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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., doesn’t want to get ahead of impending investigations into a deadly Sept. 2 strike on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, but argued that there is a precedent for such strikes dating back to the Obama administration. Both congressional Republicans and Democrats have raised concerns…

House appropriators and foreign affairs leaders convened a rare joint briefing Tuesday as part of a broader congressional investigation into what lawmakers and experts describe as escalating and targeted violence against Christians in Nigeria. The session — led by House Appropriations Vice Chair and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Mario Díaz-Balart,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin ratcheted up tensions with Europe on Tuesday, warning that if the bloc sparked a war with Russia, Moscow was prepared to meet it. Putin also blasted European leaders, accusing them of sabotaging U.S.-led efforts to end the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine. ‘But if Europe suddenly…

In the wake of a federal judge’s moves last month to dismiss separate indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Department of Justice is considering possibly pursuing new indictments against the two figures, according to Politico. The outlet reported that two individuals…

President Donald Trump is continuing to advocate for the Senate GOP to nix the filibuster. In a Monday Truth Social post, the president shared a video featuring clips of former Attorney General Eric Holder, who opined that if Democrats win a ‘trifecta’ in the 2028 elections, the prospect of expanding…

White House envoy Steve Witkoff is in Moscow is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday after a whirlwind weekend of negotiations with Ukraine aimed at securing a peace deal. All eyes are on Putin as Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and occasional foreign policy envoy,…

President Donald Trump threw himself in the middle of Honduras’ razor-thin presidential race on Monday, warning that there would be ‘hell to pay’ if election officials altered the results.   Writing on Truth Social, Trump, without offering evidence, accused Honduras of ‘trying to change the results.’ ‘If they do, there…

The White House confirmed and defended conducting a second strike against alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean in September, amid the Trump administration’s crusade targeting the influx of drugs into the U.S.  The White House’s statement comes after the Washington Post reported Friday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth verbally…

The House unanimously passed a bill on Monday barring anyone linked to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel from moving to the United States. It’s a rare moment of bipartisanship on the topic of Israel, an issue that’s otherwise exacerbated deep fractures within both parties in the House of…

President Donald Trump described it as ‘very important’ that ‘nothing’ transpire to derail Syria’s transformation ‘into a prosperous state.’ The commander-in-chief’s cryptic comments come days after Israel engaged in an operation in Syria. ‘The United States is very satisfied with the results displayed, through hard work and determination, in the…