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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ignited a fresh political firefight after unveiling a nationwide program that will screen all active-duty service m...
WASHINGTON—At their weekly Senate Republican Conference press conference, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and his leadership team laid out an aggres...
U.S. diplomats abruptly left a high-stakes United Nations Security Council session in New York on Monday when French Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont rose ...
An oil tanker has exploded in the Strait of Hormuz after reportedly striking a naval mine, reigniting concerns about the safety of one of the world’s ...
President Donald Trump’s inaugural tour aboard the new Qatar-gifted Air Force One has ignited a fierce debate in Washington over whether the hastily r...
The United States Congress is barreling toward its five-week August recess with a to-do list that keeps growing while tempers—and summer temperatures—...
Washington — A sweeping veterans benefits bill is racing through Congress with a floor vote expected as early as next week, putting the Department of ...
Lead Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is ordering senior commanders to accelerate enforcement of his strict beard policy after spotting multiple beard...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s crackdown on facial hair is back in the spotlight after sailors aboard a U.S. Navy vessel were seen sporting beards d...
Fox News surged back into the political spotlight early Wednesday when the network aired former President Donald Trump’s declaration that the U.S.–Ira...
Lead Iran’s nuclear program has entered its most opaque phase in two decades, with international inspectors locked out, enrichment levels near weapo...
UPDATED 1 July 2026 — ATLANTA/KINSHASA THE EASTERN FRONT: INTENSIFYING CONFLICT Fighting between government forces and the M23 and AFC rebel coal...
General Christopher T. Donahue, the four-star Army officer best known as the last American soldier to board a C-17 out of Kabul in August 2021, will r...
Actualización minuto a minuto: Irán, la guerra y las negociaciones de paz – 23 de junio 2026 Panorama general El clamor internacional se centra h...
La Paz, Bolivia – El presidente de Bolivia Rodrigo Paz declaró este sábado un estado de emergencia nacional con el fin de desmantelar los bloqueos que...
Holland’s government says it is “ready to contribute” to an international naval mission that would keep the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shippi...
Lead The United States and Iran have unveiled a landmark memorandum of understanding that promises an immediate cease-fire, the reopening of the Str...
Aerospace startup JetZero is accelerating its blended wing body (BWB) revolution after closing a fresh $175 million funding round and landing high-pro...
BEIRUT – A perfect storm of renewed conflict, shrinking reserves and stalled reforms is pushing Lebanon deeper into humanitarian and economic emergenc...
Russia faces mounting military and economic pressure this week as Western intelligence warns of a possible Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic-missi...
INTRODUCTION For the first time since Moscow revived the imperial-era term in 2014, “Novorossiya” has moved from rhetoric to a concrete line item in...
Pyongyang—Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first trip to North Korea in seven years has thrust the reclusive state back into the geopolitical spotlight,...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that recent American strikes have reduced Iran’s operational missile arsenal to “about twenty-o...
Washington–Tel Aviv rift deepens as Mossad’s regime-change gambit stalls in Iran. American and Israeli war planners entered the February offensive ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Friday evening turned chaotic across the island as Jamaicans grappled with an unprecedented all-island power outage and a separate b...
Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is back in headlines after warning European leaders that “Iran’s war on the West won’t stay in the S...
WASHINGTON — In a dramatic 215-208 vote today, the U.S. House of Representatives invoked the War Powers Resolution to order President Donald Trump to ...
Updated May 31, 2026 — Washington Former Vice President Mike Pence is back in the national spotlight after a string of high-profile interviews and ...
Tehran—A fragile breakthrough is taking shape in the long-running U.S.–Iran standoff, as negotiators edge toward a memorandum that could reopen the St...
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is commanding fresh attention online after publishing back-to-back analyses that cut to the heart of two of 2...
A HARDLINER AT THE HELM OF THE IRGC Iran’s Supreme Leader elevated Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi to Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled a hardening U.S. stance toward Havana on Wednesday, warning that “time is running out for the Cuban regime to ...
The White House abruptly reversed course on its Europe posture early Friday, with President Donald Trump announcing a deployment of 5,000 additional U...
Hundreds of families, dignitaries, and military leaders will converge on New London, Connecticut, this Friday as the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin touched down in Beijing early Tuesday for a two-day state visit that reinforces the “no-limits” partnership he and Ch...
【正文／中文】 北京——5月14日上午，美国总统特朗普与中国国家主席习近平在人民大会堂举行会谈。这是特朗普重返白宫后首次访华，也是两国元首自2025年釜山会晤以来再次面对面交流。峰会聚焦贸易、台海和平及人工智能监管三大议题，双方均释放务实合作信号。 • 贸易与投资 双方同意重启中美全面经济对...
A Russian cargo vessel, the Ursa Major, has sunk under mysterious circumstances in the western Mediterranean, triggering an international scramble to ...
Donald Trump warned Monday that the fragile ceasefire in the eleven-week Iran war is now “on massive life support,” moments after he rejected Tehran’s...
Washington, D.C. — Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday night blasted Tehran’s latest counter-proposal to end the 73-day Iran-Israel war, call...
Updated Friday, 8 May 2026—10:30 UTC A tense standoff in the Gulf intensified overnight after U.S. naval aircraft struck two Iranian-flagged oil tanker...
Qeshm Island—the sprawling, dolphin-shaped landmass that guards the Strait of Hormuz—is suddenly on every traveler’s radar, and for good reason. Iran’...
Joint Base Andrews, MD—An internal Air Force investigation is under way after armed members of the 316th Security Forces Squadron mistakenly entered t...
The Strait of Hormuz crisis intensified overnight as former U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled “Project Freedom,” a U.S.-led effort to “guide” nearl...