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WASHINGTON — As Gaza buries its dead and starves under siege, the Trump administration has quietly signed off on a 6.7 billion dollar surge of US weapons for Israel, adding new attack
Donald Trump is building a 250-foot Independence Arch on the Potomac, a White House grand ballroom, and more — a vanity construction campaign running alongside sinking approval ratings and a fractured rural base.
Former Cuban leader Raúl Castro has been indicted by the United States in one of the most dramatic escalations in US-Cuba tensions since the end of the Cold War, with the Trump
The Trump administration has reportedly threatened to revoke visas for members of the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations unless Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour withdraws his candidacy for a senior leadership role
China is pulling ahead of the United States in the contest to plant the first permanent human foothold on the Moon, and the gap, according to one of the most candid assessments
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded that Senate Republicans fire the chamber’s nonpartisan parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, accusing the longtime rules adviser of treating his party unfairly after she stripped a
US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday rejected reports claiming Washington had reduced its military presence in Poland by 4,000 troops, insisting the Pentagon had merely postponed a scheduled rotation rather than
US Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that the conflict with Iran would not spiral into another prolonged American military campaign in the Middle East, attempting to calm growing fears that Washington
The scale of US military losses during the war against Iran is coming into sharper focus after a Congressional Research Service report revealed that the United States lost or suffered major damage
US President Donald Trump has suspended a planned military strike on Iran after Gulf leaders reportedly urged Washington to give diplomacy one final chance, dramatically reducing fears of a wider regional war
Donald Trump has officially endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the explosive Republican Senate runoff against longtime Senator John Cornyn, detonating one of the fiercest internal battles the Republican Party has
Three worshippers were killed outside California’s largest Islamic center after two teenage gunmen opened fire near classrooms filled with children, in what authorities are investigating as a possible anti-Muslim hate crime that
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