The House will vote next week on a resolution citing Attorney General William Barr with contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the unredacted report from special counsel Robert Mueller.
Intelligence materials collected by Israel’s Mossad agency played a role in linking Iran to the sabotaging of four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates last month, prompting the United States to accuse Tehran of carrying out the attack, according to a report on Monday.
Top officials from the U.S. and Mexico will begin talks Monday in a scramble to fend off President Donald Trump’s threat of devastating tariffs on imports from the southern ally and meet his demand for fewer migrants at the border.
Just weeks after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a renewed ‘pressure campaign’ targeting Iran’s energy sector, America’s top diplomat said Sunday the Trump administration is willing to talk with Iran ‘with no preconditions’ — but he added that debilitating sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy will remain in effect.
The UN atomic watchdog said Friday Iran continues to stay within the limitations set by the nuclear deal reached in 2015 with major powers, though its stockpiles of low-enriched uranium and heavy water are growing.
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser warned Iran on Wednesday that any attacks in the Persian Gulf will draw a ‘very strong response’ from the US, taking a hard-line approach with Tehran after his boss only two days earlier said America wasn’t ‘looking to hurt Iran at all.’
Illinois Democrats are attempting to make it the most liberal state in America for abortion, declaring it a right and repealing nearly every limit on the practice.
The Satanic Temple said it will challenge a recent Supreme Court ruling requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains, alleging that it violates the group’s religious liberty.
Two survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub mass shooting who no longer identify as gay are inviting Christians to repent for how the church has treated LGBT-identified persons in the past.
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is in the Middle East to drum up support for his as-yet unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Saturday that the day was ‘fast approaching’ when a US-backed ‘plot’ would aim to keep Palestinian refugees in Lebanon permanently. He said there was a need to work towards joint ‘Palestinian-Lebanese’ resistance, according to Al-Mayadeen and other sites that followed the speech. He was speaking on the occasion of Liberation Day in Lebanon which commemorates the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000.
The European Union has elected a new Parliament that draws less heavily from the center-right and center-left parties that have traditionally composed the majority.
President Donald Trump used emergency authority to approve nearly two dozen arms sales to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and other countries, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Congress on Friday.
The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit challenging an Alabama law that effectively outlaws all abortions, the two groups announced Friday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday his country would defend itself against any potential war that might arise between the U.S. and Iran.
A federal judge blocked the Mississippi six-week abortion ban that was set to go into effect in July.
Iran will not surrender to U.S. pressure and will not abandon its goals even if it is bombed, President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday, stepping up the war of words between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
President Trump ordered the declassification Thursday night of certain intelligence to aid Attorney General William Barr in his investigation of the origins of government spying on the Trump presidential campaign in 2016.
Democrats declared ‘war’ Thursday against Republican-led states approving new abortion restrictions, and announced legislation to codify abortion rights in federal law.
Wednesday’s blow-up between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was dramatic on its own, but it was all the more strange because the two sides had just taken a significant step toward cooperation hours before they opened fire on each other.