President Donald Trump will impose sanctions against President Nicolás Maduro’s nephews and six companies that ship Venezuelan oil. The sanctions followed the US seizing a large ship that was transporting Venezuelan crude. Axios reported on Thursday that Treasury...
Senator Rand Paul continues to rail against President Donald Trump’s aggressive Venezuela policy. Paul said on Fox News Tuesday, “I’m kind of old-fashioned, I like to obey this thing called the Constitution. The Constitution says that war only occurs when...
The old script is breaking. When anyone can watch unfiltered footage from Gaza on a phone, the gap between official talking points and visible reality becomes too wide to ignore. We dig into how that shift is changing minds, reshaping alliances, and exposing the...
Israel announced that 800 new homes for Jewish settlers will be built in the occupied West Bank. Israeli Finance Minister Betzel Smotrich has been pushing for more settlements in the West Bank, aimed at creating the conditions for annexation. On Wednesday,...
Ukraine has sent the White House a point-by-point response to President Donald Trump’s peace plan. On Wednesday, A Ukrainian official told Axios that the revisions to Trump’s peace plan are “to make the whole thing doable.” The revisions include...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he is still considering whether he will allow members of Congress to view the footage of the strikes on an alleged drug boat in early September. Congressional leaders are investigating the strikes after the Washington Post...
Ukrainian President Zelensky said he was willing to hold new presidential elections with US help early next year. The Ukrainian leader’s remarks followed President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine was sliding away from democracy. “Look, I am...
Ukrainian President Zelensky will meet with the leaders of France, the UK, and Germany in London on Monday. The summit follows President Donald Trump explaining that Zelensky was preventing an end to the war. Sky News international correspondent John Sparks said...
A proposal calls for nearly quintupling Israel’s public diplomacy – or hasbara – budget. The plan calls for increasing the propaganda budget to $729 million in 2026, up from $150 million this year. The significant boost to the public diplomacy fund...
Leaders in Congress released the details of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) post-conference committee. The military spending bill will be voted on this week. The compromise NDAA will require President Donald Trump to keep at least 76,000...
A kitchen joke about tomato sauce quickly gives way to the hard edge of politics as we unpack a growing fracture on the right. Trump’s volleys at Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie aren’t just personality drama; they point to a deeper shift toward a larger...
A Hamas official explained the group was willing to take steps towards disarmament in an effort to progress negotiations on moving into the second phase of President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan. “We are open to have a comprehensive approach in order to...
