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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement puts him at odds with the Pentagon, which has been warning for years that climate change poses a critical national security threat. At his confirmation hearing, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis called climate change a “driver of instability” that “requires […]

This week’s successful ICBM intercept test by the United States sends a clear message to North Korea that the U.S. is capable of shooting down any oncoming missile from the communist nation, a senator said Wednesday. “This test clearly demonstrates to our adversaries that our homeland missile defense system remains on track to defend our

WASHINGTON — Days after Donald Trump’s stunning election victory, Michael Flynn phoned former CIA Director James Woolsey about taking another stint as head of the spy agency in the new administration, but then added a condition, Woolsey said. Flynn said the CIA director “would be expected to report to him,” not the president, Woolsey told

Multiple polls have shown Sen. Bernie Sanders to be by some distance the most popular political figure in the United States and certainly more liked than President Donald Trump, who continues to be beset by plummeting approval ratings. But it also appears clear that Sanders is far more popular than the president in Europe. Related:

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in an expletive-laden speech for a second straight day Thursday after she criticized a comment he made about rapes committed by soldiers. Duterte, speaking Wednesday at a navy event, questioned whether Chelsea Clinton also criticized her father when he had

By Denise A. Spellberg, Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. The Thomas Jefferson memorial in Washington, DC. Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA Beginning Saturday, May 27, an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide are celebrating the month of Ramadan. It was during this month that Prophet Mohammad first received revelations from

President Donald Trump has a new country in his crosshairs: Germany. The president says the US is running a “MASSIVE” trade deficit with Germany, but “this will change.” On his recent visit to Europe, President Trump told European officials that Germany is “very bad” on trade. Administration officials say Germany has exploited a weak euro

The Trump administration is looking to hand back two Russian diplomatic properties in the U.S. that were shuttered late last year after an intelligence probe found they were used to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. The properties in Maryland and New York were closed on December 30 when former President Barack Obama expelled 35