President Donald Trump approved an $11.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan last week, which was embraced by the China hawks in Washington who see it as evidence that the administration will maintain the U.S.’s longstanding tradition of provoking Beijing in its sphere of influence.
Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, announced last week that his department will not be releasing the video of a 2 September boat strike on survivors who had been reportedly clinging to the side of the wreckage—which critics called the textbook definition of a war crime. Hegseth met with senators last week and told reporters......
Trump Media & Technology Group announced last week that it agreed to a merger with TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion power company, drawing new attention to how President Donald Trump intends to enrich himself and his family during his presidency.
The Trump administration continues to ramp up its attacks inside Somalia and last week carried out an additional four airstrikes inside the country, bringing the total to at least 116 since the start of the year.
The U.S. took its second action against oil tankers hauling Venezuelan crude on Saturday when members of the Coast Guard boarded a ship that was headed to Asia, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed officials.
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Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, said last week that he will not allow President Donald Trump to be successful in his quest to “impose a puppet government” in Caracas to hand over the country’s natural resources to the U.S., despite the recent military buildup in the Caribbean and tough talk from the administration.
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported November’s inflation rate at 2.7 percent and core inflation, which filters out energy and food prices, at 2.6 percent, both reversing a rise in September.
The anti-Russia hysteria seems to be hitting its peak in the UK, with the country’s top military officer now stating that the public needs to prepare itself to start losing its “sons and daughters” in a major war with Russia as efforts to bring the Ukraine War to an end continue to hit snags over security guarantees and land.
The U.S. announced last week that it carried out airstrikes on two more suspected drug boats in the Pacific Ocean that killed at least five people, bringing the death toll to 104 in these controversial strikes.