UN Security Council moves up session on Gaza, West Bank ahead of Trump’s inaugural Board of Peace meeting
The United Nations Security Council will convene a high-level meeting Wednesday to address the fragile Gaza ceasefire and Israel’s expanding...
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Vatican declines to join Trump’s Gaza ‘Board of Peace,’ calls for UN leadership
The Vatican will not join President Donald Trump’s newly formed Board of Peace, its top diplomatic official said Tuesday, signaling...
Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase from Israel — For Banned Cluster Weapons
The Department of Defense has quietly signed a $210 million deal to buy advanced cluster shells from one of Israel’s...
Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants
The cars sat abandoned at the side of the road. Their engines idling, with hazard lights flashing, according to a...
Netanyahu agrees to join Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace after initial pushback
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he would join President Donald Trump’s new Board of Peace, after previously criticizing...
Americans Are Sick and Tired of Pointless Wars
Demonstrators outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro awaits his arraignment hearing on Jan. 5,...
Maduro capture echoes Noriega takedown that used rock music as psychological warfare against dictator
The U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife on Saturday is reviving memories of the dramatic 1989...
My Quest to Make the Pentagon Care About the Crimes It Covered Up
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took the unusual step last month of threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., to...
David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now
New York Times columnist David Brooks speaks at Alvernia University in Reading, Pa., on Nov. 20, 2019. Photo: Bill Uhrich/MediaNews Group/Reading...
Kim Jong Un shows off ‘most powerful’ ballistic missile as foreign leaders watch North Korea military parade
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un displayed a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang that...
Unnamed Pentagon Officials Ridicule Hegseth’s Plan to Stop War Department Leaks
Three current Pentagon officials decried a new War Department policy designed to restrict press freedom. Under new rules, the Department of...
Trump Escalates Assault on Chicago With “Operation Midway Blitz”
The Trump administration said on Monday that it was launching an operation targeting “criminal illegal aliens” in Chicago, dubbed Operation...
The Incredible Disappearing Human Rights Reports
The State Department released its annual reports on human rights around the world on Tuesday, and revealed an administration set...
Trump Orders State Department to Overlook International Human Rights Abuses
The State Department is gutting its human rights reporting by excising information detailing abuses by foreign governments from the department’s annual...
The Week the World Woke Up to the Genocide in Gaza
After 22 months of Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza, something changed in the last week. Israeli human rights groups...
