US President Donald Trump is taking a less combative approach towards China ahead of his meeting with President Xi Jinping this week, reflecting what China experts say is Beijing’s growing leverage through
The scene inside the White House’s East Room on Friday had the air of a modern court, with President Donald Trump at its center, buoyant after a daring U.S. military operation that
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Francis Fukuyama, the renowned political scientist and Stanford fellow, cautions that the Trump administration’s approach to Venezuela risks becoming another failed foreign intervention. In a recent column for Persuasion, Fukuyama argues that
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Trump has a serious problem. He wants to be the `stupor mundi’ i.e. the master of the world, but he is running out of things to conquer. Alexander the Great ran into
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The fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Minnesota mother by a U.S. immigration agent has shaken Minneapolis and reverberated across the country, prompting protests in multiple cities and intensifying political tensions. Reuters reports
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U.S. oil companies are signaling serious hesitation about pouring billions of dollars into Venezuela’s beleaguered oil sector without firm assurances from the federal government, even as President Donald Trump intensifies efforts to
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On the early morning of January 3, the United States government launched a massive attack on Caracas, Venezuela, and three of the country’s states. Roughly 150 aircraft swarmed the skies, bombing with
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President Donald Trump’s proposal to raise the United States defence budget to an unprecedented $1.5 trillion in the 2027 financial year would add an estimated $5.8 trillion to the national debt over
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If there were an award for Most Unfulfilled Personal Wish of the Year, Donald Trump would be the runaway winner. His desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize has been so overt –
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U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Republican lawmakers that failure to retain control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections could lead to his impeachment by Democrats, framing the vote as a
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More than 2 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remain under review, Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday, offering the most detailed estimate yet of the
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Editorial Western media, in their infinite hypocrisy, love nothing more than taking their designated enemies abroad and comparing them to their own leaders at home, as if the two are remotely similar.
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Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to money laundering charges linked to the historic hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, has been released early from prison and placed on home confinement, according to statements
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What is unfolding in Venezuela may prove to be one of the most consequential demonstrations of American military power in the twenty-first century. If Donald Trump’s claim is true—that Nicolás Maduro and
More Few issues provoke a stronger reaction from President Donald Trump than questions about his physical and mental health. At 79, the oldest person to assume the U.S. presidency, Trump repeatedly asserts that
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Unconfirmed reports of U.S. air strikes triggered chaos in Venezuela’s capital Caracas early on Tuesday, with explosions reported at major military installations and the government declaring a nationwide state of emergency. According
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