Trump offered a grieving military father $25,000 in a phone call

Trump offered a grieving military father $25,000 in a phone call

President Trump, in a personal phone call to a grieving military father, offered him $25,000 and said he would direct his staff to establish an online fundraiser for the family, but neither happened, the father said. Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge, said that Trump called him at his home in Zebulon, N.C., a […]

Trump’s Call To Special Forces Widow Creates a Firestorm

Trump’s Call To Special Forces Widow Creates a Firestorm

President Donald Trump’s call to the grieving widow of SGT La David Johnson has created an imbroglio between the White House and a Florida Democratic Congresswoman. Johnson was one of four soldiers from the 3rd Special Forces Group who were killed two weeks ago in Niger in an ambush while they were training and advising […]

Did North Korea just admit Kim’s been lying about their nukes?

Did North Korea just admit Kim’s been lying about their nukes?

Kim Jong un’s North Korean regime are no strangers to exaggeration when it comes to threats levied toward the United States and its allies.  In fact, up until recently, there were really only two things you could count on in terms of North Korean diplomacy: that they would offer up outlandish threats, and that the majority […]

Kurdish Forces Pushed Out of Long-held Lands by Iraqi Army, Shia Militias

Kurdish Forces Pushed Out of Long-held Lands by Iraqi Army, Shia Militias

Kurdish forces, in a stunning series of events, have been forced to abandon lands they had controlled since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, after Iraqi troops and Iranian-backed Shia militias swept into areas that had been hoped to be an independent Kurdistan. These peshmerga units were forced out of the towns of Bashiqa, […]

Tensions and preparations continue in the Korean Peninsula

Tensions and preparations continue in the Korean Peninsula

On Monday, the U.S. military began drilling to evacuate non-combatants from South Korea in case the red-hot rhetoric explodes into an all-out war between the United States and North Korea. This comes after North Korea resumed its threats against U.S. territory Guam amid the latest joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea which […]

Trump making history by seeking changes to Iran deal, Israel’s intelligence minister says

Trump making history by seeking changes to Iran deal, Israel’s intelligence minister says

Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz says that President Trump’s hard-line approach to Iran and the nuclear agreement signed by his predecessor is “historic” and “dramatic.” Katz — who has ambitions to become Israel’s next prime minister — compared the landmark nuclear accord reached in 2015 between Iran and world powers to a modern-day equivalent of the […]

North Korea Renews Guam Threat Ahead of Joint Naval Exercise

North Korea Renews Guam Threat Ahead of Joint Naval Exercise

As the United States and South Korea prepare for next week’s joint naval exercise, North Korean officials on Friday renewed their threat to launch ballistic missiles near Guam, an American territory in the western Pacific. The drill, which involves the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, is scheduled to begin on Monday in waters east and west […]

Trump chooses not to recertify Iran nuclear deal, demands changes from Congress, allies

Trump chooses not to recertify Iran nuclear deal, demands changes from Congress, allies

In a speech that indicates the adoption of a more confrontational foreign policy with Iran, President Trump announced on Friday that he will not be recertifying the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, further hinting that he may choose to terminate it all together if his standards are not met. “History has shown that the longer we […]

Mattis calls report Trump wanted to expand US nuclear arsenal ‘absolutely false’

Mattis calls report Trump wanted to expand US nuclear arsenal ‘absolutely false’

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denied reports President Donald Trump wanted to increase the US nuclear-weapons stockpile tenfold. “Recent reports that the president called for an increase in the US nuclear arsenal are absolutely false,” Mattis said in a statement. “This kind of erroneous reporting is irresponsible.” According to an NBC News report published early on Wednesday, Trump expressed […]

Watch: South Korea joins US Navy in massive floating show of force

Watch: South Korea joins US Navy in massive floating show of force

As tensions continue to rise between the United States and Kim Jong un’s North Korean regime, war remains a distinct, though unlikely, possibility.  Open warfare on the Korean peninsula would spell disaster for many of the citizens living in South Korea, and could potential embroil the United States in yet another nation-building quagmire, once Kim was […]

Former Trump campaign aide reportedly won’t cooperate with the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe

Former Trump campaign aide reportedly won’t cooperate with the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe

Carter Page, a former aide to President Donald Trump’s campaign, told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that he won’t testify before the panel for its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Politico reports. A source with knowledge of the situation told Politico that Page would plead the Fifth Amendment, which, in effect, gives […]