The State Department on Sunday updated its travel advisory for Iraq to include the ordered departure of all non-emergency U.S. government personnel and eligible family members. Americans are warned ‘do not travel to Iraq due…
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Blinken: US has ‘pretty strong idea’ that some of missing Americans being held hostage by Hamas
With 10 Americans still unaccounted for more than two weeks after Hamas’ massacre in Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the terrorist group is believed to be holding at least some…
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McConnell calls China, Russia, Iran new ‘axis of evil’ that US must deal with: ‘This is an emergency’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Sunday deemed China, Russia and Iran the new ‘axis of evil’ amid wars in Ukraine and Israel, while addressing U.S. funding of allies’ responses to those duel conflicts.…
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Meet Tom Emmer, the GOP majority whip running for House speaker with McCarthy’s endorsement
The race for the speaker’s gavel got even more complex Friday after Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, dropped out of the race and a number of Republicans jumped in. One candidate with favorable backing is Majority…
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DeSantis says he would cancel student visas, deport foreign nationals celebrating Hamas if elected president
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would rescind student visas of foreign nationals in the U.S. and send them back to their home countries if they expressed support for Hamas terrorists’…
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China adopted ‘more dangerous’ tactics in 2022 as ‘only competitor’ to US, Pentagon warns in new report
The Pentagon said China adopted ‘more dangerous, coercive and provocative’ actions in the Indo-Pacific this year — as well as ‘risky’ intercepts against U.S. aircraft in the region. The Department of Defense released its annual…
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The chaotic, convoluted path House Republicans took to elect a speaker leads back to square one
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but in their effort to elect a House speaker, Republicans have taken a more tortured route. Compared to a straight line, Republicans will follow the…
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An Israeli reserve soldier with dual American citizenship was killed Thursday by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon, according to Israel Defense Forces. The soldier was identified as Staff Sgt. Omer Balva, 22, from Herzliya,…
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China increasing nuclear arsenal at exponential rate, expected to double by 2030, Pentagon report says
China is rapidly increasing its nuclear arsenal and is expected to double its number of nuclear warheads from more than 500 currently to more than 1,000 by 2030, which exceeds earlier projections, the Pentagon’s annual…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and his House Democrats are sitting pretty amid Republicans’ infighting over who will be the next speaker. The Democrats’ messaging against House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s speaker candidacy…