavez, the populist leader whose United Socialist Party of Venezuela has ruled since 2007. All that remained when they were done were chunks of concrete and some twisted rebar at the foot of a pedestal, ABC News […]
Expanding security challenges abroad and intensifying wildfires at home demand that the United States craft a more sustainable strategy that will safeguard both military readiness and forests.
Intel plans to cut 15,000 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce, CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a note to employees Thursday. The mass layoffs come amid an effort to deliver $10 billion in cost savings in 2025, after the chipmaker posted “disappointing” second quarter results. “This is painful news for me to share,”...
While the Secret Service reels over the security lapses that contributed to the assassination attempt at a Trump rally on July 13, most Americans have forgotten the previous attempt to assassinate a president. And no, it wasn’t Ronald Reagan. It was Bill Clinton. Looking back on that case, which I participated in as the law...
When the American Bar Association’s bipartisan task force for American democracy launches on Thursday, it will call on America’s lawyers to take up the “clarion call” to defend the U.S. constitutional democracy against the “serious threat” of “rising authoritarianism.” “Our country and democracy face a wide variety of serious threats, including that of rising authoritarianism,”...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Jewish Democrat, is being targeted by some progressives, despite his ability to win over Democrats in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in an interview with Punchbowl News compared President Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reforms to the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. “That’s what some people were trying to do Jan. 6 — to break the system of handing an administration from one to the next,” McConnell said...
The question I have now for Netanyahu is, can you, Mr. Prime Minister, be brave and bold enough to sign the deal that is on the table today and bring our hostages home now?
The Senate Appropriations Committee passed a defense bill on Thursday that added $21 billion to the budget, heeding requests to invest more in national security but pushing back against a spending cap that had been agreed to by House Republicans and the Biden administration last year. The Senate defense bill cleared this week includes $852.2...
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was not sure “where [Trump] was going” in his interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, but by the end of former President Trump’s interview, he believed the combative interview highlighted “great things” about the former president. “Well, at first, I don't know where you're going, but when you sit and look...