Voters Oppose US Military Boat Strikes in Caribbean, Want Hegseth to Resign: Poll "Trump campaigned on ending wars, but his ongoing threats of escalation with Venezuela directly contradict that promise," a...
Hegseth and Rubio Are Expected Back on Capitol Hill as Questions Mount Over Boat Strikes President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are headed back to Capitol Hill.
US Military Says Strikes on 3 Boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Kill 8 People The U.S. military says it has attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total...
Who Counts as a Combatant: The Law Governing Lawful Military Targets International law tightly limits who may be targeted in armed conflict. Civilians are protected from attack unless they...
Congress Tries to Pull War Powers Back From the White House After Venezuela-Linked Boat Strikes Congress is moving to force a War Powers vote after U.S. military strikes near Venezuela raise unresolved legal and factual...
Trump Administration Sued For Not Publicly Releasing Caribbean Boat Strike Records Three groups filed a legal complaint against the Trump administration today in Southern District of New York seeking the...
Congressional Lawmakers Hear From Retiring Navy Admiral Overseeing Boat Strikes The U.S. Navy admiral who is retiring early from command of the campaign to destroy vessels allegedly carrying drugs near...
Trump Says Survivors of Scrutinized US Strike Were Trying to Right Boat Before 2nd Missile Was Fired President Donald Trump is justifying the U.S. military's decision to fire a second missile in a heavily scrutinized U.S...
From Denial to Defiance: Hegseth and the Fallout of the Venezuelan Boat 'Double-Tap' The U.S. killed two unarmed survivors of a Venezuelan drug smuggling boat after an initial airstrike left them shipwrecked in...
Rubio and Hegseth Meet Australian Counterparts With China Expected to Be Focus Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are meeting their Australian counterparts for annual talks...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...