The United States resumed domestic air traffic on Friday evening after a nationwide suspension lasting nearly five hours, triggered by a failure in the computer system responsible for communications between air traffic
Donald Trump’s war in Iran has been an unmitigated disaster. The conflict has killed thousands, disrupted the lives of millions more, imposed enormous (and rising) economic costs, and yielded no discernible strategic
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A prolonged political deadlock in the U.S. Congress over immigration enforcement funding ended on Tuesday after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a $70 billion bill to finance U.S. Immigration and Customs
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The United States has escalated its scrutiny of Chinese technology and industrial firms, adding some of the country’s most prominent companies—including Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, CATL, Unitree, Huawei, and chipmaker CXMT—to a Pentagon
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The worst is not the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private contractors, wielding baseball bats and batons, who flood the parking lot at the end of their shifts and unleash on
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When Iranian missiles were launched toward Israel on Sunday for the first time since a 61-day ceasefire took hold, the fragile pause in hostilities across the Middle East gave way to renewed
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There are moments in history when words lose their meaning. Not because dictionaries are rewritten, nor because language itself changes, but because political power empties words of the realities they once described.
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At the end of 2023, Houthi rebels in Yemen began targeting merchant vessels transiting one of the world’s major East–West shipping routes linking the United States and Europe with Asia. Ships using
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As tensions between Washington and Tehran threatened to escalate into a wider regional confrontation, the United States once again found itself relying on a familiar intermediary: Pakistan. The episode exposed a contradiction
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The Abraham Accords have been celebrated as a diplomatic triumph, a necessary step toward a peaceful and integrated Middle East. The proclaimed goals are seductive in their simplicity, including formal ties between
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After 88 days of near-total internet blackout, the people of Iran have begun reconnecting to the global digital network, marking an uneasy return to online life after a period defined by war,
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The recent, surprising strikes on Iran’s key missile sites and strategic installations, amid intense negotiations over a deal, perhaps caught Iran off guard, as the US had been engaging in rhetoric and
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The hemisphere’s longest-running standoff may finally be reaching its breaking point — but not necessarily in the way anyone expects. Cuba, in the spring of 2026, feels exactly like that. After sixty-seven
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Washington’s relationship with Russia appears likely to continue its decades-long decline, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying on May 22 that formal diplomatic talks over the Ukraine war are effectively frozen.
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The United States is witnessing a new escalation in political and legal tensions as the Department of Justice under Donald Trump reportedly opens a criminal investigation into journalist E. Jean Carroll, who
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For years, climate change was publicly framed as an environmental and scientific crisis. Behind closed doors, however, some of the United States’ most powerful security agencies were increasingly treating it as a
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