US to conduct military exercises in Middle East as tension with Iran builds

US forces will conduct a multi-day air exercise in the Middle East as Washington bolsters its military presence in the region amid tensions with Iran.
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Noem and Bovino are taking heat for Minnesota — but it’s mostly on Trump

The tone President Donald Trump is changing in Minnesota is the tone he set. “We’re going to de-escalate a little bit,” Trump told Fox News on Tuesday during a trip to Iowa, after a crackdown that has ...

Russia’s 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine dwarf all its conflicts since World War II, report says

About 1.2 million Russian troops have been killed, wounded or are missing since its invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago, a rate of casualties for a major military power not seen since World War ...

Trump warns against Nouri al-Maliki’s return as prime minister of Iraq

US President Donald Trump has warned Iraq over reinstatement of Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister, saying that the country “descended into poverty and total chaos” under his previous leadership.

Radical changes could be coming to ‘psychiatry’s bible’

The American Psychiatric Association announced Wednesday that it is radically reconceptualizing the main manual that clinicians use to make a mental health diagnosis. The Diagnostic and Statistical ...

Hill Democrats – and even some Republicans – plot an exit for Noem

Top Democrats in Congress are plunging into an impeachment fight with Kristi Noem, as even some moderate Republicans say they’ve lost faith in the embattled Department of Homeland Security chief – ...

Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear of phone checks

Venezuelans are circumventing the government’s expanded crackdown on dissent by speaking in code, not mentioning political leaders, constantly deleting content from their phones and refusing to ...

After town hall attack, Ilhan Omar condemns ‘terrorizing’ immigration push and criticism from GOP

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ignored staffers’ pleas to end a town hall early and get a medical check Tuesday after a man rushed the podium and sprayed a substance at the Democratic congresswoman.

Exclusive: Two officers fired their guns during Pretti encounter, Homeland Security says in initial report

Two officers fired their guns during the fatal encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the weekend, according to an initial report to Congress from the Department of Homeland Security reviewed ...

Exclusive: US planning CIA foothold in post-Maduro Venezuela

The CIA is quietly working to establish a permanent US presence on the ground in Venezuela, spearheading the Trump ...

The Fed has four new voters this year. They may complicate Trump’s push for lower rates

President Donald Trump could announce his nominee for the next Federal Reserve chair as soon as this week, and has signaled ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s botched PR response to Alex Pretti’s death was a long time coming

The Trump administration has signaled a new approach to its controversial immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, including the ...