Tillerson hosts first anti-ISIS coalition meeting since Trump took office

Tillerson hosts first anti-ISIS coalition meeting since Trump took office

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will begin hosting the first anti-ISIS coalition meeting since President Trump took office.  Delegates and foreign ministers from sixty-eight nations are in attendance with important decisions to make about the future of anti-ISIS military efforts around the world for the U.S.-led coalition. President Trump vowed to make […]

Trump signs NASA bill, ponders sending Congress to space

Trump signs NASA bill, ponders sending Congress to space

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed legislation Tuesday adding human exploration of Mars to NASA’s mission. Could sending Congress into space be next? Flanked at an Oval Office bill-signing ceremony by astronauts and lawmakers, Trump observed that being an astronaut is a “pretty tough job.” He said he wasn’t sure he’d want it and, among […]

FBI Director says no information supports Trump wiretapping tweets

FBI Director says no information supports Trump wiretapping tweets

The heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have testified that there is no information to indicate a wiretap was ordered by President Obama on President Trump. FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers testified before the House Intelligence Committee, which has been conducting an […]

Exclusive: Tillerson plans to skip NATO meeting, visit Russia in April – sources

Exclusive: Tillerson plans to skip NATO meeting, visit Russia in April – sources

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip a meeting with NATO foreign ministers next month in order to stay home for a visit by China’s president and will go to Russia later in April, U.S. officials said on Monday, disclosing an itinerary that allies may see as giving Moscow priority over them. Tillerson […]

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee was heavily involved in Bush’s most controversial ‘War on Terror’ policies

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee was heavily involved in Bush’s most controversial ‘War on Terror’ policies

When Judge Neil Gorsuch was a top official in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, he was a key defender of some of the administration’s most controversial tactics in the “War on Terror.” Gorsuch’s role in the Bush Administration has garnered renewed interest after the Senate Judiciary Committee requested the release of emails and documents from […]

Missing from Trump’s grand Navy plan: Skilled workers to build the fleet

Missing from Trump’s grand Navy plan: Skilled workers to build the fleet

U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to build dozens of new warships in one of the biggest peace-time expansions of the U.S. Navy. But interviews with ship-builders, unions and a review of public and internal documents show major obstacles to that plan. The initiative could cost nearly $700 billion in government funding, take 30 […]

Here’s what the Pentagon plans to do with its ‘historic’ budget increase

Here’s what the Pentagon plans to do with its ‘historic’ budget increase

US President Donald Trump’s budget proposal is in, and it calls for a “historic” $54 billion increase in defense spending, and an additional $30 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations spending this year. “This is a hard power budget, it is not a soft power budget,” Mick Mulvaney told reporters at a Wednesday briefing. “And that […]

Michael Flynn back in the news for representing a Turkish company during the Trump campaign

Michael Flynn back in the news for representing a Turkish company during the Trump campaign

This week the New York Times reported that Michael Flynn filed paperwork acknowledging he worked as a foreign agent representing the interests of Turkey last year prior to becoming President Trump’s first National Security Advisor. According to the New York Times article, Flynn was hired by Inovo, which is owned by a Turkish-American businessman with links to political leaders in Ankara. Bottom-line, […]

Assad calls U.S. forces ‘invaders,’ but still hopeful on Trump

Assad calls U.S. forces ‘invaders,’ but still hopeful on Trump

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said U.S. forces in Syria were “invaders” and he had yet to see “anything concrete” emerge from U.S. President Donald Trump’s vow to prioritize the fight against Islamic State. Assad has said he saw promise in Trump’s statements emphasizing the battle against Islamic State in Syria, where U.S. policy under President […]

Exclusive: U.S. weighs deploying up to 1,000 ‘reserve’ troops for IS fight

Exclusive: U.S. weighs deploying up to 1,000 ‘reserve’ troops for IS fight

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is weighing a deployment of up to 1,000 American soldiers to Kuwait to serve as a reserve force in the fight against Islamic State as U.S.-backed fighters accelerate the offensive in Syria and Iraq, U.S. officials told Reuters. Proponents of the option, which has not been previously reported, said it […]