Woody Allen famously said “showing up is 80 percent of life.” The same might be said for diplomacy, but last week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson decided to skip the annual meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Cancun, Mexico, dispatching his deputy instead.
Last week, an annual meeting of the Organization of American States came and went without any action on crisis-torn Venezuela. A resolution calling for the ...
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is making a quiet appeal to Iran’s leaders to release an elderly American citizen detained on what the U.S. claims are ...
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States, starting with the decision to oust Iraq’s Saddam Hussein launched a ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has signaled a shift on gay marriage, calling for a vote in parliament on legalizing same-sex unions. On Monday evening, speaking ...
President Donald Trump claimed a partial victory Monday after the Supreme Court issued a partial stay and ruled that it would decide whether his revised ...
On Nov. 25, 2001, two CIA officers discovered a bearded 19-year-old English speaker among a group of captured Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The bedraggled teen ...
Even as the Trump administration looks to strengthen government scrutiny of foreign investment, the panel responsible is stymied by a lack of staffing, according to ...
During his tumultuous first few months in office, President Donald Trump has entertained all kinds of “hoaxes,” such as the notion that Russia didn’t interfere ...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Before the sun rose Wednesday morning in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s order of succession had been transformed in ways ...
Anyone hoping for a quick resolution to NAFTA’s renegotiation is set to be disappointed. Speaking to a Senate panel Wednesday morning, United States Trade Representative ...
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified last week before Congress, seeking to defend the wisdom of slashing his own budget by more than one-third while ...
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) faced a deeply unappetizing political calculus this week after the Senate passed by an overwhelming margin an aggressive ...
In a perplexing series of Friday-morning tweets, President Donald Trump appeared to confirm that he is under investigation by the FBI and leveled a scathing ...
Turkey’s foreign ministry is blaming U.S. law enforcement personnel for the brawl outside of the Turkish Embassy that led Washington police to charge a dozen ...
With Venezuela’s economy in shambles and popular discontent on the rise, it seems increasingly likely that the authoritarian rule of President Nicolás Maduro will come ...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras got the cash he needs to meet some urgent payments next month to his creditors. But Athen’s financial crisis will ...
President Donald Trump has been brewing new tensions with America’s northern neighbor, bashing it on Twitter, straying from Canada on key policy issues like climate ...
President Donald Trump is growing his brand in China. According to a report from the Associated Press, the Chinese government has approved nine Trump trademarks ...
Sinan Narin of Virginia and Eyup Yildirim of New Jersey have been arrested in connection with a May 17 attack against peaceful protesters outside of ...
The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank won’t be getting into the coal business. That’s according to AIIB's vice president Thierry de Longuemar. Speaking in Beijing ...
Reports are coming in that this Friday, in a Miami speech, President Donald Trump will unveil his revisions to former President Barack Obama’s controversial policy ...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions angrily denied on Tuesday ever colluding with Russian operatives in their campaign to meddle in the 2016 election. But in a ...
At a time of growing Chinese investment, Panama has cut ties with Taiwan to establish diplomatic relations with Beijing. But China’s real impetus for bringing ...
The star-stocked Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers Monday night to win their second NBA championship in three years, breaking plenty of hearts in ...
Republican lawmakers have shown little interest in holding President Donald Trump accountable for much of anything. Now, the attorneys general for the District of Columbia ...
In April, chocolate cake had just been served at the Mar-a-Lago summit when President Donald Trump leaned over to tell Chinese President Xi Jinping that ...
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program launched under Barack Obama to build trust with community groups has been reconfigured to focus on assisting ...
Former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday accused President Donald Trump of lying when he said in the aftermath of Comey’s firing that the bureau ...
On Tuesday, the new State Department spokesperson tweeted a brief statement by the secretary of state to commemorate the 70th anniversary of George Marshall’s famous ...
At the most decisive moment in the Justice Department’s post-9/11 history, Christopher Wray, then head of its criminal division, did not want to be left ...
A proposed sale of $500 million worth of U.S. precision-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia is coming under growing scrutiny from Congress, with lawmakers poised to ...
Former FBI Director James Comey will tell a Senate panel Thursday that President Donald Trump pressured him to drop the bureau’s investigation of former National ...
The Department of Defense has begun drafting the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). Conducted by each American president since 1994, the NPR is an ...
On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon famously gave an address to the nation in which he declared: “I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.” What’s ...
Warning: Some readers may find the following images disturbing. On April 24, one of Brazil’s largest cartels, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), orchestrated a ...
Despite months of promises of a “historic” spending boost to fund new planes, ships, armored vehicles, and adding tens of thousands of new soldiers, President ...
On June 5, 1947, Gen. George Marshall delivered the commencement address at Harvard University. Few people listening 70 years ago realized the historic significance of ...
President Donald Trump began Monday morning with a tweetstorm responding to a recent terrorist attack in London and doubling down on his controversial and twice-blocked ...
The list of those opposed to President Donald Trump’s decision to leave the Paris climate agreement, meant to lower greenhouse gas emissions, keeps getting longer ...
SINGAPORE — Secretary of Defense James Mattis gave a terrific speech at the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore this weekend. It ...
Evidence is mounting that the perpetrator of last month’s WannaCry cyberattack that paralyzed 300,000 computers in 150 countries was North Korea’s hacker army, a highly ...
President Donald Trump left the Paris climate accords Thursday, joining Syria and Nicaragua as the only nations outside of the pact meant to curb climate ...
Otto von Bismarck once reportedly quipped that Providence favors “fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.” Exhibit A: the Battle of Midway. That’s the ...
Ever the showman, President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday about his soon-to-be-announced decision on whether or not to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement with ...
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