Mike Pompeo has warned that any attack by Tehran or its proxies resulting in a single American casualty will generate a counterattack, U.S. officials said. The departure of acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan could further sideline the Pentagon, which has sought to reduce the potential for hostilities.
The defense secretary nominee withdrew from consideration after an unusually lengthy FBI background check delayed his nomination.
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A large-scale push to arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of migrants would be exorbitantly expensive and highly unlikely, experts say.
The nation's first democratically elected president, who died this week inside a Cairo courtroom, had been denied adequate medical care while held for years in solitary confinement, rights groups say.
The planes will include one of the jetliners used as Air Force One. The flyover reflects his interest in replicating a celebration he observed in France in 2017 and his desire to throw an extravagant patriotic event, three people briefed on the plans say.
Reports of a confrontation in the state of Veracruz came as Mexico increased enforcement against migrants at the behest of the United States, creating new checkpoints and deploying thousands of national guardsmen.
The president’s remarks on Jerome H. Powell constitute an almost unprecedented attack on the central bank just as leaders are meeting to decide what to do on rates.
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The president refused to apologize Tuesday for the full-page ad he ran in 1989 calling for the execution of the Central Park Five and suggested the men might still be guilty, even though they were exonerated years ago.
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