The political circus in the Hawkeye State inched closer to a belated conclusion Tuesday when Iowa Democrats released an initial round of caucus results that showed former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg leading, followed by Sens. Bernard Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
About 20,000 U.S. troops will soon begin flooding into Europe as part of a massive, months-long military exercise that has been compared to the massive drills of the Cold War era, drills that were meant to help NATO forces beat back a hypothetical invasion from the Soviet Union.
The Iowa Democratic Party is scrambling after encountering problems with its new counting system.
The United States has requested a closed-door UN Security Council meeting Thursday for US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, to present the administration’s new Mideast peace plan, diplomatic sources told AFP Monday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the second case of human transmission of the coronavirus within the United States.
Senators defeated a last-ditch effort by Democrats to call witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Trump Friday evening, then approved a final schedule that will force a vote Wednesday on Mr. Trump’s fate.
Government officials from the United States and several countries will convene in Washington, D.C., next week on the eve of the National Prayer Breakfast for the inaugural meeting of the new International Religious Freedom Alliance.
‘I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican — in that order,’ Vice President Mike Pence told a crowd of 250 assembled Iowa evangelicals, pleasing words to a voting bloc President Trump must hold if he is to be reelected in November.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared a global emergency over the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China, and U.S. health authorities reported the first confirmed case in the United States of a patient with no recent history of travel to Wuhan, the outbreak epicenter.
House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a $760 billion five-year plan aimed at rebuilding U.S. infrastructure.
Doctors in Germany, Japan, and Vietnam have confirmed their first cases of coronavirus in patients who have not traveled to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of what Chinese President Xi Jinping has called a ‘demon’ epidemic.
President Trump’s lawyers wrapped up their impeachment defense on Tuesday by urging senators to ‘trust the American people’ with elections and to acquit the president, but the trial’s end was still in doubt, with Republicans lacking the votes to stop Democrats from calling witnesses.
The coranavirus has killed 80 people so far in China, where Wuhan, the city at the center of the outbreak, and 16 surrounding cities have been put under quarantine conditions to prevent its spread.
Ahead of the unveiling of the Trump administration’s long-delayed Mideast peace proposal, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu left Israel for Washington on Sunday speaking about an extraordinary moment in his country’s history, even as Hamas pledged to use ‘all means of resistance’ to foil a plan Palestinians view as heavily weighted in Israel’s favor.
It was entirely predictable that the President Trump impeachment trial would feature a January surprise, and now it has arrived. It came in the form of a New York Times report that former national security adviser John Bolton, in a new book, writes that the president told him that he ‘wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens.’
President Trump has signed little-noticed legislation to fund greater protection of religious institutions against terror attacks.
President Trump’s defense team put Hunter Biden and former President Barack Obama on trial on Monday during the impeachment case in the Senate, questioning why Democrats weren’t outraged about Mr. Biden’s $3 million sweetheart deal with a Ukrainian gas company or Mr. Obama’s ‘caving’ to Russia on missile defense.
The Islamic State released an audio recording that announced a ‘new stage’ in its terrorist operations and called on followers to begin attacking Israel.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to implement new rules that would make it easier to deny legal permanent residency to immigrants deemed likely to use public benefits.
The Trump administration is warning California to stop enforcing its law obligating health insurers to cover abortions, saying that the state could face the loss of federal funding if it doesn’t comply.