(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump told reporters on Thursday that he believes US military spending could eventually be cut in half and that he wants to pursue the idea as part of an agreement with Russia and China. He also said there was no reason to build new nuclear weapons.
“At some...
(Kyle Anzalone, The Libertarian Institute) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the US will accelerate weapon deliveries to its allies in Europe. Initially, the proposal was made by NATO Chief Mark Rutte, and received mixed reviews from European powers.
On Thursday, speaking at a press conference alongside Secretary-General Rutte, Hegseth explained,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration has frozen funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US-funded organization that meddles in elections and pushes regime change around the world in the name of “promoting democracy.”
According to The Free Press, an order from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)...
(Headline USA) When Angelica Delgado took a one-way flight to Mexico as she fled Cuba in December, she was set on seeking asylum in the United States.
But with the Biden administration's open-border policy coming to a halt following the 2024 re-election of President Donald Trump, the 23-year-old recalibrated her...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes erasing the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the countries and alleviating the need for tariffs that he has leveraged to force the northern neighbor into maintaining tighter border security.
“If people wanted to...
(Headline USA) Several NATO allies demanded on Thursday that Ukraine and Europe not be cut out of any peace negotiations---despite an alarming interview recently in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to precondition any such negotiation on his country's access to nuclear weapons.
“There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department notified the court Wednesday that it intends to intends to keep classified information secret in the case of Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump on his Florida golf course last September.
The DOJ said in a Wednesday court filing...
(Headline USA) The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence after Republicans who had initially tried to undermine her fell in line.
Gabbard was an unconventional pick to oversee and coordinate the country’s 18 different intelligence agencies, given her contentious relationship with the U.S. national security...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump moved to end Joe Biden’s disastrous three-year-long proxy war against Russia on Wednesday, saying that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin had agreed to begin negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine following a sudden prisoner swap.
Trump said in a social media post that he and...
(Headline USA) Marc Fogel, an American teacher who was deemed wrongfully detained in Russia, has been released in what the White House described as a diplomatic thaw that could advance negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for President Donald Trump, left Russian airspace with Fogel, a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A forthcoming book about Donald Trump’s return to power makes a wild and unsubstantiated claim that Iran had operatives in the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles amidst as part of a possible conspiracy to assassinate him.
To date, the U.S. government has produced no hard...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Daily Mail reported Tuesday that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s charitable foundation made a $250,000 donation to an organization run by then-President Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden.
The couple’s donation to Ashley Biden’s “Women’s Wellness (Spa)ace” was disclosed in an impact report last December from...