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President Biden and his high nationwide safety aides believed final summer time that the possibilities of battle with Iran and its proxies have been properly contained. After secret talks, they’d just concluded a deal that led to the discharge of 5 imprisoned Americans in return for $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds and a few […] More

The Pentagon got here underneath elevated stress Sunday to clarify why senior Biden administration officers, congressional representatives and the president himself weren’t notified of the hospitalization of Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III till days later. Former Vice President Mike Pence known as Mr. Austin’s delay in disclosing his hospitalization a “dereliction of obligation.” Speaking […] More

In a flurry of appearances and commentary, former Representative Liz Cheney has stepped up her denunciations of former President Donald J. Trump in a last-ditch effort to influence Republicans to not nominate him once more. “Tell the world who we’re along with your vote. Tell them that we’re a very good and an amazing nation,” […] More

Simmering tensions throughout the Michigan Republican Party boiled over on Saturday, with some party officers voting to take away their embattled chairwoman, Kristina Karamo, in a contentious continuing that she and different state Republicans argued was illegitimate. The showdown, which occurred at a gathering held by a breakaway faction of the state party, now seems […] More

Three years to the day that supporters of Donald J. Trump stormed the Capitol in an try to cease Congress from certifying Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory, Mr. Trump stated but once more that the mob had been performing “peacefully and patriotically.” He known as for the discharge of individuals imprisoned for his or […] More

Donald J. Trump’s escalating assaults on Nikki Haley each on the airwaves and at his rallies — criticisms she likened Saturday to “a mood tantrum” — captured the turbulent dynamics within the closing week earlier than the primary votes of the 2024 Republican presidential main are forged. Mr. Trump, Ms. Haley and Ron DeSantis fanned […] More

It took the Pentagon three and a half days to tell the White House that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had been hospitalized on New Year’s Day following issues from an elective process, two U.S. officers stated Saturday. The extraordinary breach of protocol — Mr. Austin is in control of the nation’s 1.4 million […] More

Three years to the day that supporters of Donald J. Trump stormed the Capitol in an try to cease Congress from certifying Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory, Mr. Trump stated but once more that the mob had been performing “peacefully and patriotically.” He referred to as for the discharge of individuals imprisoned for his […] More

President Biden will ship his third State of the Union deal with on March 7, a chance to element his imaginative and prescient of the nation amid a presidential marketing campaign that the White House has described as a check of democracy. In a letter on Saturday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson formally invited Mr. Biden […] More

Joseph M. Hendrie, a physicist who led the Nuclear Regulatory Commission through the nation’s worst nuclear energy accident, at Three Mile Island — a mishap that chilled Americans’ belief in nuclear power for many years — died on Dec. 26 at his house in Bellport, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 98. His daughter Barbara […] More

Rarely in American politics has a number one presidential candidate made such grave accusations a few rival: warning that he’s keen to violate the Constitution. Claiming that he’s wanting to persecute political rivals. Calling him a dire menace to democracy. Those arguments have come from President Biden’s speeches, together with his forceful address on Friday, […] More

The delivery firms that transfer items on one of many world’s busiest commerce routes for factories, shops, automotive dealerships and different companies face an excruciating choice. They can ship their vessels by means of the Red Sea if they’re keen to threat assaults by the Houthi militia in Yemen and to bear the price of […] More