Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that any attack by Tehran or its proxies resulting in a single American casualty will generate a counterattack, U.S. officials said, a warning that has prompted a broader debate among top Trump officials.
The acting secretary of defense bowed out of consideration for the top Pentagon job after an unusually lengthy FBI background check delayed his nomination.
While an investigator said she found no “smoking gun” incriminating the crown prince in journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death, she said he likely knew that a criminal mission was being planned.
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Campaign 2020While the high drama and persistent controversies that have defined the Trump White House are a continuation of how he conducted his 2016 campaign, he is now an incumbent with a record of actions that have affected people’s lives.
The Dutch-led investigation named four suspects, including a former leader of Russian-backed separatists in the region, Igor Girkin.
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The former White House communications director is set to testify behind closed doors today to the House Judiciary Committee.
Bladder cancer patients are scouring clinics in search of a critical treatment. At a time of intense focus on escalating drug prices, the shortage shows a flip side: Prices can be too low to spur companies to produce urgently needed medications.
A large-scale push to arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of migrants would be exorbitantly expensive and highly unlikely, experts say.
The president’s remarks on Jerome H. Powell constitute an almost unprecedented attack on the central bank just as leaders are meeting today to decide what to do on interest rates.
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.
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