White House Claims Signal Chat Did Not Include War Plans
The White House on Tuesday brushed off the seriousness of mistakenly adding a journalist to a group chat with senior national security officials in which they discussed details of a…
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Lawmakers, Including Some Republicans, Say Sharing of War Plans Was a Serious Error
U.S. intelligence chiefs are scheduled to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, a day after it emerged that senior Trump administration officials had shared classified war plans in…
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Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in Group Chat With Atlantic Journalist
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans in an encrypted group chat that included a journalist two hours before U.S. troops launched attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen, the…
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Weapons, war and wealth: The business of arms in the Middle East
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Arms are a global business, so it’s little surprise that at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference, discerning quartermasters had a world buffet of weaponry…
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Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China
The Pentagon was scheduled on Friday to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might break out with China, two U.S. officials said on Thursday….
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Trump’s transactional diplomacy is reshaping U.S.-Taiwan relations
TAIPEI, Taiwan — For decades, the U.S. has played an important role in maintaining the delicate relationship between Taiwan and China, which considers Taiwan to be a part of its territory and…
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Trump Says He Will Call Putin to Discuss Ending Ukraine War
President Trump said he would speak with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday about the war in Ukraine, noting that there had already been discussions about “dividing up…
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Column: Nothing efficient about Musk and Trump’s toxic lack of empathy
I don’t know how Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly got my phone number, but a text from him landed the other day with a thud. “Elon Musk came after me…
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Hezbollah’s ‘victory’ over Israel: Lebanon’s toll includes 95 coffins
AITAROUN, Lebanon — The procession of coffins was heard long before it came into view, a chorus of ambulance sirens drowning out the crowd assembled at the main square of this devastated…
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Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S.: Dropped Audits and a Skeleton Staff
Beth Crowell was proud to work for the Internal Revenue Service. She had spent much of her career as an accountant for large corporations, gaining intimate knowledge about how they…
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Canada dispatch: dual degree law students in Windsor and Detroit find themselves in the crossfire of a trade war – JURIST
Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a 2L Single JD student at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in Ontario. As President Trump’s Canadian tariffs take effect, students in the University of…
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The key to understanding Trump’s approach to Ukraine
I don’t say this often, but let’s give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. During Trump’s instantly infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky last week, the Ukrainian president…
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Whether Russia invaded Ukraine is not ‘complicated.’ Why say it is?
On the day before the third anniversary of the brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine, “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether it’s “fair to…
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UK imposes new sanctions against Russia on Ukraine war third anniversary – JURIST
The UK released an updated list of sanctions against Russia, including measures banning entry into the UK for individuals who provide significant support to the Russian state or owe their…
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Column: President Trump acts like Russian dictator Putin’s wingman
WASHINGTON — Last week, President Trump abruptly shoved U.S. foreign policy off one of its cornerstones. For nearly 80 years since the end of World War II, the United States nurtured a…
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Thousands attend Nasrallah funeral as Hezbollah claims it’s down but not out
BEIRUT — On a Friday evening in September, a squadron of Israeli warplanes streaked through the skies of Lebanon and dropped some 85 tons in daisy-chained, bunker-buster bombs on several buildings in…
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Trump administration, Russia hold talks on ending Ukraine war, reopening ties
WASHINGTON — The United States formally brought Russia in from the cold Tuesday with high-level talks aimed at ending Moscow’s war with Ukraine and reestablishing long-frozen diplomatic and economic ties. A Trump…
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Top Russian and US officials discuss ending Ukraine war — without Kyiv
By MATTHEW LEE, BARAA ANWER and DASHA LITVINOVA, Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The top diplomats from Russia and the U.S. met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss…
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News Analysis: Trump cedes to Russia on Ukraine, but the bigger victim may be NATO
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s siding with Russia in its war against Ukraine not only imperils the former Soviet republic, but also may undermine eight decades of transatlantic security and force Europe to…
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Opinion: Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war, but neither side is ready
Earlier this month, a full moon blocked Mars from view. Historically, some have taken that as a sign for peace as Mars has been the “planet of war and conflict…
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