FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(José Niño, Headline USA) Immigration restrictionists in America have turned their attention to a New Delhi sit-down between the U.S. ambassador and a chief minister from southern India. Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy urged U.S. Ambassador Sergio Gor last Wednesday to widen the flow of visas for students leaving...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last month, President Donald Trump reportedly switched airplanes at the last minute when leaving a NATO summit in Turkey, due to a purported assassination threat coming from Iranian proxy forces. Instead of flying on a jet donated to him by the Qatari government, Trump was...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon is reportedly drafting a new nuclear strategy that’s expected to emphasize the use of tactical nuclear weapons to give the president more “options” in a potential nuclear conflict. The strategy, first reported by NBC News, is being drafted by the Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, who...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected for the second time a 15-point disarmament plan for Hamas that was announced by President Trump and the so-called “Board of Peace” on July 30. “Israel does not accept the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Sunday that the US was “low-keying it” with Iran and only “semi-negotiating” with the country, comments that come after a senior Iranian official laid out multiple conditions for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. “We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Ten of the 13 programs meant to keep the B-52 flying into the 2050s are over budget, behind schedule or underperforming, a federal watchdog found, including new engines and radar. The findings, in a new report from the Government Accountability Office, come as the Air...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened “leakers” with jail time over reports about dwindling US military stockpiles as a result of the Iran war, and claimed the US had plenty of munitions available. “The US has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts...

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Following prison sentences of a combined 24 years for drug charges, two Hondurans illegally in America will be deported, federal prosecutors in North Carolina say. Their arrest, sentencing and eventual deportation is the example of an executive order from the president executed to protect Americans'...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Newly declassified files show that the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the fringe theory that President Donald Trump may have acted as a Russian agent shortly after he fired then-FBI Director James Comey. The files, released by the White House on Wednesday, once again expose the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The United States has closed its doors to Irish nationalist commentator Keith Woods, and he lays responsibility for that at the feet of the Trump administration. Writing on X this week, Woods walked through the timeline in a post under the pen name he uses in...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US Army has used much of its stockpile of accurate long-range missiles in the Iran war, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the data. The report said that the missiles include the Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), surface-to-surface missiles that are fired from HIMARS...

(John Weeks, Antiwar.com) Writing in POLITICO on Tuesday, Dasha Burns and Nahal Toosi reported that in recent months the US intelligence community has “sent spies and assets” to Cuba. Specifically, they reported the CIA has increased its presence on the island, which sits approximately 90 miles south of Florida.    Burns...