Foreign Policy & National Security

Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his challenger Gadi Eisenkot is projected to win an outright parliamentary majority with more than 90% of the vote counted. NBC News’ Matt Bradley breaks down the election results and what they

Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesThe Trump administration is desperately trying to persuade U.S. firms to accept Russian diesel shipments as part of the president’s plan to ease the global crisis, according to a report. Earlier this month, Trump

John Lamparski/Getty Images/US ArmyThe Pentagon has launched an extraordinary attack on a decorated Army general after Pete Hegseth fired him this week. The explosive claims surfaced Thursday after the defense secretary dismissed Lt. Gen. B

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on all hell breaking loose as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fires back at Donald Trump while Ukraine intensifies strikes on data centers and military targets across Russia and occupied Crimea.

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GOP elected officials rush to support secretary of state nominee wthr.com

Two pro-Israel nominees, one uneasy choice for South Florida's Jewish voters Haaretz

Bipartisan US Bill seeks to block Donald Trump’s Russian diesel deal Eastern Mirror

Elon Musk has no business dictating American foreign policy | Letter Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog is refusing a bipartisan request to investigate recent disruptions to Starlink and Starshield satellite internet service to Ukraine, raising concerns among lawmakers that the military and even its i

The Doomsday Clock, last adjusted in January, has not since moved any closer to forecasting global catastrophe. But media headlines over the course of 2026 have moved in that direction and are suggestive that midnight is drawing nearer. Sil

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis on Thursday waited for final election results to confirm what they see taking shape: No majority of parliament seats for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies, nor for the array of parties seeking to uns

The Trump administration and the Kremlin are discussing the possible lifting of US sanctions on Russia’s multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, Russian state media quoted a Kremlin aide as saying, in what would be another US concession

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Humanitarian aid is poised to roll into the stricken city of Oleshky on Friday, a Ukrainian official said, as a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine stretched into a third day and military units cleared awa

Vice President JD Vance contacted Iranian officials to offer humanitarian aid, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, the latest instance of the war-skeptical top official engaging with the Iranians through diplomatic channels. Trump said h

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly fired the Pentagon’s top military planner amid concerns that Washington may restart strikes on Iran after the midterm elections. Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was removed as head of strategy, plans

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have told several Middle East countries and regional allies to be prepared for potential renewed military action against Iran after next week’s midterm elections in the United States — as well as the possibi

$2.98 a gallon before the Iran war. $4.24 this morning. That gap is the whole story, and Rep. Mike Lawler walked onto CNN Thursday prepared to pin it on Kathy Hochul. John Berman put the chart on screen and asked the obvious question: "Did

Sixty-six percent of Muslim voters surveyed by CAIR said they would not back a candidate who refuses to call the situation in Gaza a genocide. That number explains why Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed say what they say. It also explains th

Somalia's aid budget was $2.2 billion in 2023. It now sits at roughly $300,000. Into that vacuum comes an accelerating US air campaign over Jilib, al-Shabaab's de facto capital, and a strengthening El Niño forecast to flood the Juba River v

A Pentagon inspector general asked to look into whether Starlink service was disrupted for Ukrainian forces has declined to open the inquiry. That refusal is the story. The U.S. military has made SpaceX the backbone of battlefield connectiv

A three-star general lost his Pentagon job because a far-right influencer got mad about something his adult son posted online. That is the sequence The Atlantic reported: Laura Loomer publicly attacked Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia over his son Gav

The officer whose job is to plan America's wars was fired while the Pentagon is reportedly preparing to strike Iran. Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, director of the Joint Chiefs' Directorate for Strategy, Plans, and Policy, was pushed out earlier th

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