It was piracy on the high seas that drove the infant United States into its first foreign war. In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with the Barbary States, which had been kidnapping American sailors. The U.S., they said, was a new nation, and had done the people of North Africa no wrong. The Tripolitanian representative, Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, told them in reply: “It is written in the Koran that all nations which have not acknowledged the Prophet are sinners, whom it is the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave.”
Al Gore offered a grim outlook Sunday for world migration patterns, predicting that migrants "crossing international borders in larger numbers" might soon be the result of climate change.
The Supreme Court's refusal to fast-track a hearing on Donald Trump's immunity claims has set up a legal battle that could drag on for months, a prominent former federal prosecutor warned Sunday.
"Operation Christmas Drop is the Department of Defense's longest-running humanitarian airlift operation. The tradition began during the Christmas season in 1952 when a B-29 Superfortress aircrew saw islanders waving at them from the island of Kapingamarangi, 3,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. In the spirit of Christmas the aircrew dropped a bundle of supplies attached to a parachute to the islanders below, giving the operation its name. Today, air drop operations include more than 50 islands throughout the Pacific," notes a written report from Andersen Air Force B ase on Guam.
In one of the war's deadliest strikes, at least 68 people were killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza on Christmas Eve, health officials said Sunday. Meanwhile, the number of Israeli soldiers killed in combat over the weekend rose to 15, according to The Associated Press. The strike occurred on the Maghazi refugee camp...
Former President Trump, the front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, released a new television ad Sunday afternoon that is set to air in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In the one-minute ad spot, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders described Trump’s surprise Christmas visit in 2018 to Iraq. The ad emphasized...