The US aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush arrived at Thailand’s resort island of Phuket on Sunday with about 4,800 personnel aboard, beginning a five-day rest-and-recreation visit after six months supporting US operations
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social problems arise that persist or worsen inside such societies because
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Like most Americans, I applaud the recent ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas that was approved today by the Israeli security cabinet, and I was glad to learn that the incoming Trump
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Scott Bessent, nominated by Donald Trump to be the next U.S. Treasury Secretary, told U.S. senators in a heated confirmation hearing on Thursday that failing to extend the tax cuts introduced during
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The Biden regime is the most corrupt regime in American history, and Biden knows it. That is why he talks of large numbers of “preemptive pardons.” A preemptive pardon is an invention of the
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Ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke by phone late Friday, according to a statement from China’s Foreign Ministry. The conversation marks an
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, pledged Wednesday to uphold the agency’s apolitical nature and ensure its intelligence work remains free from political influence. The
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The following editorial, adapted from The Washington Post, discusses the ongoing struggles to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility as President Joe Biden’s term comes to a close. Despite efforts to reduce
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As Donald Trump gears up for his second presidential inauguration on Monday, the event has evolved into one of the most highly anticipated political gatherings in Washington, with an impressive guest list
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Kim Jong Un has been using North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme as a critical “insurance policy” to ensure his hold on power, according to Marco Rubio, who is Donald Trump’s nominee for
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The United States has legally imported close to 3 billion wild plants and animals over the past 22 years, making it one of the largest global hubs for wildlife trade, according to
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The United States budget deficit reached an unprecedented $711 billion in the first three months of the fiscal year, marking a significant rise in the nation’s fiscal imbalance, according to data released
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In John Updike’s 1992 novel Memories of the Ford Administration, the historian non-hero of the story just can’t finish writing his biography of James Buchanan because the fifteenth president of the United States
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A recent essay published in The Atlantic uncovers the explosive rise of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), a powerful and controversial Christian movement that is actively reshaping American politics and society. With
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A covert surveillance device known as a cell-site simulator was likely deployed during the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, according to findings reported by WIRED. The revelation, based on data
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The United States is on the brink of a significant expansion in natural gas power plant construction, driven by the surging energy needs of artificial intelligence (AI) operations and Big Tech’s growing
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