The U.S. military says 11 U.S. service members were treated for concussion symptoms following the January 8 Iran missile attack on a base in Iraq, despite earlier remarks by President Donald Trump that “no Americans were harmed” in the incident. “While no U.S. service members were killed in the January 8 Iranian attack on Ain […]
A nonpartisan U.S. Congressional watchdog says the administration of President Donald Trump violated federal law by withholding security assistance to Ukraine. The Government Accountability Office (GOA) said in a January 16 report that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) violated the law last year when it withheld the aid that had been appropriated by […]
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives trial “managers” on January 15 delivered to the Senate the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump — another step in the process that will lead to a trial to decide whether to remove the president from office. The trial managers, who were named earlier in […]
A federal court has indicted five men suspected of operating an international network of front companies to purchase goods in the United States for Pakistan’s nuclear and other weapons programs in violation of two legislative acts designed to protect U.S. national security, the U.S. Justice Department said in a news release. The indictment, unsealed on […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A climate research organization will offer access to a risk model that predicts the probability of flooding for homes across the United States, giving the public a look at the data institutional investors use to gauge risk. FILE PHOTO: A neighborhood engulfed in the flood waters of the Arkansas River is […]
The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on January 15 on whether to send the articles of impeachment of President Donald Trump to the Senate, which would then launch only the third such trial in U.S. history. Speaker Nancy Pelosi on January 14 met with House Democrats about the next steps in the […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Canadians killed on board Flight PS752 in Iran would be alive if tensions in the region were not at a heightened level. “If there were no tensions, if there was no escalation recently in the region, those Canadians would be right now home with their families,” Trudeau on […]
Moldovan oligarch and former head of the Moldova’s Democratic Party (PDM) Vlad Plahotniuc has been banned from entering the United States “due to his involvement in significant corruption,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement on January 13. Moldovan anti-corruption prosecutors have charged Plahotniuc, who fled the country in June when the PDM-led government […]
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded when the army vehicle they were traveling in struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the NATO press office said in a statement. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the January 11 attack, saying it occurred in the southern Kandahar Province, where U.S. and Romanian forces are stationed. NATO […]
The United States has seemingly dismissed an Iraqi government request to discuss plans for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, saying the United States is “a force for good in the Middle East” and its focus and military presence in Iraq should be on fighting Islamic State (IS) militants and “protecting Americans, Iraqis, and our […]